The more I see these and Jeff's plans I really love the idea of the optional ramp.

I just came across these great videos & can tell these are quality designs & boats indeed, what a shame he left too soon yet each life has its path. May his work be preserved in a book to leave his legacy forward. Be even better if a boat building syndicate bought the rights & made his work available to its members - RIP.

I want to build a boat with my 8 year old son. This looks like it would be a fun, safe project :)

Great timing Jeff. I see you even included some of your answers to the questions I asked of you in the past couple of days. I plan on starting tonight after work drawing out the frame templates. This will be a lot of fun and I will be sure to take photos and video of my experience.

Back in the mid-1980s, I used to fish out in the Pacific on a friend's aluminum 23' garvey on the reefs surrounding the lighthouse on Destruction Island off the coast of Washington state. The boat had a Mercury jet drive. Because the drive wouldn't foul up their salmon traps, the Native Americans let us launch in their river on their reservation in exchange for a fish if anyone wanted one from us. We'd go down the river and out over the sand bar and burst through the big rolling breakers into the open sea. We would go out for 36+ hours at a time so we could fish three tides. We jigged with a heavy, short, roller-tipped rod and silver/blue lead jig-bait with a big single tail hook on 80#-test monofilament line. We'd pinch the barb smooth so we could quickly rip out a gill and shake the fish off onto the ice. Lol, this wasn't "sport" fishing; we hauled them up fast as we could crank our Penn reels. We mostly caught 8 - 10# "Black Sea Bass" but every once in a while we'd get a big barn-door halibut or a +100# "Ling Cod" would swallow a hooked sea bass on its way up to our boat. Swallowed them bass whole; just like a bait! It would take up to 45 minutes of fighting to slowly tire the cod out so we could crank them up. Even though they weren't hooked themselves, those cod wouldn't let that meal go until they saw us, so we would fight them and haul them up until a red thread we had wrapped and tied on the fishing line 6' up from the bait reached our rod tip. Then the guy with the rod would yank it up quickly while a guy with a gaff hook would gaff the fish with a hook on a stout pole. That took coordination! The trick was to shoot the wiggly fish in the head with a 38 caliber pistol BEFORE you hauled it over into the boat. Otherwise, those monsters with their huge and sharp teeth would try to eat us! That 23' garvey was super steady with three guys fishing and filling a huge open chest freezer filled with ice and many fish. We stayed out there in swells up to 12' with wind waves on top of that up to 6' high and I never once even got seasick. I LOVE this hull form and it is the only one I would build. Jeff, I'm VERY interested in seeing your upcoming larger than 23' plans and also your looper concept. I hope you'll give the larger than 23' garvey boat and the looper your offshore treatment! That's what I want; at least as an option, okay? I dream of a long (maybe even 32'), but still trailer-able (maybe with a wide-load permit) offshore garvey with a walk-through cabin for overnighting amidship, a ramp with room on the foredeck for shore vehicle(s), and a rear fishing deck. THAT would be just perfect!

I enjoy listening to you . I have always wanted to build a boat . Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Enjoy 😉

Nice overview of the concept Jeff! I'd love to see what you do with the "Looper". The drone footage was cool to watch! Thanks!

Definitely want to see the looper! Considering coming up with my own barge type boat. Unless you beat me to it! Thanks for all the great vids.

Thanks! Getting closer. I think the world needs a transom-bow v-bottom moderate outboard powered CABIN class cruiser in the 18 ft. range

Sorry, the last one had music in one of my customer's videos that was a copyright infringement. I kept the video but removed the music, so this one should be fine. If you saw the first one, please look at this, also to make up for removing the first. Hope you enjoy.

Thanks. I think the drone is keeping up!

I got a 14ft Garvey dory with a 25hp shortshaft Yamaha motor and it handles rough seawater as well as inshore lakes etc...my bow nose is completely different to any other Garvey I have seen so far...I wish I could share some pictures with you all...regards B.J.

Looking to build a 16’ Garvey for flats fishing in SW Fl. Stability is essential and would like to power it w: 40hp 4 stroke Suzuki. A roomy front deck, and a closed in stern would top it off.

Have a good day

Would this design work with building a cabin on it? Say the 23’ with a cabin that had a sleeping birth , small kitchen area with table and a decent captains area for chair and electronics ? What size of motor for that kind of setup? Love the idea of its stability but would it be a good bow design for the inside passage of Alaska?

I guess my comment went away. I would love to see the looper version.

With the high cost of plywood, is there other kind of lumber to use

Where are the plans?

Mr, Spira The page for the 27ft Mobile does not load might want to double check the page the link is pointing to.

Looking to build 16ft fresh water camper, light,easy to trailor

Looping. New one on me. Can you describe it briefly? Thanks

How is the bow slap on this boat? I imagine its pretty jarring at times.

Jeff, I'm curious as to why the 12 and 14 foot variations can't/don't have the option of the front landing door?

how hard would it be to roe a 14' Garvey Dory ? thanks ....

Anyone put out a supply list and average cost of completed hull without motor.

Just curious: why are you calling this a garvey? The garvey I'm building (GV11 from bateauboats) has more "shape" (ie the bow comes inwards, although there's still a bow transom) and it's V-bottomed. I would consider a flat-bottomed, squarish design like yours more of a jonboat. Comments?

I think Higgins landing craft were built from plywood.

Check your settings for child content. It won’t let us get notifications when you post a video when we subscribe to your channel it says this option turned off for material made for kids

i can't believe you didn't mention this design is based off of the Higgin's Boat. You know the boat that was credited to having "won the war" (along with a few other things) and landed troops on D-Day.