Gen L Party Boat Outboard 20ft Custom Built Wooden Boat

The Party Boat is a versatile recreational craft designed to bring together comfort, performance, and social boating enjoyment in a single spacious platform. With its wide beam, open cockpit layout, and generous seating capacity, this boat is perfectly suited for relaxed family outings, watersports, fishing trips, or casual cruising.

Whether used for picnics on a quiet shoreline, towing water skiers across open water, or simply enjoying a day on the lake with friends, the design emphasizes practicality and adaptability. The expansive deck space and flexible interior arrangement allow owners to configure seating, storage, and utility areas according to their preferred activities.

Our workshop recreates this modern leisure craft using high-quality marine materials, including carefully selected marine plywood reinforced with structural frames and longitudinal supports. The hull structure features a robust 3/4-inch reinforced bottom, designed for durability and long-term reliability.

Traditional boatbuilding craftsmanship is combined with modern construction techniques to ensure a strong, stable hull while maintaining clean lines and a refined appearance. Each boat is handcrafted with attention to structural balance, finish quality, and functional detail.

General Dimensions:

• Length Overall (LOA): 20ft

• Beam: 8ft

• Hull Depth: 3′-8″

• Hull Weight (approx.): 1500 lbs

• Displacement: Approx. 3100 lbs at 11″ designed waterline

• Cockpit: 13.9ft long × 7ft wide

• Passenger Capacity: Up to 8 persons

• Propulsion: Single or twin outboard motors (long or extra-long shaft)

• Optional Power: Stern-mounted inboard/outboard, V-drive, or jet pump

Performance & Use: The large cockpit and forward deck space also make the boat well-suited for recreational fishing, watersports, or relaxed social gatherings on the water.

This wooden boat crafted by us is built from Glen-L, with full credit given to the original designers. For each custom commission, we acquire the appropriate plans and construct the vessel to order-offering both full-size boats and finely detailed scale models.

Contact us today! The PARTY BOAT Outboard emerged during the rise of practical, family-oriented plywood powerboats in the mid-20th century. Designed to balance speed, stability, and simplicity, its 15-degree monohedron hull reflected evolving small-craft engineering-offering smooth planing performance, predictable handling, and improved comfort in choppy conditions.

Wide chines and a stable bottom made it equally suitable for fishing, cruising, and social outings.

Equally important was its accessibility to amateur builders. With plywood construction, bulkhead-style framing, and full-size patterns that eliminated complex lofting, the design aligned with the growing do-it-yourself boatbuilding movement. The result was a rugged, versatile powerboat that combined straightforward construction with dependable on-water performance.