34 Duffy ???

[Raider Ronnie]

Saw this on FB and says it's a 1980 34 Duffy.
Different hull than the 35 ?



https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153259295970618&set=gm.10151995323532664&type=1&theater

 

[duxbait]

I'm not expert, but I remember reading that it is a completely different hull. It is a mold from a wooden boat built in a backyard shop. The next boat built was 35ft... and a legend was born! Someone will know the details but it is a totally different hull.

 

[lobstercatcher]

I'm not expert, but I remember reading that it is a completely different hull. It is a mold from a wooden boat built in a backyard shop. The next boat built was 35ft... and a legend was born! Someone will know the details but it is a totally different hull.

duffy"
If you are calling Richard Duffy's kitchen a backyard shop.. Richard and his dad laid the keel in the kitchen and went out into the living room. Taking a plug off a wooden boat is how it was done.

 

[South Shore Boatworks]

Duffy

Richard Duffy had a very busy shop in the late 70's-early 80's. A lot of the 41's and 50's are still around. The 34' was a smaller boat with a narrower transom than the 35'. You see them around occasionally. As far as mold construction, back then almost all mold tooling started with the building of a wooden plug, the mold was built from the plug. The wooden plug was usually finished off as a wood boat

 

[El Mar]

A few discussions from the past.

http://downeastboatforum.com/downeast-boat-general-discussion/34-duffy-vs-35-duffy-1931.html

http://downeastboatforum.com/downeast-boat-general-discussion/duffy-duffy-1005.html


Good article here too.

Duffy