This 1987 Liberator pickle-fork hull sportboat once owned by engine builder Brad Smith should be back on the water this season.
Jeremy Strup and Ryan Branch of Joplin, Mo., planned to have the restoration of a 20-foot Liberator pickle-fork sportboat built in 1987 and owned by the late Brad Smith of Smith Power fame finished almost a year ago. But as with most renovation projects involving vintage boats—in this case one that’s 30 years old—there was a lot more work to do than they anticipated. But according to Branch, the project celebrating the popular engine builder, who died during a poker run accident in 2013, should be complete in two or three months.