End of the dream? Buchan 37 washes ashore

mcc1151

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Found this Buchan 37 on the beach halfway between Sandy Point and Witters Beach on Whidbey Island. Later learned that it somehow got away from it's mooring or moorage in Marysville about 2 weeks ago. Foul play is suspected. Was still intact when first discovered, but the scallywags have got to her and the tides have partially filled her with water. Probably still save-able. I hope the owner gets his buddies and pulls her off the beach. 

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stumblingthunder

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mcc1151 said:
Found this Buchan 37 on the beach halfway between Sandy Point and Witters Beach on Whidbey Island. Later learned that it somehow got away from it's mooring or moorage in Marysville about 2 weeks ago. Foul play is suspected. Was still intact when first discovered, but the scallywags have got to her and the tides have partially filled her with water. Probably still save-able. I hope the owner gets his buddies and pulls her off the beach. 

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I’m especially intrigued by the prop shaft leading aft of the rudder stock.  

That’s a bonus for dockside entertainment both in forward and reverse!

- Stumbling 

 
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mcc1151 said:
Found this Buchan 37 on the beach halfway between Sandy Point and Witters Beach on Whidbey Island. Later learned that it somehow got away from it's mooring or moorage in Marysville about 2 weeks ago. Foul play is suspected. Was still intact when first discovered, but the scallywags have got to her and the tides have partially filled her with water. Probably still save-able. I hope the owner gets his buddies and pulls her off the beach. 

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John Buchan's youthful first boat design effort, when dad, Bill Sr., went on vacation for a few weeks and his teenage son decided to make a 37' version of the Buchan 40.  

Worked out OK.  

 
steele

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Too bad since they are good boats and have a following around here. I spent many hours on one owned by a neighbor who worked at the yard building them. This one looks to have been in rough shape before it got loose. The shaft issue may be moot since the large outoard bracket is clue that the inboard is gone or not functional. They were well built and if not too far gone worth saving. There is a perfect one on my dock still owned by a member of the Buchan family that has been completely restored and updated.

 
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Shit the thing is most likely to be solid glass. 
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Layers and layers of hand layed  up woven roving,

I spent some time at their shop when my dad was helping his friend with some of the interior work.

Dad was looking at getting one built,  but the delivery time was too far out so he went for the Columbia 36 instead, which also had a decent fleet size in Seattle.

 
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Hey Mcc is it still there?


I know this boat and maybe the owner.  I hope it is rescued.  Strangely I also knew the original owner back in the 1960s.  And I still see my childhood friend who used to race on it out at Leshi back then.   Small world when it showed up unexpectedly on my buoy last November with a new owner, who has no relation to me or its ownership of 55 years ago.  I feel sorry for him, he's a nice kid and helped me out on a project.  He's a carpenter who works out of his truck and was renting a room in a house in Seattle before heading to New Mexico to find work last December.  Probably stuck there due to the Covid thing and couldn't look after the boat.  I feel sad for him.  I have no idea where it was moored before landing on the beach.  There was a couple older outboards on it in December.  As noted above they were probably picked clean already.

I'm surprised none of you astute Mocking Anarchists have picked up on this.   See post 13100, pg 131.  I see I got my facts mixed too.  Carl won 1984 Olympic gold in the Flying Dutchman not a Finn, duh.  And I thought Bill designed the B37 but someone above wrote John Buchan did.  I claim only peripheral association with the local racing scene.  Coincidently my Lightning racing mentor used to live next door to Carl and my childhood friend and crew, mentioned above, I think is second cousin or something to Carl or his wife.  Seattle can seem like a small town sometimes.

 
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eric1207 said:
Hey Mcc is it still there?


....  And I thought Bill designed the B37 but someone above wrote John Buchan did.  I claim only peripheral association with the local racing scene.  Coincidently my Lightning racing mentor used to live next door to Carl and my childhood friend and crew, mentioned above, I think is second cousin or something to Carl or his wife.  Seattle can seem like a small town sometimes.
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Bill Sr. designed the Buchan 40 and was selling it as a production boat.  The story goes that John, his hyperactive 17 year-old younger son, took advantage of Bill's being out of town for a few weeks and blocked off the last 3' of the 40' mold, did a few other mods, and laid up a 37' hull while dad was gone.  It sailed better than the 40 and became their successful production model.

This may not be true, but...anyone who knows John and the Buchan family can believe the story rather easily.  

 
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Please tell me this is not the Fuckin Buchan 37 Blue Blazes owned by Huey Pennell.

 
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The name is not Blue Blazes.  It has the name from the original purchaser in 1965, a Mr Fleming of Bellevue.  I forget the name but my buddy will remember, if its important.  I wouldn't know the name of the recent seller.  I think it was moored in or around Tacoma when it was bought last ~November by my son's friend.

 
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