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Strange Brew On The Family Pond

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Early last summer Phil Croff of Croff Craft Custom Driftboats & Guide Service gave me a call saying that he was working on something cool with a new design centered over dropping a cedar built frame over a raft.  I watched this design coming together through text messages and Facebook and this raft, dubbed "Strange Brew", has been his guide boat over the past several months. When Phil arrived at our house on Saturday afternoon, the raft was full of snow from traveling through Tennessee to South Carolina it was it was tough to see all of his handiwork in the built of this raft frame.  Sunday morning we ran into town to pressure wash was much snow, ice, and grit off the boat and trailer and then finished things off with a few buckets of hot water. Once cleaned up, we figured that it would be fun to drop "Strange Brew" into the family pond for a couple of hours even though it was only in the mid 30's.  I figured at least the pickerel might come and play and a f...

Pond Yacht Anne

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This 58" pond yacht was commissioned and built by Phil Hale of Martha's Vineyard Shipyard. He's a very experienced model builder and it shows. The model is inspired by design #2721, sailing yacht Anna, but with a yawl rig. It's operated by remote controls for sail trim and steering. Phil is currently building a 72" radio controlled model to our design. More about that one once she launches. Principal Dimensions LOA 58" LWL 45" Beam 16.5" Draft 14" Displacement 43.5 lbs