| If you have a wood boat of any style that you’d like restored to
better-than-new condition, give us a call. Our company has done award-winning
restorations on numerous wood boats ranging from 17 ft. runabouts to a
64 ft. sailboat. Every type of restoration can be handled by us,
from authentic restorations to restorations utilizing advanced boat building
techniques. We can replicate lost hull lines and drawings, design
and execute modifications to the original boat, manufacture new hardware
of any type and material, repower or rebuild existing power plants as required
and redo electrical/mechanical systems of any complexity. Our company
has also done refits on boats built of other materials if there is a significant
amount of woodwork to be done. We’ve even remodeled the interior
of a classic motor home. Every job is done to the highest standards
by experienced craftsmen.
Legacy
The 1935 Ditchburn Triple was probably one of the last models built from a company teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. The boat, as found by our client, was barely recognizable as a boat – basically a pile of moss with a title and some hardware. To begin the restoration our designer took key dimensions from a few intact frames, a transom width, a deck beam curve, and a couple identifiable openings in the deck structure and loaded them in the computer. He then began the careful process of computer fairing, and the missing information lost to years of decay reappeared - forensic design as he called it. The resurrected fair lines were used by the crew along with the remaining identifiable boat parts to carefully reconstruct the boat and accurately replicate the interior joiner work and construction details. A carefully “antiqued” but modern engine of approximately 170 h.p. powers the Ditchburn to speeds in the low 40’s. Legacy was launched in the summer of 2002. |
