LITTLE GOOSE
There were actually four boats built to this mid-1950’s William Garden design. Garden has written that the first one, Little Goose for John Case, was one of his favorite boats. That might partially stem from her being built at Maritime Shipyards where Garden’s office was at the time, so he saw her every day.
The next three boats in the series were, Seacoma (63′), also built by Maritime, then Miriam (67′) built by Tacoma Boat, and Lakesider (67′) built by Prothero’s and outfitted by Vic Franck.
Case home-ported Little Goose at Oyster Bay New York, and she went home from the builder’s on her own bottom, via the Panama Canal. 63′ overall with a 59’6″ designed waterline, beam was 15’0″ and designed draft 5’0″ at 83,000 lbs displacement. Power was a 120 HP @1600 RPM Caterpillar D-326 with 3.25:1 reduction through a Walters vee-drive turning a 37″ x 32″ five bladed propeller.
All four boats had slightly different layouts, the black-background drawing is Seacoma, same Caterpillar as Little Goose but straight drive with the engine lower and better centered in the boat. Note the 1200 usg of fuel under the saloon sole.
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