- Date
- 2005
- Kind
- Construction
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeconstructionrecreationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
After three years of work, Jack Erber completed and successfully sea-tested a 23-foot lobster boat in 2005. The boat was designed for shallow draft and trailer use between Beaver Island and Florida and carried a 50-horsepower Honda outboard.
Evidence limits
The profile documents construction and the first sea test but not a vessel registration or subsequent voyages.
Sources
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, November 2005, "Jack Erber's New Lobster Boat."Reports Erber's three-year construction of a 23-foot Karl Stambaugh-designed lobster boat, its successful first sea test, shallow-draft design, ballast, keel, and 50-horsepower Honda outboard. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2005-11_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the boat report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2005-11_Beaver-Beacon
Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Jack Erber completes and sea-tests a 23-foot lobster boat, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-jack-erber-lobster-boat-sea-test-2005/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 2005, "Jack Erber's New Lobster Boat." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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