Here’s the Muscongus Bay 18 (-foot) runabout that we’ve been following at the Brooklin Boat Yard. She’s back in the auxiliary shop after being primed.
She soon will have some more woods applied and all of her special woods brightened. The Honduran mahogany on the boat’s transom (back/stern panel) and elsewhere will gleam like the finest furniture. The boat’s sole (finished inside floor) and other areas will be hard and handsome teak.
Here’s another copy of designer Mark Fitzgerald’s plans for the runabout i for reference:
It’s reassuring to be reminded that some extraordinarily good things still are being done by Americans who know what they’re doing. We are not all corrupt bunglers and craven holders-on who are trying to parasitically consume America from within.
(Photographs taken in Brooklin, Maine, on May 28, 2026.)