No, that's Granma. Started life as a U.S. Navy target boat.
Fascinating! I didn't know about this detail of history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granma_(yacht)
I like everything about the design up to not being able to close the engine hatches with the motor tilted up.
Maybe the owner put a motor on it that is bigger than originally designed for? 200hp vs. say 90hp as a guess?
World Wide Sportsman (now owned by Bass Pro) in Islamorada, FL has a sister ship set up in their store that you can go aboard. Pretty cool retail display and setup with rustic interior complete with typewriter, etc.
Fabulous choice, would love to hitchhike(r) a ride sometime! The 305C and 365C are my current lottery-winning dream stinkpots!
My recollection of my reading (i.e. I’m not quoting from source material but from my very imperfect memory of source material) was that there was no effort by Castro to specifically source a “wheeler.” In fact Granma was far short of the first choice. Rather she was what they could get their hands on.
...insist that all the cats at his villa have six toes.
Apparently it is now Pilar®
Or Hemingway spelled with six "m's"? That would be, let see, Hemmmmmmingway?
We had a shop dog at the fiberlass shop years ago. He didn't have 6 toes but he definitely was heading that direction. He became addicted to styrene fumes (we figured it out when he waited impatiently for the laminating room to open--he would run under the mould and lay down there) and had to have a detox cold turkey, vet's orders.
An oil change on my Tohonda requires removal of the lower cowl. Not that much fun, but not that hard when walking around the back of the boat on land.
