As a collector and restorer of vintage wooden runabouts and vintage Mercury outboard motors, I wanted a traditionally built boat that would be suitable for my two-cylinder Mercury outboards. After years studying race-boat designs from the 1920s and '30s, I eventually decided to build one, using period-correct construction techniques, without plywood or fiberglass. I wanted a lightweight boat with beveled "anti-trip" chines, small enough to perform well with a 10-to20-hp outboard, but big enough for a roadster-style cockpit for two people. After much research, I selected Bruce Crandall's 10' Midget Flyer runabout. The designer's brother, Willard S. Crandall, wrote a construction article on the Midget Flyer for the January 1938 issue of MotorBoating magazine, describing it as a "A Fast, Little Runabout Designed Especially for Lightweight Outboard Motors." It sounded like just what I was looking for.
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机译:作为复古木制猎人和葡萄酒汞舷外电机的收藏家和恢复器,我想要一个传统上建造的船,这是适合我的双缸水星舷外的船。经过几年的研究来自20世纪20年代和30年代的赛艇设计,最终决定使用时期正确的施工技术,没有胶合板或玻璃纤维。我想要一个轻量级的船,倾斜的“反跳闸”中间,足够小,可以用10比20-HP舷外表现良好,但对于两个人来说,足够大的驾驶室驾驶舱。经过多次研究,我选择了布鲁斯克兰德的10'侏儒传单纠正。设计师的兄弟Willard S. Crandall在1938年1月的摩托车杂志上写了一篇关于Midget传单的建筑文章,将其描述为“专为轻质舷外电机设计的快速,小型猎犬”。它听起来就像我在寻找的那样。
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