Former loves

[dwhatty]

A friend just posted a picture of ours. Took me back 10 years or so. Show us yours.

 

[JohnP]

Our last Sailboat* "Yankee"* a Bristol 35.5** --fond memories for us.

 

[dwhatty]

Bristols are nice boats. Have always admired them.

 

[RCook]

Our first cruiser, a C-Dory 22, best decision we ever made.* Took us all over BC and SE Alaska.

 

[Fotoman]

My first one, a Hunter 34, 1983.

 

[Daddyo]

Our Albin27 sport cruiser. She's on a lake in the mountains of Colorado now.

 

[dwhatty]

Okay. Since people are putting in multiple pictures, I added a couple of more pictures, including my first sail boat, the red Luders 16, and a boat I did not own but my ex wife and I had the use of for a number of years, "Desperate Lark" a 1903 49' Herresoff Bar Harbor 31. Tried to buy her from her former owner but, considering the amount of money that the next owner had to put into her to restore her, am glad I didn't get her. But she was beauty to look at and sail.

 

[BaltimoreLurker]

dwhatty wrote:
A friend just posted a picture of ours. Took me back 10 years or so. Show us yours.

That is one sweet looking boat

*

 

[Codger2]

Here are mine, in the order that I owned them.

1) 48' OffShore Yacht Fisher

2) 42' Ocean Alexander Sedan (Our All Time Favorite)

3) 54' Mediterranean Sport Fisher

4) 35' Tiara Open

5) 30' Mainship Pilot

6) 31' Chaparral

7)* 32' Halvorsen Gourmet Cruiser

Notice that the last 4 boats were "down sized". They fit the "mission' better & the pocketbook.


-- Edited by SeaHorse II on Thursday 29th of September 2011 09:47:19 AM

 

[KJ]

My first love

Annette Funicello

 

[dwhatty]

KJ wrote:
My first love

Annette Funicello

******** No, No. She was mine!

 

[Nomad Willy]

This is an Albin I photographed at Myers Chuck. It's not ours but I have no digital photo's of her. Our Albin was powered by a 3 cyl "3HM35F" Yanmar. She could cruise at 9 knots and for the 1st year I cruised at 8.5 knots but later I settled on 7.35 knots. We took her to Alaska (Juneau and back to Everett WA) in 03 just weeks after we (Chris - now wife) and I met. 68 days en-route and we were lucky enough to have the driest and sunniest weather in SE for 50 years. Great trip and great boat. The Albin is the best designed and built small trawler in the world I'm sure.

 

[dwhatty]

SeaHorse II wrote:
Here are mine, in the order that I owned them.

1) 48' OffShore Yacht Fisher

2) 42' Ocean Alexander Sedan (Our All Time Favorite)

3) 54' Mediterranean Sport Fisher

4) 35' Tiara Open

5) 30' Mainship Pilot

6) 31' Chaparral

7)* 32' Halvorsen Gourmet Cruiser

Notice that the last 4 boats were "down sized". They fit the "mission' better & the pocketbook.



-- Edited by SeaHorse II on Thursday 29th of September 2011 09:47:19 AM

*Only seven? Geez Walt. You've almost left more boats behind than Zsa Zsa Gabor did husbands.

 

[Baker]

nomadwilly wrote:
The Albin is the best designed and built small trawler in the world I'm sure.

*Eric, I beg to differ. *That award goes to the Prairie 29. *It is HUGE at 29 feet and built like a brick ****house....not to mention a very handsome lil fella! *I lived on it for 5 years...my soon to be wife 3 of those years.

*

And Dave, what kind of boat is that??? *That thing is FINE!!! *Believe it or not, there is aboat in a field around these parts that looks VERY familiar to that. *I have been meaning to stop and take pictures. *When I do, I will post up!


-- Edited by Baker on Thursday 29th of September 2011 12:10:22 PM

 

[Codger2]

dwhatty wrote:
*Only seven? Geez Walt. You've almost left more boats behind than Zsa Zsa Gabor did husbands.

Actually there were 8 but for the life of me I can't remember one!

*

Just remembered!* It was a 38 Mediterranean Sport fisher! I fished it a lot but don't have a single photo of it.





-- Edited by SeaHorse II on Thursday 29th of September 2011 12:40:19 PM

 

[Art]

1st 1973 31' Uniflite /*Me and Linda on Tollycraft in avitar,*helping usher in Tom Perkins' Maltese Falcon under Golden Gate Bridge - 2009

 

[windmist]

Just checked out a Prairie 29 on Yachtworld. Thanks Baker. That is the largest 29 footer I have seen. Well maybe the new Ranger Tug 29 might be bigger but it will set you back about a quarter mil to buy.

