Since the bilge has gone all stupid

[Paul Pless]

I'm gonna post away about boats. . .

Nothing like having a fully rigged keel boat on top of the cabin as your dinghy.

[ccmanuals]

Looking at the smoke stack, wouldn't you say that it's steam driven?

[Tylerdurden]

Well if you like Barbara Bush I can see how you would see everyone else as stupid.

[Concordia 33]

Or a boat with its own car...

[Chris Coose]

I think a cat would compliment that tug much betta. Besides, a gaff auxiliary might bring more lift.

[ccmanuals]

I would have picked this for a spare rather than a blow boat.

[bamamick]

That's the best use of a Cal 20 I have ever seen.

Mickey Lake

[Arizona Bay]

And there is this..


A whale, but it's swimming backwards.. stoopid

[Paul Pless]

I would have picked this for a spare rather than a blow boat.

There's room for both.

[Concordia 33]

And there is this..


A whale, but it's swimming backwards.. stoopid

It looks like a sea going version of a Star Wars Battlecruiser

[Concordia 33]

How about this one from BB Crowinshield. He made some of the prettiest overhangs on sailboats.

[TomF]

It looks like a sea going version of a Star Wars Battlecruiser

More like an anime bug walking backwards.

[Arizona Bay]

or a cuttlefish

[Concordia 33]

This one also by Crowinshield is for sale on Yachtworld

[Norman Bernstein]

That boat aboard the tug looks suspiciously like it was made of frozen snot... isn't ANYONE going to disparage it?

[LeeG]

the tug almost looks like a schooner

[Arizona Bay]

Looks to be a Cal 20... what else needs to be said? I ran one up on a sand bar a couple times, when I was a kid

[Concordia 33]

Looks to be a Cal 20... what else needs to be said? I ran one up on a sand bar a couple times, when I was a kid

ya, the cal 20's are pretty unmistakable though the cal 40 was the real ground breaker for this manufacturer

[Yeadon]

What this thread needs is an Eric Hvalsoe-built single-step hydro.

[Eric Hvalsoe]

If only I had a green light to post Rabinowitz's pics of Aurora . . .

For sheer chutzpah I kinda like the boat with its own car

[John Meachen]

For sheer chutzpah I kinda like the boat with its own car

I think I would find it interesting to see the boat anchoring or doing anything that necessitated going forward on deck.Full marks for the fidelity to a vision and there are certainly some uglier boats around.

[Eric Hvalsoe]

I think I would find it interesting to see the boat anchoring or doing anything that necessitated going forward on deck.Full marks for the fidelity to a vision and there are certainly some uglier boats around.

Good point. Now that I think about, this vessel has some similiarities to Aurora or LMC IV. Of course Aurora was merely a shy 22 feet. I could reach forward from the cockpit just far enough to hang a bumber on a little cleat about midship. The bow line led back to the cockpit from a foredeck cleat. On occasion I found myself draped over that deck on all fours. No anchor.

'Full marks for the fidelty to a vision . . .' I like that.

Maybe there are little laugh-in pop up deck hatches on the boat with a car.

[skipper68]

The thread post almost pulled me in....

[Full Tilt]

the tug almost looks like a schooner

The biggest Tallship in Canada was a tugboat. Captain Rogers razed an 'Empire' class wartime 205' tug, stepped three steel masts with gaffsails and a bowsprit. Lightened and re-engined her stern became higher and the plumb stem became raked. The 'SV Empire Sandy' has sailed many thousands of miles as a schooner.

[Bob (oh, THAT Bob)]

I would have picked this for a spare rather than a blow boat.

I have to agree, it does seem kinda bass-ackwards.