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This boat is the Bone Yard
Boats restoration project.
1956 CENTURY VIKING 19'

Above: "Clinker
built" of Philippine mahogany (circa late '90s).
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Above: The helm
(circa late '90s). The bulkhead below the dash and the forward decking
were replaced with plywood at some point in time. We'll need to fix
that!
The Century was
restored in the mid-1990s by Dave Peterson of The Wooden Tangent in
Mattapoisett, MA. I stopped by his shop after my first look at the
Century to ask him a few questions about the her and his opinion of her
condition. Dave could not have been more helpful. The Wooden
Tangent recently completed the restoration of a 1930 ELCO 38-footer named
WIZARD, a boat very similar to an ELCO owned by Charles Lindbergh.
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This boat is the Bone Yard
Boats restoration project.
1956 CENTURY VIKING 19'
A WORK IN
PROGRESS (both the boat and these website pages): This 1956
Century Viking 19' was originally listed in the Winter 2009 issue of the
Bone Yard Boats newsletter. I usually fall head over heels for at
least 5 boats (okay, most of them) in every issue, but fortunately their
distance from me provides a big enough obstacle that I don't jump in my
car to retrieve every one of them. This one was different.
Besides being a beauty of a boat with classic lines and exactly what I
was looking for in a restoration project, she was also a mere 75 miles
from my house! Even so, I still waited 8 months to make the call
-- yes, I'm a bit of a procrastinator -- but once I did there was no
turning back.
Now, the photos on
this page were provided by the previous owner for the Bone Yard Boats Winter
'09 issue listing. She was restored in the mid-1990s, and these pics
are likely from when she came out of the water for the last time in the late
1990s. She has been on the hard -- actually the 'soft' as her cradle
was on a sandy Cape Cod beach when I got to her -- and out in the weather
for over a decade.

Above: Looking
aft from the windshield (circa late '90s) showing the interior of the
mahogany strakes all varnished up.

Above: The Graymarine 4-cylinder Model 620
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