Ron

 

[jleonard]

 

[BaltimoreLurker]

The good ship, "Clare Marie", a Com-Pac 23/II.* I taught myself to sail on this boat.* Hey, how hard can it be?* Well, there were a few hairy moments but no injuries or damage resulted.

My 1966 Flying Scott.* A friend gave her to me.* She was suffering from years of neglect and I was well on my way to bringing her back to life when I got distracted by,"Moon Dance", the MT 34.* I'll get back to it eventually.

*


-- Edited by BaltimoreLurker on Thursday 29th of September 2011 01:26:00 PM

 

[capt jerry]

John,* when i was a kid i sailed on the orginal yankee that was once owned by captain irving johston* who sailed it around the world 3 times, i was at a school that used it as a training vessel, he gave it to the school* in 1942 i think?

 

[Sortie]

Baker, As a fairly new owner of a Prarie 29, you have not overstated these outstanding trawlers on bit. The*surveyor who did our survey called her a wonderful "fat* little boat"and he was being complimentary. We never cease to be impressed with her many resources.

John

 

[dwhatty]

Baker wrote:And Dave, what kind of boat is that??? *That thing is FINE!!! *Believe it or not, there is aboat in a field around these parts that looks VERY familiar to that. *I have been meaning to stop and take pictures. *When I do, I will post up!


-- Edited by Baker on Thursday 29th of September 2011 12:10:22 PM

I've posted this link before, so sorry for the repeat. Its a pdf file of her pics and specs when we had her for sale two years ago:

"Res Ipsa"

 

[Codger2]

Dave:

"Magnificent " boat! I'll bet you miss the pre season prep, huh?

 

[Marin]

I've posted these photos before but.....***

I did not own one of these boats but I went out on them several times filming their remarkable*aku (tuna) fishing activities.* They were a fixture in Hawaii and have been my all-time favorite boat since I first saw them when I was seven.*

They were so much a fixture that it never occurred to me they would someday be gone, so in all the years I lived in Hawaii I never took a single still photo of one even though I saw them virtually every day.* And now they're all gone save for a couple of derelict hulks.

I have never seen a boat move as beautifully through the water as these did.* Powered by a 6-71, they sliced through the swells and waves like destroyers.

All of them were built locally in Hawaii, mostly in the later 1940s.* At one time the fleet must have numbered near a hundred statewide.* Many of them were based in Kewalo Basin in Honolulu, which is where the big tuna canneries were.* Kewalo Basin is still there but the sampans (the local name for these boats as well as "aku boat") and the canneries are long gone, along with the gigantic Norway rats that used to run the overhead pipes between the cannery buildings.

So I did not take these photos.* They were sent to me a few years ago by another equally enthusiastic fan of the sampans who DID have the presence of mind to take some pictures.

My favorite recreational production boat is the Fleming 55.* But if I could have one of these, either in*perfect-condition wood like the originals or an exact fiberglass replica, the Fleming would be forgotten in*a heartbeat.

 

[Tom.B]

KJ wrote:
My first love

Annette Funicello

*LoL... See and raise...

 

[Baker]

dwhatty wrote:Baker wrote:And Dave, what kind of boat is that??? *That thing is FINE!!! *Believe it or not, there is aboat in a field around these parts that looks VERY familiar to that. *I have been meaning to stop and take pictures. *When I do, I will post up!


-- Edited by Baker on Thursday 29th of September 2011 12:10:22 PM

I've posted this link before, so sorry for the repeat. Its a pdf file of her pics and specs when we had her for sale two years ago:

"Res Ipsa"

*Thanks David. *She is beautiful!!! *I might just grab the camera and go take photos of the boat in the field. *It is actually a little boat storage yard but the boat in my minds eye is very similar to that one. *Once I get a pic and may be very different but that is how I remembered it. *It is not far from the house so I will go out on a mission.

 

[Baker]

Sortie wrote:
Baker, As a fairly new owner of a Prarie 29, you have not overstated these outstanding trawlers on bit. The*surveyor who did our survey called her a wonderful "fat* little boat"and he was being complimentary. We never cease to be impressed with her many resources.

John

*They are great little boats for sure!!! *There is a nickname for the 737 derived from the earlier shorter versions.....FLUF...for Fat Little Ugly F****r. *We almost named our Prairie that although I believe they are not ugly and quite handsome....whereas the early 737s were definitely ugly.