Rhode Runner combines classic style with modern construction, and it runs efficiently with modest power.
This striking outboard runabout might be described as an exercise in nostalgia. Yet we’ll build it with long-lasting and easily maintained contemporary materials. It will run efficiently when powered by a relatively small (15–25 hp) outboard motor—gas or electric.
Designers John C. Harris and Dillon Majoros, of Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC), have brought the style and grace of a 1950s runabout to the present. Majoros describes the result as a shapely hull with purpose: “Water-shedding flare forward transitions to elegant tumblehome near the transom. Traditional lapstrake topsides are married at the chine to a contemporary, high-deadrise running surface.”