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Owens Yacht Co.

Stansbury Rd.

Baltimore, Maryland

Cutter Boats, Inc. was a subsidiary of the Owens Yacht Co. Additional history information about both companies is available on the Cutter Boats page . Another subsidiary, Flagship Marine , made inboard marine engines used exclusively in the Owens boats. Owens Flagships were cruiser models; "Speedships" were the smaller, less than 27' models.

The Owens Yacht Co. used Weldwood plywood supplied by the United States Plywood Corporation. Raymond Loewy designed the interior and superstructure of a new 24' model for 1958 (Shipbuilding and Shipping Record).

From the obituary of John B. "Jack Owens", The Baltimore Sun, Feb. 7, 2012:

John B. "Jack" Owens, who had been a principal in the family-owned Owens Yacht Co., the legendary Annapolis boat builder, and later established a real estate firm, died Saturday of heart failure at his Naples, Fla., home.

Mr. Owens was born in Detroit, where his father was a vice president of Westinghouse Electric Corp. and his mother was a homemaker.

After his wife's death in 1918, the elder Mr. Owens moved his children to Spa Creek in Eastport, Annapolis, so relatives could help him raise his daughter and four sons.

He established a custom boat-building business in 1925 on Spa Creek that built about 20 boats a year, and after his death in 1933, the business passed to three of his sons: John B. Owens, Charles Owens Jr. and Norman Owens.

John B. Owens graduated from Annapolis High School in 1933 and earned a pre-law degree from St. John's College four years later.

In 1936, he and his brothers purchased 8 acres on Bear Creek in Dundalk, where they built a state-of-the-art industrial plant.

They adapted the mass-production methods used by the auto industry to boat building.

Mr. Owens was in charge of the company's finances and purchasing while Charles was in charge of advertising and sales and Norman designed the boats.

During its first year in Dundalk, 50 employees built 40 single-design cabin cruisers, and in 1940, 275 workers constructed 150 boats.

Their first major new product was a 32-foot Owens Cruiser that gained the attention of the public and press at the 1937 New York Boat Show.

In a 2007 Style Magazine article, Mary K. Zajac wrote that Owens was known for using top-quality materials in their boats such as "white oak for the stern and framing, copper and brass fastenings, and mahogany imported from the Philippines for planking and finishing work."

With the outbreak of World War II, the company shifted production from pleasure craft to landing craft for the Army when it received a contract to build 2,500 Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel, which Mr. Owens supervised.

He told The Capital in Annapolis in a 1994 interview that he "felt proud his company had played a small part" in the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944, and that the company's workers "realized the importance of doing a good job and as quickly as they could."

After the war, Mr. Owens and his brothers returned to producing the classic 40-foot Owens Cutter, one of the sleekest and fastest sailboats on the Chesapeake Bay and East Coast waters.

They switched from building wooden boats to fiberglass vessels in 1957 and developed a line of Owens Flagship V8 marine engines.

They later expanded to facilities in York, Pa., and a plant in Indianapolis, where they built 800 boats per month, with another 500 constructed in Dundalk.

In 1961, the company was sold to Brunswick Corp., with Mr. Owens staying on as president of Brunswick's Owens Boat Division.

In 1964, Mr. Owens left Brunswick and joined his two brothers in a new business venture, Trident Corp., a family-owned real estate company that managed properties remaining from the sale of Owens Yacht Co.

History By Lee Wangstead, Excerpt from "Larson Boat Works/A Short History":

