Antique Boats

Zipper

Length: 41′ 6″
Beam: 10′ 6″
Builder: Staudacher Yacht Company
Power: Twin Crusader V-8’s
Donor: Louise S. Stroh
Accession Number: 1985.018

Zipper was designed for the Purdy Boat Company. Though drawn in the 1930s, the boat was never built. In 1974, brewery magnate John W. Stroh finally commissioned Staudacher Yachts to build her. While remaining faithful to the original design, Staudacher utilized modern construction methods and gave Zipper a strong, “screwed and glued” double-planked hull with vertically-scarfed mahogany planking on steam-bent oak frames. Zipper is a commuter yacht, emblematic of a type from the 1920s and 30s.

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