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Jack Erber completes and sea-tests a 23-foot lobster boat, 2005

Also Jack Erber Lobster Boat 2005

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TypeEvent
Date2005
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2005
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Modern era
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Beaver Island

Summary

After three years of work, Jack Erber completed and successfully sea-tested a 23-foot lobster boat in 2005. The boat was designed for shallow draft and trailer use between Beaver Island and Florida and carried a 50-horsepower Honda outboard.

Evidence limits

The profile documents construction and the first sea test but not a vessel registration or subsequent voyages.

Sources

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Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, November 2005, "Jack Erber's New Lobster Boat."
    Reports Erber's three-year construction of a 23-foot Karl Stambaugh-designed lobster boat, its successful first sea test, shallow-draft design, ballast, keel, and 50-horsepower Honda outboard. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2005-11_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the boat report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2005-11_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Jack Erber completes and sea-tests a 23-foot lobster boat, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-jack-erber-lobster-boat-sea-test-2005/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 2005, "Jack Erber's New Lobster Boat." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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