Friday Quiz?
Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)
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Oops! I missed last Friday's quiz. Fact is, it was a really hectic week. I'm partners in a sailboat, and we had it hauled out for extensive repairs. Moreover, we had to build a shelter for it to keep it dry for renovation, which calls for a lot of rotten plywood replacement, fiberglassing, and painting. Attached are images of the Rhino plans for the shelter and of the boat in the shelter.
They say that a boat is just a hole in the water that you pour money into. Yeah, no kidding! I used to subscribe to the notion that the best boat to have access to is someone else's. I'm beginning to resubscribe to that notion!
Anyway, I guess we can still have a quiz. The boat is a well-represented class boat from the late '50s - early '60s. It's definitely a proletarian craft. No rich person would dare be seen sailing one. Can anyone identify it from the images of the hull?
-Phil
They say that a boat is just a hole in the water that you pour money into. Yeah, no kidding! I used to subscribe to the notion that the best boat to have access to is someone else's. I'm beginning to resubscribe to that notion!
Anyway, I guess we can still have a quiz. The boat is a well-represented class boat from the late '50s - early '60s. It's definitely a proletarian craft. No rich person would dare be seen sailing one. Can anyone identify it from the images of the hull?
-Phil
989 x 793 - 187K
578 x 551 - 119K
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It's the only boat name I know.
Nope.
Nope, although you got the length right.
-P.
Chris-Craft is a power boat. Phil has a sailboat, or as the power boat owners say, a Blow Boat.
Wild guesses Jim.
Has this been in a few movies? It looks familiar but never knew the maker.
EDIT: Didn't James Bond (aka Sean Connery) use one of these?
While these boats are of a single design, they were made by a lot different of builders -- some even home-built from plans. It has a Northwest U.S. origin, but ours was made in Japan. The original design, like ours, used fiberglass-covered plywood. Since then, all fiberglass versions have been made, but they are still considered part of the original class.
The boats are popular along the U.S. and Canadian west coasts and in the Great Lakes. There are even fleets of them as far away as New Zealand. They're mostly suitable for day-sailing and cruising inland waters, rather than for offshore sailing and ocean crossings.
-Phil
I wish! Nothing nearly that fancy, though.
-Phil
lol. I was afraid I was being too obvious. I tried making out the vessel number for that very reason, but no luck...
Break Out Another Thousand.
Although I must confess, this seems to be a very old one. More like Ten-thousand, and frequently
-Phil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sailboat_designers_and_manufacturers
The Thunderbird 26 was the result of a design contest held by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association in the 1950s. You can read about it here:
https://cwb.org/exhibits/thunderbirdsloop/
Now I can answer Seairths's question: the name of the boat is Anuket, after an Egyptian goddess of the Nile. Ours is hull number 581.
-Phil
Our motor is external: 8 hp Yamaha long shaft. Unfortunately, it's in a motor well, so there's no way to tilt it up out of the saltwater. Even though the lower unit is bottom-painted, we still have to clean the algae off and scrape some barnacles. And the zinc doesn't last very long between replacements.
-Phil
I was land locked on a lake in Georgia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Lanier
Land locked on Lake Lanier.
Land locked on Lake Lanier.
Land locked on Lake Lanier.
"And... loving it!" Maxwell Smart
I have been asking for 15 years on this one.
-Phil
A winner! You must have seen them before?