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Clyde Boats
Clyde Boats was a small, privately owned, custom boat company located in Detroit, Michigan. For nearly fifty years it produced custom mahogany motorboats for clients in the Great Lakes area.
==The early years==
Clyde Boats was founded in 1928 in the living room of founder Clyde Rummney's Michigan home near the shores of Lake St. Clair. Mr. Rummney's first boats were small rowboats made primarily for himself and friends. By the early 1930s Mr. Rummney had relocated to Gibraltar, Michigan, and soon began renting space in a small building on Livernois Avenue in Detroit where he switched from row boats to producing custom-order mahogany boats with outboard engines.
Clyde Boats were soon available in three sizes; 12', 14', and 16'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Bone Yard Boats )〕 Each boat began as a wooden "tub" constructed of moulded plywood and built by fishermen in Nova Scotia. Some were Ashcroft hulls, with the inner and outer layer running on the same bias, overlapping the seams, while others were cold molded hulls. The boats were soon known for their speed, compared to other boats of their size. The secret was 5 Ply Moulded Marine Aircraft Birch, which was very light, and strong. At the Clyde factory the keel was added, then the boat would be completed using the customer's choice of accessories. At first, all boats were made to order, with no "tub" or supplies purchased until an order was placed, but by World War II the company had begun using the winter months when business was slow to construct boats to a factory standard that could be sold as factory models, or finished with additional details of the customer's choosing.
By the start of World War II Clyde Boats was building and selling around 40 boats a month. The factory building was soon purchased by Clyde Rummney. While competitors like Chris-Craft moved to larger production facilities and greater output, Clyde Boats remained small, with only three or four employees. Clyde Rummney himself did most of the designing, building, and selling of his products. Little effort was made to promote Clyde Boats beyond the Detroit area. The small size and exclusive nature of the company's products was attractive to many of its clients, and helped Clyde Boats maintain its reputation for exclusive, custom-made mahogany boats for the wealthy. It also kept overhead to a minimum, and, as the company's prices rose, so too did its profits.
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