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12-16-2014, 07:16 AM
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Guru
City: Longboat Key, FL
Vessel Name: Bucky
Vessel Model: Krogen Manatee 36 North Sea
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 5,196
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Great background, great story. Fascinating info!
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Larry
"When life gets hard, eat marshmallows”.
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12-16-2014, 10:26 AM
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Senior Member
City: Vancouver BC
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 302
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@Marin, great background, thanks.
Here is the new "Daedalus" built by Delta, more of an Explorer yacht.
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12-16-2014, 11:06 AM
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#1204
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Guru
City: Concrete Washington State
Vessel Name: Willy
Vessel Model: Willard Nomad 30'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 18,738
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Animal that is the perfect boat .. long and lean and low .. IMO of course but I'm keeping my Willard 30 as that is all the moorage fees I can handle and I don't want to part w what I've put into her.
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Eric
North Western Washington State USA
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12-16-2014, 12:48 PM
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Guru
City: Cypress Landing Marina (NC)
Vessel Name: Heron (2)
Vessel Model: '88 Cape Dory 28 Flybridge #115
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 1,305
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Speaking of big boats....
108' X- Naval academy trainer...Available in the Norfolk area for $30K. Nice galley!
Ad: Ultimate Trawler Yacht
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Steve
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12-16-2014, 01:49 PM
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Guru
City: Longboat Key, FL
Vessel Name: Bucky
Vessel Model: Krogen Manatee 36 North Sea
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 5,196
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Here's the other Richardson that I mentioned a month or so ago. The story is that it is 48' long with a couple of MTU's, and the broker who owns it bought it for a song, just to park it at a Marina for an office. It is odd looking, but it has some of the most beautiful hardware I've seen. The window frames are 1.5" stainless.
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Larry
"When life gets hard, eat marshmallows”.
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12-16-2014, 03:38 PM
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Guru
City: Hailing Port: Charleston, SC
Vessel Name: Moonstruck
Vessel Model: Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 8,276
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Animal
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I knew Eric would like this boat!
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12-16-2014, 03:58 PM
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Guru
City: Sarasota,FL/Thomasville,GA
Vessel Name: Steppin Stone IV
Vessel Model: Marine Trader Kelly Trawler 46
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,815
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Quote:
Originally Posted by healhustler
Here's the other Richardson that I mentioned a month or so ago. The story is that it is 48' long with a couple of MTU's, and the broker who owns it bought it for a song, just to park it at a Marina for an office. It is odd looking, but it has some of the most beautiful hardware I've seen. The window frames are 1.5" stainless.
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Wonder what the inside looks like
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12-16-2014, 05:21 PM
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Guru
City: Hailing Port: Charleston, SC
Vessel Name: Moonstruck
Vessel Model: Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 8,276
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Quote:
Originally Posted by West
Here's another EX Boeing yacht "Impromptu" now part of the D. Washington fleet.
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I saw her when she was the A & Eagle in Morehead City, and then again in Annapolis. The crew was moving her to the Chesapeake to entertain government dignitaries In MC they invited me on board for a tour The thing I remember most was the beautiful dining area and table service. It was elegant
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12-16-2014, 05:46 PM
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Scraping Paint
City: -
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 13,745
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While Boeing made a number of changes to her (the enclosed pilothouse is one--- she was designed and built with an open flying bridge but when Boeing got her to Seattle it was instantly apparent that an open flying bridge in the PNW is a bad idea), the dining room with its gorgeous table with the compass rose inlay was never changed. I've had a few meals at that table, and that is where the captain, the chef, my wife and I would meet to discuss the layout of the book.
The vessel's history and evolution is fascinating and it was great fun learning it all and then writing the story.
Interesting factoid-- When Augie Busch's children gained control of Anheuser Busch, they began to force their father out. One of the ways they came up with to make their father's life miserable was to force him to sell the A and Eagle. For tax reasons I'm sure, the A and Eagle was owned by the company, not by Augie himself. So the kids had the power to force the sale.
