NewbieFromNJ
Senior Member
Why don't members put the year, make and model of their boats in their profiles? I think it is helpful in putting their comments in perspective.
Why don't members put the year, make and model of their boats in their profiles? I think it is helpful in putting their comments in perspective.
Don't mind the correction: Why some members...
Once it's up there, not many folk re-examine their profile and signature and make additions or corrections. They know it all. It's other folk who notice the lack of info, so thanks for raising it, NewbyFromNJ. Just hyuman nature, I suppose..?
Talking about my own, specifying years, model or maker would not help as like specified as a "custom made" it is a one of a kind But for any curious aficionados the hull is a Lang, the engine is an Acadia from Nova Scotia and it was built by Mr Reynald Vezina in Quebec City
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Talking about my own, specifying years, model or maker would not help as like specified as a "custom made" it is a one of a kind But for any curious aficionados the hull is a Lang, the engine is an Acadia from Nova Scotia and it was built by Mr Reynald Vezina in Quebec City
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You mean Ted Lang?
Why don't members put the year, make and model of their boats in their profiles? I think it is helpful in putting their comments in perspective.
Why don't members put the year, make and model of their boats in their profiles? I think it is helpful in putting their comments in perspective.
There, see...that's interesting stuff. Art thinks he knows the guy who built the hull even...
You mean Ted Lang?
Big story being Ted Lang boat building and sales. From Freeport LI, NY... to Maine... To Canada... and Back. My dad was lead purchasing agent for one sequence and I worked in one of Ted's boat building factories. Not all of the Lang story is pretty, some portions seem OK. Started in 1940's and ended some time in the 90's. From what I know!
I knew Ted from when I was in grade school through my early 20's.
Mine is one of I think only three hulls . The builder built a few 36 footers and several 26 ft (I think) tugs . The builder is Andre Bilodeau . He wrote a couple books on foam core construction. The title of one is :
"Building Your Hull With Bead and Cove Foam System Using Core Cell Foam "
Yup Ted Lang hull. The guy who built my boat got the Lang hull and built the remaining himself. I think I am the only one that have a Lang boat with aft cabin
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Lou - Thought I somehow recognized that hull as a Lang. Thing I could not get clear in my head was the superstructure design, aft cabin especially. Thanks for info.
Do you know where the guy who built your boat found the hull? Was it in Canada or Maine?
Back in 1950's / 60's "Ted Lang" yacht sales [not boat builders] was on Woodcleft Canal, Freeport, LI, NY. 1965 dad purchased a 38' sport fisher, raised deck boat off Ted's yard. We spent the next few years making it cherry and adding an enclosed salon as well as repowering with a Perkins diesel. That boat was a woody with keel laid 1951 at Brooklyn Navy Yard. She was a beauty!
Ted moved operations to near Rockland Maine in 1970. He began a BIG boat manufacturing plant. 26' to 70'. Mostly fiberglass and some large woodys. Economy fell on hard times. Ted suddenly closed shop and disappeared... with most of the equipment and some of the boats. I heard he showed up in Canada and started boat building again?? Then I heard in the 80's he'd closed Canada operations and started building again in the Carolinas or a state near by.
Yours is the only one of three Lang hulls/boats I've seen or heard of in years. I worked for Ted building fiberglass boats when first out of HS.