Owens Yacht Company was on a similar mission. Their main interest was in the cruiser market, but had entered the runabout market in the early fifties. In 1957 they built a plant in Tell City, Indiana to produce fiberglass boats. These would be marketed as Cutter Boats, Inc. , a division of Owens. They hired three or four key personnel from Lone Star Boats , built a couple of molds splashed from Lone Star models, produced some boats and were promptly sued by Lone Star. There were hundreds of others that were pirating designs from other manufacturers, but none with the financial backing that Owens had. They were an easy target. The court ordered Owens to cease producing these boats and pay a royalty on each one that they had built. From this harsh lesson, Owens hired noted industrial designer Brooks Stevens to style a new line of boats to carry both the Cutter and Owens nameplates. These designs were mated to an outstanding hull designed by Norman Owens, naval architect and son of Owens founder Charles C. Owens Sr. for introduction in 1958. The first Cutter lineup included three boats: the Jet de Ville, a 15’ runabout; the Como, a 15’ utility; and the Avon, a 17’ deluxe runabout. Cutter advertising proclaimed that they were built in “America’s largest plant devoted exclusively to producing superior fiber-glass boats!” The dealer network supporting the Owens Yacht Company was based on sales of the large cruisers that they had become famous for. These dealers weren’t accustomed to selling boats to the outboard market. Cutter Boats would have to forge their own way into the marine market. But forge they would, based on the strength of their performance and their strong styling they were making inroads into the small runabout market nationwide. In 1959 Owens also introduced a line of larger runabouts designed and built by John Norek in California. In early 1960 the Brunswick Corporation bought Owens Yacht Company. Brunswick had attempted to buy Chris-Craft but was outmaneuvered by the Shields group. In buying Owens, Brunswick felt that they had a good catch, for considerably less money than the buyout of Chris-Craft would have required. Owens was to concentrate on the cruisers that they were best known for while the runabout market became a secondary issue. John Norek was still turning out a few Owens runabouts from his Crystaliner plant in California. Brunswick consolidated their holdings into the Brunswick Boat Division. This new division would be broken down into three distinct groups: Owens Yacht Division, featuring the larger cruisers the company had been known for; Larson Boat Division , selling to the middle and upper level trailerable runabout market; and Cutter Boats , building entry level runabouts. The main focus of the Brunswick Boat Division centered on marketing this new concept to dealers that were interested in heading into the future with a sure winner. So much was at stake and the market had started to soften at this point in time and the dealers came flocking to this new industry “giant”. Brunswick knew that they had to consolidate the plants that they still had. The Larson licensee plants in Ontario, California and Casper, Wyoming had already closed their doors. The Tell City plant was going through some intense labor relation’s issues and the decision was made to move the Cutter/Owens operations to a newly built Larson facility in Alliance, Ohio. Although this plant wasn’t operational at the time, the move was made anyway. This left the Little Falls, Minnesota; Nashville, Georgia; and Alliance, Ohio plants to produce enough boats to fill the orders. After the 1961 season the decision was made by senior Brunswick management to move all operations to a new plant in Warsaw, Indiana. This plant was centrally located and could be efficiently operated, building all three runabout lines: Larson, Cutter, and Owens. The Little Falls plant would be used to assemble the boats after fiberglass production in Warsaw. The Alliance and Nashville plants would be closed. The Alliance plant by this time was operational and producing both Cutter and Owens runabouts successfully. Directions were to take the equipment from both the Little Falls and Alliance plants and move them to Warsaw. This was done over Labor Day weekend in 1961. Brunswick’s idea was to start fresh and eliminate the two factions wrestling for control of the division. They brought in a management team from Chrysler to run this new operation. In three short selling seasons the Larson name went from the forefront of the industry to entry level production. Carl Kiekhaefer wanted the small boat division gone, and now it was happening, Brunswick was looking to sell the division and try to regroup its Owens cruiser holdings and consolidate the Mercury Marine division. In late August of 1963 Brunswick tried to shed their small boat division but had no callers. Claiming that the small boat division “did not fit into the total corporate pattern,” they were willing to listen to any offer. They contacted the former management team in Little Falls and even they had their doubts about resurrecting the sinking ship. Earl Geiger, Sumner Young, and Paul Larson became the major investors who bought the company back on November 8, 1963. A later newspaper account listed the purchase amount at “around $160,000”. This was little more than the cost of inventory.

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Owens Yacht Company

The company was founded by Charles Owens, Sr. who built custom boats on Spa Creek, at Annapolis, Maryland from 1925 to 1930. After his death in 1933, his three the sons, Charles, Jr., Norman and John B. decided to expand the business and purchased about eight acres on the Baltimore waterfront where they built a new plant. Here they adopted the new auto industry production techniques and applied them to boat building. When a new thirty foot Owens cruiser model was put on display at the New York Boat Show in 1937 their business took off. In the early 1940’s, boating was at its peak until World War II. All three brothers were good sailors and had raced sail boats with major success. It was at this time that they introduced their first 40 foot sailboat, the OWENS CUTTER. During the War years, they converted the shop to production boats and built many rescue boats and landing barges. After the war (1950) they sold the design rights for the OWENS CUTTER to Henry Hinckley who went on to build it for the next five years. During the Korean War the brothers bid and won contracts to build 75 foot minesweepers for the Navy. In the late 1950’s Cornelius Shields of Shields & Company, a well-known sailor and stock broker suggested they offer 20% of their company stock to the public. It opened on the New York Stock Exchange in 1959 as the Owens Company and was probably the only boat company to offer stock on the open market at this time. In 1957 the company began to convert all boat production to fiberglass and was the first in the field to do so. This step improved their bottom line almost immediately. At this same time they were also building their own line of marine engines.(Flagship Marine) During its peak production years the Owens Company had 500 employees at their Baltimore plant. By the 1960’s the Owens brothers had retired and no longer took an active part in the business. The Owens Company became a division of the Brunswick Corp. for ten years before it was sold to Test Concorde Inc. The division was renamed Concorde Yacht Division - Brunswick Corp., but the boats were still sold under the Owens brand. The Concorde Yacht Division went out of business in the early 1970’s. It is said that most of the historical material from the original Owens Company has been lost. The Owens Cutter plans remain and are located at the Mystic Seaport Museum, in Mystic, CT.

