Editor 705 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Here's another yellow boat, this one being modded out. Know what it is? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Snaggletooth 3,282 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 JS9000? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeterRoss 13 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Melges 24 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nroose 211 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Farr 30? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fastyacht 1,608 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 6 minutes ago, PeterRoss said: Melges 24 Um, no. Wrong shape,and no bowspeit on stbd, and different coachroof Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fastyacht 1,608 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Thak colour would like write on a Schock Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gouvernail 2,887 Posted December 9, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fastyacht 1,608 Posted December 9, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
12 metre 389 Posted December 9, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AnotherSailor 260 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Cool! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bedford 18 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Yup, Decision 7.5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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M26 70 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 it's like looking at pictures of my boat being refited, just that it was'nt yellow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chuso007 641 Posted December 9, 2020 Share 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Black Sox 779 Posted December 9, 2020 Share 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bedford 18 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 8 hours ago, Bedford said: 21 holes in the transom, WTF? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Q 472 Posted December 9, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GH41 10 Posted December 9, 2020 Share 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AnotherSailor 260 Posted December 9, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AnotherSailor 260 Posted December 9, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fastyacht 1,608 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, AnotherSailor said: Looks smallish for that. Probably for running cables for light and electronics? MOB pole. Definitely. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DRIFTW00D 114 Posted December 9, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bedford 18 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 30 minutes ago, DRIFTW00D said: A Outboard Fuel line hole. Winner Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve 80 Posted December 13, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steam Flyer 5,338 Posted December 13, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gouvernail 2,887 Posted December 13, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steam Flyer 5,338 Posted December 13, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fastyacht 1,608 Posted December 13, 2020 Share 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 :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steam Flyer 5,338 Posted December 13, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gouvernail 2,887 Posted December 14, 2020 Share 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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