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OK as long as someone brought up classic racing, let me share this picture of a boat built by DeDood (Germany) in the late 60's. Her name was Nicola IV. Anyone care to guess the designer?

Pure guess based on bubble cabin. Bill Tripp?

Yeah. Maybe that was a little too obvious. It was design Number 217 and there is not much else known about her. Some have said that this was the first bubble top that he did that finally "got it right".

JetStream wrote:Some have said that this was the first bubble top that he did that finally "got it right".

Hey!!


*sniff*



:-)

Jetstream wrote:OK as long as someone brought up classic racing, let me share this picture of a boat built by DeDood (Germany) in the late 60's. Her name was Nicola IV. Anyone care to guess the designer? ...

...Some have said that this was the first bubble top that he did that finally "got it right".

That's a cool-looking boat.

But I think Tripp got the bubble look right a number of times. I'd vote for the 60s vintage Tripp Hinckley 48 as my all-time favorite, both for the design of the bubble top and for the overall beauty of the whole design.

The one pictured below is actually a relative bargain at $195,000. I just love this design. It tops my "ultimate" list. That foredeck is to die for.

For what grand and bulky cargo is that enormous (not quite ginormous) foredeck hatch used?
Is the boat named "bootlegger" by any chance?

Figment wrote:For what grand and bulky cargo is that enormous (not quite ginormous) foredeck hatch used?

Sails. Or would have been, back in the day.

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I've watched the lean-to being built and have been really curious what he would be doing in there. The boat in front is a 1973 Pearson 30. I am completing some rudder repairs this Spring, left over from the previous owner. The boat behind her is a 1961 Tripp Javelin 38 that is waiting for some $$ to continue a complete restoration. http://www.javelin38.com Stop in and chat next time by.

Tynaje wrote:I Google Earth'd you.

The eye in the sky never sleeps...

Tynaje wrote:
I Google Earth'd you.

The eye in the sky never sleeps...

Yeah Tim. In the future when they start updating the satellite photos more often than every 4 years or so, you'll be able to search for derelict boats without ever leaving the keyboard!!!

Yup, here is the link to my sailboat...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 1&t=k&om=1

and mine :

http://www.google.com/maps?q=Portsmouth ... 1&t=k&om=1

(uh oh, here we go)

As much as I wish I could have my boat tied up at a dock in front of my house, I couldn't live in a place like that--it'd be like being in prison to me.

All those houses, cheek to jowl...eeech.

This is more like it, to me. (Sorry, folks...old imagary and no buildings or boats to be seen.)

The Boat Shop

If you go to MY MAP on google maps you can ad a pointer and highlight your boat!!!

mfasis wrote:and mine......

Have you noticed if you zoom out that picture of Long island sound just how shoally it is North of the Vineyard and Nantucket and south of Cape Cod - very noticeable.

Click here

I crewed on the high speed cat ferry from Hyannis Cape Cod to Nantucket a few years ago, and Nantucket Sound averages out at about 30 feet deep the whole way across.
At least where we were traveling... at 38 knots... in a 150 foot aluminum catamaran.
Used to get real exciting during the annual Figawi race.

The uniform shallowness was why they were so hot-to-trot to put up a windfarm. Or at least they were when I lived there. (about 3 years ago). Not sure whatever happened with that.

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OK...no politics are allowed on this forum at all, please. We just don't go there.

Thank you.