this was a fun little project. B een a long time since I made a boat.
When I finished my Andrea Doria Boatyard (bashed Menard's Moe's garages) I placed some boats next to it. Notice the "cruiser" in the photo below, it's a cardstock model made about three years ago, very light and small so that the magnets in my moving-boat-on-lake-mechanism can move it smoothly around the lake. It just didn't look good there - its small and a boatyard deserves a nice big cruiser up at its dock.
So I made a new, scale 36-foot cruiser as shown below, modeled after the rather boxy cabin cruisers of the 1940s and very early 1950s . . . I named it "MY PI" - not sure why, but my story is that a math Professor is buying it for his retirement, and its "his piece of the pie. " And of course, Pi is an irrational number, and nothing is as irrational as buying a boat. Anyway, it looks a lot better in front of the dockyard.
Anyway, it's scratch-built of wood and such and I took seats and all from the interiors of a couple of several very inexpensive diecast convertibles to make the interior, etc. My vignette on board has the Andre-Doria boatyard salesman (yellow jacket) showing Mr. and Mrs. Math Professor their new boat, and telling they that they can count on this being the safest boat on the lake: "An Andrea Doria just won't sink." (The timeline of my layout is late 1955. 
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