Foo - Want!want!want!want!want!want!want!want!want!want!

If I get it, I am gonna need some crew to race it. Let me know if you are interested by PMing me your bank account info.

http://www.classicyachtforsale.com/syCottonBlossomII.html

And I have two, that's why I'm selling that one.

Do you take trades?

I'll trade my other one for a sweet tattoo, like maybe Nascars racing around my torso or Hulk Hogan riding a unicorn.

I am at the age where I will never again have a boat that I can't handle single handed.

I am at the age where I will never again have a boat that I can't handle single handed.

+1.

Sad thing is, you couldn't handle the maintenance on that single handed. Having owned a wooden hulled sloop in past, I can honestly say I would never do it again.

Haters gonna hate. I still want it. Used to sail against a Hereshoff S class and I have always wanted a classic wooden sloop.

I might spill my beer if I have a boat like that. So, I'll pass.

I really like the woodwork though.

Is Dennis Conner included? I'm going to start an Occupy Yachts campaign, and I know he can beat the Koch's.

Is Dennis Conner included?

One could only hope. I have sailed with a couple of Olympic medalists and just been in awe of their level of proficiency and knowledge and confidence. Would love to catch a ride with Connor or Melges or someone of that level.

Yachts are classic conspicous consumption.

For the few owners that actually use them, they are power trips.

Most of them aren't even well made, despite the pimp woodwork.

Why would you want a boat that's missing the motor?

Why would you want a boat that's missing the motor?

Wait, what?

I thought that thing had twin diesels!

Where's the fishing chair?





jk beautiful boat

Wait, what?

I thought that thing had twin diesels!

Oh, looks like it does have a motor. I would have noticed that if I'd bothered to read the specifications.

If you have the time, here is an excellent history of the boat.

http://www.toandos.com/DCole1.html

Beautiful lines.

If you have the time, here is an excellent history of the boat.

http://www.toandos.com/DCole1.html

Adjusting for inflation, that $2000 (1929) boat would cost ~$25,000 today.

Or, $2000 invested in [ahem] 1929 would have yielded ~$110,000 assuming a modest 5% growth. Think they'd take $150,000 for it?

I dunno. I think once you've ridden your bike to the sharp end, then turned around and ridden it back to the blunt end a few dozen times, the novelty would wear off.

I dunno. I think once you've ridden your bike to the sharp end, then turned around and ridden it back to the blunt end a few dozen times, the novelty would wear off.

That's when you pull the hydrofoil out of the hold.

http://www.human-powered-hydrofoils.com/files/cache/1bc25912907a808998f0026b1df66902.jpg

Ya'll just don't get it. Sailing rocks. Sailing that piece of history would be epic.

Adjusting for inflation, that $2000 (1929) boat would cost ~$25,000 today.

Or, $2000 invested in [ahem] 1929 would have yielded ~$110,000 assuming a modest 5% growth. Think they'd take $150,000 for it?

Don't forget the +$1,000,000 Connor spent to repair/refurbish her

Haters gonna hate. I still want it. Used to sail against a Hereshoff S class and I have always wanted a classic wooden sloop.

The Hereshoff museum, formerly the Heresoff boat works is an easy 11 mile bike ride from my house.I ride by it often. I have met Halsey Hereshoff. My father knew him. I saw him last year at the Bristol 4th of july parade that goes right past the Museum. My father grew up in and sailed in the same town. I would not be surprised if they raced against each other. I think I have photos of the boat works in the day. There are a lot of restored boats there now. And a 12 meter in the yard.
Too late to ask my dad, but I have a closet full of photos from those days. I have them at my house now, but I have not gone through them yet. My dad had an S boat. I have a really good big photo of it. He set all kinds of records, winning races. He set some course record times.

No more wooden boats for me!!:) This is old wooden boat land.

Yeah, truth be told, I do not want a wooden boat. I want something light and trailerable and easy to rig and launch. Melges 20 comes to mind, but I do not have that kind of coin. Next boat will be something like a Catalina 22 or 25. Something that the wife and kids and I can sail and that will sleep the 4 of us. Either that or a pair of Lasers, or Sunfish.

The thought of all this sailing out on the open waters... waves... tumbling back and forth...

*vomit*

Haters gonna hate. I still want it. Used to sail against a Hereshoff S class and I have always wanted a classic wooden sloop.

No hate, just experience.. Sail on.

If only they had used 25 coats of varnish, rather than 22, I would be so in.

My service is yours upon this mighty craft, my money in aid to purchase it, is not.

If only they had used 25 coats of varnish, rather than 22, I would be so in.

You can always add. I only wanted 18 coats. That is a little more problematic. :)

Fish poop in water. Sailing gets water in your mouth.

Man, yer gonna need a big ole trailer ta get that to the lake.

Man, yer gonna need a big ole trailer ta get that to the lake.

My Bikes At Work trailer should be able to handle it. ;)

Either that or a pair of Lasers, or Sunfish.

Of all the sail boats I've owned, I don't thing anything was more fun than my Laser.

BTW, Cotton Blossom II, WOW!

Ya'll just don't get it. Sailing rocks. Sailing that piece of history would be epic.

Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all, you've seen it all

Watched the men who rode you switch from sails to steam
And in your belly you hold the treasures few have ever seen
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream

Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late

I've done a bit of smugglin', I've run my share of grass
I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast
Never meant to last, never meant to last

And I have been drunk now for over two weeks
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks
But I got stop wishin', got to go fishin'
Down to rock bottom again
Just a few friends, just a few friends

......