While Augie and his wife rarely went anywhere in the boat--- it spent most of it's time on its mooring and in the yard that was paid to keep it in perfect condition--- they truly loved the A and Eagle and used it a lot for entertaining. It was heartbreaking for them to have to part with it. One of the conditions of sale Augie managed to impose was whoever bought the boat had to guarantee that he would never see it again. In other words, it could not be sold to anyone who would keep it on the eastern seaboard, in Florida or the Caribbean, or on the Mississippi River. Boeing, of course, met those conditions.
The person Augie put in charge of selling the A and Eagle was a friend who was one of Anheuser Busch's top distributors and fancied himself to be a boat expert, a man named Bernie Little. Bernie turned out to be a terrible boat salesman (Boeing got a steal of a deal on the boat), but he later became the absolute king of unlimited hydroplane racing for years with his Miss Budweiser series of hydroplanes.
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12-16-2014, 05:52 PM
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Senior Member
City: Vancouver BC
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 302
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Very classic lines on that boat.
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12-16-2014, 06:01 PM
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Guru
City: Hailing Port: Charleston, SC
Vessel Name: Moonstruck
Vessel Model: Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 8,276
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Quote:
Originally Posted by West
Very classic lines on that boat.
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That is when boats looked like boats-----not space craft. I guess I am just a sucker for traditional design.
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12-16-2014, 06:32 PM
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Senior Member
City: Vancouver BC
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 302
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Moonstruck
That is when boats looked like boats-----not space craft. I guess I am just a sucker for traditional design.
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Here's one that you will like then.
The yacht "Atlantide" a 1930 Philip & Sons build.
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12-16-2014, 08:40 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Home Port: Buck's Harbor, Maine
Vessel Name: "Emily Anne"
Vessel Model: 2001 Island Gypsy 32 Europa (Hull #146)
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 2,846
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David Hawkins
Deer Isle, Maine
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12-16-2014, 09:41 PM
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Senior Member
City: Vancouver BC
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 302
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Beauty
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12-17-2014, 10:03 AM
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#1216
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Guru
City: Concrete Washington State
Vessel Name: Willy
Vessel Model: Willard Nomad 30'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 18,738
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Looks like the large curved davits are used to hold up a sunshade aft. As a minimalist I've always been intrigued by those non powered double davits on older boats usually used to launch small boats.
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Eric
North Western Washington State USA
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12-17-2014, 10:16 AM
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Guru
City: SF Bay Area
Vessel Model: Tollycraft 34' Tri Cabin
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 12,569
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With a boom... flag looks big enough to be used as steadying sail!
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12-17-2014, 10:26 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 251
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Marin
Here's a shot of the building being moved up the river in 1975 from it's orginal location at Plant 1 to the future site of the Museum of Flight. It looks in pretty good shape in this shot but four years later it was a mess. All the red paint was gone, the weather had taken a terrible toll, and it was starting to sag in the middle.
In the early 80s I was in our office which was across the street from the Red Barn when we noticed it was moving. We realized it was being pulled onto the new foundation that had ben constructed for it.
I grabbed a camera (back then we shot everyhing in 16mm film) and ran across and shot the rest of the move onto the new foundation.
A few years after that, after the Red Barn had been restored and opened to the public, I was asked to put togehter a short video about the history of the building and its move up the river, which had been shot on film. The video was used in a display about the buidling that was set up in the Red Barn. I have no idea if they're still using the video.
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Once it came to think of itself as a boat its need for maintenance was sure to multiply.
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12-17-2014, 10:30 AM
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#1219
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Home Port: Buck's Harbor, Maine
Vessel Name: "Emily Anne"
Vessel Model: 2001 Island Gypsy 32 Europa (Hull #146)
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 2,846
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Quote:
Originally Posted by manyboats
Looks like the large curved davits are used to hold up a sunshade aft. As a minimalist I've always been intrigued by those non powered double davits on older boats usually used to launch small boats.
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Eric: Look more closely. They are functional davits and not sunshade supports. Each of the falls in West's pic are secured when not is use to the bottom of the other davit on each side of the vessel.
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David Hawkins
Deer Isle, Maine
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12-17-2014, 06:41 PM
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Guru
City: Thibodaux, Louisiana
Vessel Name: Gumbo
Vessel Model: 2003 Monk 36
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,882
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Look like there is room for another one on the port side, just to even things off.
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