In the early 60s, an Egg Harbor dealer invited George Stadel to design a 36-footer. After a year of production, the 36 morphed into the now-famous Egg Harbor 37. As Stadel’s son Bill recalls, “My father designed a lot of lobster boats. The Egg Harbor 37 is essentially a beamy lobster boat.” He remembers his father designing the 37 in four long days, modifying the 36 to make it a bit finer in the bow and removing the tumblehome back aft, thereby adding beam at the sheerline. The 37 is widely recognized as “the boat that created the Egg Harbor brand.” Egg Harbor started building 50 of the 37's per year and increased production to 100 per year. The final count was somewhere between 800 and 850 hulls over a period of about 10 years.