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Owens cutter

The owens cutter is a 40.5ft cutter designed by norman g. owens and built in wood by owens yacht company between 1944 and 1955., 50 units have been built..

The Owens cutter is a heavy sailboat which is slightly under powered. It is reasonably stable / stiff and has an excellent righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a heavy bluewater cruising boat.

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If you are a boat enthusiast looking to get more information on specs, built, make, etc. of different boats, then here is a complete review of OWENS CUTTER. Built by Owens Yacht Company and designed by undefined, the boat was first built in 1944. It has a hull type of Long Keel and LOA is 12.34. Its sail area/displacement ratio 14.43. Its auxiliary power tank, manufactured by undefined, runs on undefined.

OWENS CUTTER has retained its value as a result of superior building, a solid reputation, and a devoted owner base. Read on to find out more about OWENS CUTTER and decide if it is a fit for your boating needs.

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OWENS CUTTER was first built in 1944.

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Hinckley / Owens Cutter

Designed by Norman Owens of Owens Boat builders in Maryland sometime in the early 1940s’. Owens Boat Builders produced about 40 of these cutter designs as a sleek, fast Bay racer. The Owens family was primarily a power boat builder and the three brothers decided in the late 40s’ to discontinue building the cutter. They offered the plans to Hinckley who continued to build 14 of the cutters through the 50’s. Hinckley built only 4 with what Henry called “the Doghouse” or the hard mahogany dodger.

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BORSAW 40 ââ?¬Å?Ariesââ?¬ï¿½

A brief history: In January 1946, the sailing yachtsmen of the world were amazed to learn that the Owens Yacht Company, a builder of cruising and fishing powerboats and a supplier to the Navy of thousands of landing craft and rescue boats was offering a racing, cruising sailboat to the world, a 40â�� cutter of their design. They claimed that she was sea-kindly, fast, and comfortable.�  Most boats of this type were designed by a handful of men located in NY or Boston, and from contract to launching took about two years. Owens were built in Baltimore, Md. One of the most famous Owens cutters was Ash Brownâ��s Carousel in San Diego. Some of the boats sailed in various races including the 1946-47 St. Pete to Havana race, Annapolis-Oxford, Polar Island, Chicago-Mackinac Island, Grosse Pointe regatta, Put in Bay (1st & 2nd), Swiftsure Lightship 1947, and the Chesapeake Fall series 1947. The design built in wood was a huge success. One of the wooden boats was used for a mold and built in Buffalo. � A Norwegian craftsman was brought in to do the interior work on 6 of these boats called a Borsaw 40. The letters coming from the last names of the original 6 buyers. They were built in fiberglass and � � � � �  afterward the mold was sold to the Allied boat company who modified the transom, rudder and developed the renowned Allied 39. Of course, Hinckleyâ��s famous version was the Hinckley 41, Finn Mac Camhaill, and won many races with a shorter keel, spade rudder and called it a Hinckley Competition 41.

Locally, the Borsaw 40 has won numerous races, regattas and turns heads in every port. While an older boat that will require cosmetic maintenance, the bones are as solid as the day it was laid up! � If youâ��re an aficionado of the classic lines of sharp bows and long overhanging sterns and a powerful rig which performs in light and heavy airs, you will love this boat! Aries has won silver locally for years and is well known in the WNY area. Present owner will do an orientation to any buyer of the ship and her systems.

Complete with binder of all equipment and manuals from the building of the boat to today, complete with all correspondence. Set of slides of the building of the boat.

Presently located in the water at the 2nd oldest Yacht Club in the US, Buffalo Yacht Club

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LOA: 40�

LWL: 28�

DRAFT: 6�

BEAM: 11�5�

WEIGHT: 17,000#

Full keel with lead ballast

ENGINE: Grey Marine GAS inboard 31 HP Raw water cooled, 2 blade Bronze prop.

