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It's that big low spot between the fore cabin and the pilothouse. I figure if Al has a rail to hold onto and a mast we can rig him with it should make the step location less ambiguous
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It's that big low spot between the fore cabin and the pilothouse. I figure if Al has a rail to hold onto and a mast we can rig him with it should make the step location less ambiguous
ben2go
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It's that big low spot between the fore cabin and the pilothouse. I figure if Al has a rail to hold onto and a mast we can rig him with it should make the step location less ambiguous
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Not quite to my taste, but IMHO it looks far more enjoyable and maybe even more practical than many of the charmless Disneyesque plastic "tugs" and "trawlers" coming off the assembly lines in their thousands.
A bunch of posts back, some interesting fishing boats got posted and I mentioned this one-finally was at Fisherman's Terminal in Seattle today to get a shot or two of it. Probably the craziest looking boat I have ever seen. A fishing boat (it dooes have a license # visible)? Sailboat (it has rigging? Pleasure boat (it has a below decks cabin)? It does have your standard 2x4 railings though!
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Re #664 I think somebody bought a boat to live aboard and got claustrophobia. Eventually made it bigger. Walk around decks became lots of storage and a kind of a yard of sorts. In the first pic you can see the side extensions clearly. From the stern shot construction looks very questionable.
Liveaboards in Alaska can dream up some far out contraptions. Seen all manner of weird things including 30' 3 story boats. Apartments in Juneau are so expensive liveaboards are common.
Liveaboards in Alaska can dream up some far out contraptions. Seen all manner of weird things including 30' 3 story boats. Apartments in Juneau are so expensive liveaboards are common.
bshanafelt
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We met the builder/owner of this fine vessel in Nanaimo this summer.
For those of you familiar with the book 'the curve of time' will recognize the design.
He found plans from the 1920's and constructed this replica boat in his garage in Arkansas. The slight modification from original is slightly longer, 25' instead of 24', and of course a modern diesel.
Cold moulded epoxy over red cedar, multi strip method.
He has a trailer on which he loads the boat up and hauls it with his pickup out to be launched at Anacortes. The past 4 seasons he, his wife and their dog cruise to Desolation Sound.
For those of you familiar with the book 'the curve of time' will recognize the design.
He found plans from the 1920's and constructed this replica boat in his garage in Arkansas. The slight modification from original is slightly longer, 25' instead of 24', and of course a modern diesel.
Cold moulded epoxy over red cedar, multi strip method.
He has a trailer on which he loads the boat up and hauls it with his pickup out to be launched at Anacortes. The past 4 seasons he, his wife and their dog cruise to Desolation Sound.
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She looks a bit like an Ecco... I remember they were dark below decks (if memory serves after so long that is)
Mahogany overhead, like ours used to have before we went "modern" and painted it white. Weird, isn't it, how the styles and designs come around time and time again.
The above though? She's pretty.
Mahogany overhead, like ours used to have before we went "modern" and painted it white. Weird, isn't it, how the styles and designs come around time and time again.
The above though? She's pretty.
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Cool boat. What a tribute. Everyone on this site should read The Curve of Time.
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Well it's close, but not really Caprice. Traveler looks like she was built from the Weston Farmer plans for a 26' Elco Elco 26
Here's Caprice long ago.....She was 25' by 6.5', imagine spending whole summers in such a tiny boat alone with 5 kids and a cranky little Kermath gas engine.....
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+1 Curve of Time.
I'm going to stop following this thread. I got up in the middle of the night after dreaming of a certain steel vessel and got to reading and interrogating pictures for about 2 hours before coming back to my senses. Starting over with a new project, all the time, money, etc.. is just not worth it. I think the Dauntless thread at the same time is making me long for a boat with true range potential. That and the fact I'm about a millimeter away from truly selling everything and starting over. I literally can't cope with this thread anymore!
No harm in liquidating projects/assets that came come along for the ride.
Who wants to bid on a 1978 Alfa Romeo? How about a dive store worth of gas equipment ( Bauer dive compressor in Verticus housing, Haskel Booster, Storage tanks, oxygen/Helium). Just listed a old Honda Motorbike on Craigs. Thinking of dumping the 2006 Boxster S 20K miles. Lets see, what's next...
No kidding, this thread is tearing me up!
I'm supposed to leave for Princess Louisa inlet in a little over a week, might be interesting to see what happens after.
