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Neat design. Our last 3 boats have been cc's, I'll have to check these out.
Thanks, Merlin. "Gogarty" wrote in message ... In article , says... I'm looking to down size to a trailerable sailboat with a swing keel around 25'-27'. I will be sailing on the Indian River in FL and need a very shallow draft. I would also like to able to haul the boat without yard fees and maybe some trailer sailing and the vehicle I would use is a full size pickup with a V-6 so I need to be fairly conservative with weight. Any suggestions and personal experiences would be appreciated. Merlin. Dawson (or Parker-Dawson) 26, if you can find one. |
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says... Neat design. Our last 3 boats have been cc's, I'll have to check these out. Thanks, Merlin. In article , says... Neat design. Our last 3 boats have been cc's, I'll have to check these out. Thanks, Merlin. It is a lovely boat. It was our first boat, with one-cylinder Yanmar diesel and iron swing keel. Originally sold with a trailer. That center cockpit design made for marvelous privacy if you were only a couple or had other people or chuildren on board for a few days. We sold ours to a man in Washington state who had a trailer special built and dragged it all the way from Washinton to New York in February. Then he dragged her to the Gulf to sail, for awhile then back to Washington where the boat is now. We have lost touch with the buyer. There also used to be a web site devoted to the boat but it has gone belly up, I think. The boat came as both a sloop and a ketch. As Dawsons, the boats were built in Las Vegas, Nevada. Parker bought the molds and produced Parker-Dawsons in Florida and then in Nausset, Mass. They got too costly and he sold out to Nausett Marine, which built a very few as the Nausset 26. I saw a new one -- the last one, I guess -- for sail at Nausset some years ago. Our present boat looks like the Dawson's mother. It's an O'Day 37 CC sloop. |
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Swing keel 25
Neat design. Our last 3 boats have been cc's, I'll have to check these out.
Thanks, Merlin. "Gogarty" wrote in message ... In article , says... I'm looking to down size to a trailerable sailboat with a swing keel around 25'-27'. I will be sailing on the Indian River in FL and need a very shallow draft. I would also like to able to haul the boat without yard fees and maybe some trailer sailing and the vehicle I would use is a full size pickup with a V-6 so I need to be fairly conservative with weight. Any suggestions and personal experiences would be appreciated. Merlin. Dawson (or Parker-Dawson) 26, if you can find one. |
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