I was helping a friend move his 50' center cockpit sloop from Rhode
Island to Bermuda one fall a few years ago.

What kind?


It was a Bristol.


googling "Bristol 50" returns no results even remotely related to a 50 foot
center cockpit sailboat.

JAXAshby wrote:

I was helping a friend move his 50' center cockpit sloop from Rhode
Island to Bermuda one fall a few years ago.

What kind?


It was a Bristol.



googling "Bristol 50" returns no results even remotely related to a 50 foot
center cockpit sailboat.

Hey Doug, why not help us out and identify the boat as you say you know
what it is.

Cheers MC

MC wrote:



JAXAshby wrote:

I was helping a friend move his 50' center cockpit sloop from Rhode
Island to Bermuda one fall a few years ago.


What kind?



It was a Bristol.




googling "Bristol 50" returns no results even remotely related to a 50
foot
center cockpit sailboat.


Hey Doug, why not help us out and identify the boat as you say you know
what it is.


The lack of response to this most reasonable requests is most revealing.

Cheers

Bristol has built (and continues to build) a variety of custom boats, many of
the large, so they may well have built a 50. However, they are now building a
48, which is close enough for me:
http://www.bristolmarine.com/bristol48.htm



"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
I was helping a friend move his 50' center cockpit sloop from Rhode
Island to Bermuda one fall a few years ago.

What kind?


It was a Bristol.


googling "Bristol 50" returns no results even remotely related to a 50 foot
center cockpit sailboat.

of course, a Bristol 48 or a Bristol 51.5. It is all the same to a fiction
writer. Just like Subastian Younger's spark plugs in "The Perfect Storm".

Bristol has built (and continues to build) a variety of custom boats, many of
the large, so they may well have built a 50. However, they are now building
a
48, which is close enough for me:
http://www.bristolmarine.com/bristol48.htm



"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
I was helping a friend move his 50' center cockpit sloop from Rhode
Island to Bermuda one fall a few years ago.

What kind?


It was a Bristol.


googling "Bristol 50" returns no results even remotely related to a 50 foot
center cockpit sailboat.

Jeff Morris wrote:

Bristol has built (and continues to build) a variety of custom boats, many of
the large, so they may well have built a 50. However, they are now building a
48, which is close enough for me:
http://www.bristolmarine.com/bristol48.htm

Ah yes, but Jeff, you're not a pettifogging ****-ant like MC and JAX.

It's a matter of taste but I don't like center cockpit designs, most of them sail
like a double decker bus. However there are a few, Moody and Bristol come to mind,
that are good sailing boats. IIRC Bristols were designed by either Alden or Ted
Hood.



"JAXAshby" wrote
googling "Bristol 50" returns no results even remotely related to a 50 foot
center cockpit sailboat.

So, everything you know about boats comes from Google? Maybe you can share some of
your expertise with Navvie?

DSK

okay. 832 hits on "hunter 19 junk sailboat"



"JAXAshby" wrote
googling "Bristol 50" returns no results even remotely related to a 50
foot
center cockpit sailboat.

So, everything you know about boats comes from Google? Maybe you can share
some of
your expertise with Navvie?

DSK

JAXAshby wrote:

okay. 832 hits on "hunter 19 junk sailboat"

What about "sailboats with that sissy footwell"

DSK

"Your search - "sailboats with that sissy footwell" - did not match any
documents."


JAXAshby wrote:

okay. 832 hits on "hunter 19 junk sailboat"

What about "sailboats with that sissy footwell"

DSK

JAXAshby wrote:

"Your search - "sailboats with that sissy footwell" - did not match any
documents."

Odd, there were at least as many of those as there were 50' Bristol center
cockpit sloops.

I bet a search for "JAXAshby's sailing skill & knowledge" would come up
blank, too. Or if you prefer mathematical terms, the empty set.

DSK