Editor 620 #1 Posted December 9, 2020 Here's another yellow boat, this one being modded out. Know what it is? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snaggletooth 3,049 #2 Posted December 9, 2020 JS9000? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fastyacht 1,556 #5 Posted December 9, 2020 6 minutes ago, PeterRoss said: Melges 24 Um, no. Wrong shape,and no bowspeit on stbd, and different coachroof Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fastyacht 1,556 #6 Posted December 9, 2020 Thak colour would like write on a Schock Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gouvernail 2,877 #7 Posted December 9, 2020 MFG Cobra from 1970. It is a Rod McAlpine Downey design http://www.sailmfg.com/cobra23/pictures/cobra23batch2/cobra23.html 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fastyacht 1,556 #8 Posted December 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Gouvernail said: MFG Cobra from 1970. It is a Rod McAlpine Downey design http://www.sailmfg.com/cobra23/pictures/cobra23batch2/cobra23.html Use it as a male mould,pop a carbon hull then you have somethong Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
12 metre 370 #9 Posted December 9, 2020 Decision 7.5 Spanish boat apparently. Photos of some of the mods are in the Martin 242 thread starting at post #14 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AnotherSailor 257 #10 Posted December 9, 2020 Cool! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bedford 18 #11 Posted December 9, 2020 Yup, Decision 7.5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M26 68 #13 Posted December 9, 2020 it's like looking at pictures of my boat being refited, just that it was'nt yellow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chuso007 597 #14 Posted December 9, 2020 That shipyard closed about a decade ago. I might be wrong but I think although Astilleros Decisión was as Spanish company, the boats were actually built in Poland. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Black Sox 719 #15 Posted December 9, 2020 4 hours ago, Bedford said: Yup, Decision 7.5 You take your Covid masking seriously, don’t you? ?Nice looking boat. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bedford 18 #16 Posted December 9, 2020 8 hours ago, Bedford said: 21 holes in the transom, WTF? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Q 447 #17 Posted December 9, 2020 2 minutes ago, Bedford said: 21 holes in the transom, WTF? rough guess 8 rudder bracketry, 4 back stay 4 outboard bracket 4 Boarding ladder A N other I ain't got a clue.. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GH41 11 #18 Posted December 9, 2020 1 hour ago, The Q said: rough guess 8 rudder bracketry, 4 back stay 4 outboard bracket 4 Boarding ladder A N other I ain't got a clue.. The odd hole looks a little bigger. Maybe bilge pump discharge. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AnotherSailor 257 #19 Posted December 9, 2020 7 hours ago, chuso007 said: That shipyard closed about a decade ago. I might be wrong but I think although Astilleros Decisión was as Spanish company, the boats were actually built in Poland. The boat is older than a decade, for sure. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AnotherSailor 257 #20 Posted December 9, 2020 2 hours ago, GH41 said: The odd hole looks a little bigger. Maybe bilge pump discharge. Looks smallish for that. Probably for running cables for light and electronics? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fastyacht 1,556 #21 Posted December 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, AnotherSailor said: Looks smallish for that. Probably for running cables for light and electronics? MOB pole. Definitely. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DRIFTW00D 111 #22 Posted December 9, 2020 7 hours ago, The Q said: rough guess 8 rudder bracketry, 4 back stay 4 outboard bracket 4 Boarding ladder A N other I ain't got a clue.. A Outboard Fuel line hole. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bedford 18 #23 Posted December 9, 2020 30 minutes ago, DRIFTW00D said: A Outboard Fuel line hole. Winner Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve 78 #24 Posted December 13, 2020 On 12/8/2020 at 8:34 PM, Gouvernail said: MFG Cobra from 1970. It is a Rod McAlpine Downey design http://www.sailmfg.com/cobra23/pictures/cobra23batch2/cobra23.html McAlpine Downey huh, no shit, cool. Never seen a mono by him. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steam Flyer 5,087 #25 Posted December 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Steve said: On 12/8/2020 at 9:34 PM, Gouvernail said: MFG Cobra from 1970. It is a Rod McAlpine Downey design http://www.sailmfg.com/cobra23/pictures/cobra23batch2/cobra23.html McAlpine Downey huh, no shit, cool. Never seen a mono by him. I thought that was one of Ford's designs? But it's still a very cool boat and if I ever find one for sale, I am totally buying it. McAlpine-Downey designed a bunch of great monohulls including the Buccaneer 18. His name always brings CROSSBOW to my mind, though, even if I am currently sailing a Bucc! FB- Doug Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gouvernail 2,877 #26 Posted December 13, 2020 3 minutes ago, Steam Flyer said: I thought that was one of Ford's designs? But it's still a very cool boat and if I ever find one for sale, I am totally buying it. McAlpine-Downey designed a bunch of great monohulls including the Buccaneer 18. His name always brings CROSSBOW to my mind, though, even if I am currently sailing a Bucc! FB- Doug Only a very few Cobras were built. No way there are enough. I thought we built only two but I was off nine months a year at college and there may have been others I never saw. The only decent part of the boat was the hull shape. Every other part. Was a total abortion. In the nineties I tried to buy the molds from Playcraft/ Charger in Missouri. They chose to bulldoze all the tooling for sll the sailboats rather than let anyone buy any of it. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steam Flyer 5,087 #27 Posted December 13, 2020 5 minutes ago, Gouvernail said: Only a very few Cobras were built. No way there are enough. I thought we built only two but I was off nine months a year at college and there may have been others I never saw. The only decent part of the boat was the hull shape. Every other part. Was a total abortion. In the nineties I tried to buy the molds from Playcraft/ Charger in Missouri. They chose to bulldoze all the tooling for sll the sailboats rather than let anyone buy any of it. It's a shame that was all lost, also a shame that some of those very good designs were finished so poorly. Didn't know there were so few Cobras built, it really looks like a 1960's attempt at a modern sport boat. Far ahead of it's time! FB- Doug Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fastyacht 1,556 #28 Posted December 13, 2020 25 minutes ago, Steam Flyer said: It's a shame that was all lost, also a shame that some of those very good designs were finished so poorly. Didn't know there were so few Cobras built, it really looks like a 1960's attempt at a modern sport boat. Far ahead of it's time! FB- Doug Looks like a Herreshoff Rater :-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steam Flyer 5,087 #29 Posted December 13, 2020 3 hours ago, fastyacht said: Looks like a Herreshoff Rater :-) I think those had a better bulb keel.... FB- Doug 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gouvernail 2,877 #30 Posted December 14, 2020 7 hours ago, Steam Flyer said: It's a shame that was all lost, also a shame that some of those very good designs were finished so poorly. Didn't know there were so few Cobras built, it really looks like a 1960's attempt at a modern sport boat. Far ahead of it's time! FB- Doug The thing had a gennaker. I wanted to add a retractable pole option that would fit inside an optional bolt on housing that would go on the deck. I built a mold and one housing and an almost triangular pole because I thought it would take the forces better than any other shape . ( Almost because the corners were rounded ) The pole was made out of three six inch by eight foot flat plates. I fastened them together and then mounted them on a big rack we used to hold 500 pound rolls of floor covering paper. I had a helper roll the triangle over and over while I wound resin soaked chopper gun roving around like a big ball for string. The entire tube weighed about ten pounds and looked so damned ugly it was pretty. unfortunately, we never built a boat to try it out. why?? The boats we built were just plain ugly inside and no dealer wanted one. I wanted to build myself a lightweight cored version with no interior and two or three trapezes but I was a college kid paying his own way through school and by the time I had the money, MFG had sold the sailboat division Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
