Bunker and Ellis Picnic Boats

During the golden age of yachting, it was common for executives from Boston and New York to commute to their summer homes along the New England coast in moderate-sized, high performance powerboats. Renowned boat builders Raymond Bunker and Ralph Ellis raised thir craft to an art and became famous for building such vessels using traditional wood plank on frame construction methods. Based on working lobster boat designs, these boats were practical, simple and beautiful. 

Pendleton Yacht Yard is well known for the restoration and maintenance of original B&E plank boats. See examples of our work below.

Pendleton Yacht Yard has teamed up with Fitzgerald Marine and designed a modern version of a B&E boat with a cold moulded hull, the Pendleton 38 and Pendleton 43.