Identify

[Dick R.]

Can anyone help me identify the boat to the left. It belonged to my Mother and sailed on Cape Cod Bay 1937-1949 http://www.imagestation.com/mypictures/inbox/view.html?album_id=2117446187&id=4050508608&url=http://www.imagestation.com /picture/sraid194/p7631fb90dd909c5a04ad1d7fbd57f31a/f16ddb40.jpg&caption=davy%20jones2

[Dick R.]

Im sorry I have a hard time with the url thing

[Billy Bones]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid194/p7631fb90dd909c5a04ad1d7fbd57f31a/f16ddb40.jpg

[Dick R.]

Thank you Billy Bones

[Dick R.]

Does anyone have an idea where I might find some info on the boats?

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

I'm having a hard time seeing the symbol on the sail... could it be a snipe? The era is right...

[fair&fair]

Man, I have to say that this is driving me nuts. I have a thing for knowing boats, and this is stumping me. That is definitely a fish on the sail, so that should be of some help to anyone with a good knowledge of southern Massachusetts one design classes of that time period. I would think the Louie Howland would know what that is.

www.eliboat.com (http://www.eliboat.com)

[fair&fair]

Definitely not a snipe by the way. Snipes have a very high boom, spoon bow (not plumb like the ones in the photo), and a bird on the sail, not a fish. In any case, the era of the snipe continues on with vigor worldwide.

www.eliboat.com (http://www.eliboat.com)

[ 11-21-2005, 07:01 PM: Message edited by: fair&fair ]

[John B]

Didn't he say the boat on the left... one of the pair near the platform? they're different from the right one.

[Dick R.]

Thank you for trying I will try to zoom and inhance the photo as best I can and post it again.

[PVanderwaart]

To read the literature, it seems like every club had its own class in that era. Do you know exactly where they sailed?

You might have the best luck at one of the boatbuilders/boatyards that survive from that era, such as Montgomery in Gloucester or Crosby in Osterville, or Bigelow in Monument Beach (if they are still there).

[johnw]

Any idea where the picture was taken? I see a resemblance to the Biscayne Bay 14, but I don't think those had a tuna on the sail.

[Tom Lathrop]

Looks like a fish symbol on the sail. Trouble is, Herreshoff's Fish was a larger keelboat and the Gulf Fish Class is a gaff rig. Both are old enough and teh Gulf Fish looks right except for the gaff.

[Dick R.]

Im not good at the url thing but I came in closer. It looks like a fairly wide plank on the topside. I vaguely remember my mother saying it was 19ft but it doesn't look that long. She sailed it from Sagamore beach on Cape Cod Bay I have a picture of the house but it isn't there anymore.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid195/pb45dc0c771397e0a0f4bc3a05e85d0a5/f1599f16.jpg&caption=3
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid195/pbc9d6a93f4c0b95bbdb47f8bd2159379/f1598c4e.jpg&caption=sagamore

[Dick R.]

Im going to get a bad reputation. I am doing something wrong uploading pictures, feeling a little inadequate at the moment

[Bruce Hooke]

I removed the &caption bit at the end of the URL's and here's what I found:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid195/pb45dc0c771397e0a0f4bc3a05e85d0a5/f1599f16.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid195/pbc9d6a93f4c0b95bbdb47f8bd2159379/f1598c4e.jpg

P.S. Don't feel bad...there are more important things in the world than knowing how to parse URL's! :D