2002 First considered when I bought a used Chevy S10 conversion that was once part of the Harvard fleet. Shout out to my student David Kaplan who discussed an articulating pontoon design with me way back then. I didn't keep the conversion, but I kept the idea!

Went through a bunch of design iterations, and a I bought and sold a few Wranglers - and one Isuzu Trooper - on my way to the 1995 (last of the YJ years)Wrangler Rio Grande that became the donor chassis

2016 Passes road inspection

2018 Work on flotation vessel begins

2020 First layer of fiberglass

2021 First layer of Gel-coat

2022 INATOR plate; first launch (no water propulsion)

2024 First car show (Maynard Motors); first powered trip in the water (retired Natick Fire Department 10-hp long-shaft outboard), first "self-retrieval"; HIN issued (legal as a boat) by Mass Environmental Police

2025 Three more voyages, last one ends with a stalled motor. (Fuel starvation?) Local fishermen help me out.

About 1600 hrs of work so far!

At Larz Anderson in Brookline, 2016. Tom "buys" the protoype; hands me a stack of cash!

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