Stanley Woodward, Jr. was a lover of boats. He enjoyed using them, but he especially enjoyed the creativity and personalization of building them. Woodward had a long, interesting relationship with designer Phil Bolger. The first boat Zimmerman Marine built 40 years ago, Tartar, was a Bolger-designed runabout that Woodward commissioned.
In 2019, our team at Zimmerman Marine’s location in Mathews, Va., had a chance to revisit a Woodward boat when his son asked us to make some changes to a build originally known as Design No. 505.
It’s a boat that Woodward and Bolger collaborated on in 2016, and that started out as a 27-foot, cold-molded cabin cruiser with an 8-foot, 2-inch beam. Woodward later lengthened
