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Purdy Boat Company History of Purdy Boat Company, designers/builders of custom power yachts and race boats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKXmrOtdLk
03/08/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKXmrOtdLk

About a year ago some childhood friends were looking for a new caretaker for their families hundred plus year-old launch, Ebisu/Delta Lady, a 1924 Purdy that...

06/15/2025

by Alan E. Dinn, Historian, Purdy Boat Company The Purdy Boat Company was created in 1916 by Carl Graham Fisher of Indiana. Fisher was an automobile- and boat racing enthusiast, and a co-founder of the Indianapolis Speedway. Fisher had known and admired brothers Ned and Gil Purdy when he had bought....

Story of EBISU, a Purdy survivor
06/01/2025

Story of EBISU, a Purdy survivor

11/09/2024

In 1927, Carl G, Fisher, the Purdys’ patron, married his second wife, Margaret Eleanor Collier. In 1951, 12 years after Fisher’s death, Margaret married Howard William Lyon, who in the late 1920s as head of the firm of Howard W. Lyon, Inc., had hired Ned Purdy to design the “Sea Lyon” runabouts.

Link to Purdy preso given at Pine Run, 10/29/24
11/07/2024

Link to Purdy preso given at Pine Run, 10/29/24

Alan's presentation on the Purdy family and the bots they built. Here, he gave the presentation to the Villagers of Pine Run.

SHADOW V - First Place certificate 1920
09/04/2024

SHADOW V - First Place certificate 1920

Purdy Exhibit - now open thru October 31!
08/28/2024

Purdy Exhibit - now open thru October 31!

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Purdy Lane, Bayview Colony
Port Washington, NY
11050

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