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Winninghoff Boats has produced over 200 boats during over 30 years in business. They range in length from 10 to 68 feet and include:
- Rowley Skiffs -–20 and 22 feet – nearly flat bottomed with longitudinal sponsons
- Cape Ann skiffs - Modified vee slightly warped hull boats:
Research vessels
Fire/rescue boats
OSRV’s (oil spill response vessels)
- Landing Craft - flat bottomed and modified vees
- Inverted vee transporters
- Tour boats – Modified vees, displacement and semi displacement hulls
- Sail boats
Milestones
1975 – First aluminum boat, a 7m lobster boat designed by Phil Bolger. The boat ran well and its hull form was successfully used in several other boats. The hull was described as a 20 degree monohedron hull sitting on a canoe.
1977 – First research vessel, the Quest II, a 38-foot diesel powered well equipped boat with hydraulic and AC electrical systems. It was used for many years for sampling water quality in the vicinity of the Seabrook Atomic Energy plant to determine the effects of the warming waters on the fisheries.
1978 – Moved from Magnolia section of Gloucester, MA, to our present shop in Rowley, MA. Converted the horse barn into a boat shop.
1979 – Built 60.5 foot dragger/offshore lobster boat, F/V Parul.
1981 - 20 foot Rowley Skiff prototype built and sold to Fernald's Marine in Newbury, MA. First of 50 - 20 and 22 footers built over the next several years. Does not include a half dozen Thacher Island models built as landing craft.
1982 – First USCG subchapter T inspected vessel, the Yankee Clipper, which has been in continuous service since 1982 out of Newburyport, MA, as a tour boat. This was the first of 17 USCG inspected subchapter T boats we built.
1985 – Compound curved round bilge twin keels sailboat hull.. TheLady Mary has cruised the world.
1989 – First of more than a dozen fire/rescue boats in the 22 to 30 foot range.
1991 – First of over 20 jet propelled boats.
1994 – Longest boat, a 68 X 15 foot (appropriately named) excursion boat, the Henry Longfellow, which operates out of the Galleria in the Charles River. John Koopman conceived its lovely retro design. (See custom one-off section for photo).
1995-1997 – Inverted vee hulls - built seven work boats ranging in LOA (length over all) from 36 feet to 50 feet. These are fast boats capable of moving at 45 knots light and carrying an outsize load. Its hull form is a modification of the Hickman inverted vees built early in the century before WWI. (See Inverted Vee Hull section).
2002-2006 – 11m R/V’s - Built three similar 36-foot x 12 1/2-foot research vessels for Cornell Shoals Marine Lab, Michigan Technological University; and the University of Connecticut. (11m R/V's in Modified Vee Section).
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