I go for younger women, lived with several awhile
Though I ran 'em away, they'd come back one day
Still could manage to smile
Just takes a while, just takes a while

Mother, mother ocean, after all the years I've found
My occupational hazard being my occupation's just not around
I feel like I've drowned, gonna head uptown

I feel like I've drowned, gonna head uptown

Yachts are classic conspicous consumption.

For the few owners that actually use them, they are power trips.

Most of them aren't even well made, despite the pimp woodwork.

Live from Zuccotti Park.

If I get it, I am gonna need some crew to race it. Let me know if you are interested by PMing me your bank account info.

http://www.classicyachtforsale.com/syCottonBlossomII.html

Some how I don't think my Bank account would cover it, wonder what the asking price is.

Of all the sail boats I've owned, I don't thing anything was more fun than my Laser.

BTW, Cotton Blossom II, WOW!

I would say the same about my Dolphin Sr. It was blast to get that thing on plane and rocket past on the keel boats. I also love small day sailers. Had a Cal20 for quite a few years. That boat was a easy to sail to its potential, could be single handed and was perfect for the wife and I to race in the main and jib fleet. Never did fly a spinaker much on it though. I think my real dream boat would be a Merit 25. Fast, good lines, easy to sail and will plane.

I'll bet you can get on plane with a Nantucket sleigh ride.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Essex_photo_03_b.jpg

I'll bet you can get on plane with a Nantucket sleigh ride.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Essex_photo_03_b.jpg

If a boat is not designed to plane, it most likely will not plane, but will instead sail into and under it's own bow wave. This is not pretty. Seen some pretty gnarly stuff on boats that were sailed under when flying a spinaker. Mother Nature is scary powerful at times.

Live from Zuccotti Park.

Not really.

I live in Maine, which has a few centuries of nautical tradition.

Personally, I don't like boats.

Partly it's the exponential cost curve.

Partly it's the inherent absurdity of most of them.
Big sailboats are conspicous consumption.
I love the guys that have their sailboats go around the world.
But they personally never leave the office. Then once, maybe twice a year,
they actually get on the boat, usually for a party.
Getting drunk with the captain of one of those is funny, just remember to bail
before he gets really drunk.

Gramps had a 14ft aluminum with a tiny motor.

It was cheap, winter meant flipping the boat over.
It served a couple of actual purposes (fishing and getting to camp)

I like water skiing, so ski boats get an exemption.

But I have little tolerance for nautical romantics and their Capt Bligh fantasies.

Beautiful boat...and YAY...I finally get to whip out my one and only Dennis Conner story!

We were visiting my college roommate and his wife in NYC. She was a Private Banker and he was managing the NY Pops...and was also an avid sailor. He suggested we drive down to the NYC Yacht Club because that abomination of an America's Cup boat...the catamaran “Stars and Stripes”...was down there...and he had actually gotten to go out on a ride a few weeks previously through his wife's connections.

It was about 7pm and as we walked down to see the cat, his wife noticed that one of the yachts (98 footer) she had arranged construction financing for was stern-to at the dock...and the owners were on the stern yelling to her to come aboard! Once aboard, we got the full tour (wow) and then started drinking with the owners. About 11p, the owner and my friend went up to the restaurant at the club to get some ice cream...and came back with Dennis and some young lady, who we found out was 24 YO and was on break from some Swiss Banking school she was attending in Geneva. Her dress was one size smaller that it should have been and Dennis was hanging all over her.

So...we spent the next two hours on a variety of topics but one of the more vivid memories was a back-of-the-napkin design session we had on what the graphics on the next year's boat should look like. I really wish I had gotten him to sign the napkin and kept it.

The evening ended around 2a. My friend offered Dennis and his friend a ride back to the hotel, which they accepted...and the SIX of us crammed into my friend's convertible Saab and drove back to his hotel. He stood at the curb with his friend until we drove off...you know...wanting to avoid a scandal and all that.

Definitely a night to remember.

Is that the one where the man rides on the woman's shoulders while another man... Oh wait, no, you're not crackerjab or efrobert.

Right. ;)

If I had the coinage for that boat, I would instead get my pilot's license and rent whatever plane I wanted and could legally fly. Or I would just rent Randy Fry's 747SP with crew and go around the world with the fam.

Had a Cal20 for quite a few years. That boat was a easy to sail to its potential, could be single handed ......

Yup, much like my experience. Mine was an Ericson 23 I had in Santa Cruz Harbor for a few years. I do miss it.
http://rad.smugmug.com/photos/176241661_rFiP8-L-1.jpg

Here is a bad photo of a phote of De Nada
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r162/jsharr/ronjon001.jpg

better scan

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r162/jsharr/Cal20001.jpg

I can see that my johnson is bigger than yours.

I extended the shaft on my Johnson by about 6". Had to have another guy help me on some of the harder parts of the operation.

Now that would've been a great Halloween costume.
http://cltampa.com/binary/660c/1308327317-lebowski-cut-off-your-johnson-scissors-germans-libido-sex-drive-impotence-killer.jpg

I extended the shaft on my Johnson by about 6". Had to have another guy help me on some of the harder parts of the operation.

I wanted to say that.

Did they ever have Beetle Boats, also called Beetle cats, there? Cat Boats about 13 feet. The builders name is Beetle, not Beatle.