Above, the first Week-ender sailboat hull is turned over after being removed from the mold and set on its keel. More here. Introduced just before Christmas 1937 and launched in January by George Lawley & Sons of Neponset, Massachusetts, it was intended as a "stock design" for production. In the next two years they built 39 of the 35 foot sloops, with buyers coming from all along the Atlantic coast and the Great Lakes and even as far away as Texas.
During the war the company shifted to building tugs, sub chasers, and landing craft. In 1945 they went out of business.
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