TRIXTER, designed by H.C. Hanson (see page 24), was launched on April 21, 1934, at the Prothero & McDonald boatyard in Seattle, Washington. The owner, Foster Gibson, would have been well known to both the yard and the designer, since he managed the Edison Storage Battery Supply Company, a vendor of marine batteries. She is 35' LOA, with a beam of 10'4" and a draft of 3'4", and is very similar to Hanson's 36' Stock Cruiser design of 1926, shown on page 30. She is carvel-planked with 1 "-thick western red cedar over 1 1/2VA"× 2"steam-bent white oak frames, using galvanized-steel fastenings. Her backbone timbers are of Douglas-fir, and her 2 "-thick floor timbers are fitted on top of her frames, in West Coast fashion. The frames are spaced every 10". The sheer clamps, which are made up of four layers bolted together, have total cross-sectional dimensions of l 3/4"× 8".
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