In 1999, an article in Boat Builder Magazine caught my eye. A trailerable cruiser, light weight, with spacious accommodations (for a small boat!) and low power requirements. And it got up on a plane with relatively low horsepower.

Previously, all I had seen in this class of boat were heavy displacement style boats ... wonderful in their own right ... like Sam Devlin's Surf Scoter and Ken Hankinson's Coastal Cruiser. This was a perfect cruising boat to put on my "gotta' build" list. But alas, this article was by Tom Lathrop, an individual who designed the boat solely for himself, and no plans were available.

A query on the Wooden Boat Forum brought Tom out, and several of us pressed him for "lines" of his beloved Liz.

With the epoxy barely cured, Tom set out to bring the world plans of his Liz, but like designing the boat, this was new territory for Tom.

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