Duofoil boat 1956

[joecb]

I saw this on Detroit Craigs list… pretty cool. Looks like an aluminum hull married to a fiberglas cockpit / deck with add-on tail fins.That would have been the "in thing" for 1956. Not mine.
https://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/boa/ … 33328.html

Joe

[Buccaneer]

Really neat, but me thinks you’d want more horsepower attached.
With all that fiberglass on top, I wonder if it would be top heavy
and roll heavy on corners?

Prepare to be boarded!

[joecb]

Interesting, some more info… Looking close at the bow plate, says "Herter’s Flying Fish". I just did a quick check of Peter Hunn’s "Tail Fins and two Tones" the definitive authority on thees period runabouts and see only a small photo of this model boat (page 155) but no info as to maker. For that matter, no listing of "Herters" as a maker, I guess that they were only distributers. So who made these boats?

Joe B

[dave-bernard]

If I remember it is all fiberglass.

[jeff-register]

😀 Transom time + more,

[david-bartlett]

Looks like a Herter’s product to me.

[phil-b]

The fiberglassics library has some 1957 info:

http://www.fiberglassics.com/library/in … le=Herters

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