174-3. 1968 wittholz 17' catboat. designed by charles wittholz, this 1968 17' catboat was built in ted hermann's boatyard on long island. (he later sold the design to. 1969 powercat/avenger ceebee boat 17h this boat measures 17 ft. from transom to bow point. i purchased this boat from arnold's boats on river rd.,. A scow, in the original sense, is a flat-bottomed boat with a blunt bow, often used to haul bulk freight; cf. barge. the etymology of the word is from the dutch.
The pocket cruiser design was the result of requests that were coming in to popular science for an over-nighter that would be as easy to build as the weekender, -but. Study plans are available for some of these designs - remember a study plan gives you more details and a wood materials list on an a1 sheet, so that you can. After some debate about what boat to build next, i decided to build the very elegant shearwater by joel white. several considerations went into settling on.