I'm going to stop following this thread. I got up in the middle of the night after dreaming of a certain steel vessel and got to reading and interrogating pictures for about 2 hours before coming back to my senses. Starting over with a new project, all the time, money, etc.. is just not worth it. I think the Dauntless thread at the same time is making me long for a boat with true range potential. That and the fact I'm about a millimeter away from truly selling everything and starting over. I literally can't cope with this thread anymore!
No harm in liquidating projects/assets that came come along for the ride.
Who wants to bid on a 1978 Alfa Romeo? How about a dive store worth of gas equipment ( Bauer dive compressor in Verticus housing, Haskel Booster, Storage tanks, oxygen/Helium). Just listed a old Honda Motorbike on Craigs. Thinking of dumping the 2006 Boxster S 20K miles. Lets see, what's next...
No kidding, this thread is tearing me up!
I'm supposed to leave for Princess Louisa inlet in a little over a week, might be interesting to see what happens after.
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I know they made a 6.354H = horizontal, don't know if they produced any of their other models in the same style.
Some of my favorite boats that I've taken photos of over the years.
Glorybe was built in 1927. Chinook was designed by Gardner and was built by and for the publisher of "Boating" (I think)magazine as a cruising boat for the east coast. This was in the 1950s I believe. When he and his wife were done with it, it was sold and sent out to the west coast by train. Chinook was on our dock for many years until it was sold again. It's still in the area.
The Bluenose and the fishing schooners like her have always been my favorite sailing vessels. A few years ago my wife and I were taken out on the Bluenose II, and exact replica that was built in the same yard by some of the same people as the original. It was my wife's first time ever under sail.
The Columbia River gillnetter I shot at Lopez Island reminds me of the fishing boats I saw as a very young child in the harbor of my original home town, Sausalito, CA, where we lived one block back the water. Sausalito's commercial fishing harbor and the Northwestern Pacific's Tiburon train yard and engine roundhouse (both long gone) were my favorite "hangouts" as a little kid before we moved to Hawaii. The first boat I can consciously remember seeing was a boat like this painted yellow and green and named "Lucky Lady." I was probably about 2 or 3 years old.
Glorybe was built in 1927. Chinook was designed by Gardner and was built by and for the publisher of "Boating" (I think)magazine as a cruising boat for the east coast. This was in the 1950s I believe. When he and his wife were done with it, it was sold and sent out to the west coast by train. Chinook was on our dock for many years until it was sold again. It's still in the area.
The Bluenose and the fishing schooners like her have always been my favorite sailing vessels. A few years ago my wife and I were taken out on the Bluenose II, and exact replica that was built in the same yard by some of the same people as the original. It was my wife's first time ever under sail.
The Columbia River gillnetter I shot at Lopez Island reminds me of the fishing boats I saw as a very young child in the harbor of my original home town, Sausalito, CA, where we lived one block back the water. Sausalito's commercial fishing harbor and the Northwestern Pacific's Tiburon train yard and engine roundhouse (both long gone) were my favorite "hangouts" as a little kid before we moved to Hawaii. The first boat I can consciously remember seeing was a boat like this painted yellow and green and named "Lucky Lady." I was probably about 2 or 3 years old.
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My 1971 C&C custom trawler had a horizontal Perkins HT-354-6. The unusual thing about this engine was it had both wet and dry sumps plus the pistons had five rings as opposed to the usual three.
We rebuilt the engine at 20,000 hours because it had a tiny bit of slap in one piston. It would have gone for several thousand more hours but I'm a wee bit picky.
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loafs and fishes
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Sweet!!!!!
Portuguese
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Beautifull vessel Boatpocker
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Poker: I was just about to ask you what a PDQ Benford Faintail 38 was. I'm familiar with Benford's designs, but how did PDQ become involved, if indeed, you are speaking about the company.
The story is a little foggy but the boat appears to have been built by PDQ or a PDQ employee in 2001. The hull is foam cored polyester with an outer skin of epoxy.
Sadly the previous owner/pdq employee is ...... short on memory (and documentation) might be a polite way to express it. I am still digging into it's history
Sadly the previous owner/pdq employee is ...... short on memory (and documentation) might be a polite way to express it. I am still digging into it's history
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Poker: Benford may know, and he's a nice, helpful guy to speak with. He still has the Florida Bay Coaster site, I think. Of course, you probably already did that.
ben2go
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Traveler is an Elco 26 from Duckworks plans,if I'm not mistaken.Here's more info on her.
Duckworks Magazine - Traveler
Elco 26
Duckworks Magazine - Traveler
Elco 26
