The most interesting description of this hull I've seen was provided by Blitzen in his build thread on noreast from a few years back, when he said something to the effect of Ken Flower and Spencer Lincoln were trying for a hybrid hull that took the "best parts" of the 37' Duffy and 36' NB and jammed them together into a semi built-down boat that would run fast and flat. Still never seen a pic of a 38' Flowers or a report on how one performs...I wonder how it would stack up vs. an NB 38'.
Here's some more info from National Fisherman................
National Fisherman - Commercial fishing news, marine directory and classifieds
In Walpole, Maine, Flowers Boatworks has been busy completing its own hulls, finishing off hulls from other boatbuilders and designing a new 36-footer.
Spencer Lincoln of Brooklin, Maine, is designing the new boat. Ken Flower, owner of Flowers Boatworks, says that some aspects of boats such as the Duffy 37 and Northern Bay 36 will be incorporated into his new design.
Well try to pull the better points out of the Duffy 37, and keep structures from the Northern Bay, like a built-down forward end that comes back into a skeg boat, he says.
The first hull should be out of the mold by early September. The boat is being designed so that it can be extended into a 38-footer.
We want to build a 36 and then extend it 2 feet without frigging up the flow of water and be able to have it run real good and look real good, Flower says.
Most builders of Maine lobster boats market their designs to pleasure boat owners as well as commercial fishermen. Flower says theres a problem in taking a lobster boat that weighs 10,000 to 12,000 pounds and then adding thousands of pounds of extra equipment things like generators, V-berths and heads. You change the center of buoyancy. Thats why a lot of these lobster boats built as cruisers dont perform the way they should.
Flower and Lincoln are trying to design the 36-footers underwater lines so shell be able to carry the extra weight that a pleasure boat or a tuna boat requires.
Well build them to carry the weight, and then make lobster boats out of them, instead of the other way around, Flower says.