FUEL: 35 Gal.

WATER: 35 Gal.

WASTE: 15 Gal.

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White hull, Gold cove stripe and Red boot stripe, white bottom

Solid fiberglass hull

End grain Balsa wood coring sandwiched on fiberglass decks, painted with molded non-skid

DECK STEPPED Aluminum mast

Inside winter storage for the last 20+ years

6 jack stands

20H Danforth Anchor

13S Danforth Anchor with 15 Ft chain

Dock lines, Boat Hook, 4 Fenders of adequate size

Ullman Dacron Mainsail 2009 with Dutchman Flaking System

170% Ullman 2006 Tecnora Genoa

155% Ullman 2008 Carbon Genoa

.6 AP spinnaker

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4 Snatch blocks Large

7 Winch Handles

Club Foot Jib w/Harken track

Mid boom Harken traveler

Hydraulic back stay Adjuster

2- Barlow # 28 jib sheet winches

2- Barlow # 24 spinnaker sheet winches

Barlow # 17 Club foot jib winch

Lewmar #30 STA main sheet winch

Barlow #24 Jib halyard winch on mast

Barlow #17 Spinnaker halyard winch on mast

Harken #16 STA Main halyard winch on mast

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Edson Pedestal w/wheel at forward end of the large cockpit

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Uniden Oceanus VHF

GPS Standard Horizon Chart CP300

Hot Water heater

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1-#24 starting battery

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Boarding ladder

US Flag staff with flag

2 Horseshoe buoys

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Life Jackets with bag

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There’s hardly a better way to absorb Moscow’s atmosphere than on a ship sailing up and down the Moskva River. While complicated ticketing, loud music and chilling winds might dampen the anticipated fun, this checklist will help you to enjoy the scenic views and not fall into common tourist traps.

How to find the right boat?

There are plenty of boats and selecting the right one might be challenging. The size of the boat should be your main criteria.

Plenty of small boats cruise the Moskva River, and the most vivid one is this yellow Lay’s-branded boat. Everyone who has ever visited Moscow probably has seen it.

This option might leave a passenger disembarking partially deaf as the merciless Russian pop music blasts onboard. A free spirit, however, will find partying on such a vessel to be an unforgettable and authentic experience that’s almost a metaphor for life in modern Russia: too loud, and sometimes too welcoming. Tickets start at $13 (800 rubles) per person.

Bigger boats offer smoother sailing and tend to attract foreign visitors because of their distinct Soviet aura. Indeed, many of the older vessels must have seen better days. They are still afloat, however, and getting aboard is a unique ‘cultural’ experience. Sometimes the crew might offer lunch or dinner to passengers, but this option must be purchased with the ticket. Here is one such  option  offering dinner for $24 (1,490 rubles).

If you want to travel in style, consider Flotilla Radisson. These large, modern vessels are quite posh, with a cozy restaurant and an attentive crew at your service. Even though the selection of wines and food is modest, these vessels are still much better than other boats.

Surprisingly, the luxurious boats are priced rather modestly, and a single ticket goes for $17-$32 (1,100-2,000 rubles); also expect a reasonable restaurant bill on top.

How to buy tickets?

Women holding photos of ships promise huge discounts to “the young and beautiful,” and give personal invitations for river tours. They sound and look nice, but there’s a small catch: their ticket prices are usually more than those purchased online.

“We bought tickets from street hawkers for 900 rubles each, only to later discover that the other passengers bought their tickets twice as cheap!”  wrote  (in Russian) a disappointed Rostislav on a travel company website.

Nevertheless, buying from street hawkers has one considerable advantage: they personally escort you to the vessel so that you don’t waste time looking for the boat on your own.

Prices start at $13 (800 rubles) for one ride, and for an additional $6.5 (400 rubles) you can purchase an unlimited number of tours on the same boat on any given day.

Flotilla Radisson has official ticket offices at Gorky Park and Hotel Ukraine, but they’re often sold out.

Buying online is an option that might save some cash. Websites such as  this   offer considerable discounts for tickets sold online. On a busy Friday night an online purchase might be the only chance to get a ticket on a Flotilla Radisson boat.

This  website  (in Russian) offers multiple options for short river cruises in and around the city center, including offbeat options such as ‘disco cruises’ and ‘children cruises.’ This other  website  sells tickets online, but doesn’t have an English version. The interface is intuitive, however.

