Identify 1925 Boat?

[gunnar I am]

Can anyone identify the builder of this boat which was based in N.Y. The picture is taken off New London 1925. The boats name is "Troubador". http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid58/p4efaab2250b6921ff31867cd24b7ca57/fc636cab.jpg
Sorry, forgot the pic.

[ 04-05-2003, 06:03 PM: Message edited by: gunnar I am ]

[Mr. Know It All]

Start here---> http://www.ils.unc.edu/maritime/museum.shtml

let me know what you find out. :D

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Looks like an Elco...?

[Donn]

Looks like a Trumpy, too. I googled it to death, but got nothing. Sure do like the little lapstrake dingy on deck.

[ishmael]

Could well be a 'one off' by a small builder too.

Doesn't WB have a registry of yachts over twenty five foot? Might be worth an inquiry.

Sure is handsome. Long, narrow, low-power hulls make so much more sense that 'speedboats'.

What's your interest Gunnar?

Jack

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

The sheer up near the bow doesn't look elco now that I look at it... Might be british too..

[Dave Fleming]

From that time could be Consolidated a builder in Brooklyn, NY.. or somebody in Conn. too.

Just a thought.

[gunnar I am]

Just curious Jack. Bought the picture last year in a local junk shop. It's mighty clear. Man! There's so much civiliity up here, it's givin me the willys! :D Dinghy blow up for Donn. http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid58/paa052f804c22e1c1ae667d023e3ab56d/fc633bd1.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid58/p4f7a6560e41c8934dbdd0977ddac65dd/fc633bcf.jpg

[Paul Denison]

Notice the spelling is different "our"

[John Bell]

With her open bridge, plumb bow and flush forward deck this boat looks to me to be of the an prior to 1925. Maybe th picture was taken in '25, but I'd bet even money the boat was from the early teens. What do the rest of you think?

[Ken Hutchins]

found on a WEB search
Capt. Sam Brown, his famous training track for race horses and his yacht “Troubadour,”
He apparently owned a coal mine in Kentucky.

[plimsol]

Look in LLoyds Register of North American Yachts for 1925 or later years. It will give you the owner, builder, designer, engines and launch date. Quite a usefull tool for research. Most major university libraries should have copies.

[Ken Hutchins]

For information Mystic now has several years of yacht registers from the 1800's on line. This is a great info resource.

[Paul Denison]

I checked Mystic yesterday and only came up with one from 1847.