 The Grumman Sport Boat was named by the editors of Small Boat Journal as one of the 10 best small boats of all time.Boatbuilder and designer Robb White wrote of one in his essay "The Chicken Feed Boat," and made a strip-planked wood variant and sold the plans.Small Boat Journal founding editor David Getchell wrote a feature SBJ article about the SportBoat and bought one, and mentioned it again in "Outboard Boater's Handbook