Buying tickets online has its bad points, however. The most common is confusing which pier you should go to and missing your river tour.

“I once bought tickets online to save with the discount that the website offered,” said Igor Shvarkin from Moscow. “The pier was initially marked as ‘Park Kultury,’ but when I arrived it wasn’t easy to find my boat because there were too many there. My guests had to walk a considerable distance before I finally found the vessel that accepted my tickets purchased online,” said the man.

There are two main boarding piers in the city center:  Hotel Ukraine  and  Park Kultury . Always take note of your particular berth when buying tickets online.

Where to sit onboard?

Even on a warm day, the headwind might be chilly for passengers on deck. Make sure you have warm clothes, or that the crew has blankets ready upon request.

The glass-encased hold makes the tour much more comfortable, but not at the expense of having an enjoyable experience.

Getting off the boat requires preparation as well. Ideally, you should be able to disembark on any pier along the way. In reality, passengers never know where the boat’s captain will make the next stop. Street hawkers often tell passengers in advance where they’ll be able to disembark. If you buy tickets online then you’ll have to research it yourself.

There’s a chance that the captain won’t make any stops at all and will take you back to where the tour began, which is the case with Flotilla Radisson. The safest option is to automatically expect that you’ll return to the pier where you started.

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A series of three new electric monohull commuter ferries have already begun operational sailings on the Moskva River in the Russian capital Moscow.

Built by Russian shipyard Emperium, sister vessels Sinichka , Filka , and Presnya – all named after rivers in Moscow – are being operated by the Moscow Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development (Moscow Deptrans). They are the first units of a planned fleet of 20 vessels that will serve the capital city and other nearby communities. The new ferry system will be the water transport system to be operated on the Moskva River in 16 years.

Each vessel has a welded aluminium hull, an LOA of 21 metres, a beam of 6.2 metres, a draught of only 1.4 metres, a displacement of 40 tonnes, and capacity for 80 passengers plus two crewmembers. Seating is available for 42 passengers on each ferry, and the main cabins are also fitted with USB charging ports, wifi connectivity, tables, toilets, and space for bicycles and scooters. The cabin layout can be rearranged to allow the operator to adjust the distances between the seats and to install armrests of varying widths.

An open upper deck is also accessible to passengers and is the only area on each ferry where smoking is allowed.

The ferries are all of modular construction with each ferry’s wheelhouse, main cabin, and other structural elements being built as complete, separate components. This enables the ferries to be easily dismantled for transport to anywhere in Russia by rail and then quickly re-assembled within seven days.

The ferries are also ice-capable. Recently completed operational trials on the Moskva showed that the vessels can also easily navigate under mild winter conditions with broken surface ice, though year-round operations are planned for the entire fleet.

The ferries are each fitted with 500kWh lithium iron phosphate battery packs that supply power to two 134kW motors. This configuration can deliver a maximum speed of 11.8 knots, a cruising speed of just under 10 knots, and a range of 150 kilometres.

Emperium said the transfer of rotation of electric motors to the propeller is carried out by direct drive. As a propulsion installation, a pulling rotary propeller-steering column with double screws is used. The installation of double pulling screws, with similar power, allows an operator to increase the efficiency of the propulsion system to deliver a slightly higher speed or to reduce energy consumption. This arrangement also provides the ferries with enhanced manoeuvrability necessary for navigating in close quarters.

The batteries themselves have projected service lives of 10 to 12 years and are fitted with safety features such as built-in fire extinguishers and gas vents. Quick-disconnect features allow the batteries to be easily removed for replacement or maintenance.

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The most relaxing and picturesque tour that Moscow can offer: a great way to see the city center and its main attractions. This is a perfect alternative to exploring the city by car, if you only have time to do sightseeing during weekday rush hours.

Your English-speaking guide is eager to share every bit of their knowledge about the surrounding landscape, the architecture and historical details.

We conduct Moscow river tour on Radisson Flotilla boats all year around!  It’s warm inside during winter months, while there’s air conditioning during hot summer days. You may also treat yourself to drinks, lunch or dinner on board (drinks and food are not included in tour price).

The cost of an excursion with a personal guide for 1 person

Quay at Radisson Collection Hotel

Government Headquarters ("the White House")

Kievsky Railway Central

Novodevichy Convent

Luzhniki Stadium

Academy of Sciences

Monument to Peter I

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

Moscow Kremlin

St.Basil's Cathedral

Novospassky Monastery

U-turn and back to Quay at Radisson Royal Hotel

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See photo of the meeting point