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Why not just extend to whole stern? All one would need to do is build a "wall" around that big "stern platform" and you'd have a nice SD boat.

Looks liken the Menorquin as seen in the first pic on post #76 is not very heavy. Seeing one in the water you'd think she'd be 3' deep but this one looks half that. Interestingly she's a twin screw w a Claw anchor. Are Claws popular in Europe?

manyboats said:

Why not just extend to whole stern? All one would need to do is build a "wall" around that big "stern platform" and you'd have a nice SD boat.

Looks liken the Menorquin as seen in the first pic on post #76 is not very heavy. Seeing one in the water you'd think she'd be 3' deep but this one looks half that. Interestingly she's a twin screw w a Claw anchor. Are Claws popular in Europe?

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My thoughts too: easy to extend the transom backwards and make it look like its been designed by a NA rather than 'bodged' as an after -thought.

Most people have delta type anchors on older models, but many now swear by the new spade type with roll bar...

Me, I use a concrete block!

manyboats said:

Why not just extend to whole stern? All one would need to do is build a "wall" around that big "stern platform" and you'd have a nice SD boat.

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My understanding is that the first menorquins were small double enders that performed admirably but were slow. At some point they attached a flat platform onto the stern and magic happened - they were now fast. Llaut I think is the term applied to this new design.
Anyway, staying true to their origins they incorporated this unique design into all future products. Tradition is strong sometimes.

Conrad,
That's probably the case but it looks way to bastardized to me to be considered a design "true to her origins". What would you think if I did that to my Willard?

manyboats said:

Conrad,
That's probably the case but it looks way to bastardized to me to be considered a design "true to her origins". What would you think if I did that to my Willard?

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I think, Eric, that the stern would then match your humongous anchor....

Kidding of course. Please don't do such a thing, even though I'm a real fan of stern platforms for dinghy access etc.

manyboats said:

Why not just extend to whole stern? All one would need to do is build a "wall" around that big "stern platform" and you'd have a nice SD boat.

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Half agree. I think if the transom was squared off and the stern platform kept, you would have a very handsome vessel.

And in today's world, get rid of all of that wood!!!

How about this as a solution: a sliding transom.

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Hi thought I would share these out of photo's I have taken around the place.

Cheers Chris D Liberty Australia

1965 65ft Feadship. I was aboard from Friday Harbor, San Juan Island to Portland Oregon. It is a real looker in my view.

Steve,

wow!!! a beautiful ship indeed.

Chris D Liberty Australia

Sexy Feadship

Yes, it is pretty special. Here is more of the interior . that's real lead in the cabinet doors, and there are two freezers below the galley floor.

Also, it was due for a re power and they where to cut through the white cabin top then down to the engine room for R/R of the DDs

Replace w rebuilt DD's?

Rustybarge said:

How about this as a solution: a sliding transom.

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I see ejector capability for unwanted guests.

BruceK said:

I see ejector capability for unwanted guests.

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Hilarious!!


1983 Present 42 Sundeck
Twin Lehman 135's

BruceK said:

I see ejector capability for unwanted guests.

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Lol!

How many minutes before it would jam; or should that be seconds?

manyboats said:

Replace w rebuilt DD's?

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Not sure what the owner had in mind for power. It's been awhile since that trip but I remember the the capt. that had been running the boat back and forth from the San Juans and Portland every year for the owner said this would be his last trip until the engines were replaced. I guess the owner had a couple of new units sitting in the yard ready to go in. I don't remember what they were.

manyboats said:

Conrad,
That's probably the case but it looks way to bastardized to me to be considered a design "true to her origins". What would you think if I did that to my Willard?

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Hmmm. Couldn't resist that idea, Eric. Still, the extended platform doesn't blend as well as the Rocna.

The Menorquins have always tripped my curiosity. Curvaceous.... sensuous form with an unapologetic morf of function, like a perfect eggplant with a cell phone stuck in it, but there it is. If the engine space wasn't such a pain, I may have owned one. If Ken Fickett got the inspiration of the Great Harbor by combining the ideas of a Manatee and a Florida Bay Coaster, he must have got the stern platform idea from Menorquin.

OK Larry,
I like twins but I prefer red bottoms. Big props.
Good job though Larry. With that hull I could use a lot more power too.
You always catch me off guard.

healhustler said:

Hmmm. Couldn't resist that idea, Eric. Still, the extended platform doesn't blend as well as the Rocna.

The Menorquins have always tripped my curiosity. Curvaceous.... sensuous form with an unapologetic morf of function, like a perfect eggplant with a cell phone stuck in it, but there it is. If the engine space wasn't such a pain, I may have owned one. If Ken Fickett got the inspiration of the Great Harbor by combining the ideas of a Manatee and a Florida Bay Coaster, he must have got the stern platform idea from Menorquin.

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Aha, someone who knows how to use Photoshop...

Could you try putting the trawler superstructure on top of the menorquin hull in post #2576 like you've just done above?

Thanks .

Rustybarge said:

Aha, someone who knows how to use Photoshop...

Could you try putting the trawler superstructure on top of the menorquin hull in post #2576 like you've just done above?

Thanks .

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Knows how to use it . . . heck, you'd think Larry invented it for marine uses!! LOL

manyboats said:

OK Larry,
I like twins but I prefer red bottoms. Big props.

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You're right, Eric. How could I have violated Willy like that.

Rustybarge said:

Aha, someone who knows how to use Photoshop...

Could you try putting the trawler superstructure on top of the menorquin hull in post #2576 like you've just done above?

Thanks .

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Larry doesn't really live here among us. He exists in the imaginary world of PhotoShop. No one really knows where that is.

Moonstruck said:

Larry doesn't really live here among us. He exists in the imaginary world of PhotoShop. No one really knows where that is.

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Lol.

I often think that a virtual world is far superior to the real one.

That pic takes me back ... back to Craig AK. It was two days running to get there from Thorne Bay where we lived. Spent the night on the north end of the island (45 miles X 145miles) at Point Baker. Then through Dry Pass and down to Craig. I miss Alaska but I'm glad I'm here now.

Thanks for the memory lane Larry. Yea the red is a big improvement.

Eric, two days, just put it on a trailer and drive it across in a little more then two hours.

RT Firefly said:

Greetings,
Mr. GS. I do believe you're correct-GOOD EYE! I understand CL only made 5 of these. What had me scratching my head was the Seamaster did not have the broken sheer line aft around the cockpit.

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CL built 8 Seamasters as far as I know. 1972 and 1973. I believe mine is the first one of the series as the shipyard project name was Mayflower.
There was one for sale on yacht world in Mazatlan MX for the longest time, but it's sold now. There is one that is in Rode island. There is another one on the east coast, not sure where exactly is being moored. There is one in Alaska in a bad shape I'm told. There is this buitifuly maintained one in Florida that I did not know about till now. And there is mine - The SeaWitch. My boat is getting Awlgripped and it's getting a layer of cloth and west systems under the waterline in Mexico.
I'm missing two...

GeorgS said:

Looks like a Cheoy Lee 47 SeaMaster, Bill Garden design.

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GeorgS, you are absolutely correct!

Here is the SeaWitch approaching LaPaz