Scheherazade's launch day (pics)

[Doug Wood]

As a reminder, this is a Bruce King designed, cold-molded, ketch rigged yacht built by Hodgdon Yachts in East Boothbay, Maine. She's 154' 6" LOA, has a beam of 28' 6" and displaces 588,415 lbs. Yeah, she's a big boat!

Scheherazade went down the ways today, (in the fog). It was a very impressive sight, (big understatement here) and she even comes equipped with her own pirate...

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[ahc]

Wow. Who owns her? (Nice motoryacht watching her.)

[Wayne Jeffers]

Awesome! Beautiful boat! :cool: :cool: :cool:

Tell us more.

Wayne

[Concordia..41]

:cool: That's also an eye-catching something in the foreground in the next to last pic.

[Doug Wood]

The commuter style boat is 'Liberty', another Bruce King/Hodgdon collaboration. Beautiful boat...great looking torpedo stern. BTW, Liberty is 80' LOA. She looks kinda small next to Scheherazade, huh?

[Doug Wood]

to view some larger pic's (hope this works)...

www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4289008239 (http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4289008239)

[Art Read]

Speechless... And in a classic Maine fog to boot! I'm glad they didn't do that in the same yard as my poor, wee, little project. Nobody would have noticed her!

[Wild Wassa]

Very fine photography, if you don't mind me saying, Skipper? There is true ambience, even felt here.

Warren.

ps, 'Scheherazade' was a wild one. Foggy days, mask, her character, but's what's in, a name?

pps, The thing(?) I like about sailing are(?), the superstitions, ... all of them.

[ 09-28-2003, 02:47 AM: Message edited by: Wild Wassa ]

[Donn]

RBGarr...I wouldn't call Malone a "piker." In addition to what you listed, he also owns a 6,000 acre farm in Colorado, andmost of Liberty Media Corporation, a $27B company. Then there's his News Corp holdings, and a variety of other securities investments.

[Doug Wood]

pic's - Nikon CP5000 w/wide angle lens

[TR]

Doug;

You do good work! Many thanks :D

Tad

[Stephen Hutchins]

Congratulations, Doug. You gonna take a vacation before the next project?

[Doug Wood]

I had nothing to do with the construction of this boat - just went to the launch and snapped some pic's. Regardless, a vacation DOES sound good <g>.

[Don Olney]

Its quite a ship and all, but there are so many needy people in the world...Hey! Owww! Stop hitting me!