by David D. Beach
Here’s a 16-foot plywood outboard runabout that’s perfect for skIing, fshing and all-around family fun.
We are concerned here with the family or group that uses its boat as a picnic spot, cruises with its fellow outboard club members on the lakes and rivers on a Sunday afternoon and tows the youngsters astern on water skis. So let’s look at "Apache". She is big and beamy, with a good wide bottom to carry a fair passenger load without bogging down excessively. The bottom is easily veed forward to take the chop of confused waves on crowded lakes and restricted waterways. Amidship the sections have enough deadrise, carried well to the transom, to provide a comfortable heel when turning and to prevent any tendency to leap regardless of location of the load. The sides are flared all the way aft to keep random spray from coming aboard and to provide a substantial rub strake at the widest part of the boat. Aft the transom is cut for long lower unit outboard motors, and the high cut-out minimizes the danger of water coming aboard. The bottom aft is 60 inches over the spray rail, insuring proper buoyancy to support the newer and bigger motors, to absorb their starting thrust moment, and to give just the right amount of planing surface for safe and comfortable running. Six adults can be seated on two seats, each nearly five feet long.
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