building popeyes cartoon boat for real

[chucklez]

any ideas photos drawings of what could end up being popeyes boat in real life

[Tom Robb]

You're building it or you want someone else to ?
One might reasonable wonder, "Why?"

[Robert L.]

Posted by Tom Robb
One might reasonable wonder, "Why?"

Tom, Tom, Tom, if you gotta ask you will never understand.

What’s funny about this is that I have been looking for just that boat, just didn’t connect it to Popeye. In my mind I see Popeye associated with something like this.

http://72.41.23.68/images/Popeye/POPEYE_BOAT.jpg

But upon taking a quick look at some of the many Popeye cartoons I have on DVD and doing an image search on Google it appears that while Popeye is seen with a wide variety of craft he is most often associated with a rowboat, either coming into port after being set adrift for whatever reason, or making his getaway in one.

But in my mind he should be putting about in a small tug of some sort.


Mal Low (http://www.smalltugs.com/)
http://www.smalltugs.com/Pelikan9smallProg.jpg



Gill 12 Tugboat (http://www.duckworksbbs.com/plans/gill/tug/index.htm)
http://www.duckworksbbs.com/plans/gill/tug/Tugboat-156-400.jpg


I would think that any tug or trawler hull would work. Soften up the wheelhouse and cabin, slightly oversized fittings and build everything above water a little off kilter visually and your set to go. A quick visit to Disneyland should give you ideas on cartoon based architectural details.

[Thorne]

From - http://www.mtcnet.net/~bierly/popfaq.htm

7. What's the name of Popeye's boat? According to Bud Sagendorf, one of the creators of the Popeye comic strips and comic books over the years, it's The Olive.

In Australia they seem to be larger -

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Popeye_on_the_river_torrens.jpg/800px-Popeye_on_the_river_torrens.jpg

Here's a rowboat -
http://www.ozziesrobots.com/b342a030.jpg

[calfee20]

How about the row boat from Robin William's Popeye movie. Here is a 3 minute clip with some scenes of the boat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG4K5mX7jgk&feature=player_embedded

....................................Tom C

[zertgold]

The Boat in the background here looks to be more of a ship with square rigging:
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/p/popeye.jpg

This one is a little more cartooney:
http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/popup2/images/popeye.gif

[Steve Lansdowne]

Make the old boy proud if you do build it.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2607/4093787115_3c97682a93_m.jpg

[Nauvoo]

That's easy... Atkin's Little Bear.

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s167/homefront5/LittleBear.jpg

[SamSam]

Popeye was a sailor man. Maybe Bluto was a tugboat guy.

http://www.yachtworld.com/marinernetwork/images/e363461.jpg

[Harbormaster]

I don't care about the boat, but I wanna live there!

[John Turpin]

Well, it's got a wheel.

http://searchpartygraphics.com/gallery/artworks/popolivelarge2.jpg

[boylesboats]

Man, where is that person who'd started this thread?

[skuthorp]

Forum member Doorstop built a "logo boat" for the Goolwa WB festival


http://www.woodenboatfestival.com.au/registration.htm

[Sailor]

Sounds to me like a "tree house" type project for someone's little guy.

[katiedobe]

Steve where is the photo of popeye at? Would not mind visiting it if I am ever in the area.