Photograph · Duffie Boatworks
Duffie · Hull No. 1 · 2019
Duffie 26 Center Console
The first Duffie: a cold-molded center console Jon Duffie started in a garage in 2016 and finished in 2019, then kept for himself. Everything the yard has built since traces back to it.
Build sheetDuffie · Hull No. 1 · 2019
- Designer
- Rhodes Yacht Design and Jon Duffie
- Built for
- Jon Duffie
- Original power
- Twin 300 hp Yamaha outboards
- Construction
- Cold-molded Bruynzeel okoume plywood over a Douglas fir keel and stringers, epoxy-bonded and glassed
Names carried
No name on record.
HistorySales, renames, repowers, refits
- 2016
Build
Construction began in Jon Duffie's garage at Ocean City, Maryland, before the boatworks had a building. Cold-molded okoume over Douglas fir, designed with Rhodes Yacht Design.
Reported · inthebite.com, duffieboatworks.com
- 2019
Delivery
Completed as Hull 1 and kept by Jon Duffie, the yard's founder, who has said he would never sell it. Twin 300 hp Yamahas; 210 gallons of fuel, 25 of water, 8,000 lb loaded; 30 knots cruise, 54 knots wide open.
Confirmed · duffieboatworks.com, inthebite.com
- 2019
Tower
Palm Beach Towers hardtop and polished pipework, with twelve Gemlux swivel rod holders.
Reported · duffieboatworks.com
MediaPhotography, film, print
On file, shown only with permission: Duffie Boatworks, 4 photographs
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