On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:17:58 -0500, HK wrote:

Jim wrote:

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:44:20 -0500, HK wrote:

I do have to ask, when you sold your 52' Hatteras, did your dick grow?



Sorry, crap-for-brains, never owned a 52' Hatteras.

Didn't you and Karl D. go partners on a big Hatt at one time? There
was something about corinthian leather seats as I recall, docked near
Jacksonville or some such.

Here's a list of the boats Harry has owned up to 2003

Hatteras 43' sportfish
Swan 41' racing/cruising sloop
Morgan 33
O'Day 30
Cruisers, Inc., Mackinac 22
Century Coronado
Bill Luders 16, as sweet a sailboat as ever caught a breeze.
Century 19' wood lapstrake with side wheel steering
Cruisers, Inc. 18' and 16' wood lapstrakes
Wolverines. Molded plywood. Gorgeous. Several. 14,15,17 footers with
various
Evinrudes
Lighting class sailboat
Botved Coronet with twin 50 hp Evinrudes. Interesting boat.
Aristocraft (a piece of junk...13', fast, held together with spit)
Alcort Sunfish
Ancarrow Marine Aquiflyer. 22' footer with two Caddy Crusaders.
Guaranteed 60
mph. In the late 1950's.
Skimmar brand skiff
Arkansas Traveler fiberglass bowrider (I think it was a bowrider)
Dyer Dhow
Su-Mark round bilge runabout, fiberglass
Penn Yan runabouts. Wood.
Old Town wood and canvas canoe
Old Town sailing canoe...different than above canoe


Hope this helps.


Almost accurate. From the O'Day 30 down, the boats were actually owned
by my father, who was a boat dealer. I had use of them, though. I got a
new boat to use every summer, and my father had a new "demo" every
summer, so I got to run lots of boats.

My favorites, the ones I still think about from time to time, include
the L16, the Wolverines, and the Penn Yans.

Most posters here probably are too young to remember the days of molded
mahogany ply outboard runabouts, especially the Wolverines. They were
just exquisite, with clipper bows, beautifully varnished wood inside and
out - the entire hull - and a planked deck. Nice round chines, and they
really seemed to fly with the outboards of the day.

The Cruisers, Inc., lapstrakes were nicely done, too, and the strakes
were bolted, not riveted, so if the boat developed a leak, you could
address it by adjusting the bolt tightness. The competing Lymans were
riveted, and your only hope was caulk. But the Lymans had prettier lines.

The Century and the Coronado were boats my dad took in on trade, and
kept at the marina until they were sold. The Century had side mounted
steering, with the tiller controlled by a rope and pulley system.

Ugliest had to be the Su-Mark. You had to be there. It was a sturdy
little fiberglass runabout, round chines, and it ran well enough, but
the decks were molded with a contrasting color to the white hull, and
the color on mine was a really pale puke green.

There also was a boat my dad "imported" out of Nova Scotia. I can't
remember what the line was called. They arrived on a big truck and I
remember that they were "unfinished." Raw plywood. The buyer finished
them himself. My father finished one up as a workboat. There was another
line of boats he got from Nova Scotia, too. These were also marine ply,
but finished properly.

I must have run a zillion boats as a kid. In addition to the slips, our
little marina had buoys for the larger boats. This was in the days when
a 25' to 30' boat was considered very large. Sometimes the owner would
call ahead and ask that his boat be at the dock, so I'd row out in a
dinghy, clip onto the bouy, and "drive" the "big boat" to the dock.
That's how I learned how to handle single-screw inboards.

The boat business was pretty friendly in those days. Three of my
father's closest friends were "competing" boat dealers in southern
Connecticut, and all the families socialized together. One of those
families is still in the family boat business in the area, or was the
last time I checked, but I don't know any of those who are running the
place. My father and the founder of that boat biz also competed against
in other in hydroplane and utility outboard races.

Life sure was simpler back then.


Sammy Davis was a great tap dancer, don't you think?