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John P
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Initially Posted - 09/21/2006 : 08:39:27

Oh it just get's the creative juices flowing!!

http://www.triton381.com/

'84, C-25, SR/FK, #4663, "ILLUSIONS", Chazy, NY (Lake Champlain)
http://www.sailblogs.com/member/illusions

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Justin
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Response Posted - 09/21/2006 : 09:08:52

Wow! That is a beautiful sailboat! The before and after photos sure do show all the hard work that was put into it.

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 09/21/2006 : 09:19:31

Amazing!

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John P
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Response Posted - 09/21/2006 : 09:20:11

He basically gutted that thing. Where do people find the time, energy and money for such projects??

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stampeder
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Response Posted - 09/21/2006 : 11:12:51

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">With the proliferation of cookie cutter, Clorox-bottle production boats in the 35-and-under class, the head-turning quotient of a beautiful, purpose-built, classically-styled day boat should be high. This is what I hope to achieve with this project.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">from John Lackey's website.

Thanx for the link John. Lackey's website got my attention right from the start. I'm a long time fan of Pearsons and Albergs.

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 09/21/2006 : 12:19:58

My friend and his dad spent all last summer doing a ground-up restoration of their Triton 28, and it's a beauty! Unfortunately, a lifeline stanchion was ripped out during Ernesto, but it'll be repaired. In Ohio, boats tend to be discarded when they get old, but people on the Chesapeake value old classics, and restore them. We'll be racing my friend's boat in the Good Old Boat Regatta in the first week of October. I expect there'll be 7-10 Tritons racing. There are still enough of them actively racing here that they can often get their own start. The Triton is a very nice sailing boat, and it likes a lot of wind. Most still have old Atomic Four engines and many still use the old-style bronze winches. Sailing one is a real step back in time.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 09/21/2006 : 12:33:45

Ew!
IMHO
There is practically nothing about that boat that I like. Heavy, slow, difficult to sail, minimal room/displacement. A millstone of the largest magnitude. His lack of appreciation of the aethetics of modern engineering and effeciency simply shows his inability to see the beauty of a modern world. Show me a boat from before the explosion of the 70s and I'll show you a bad boat. We had an Alberg 30 and a Dufour Arpege at our lake years ago and I was amazed that the owners continued to own them when modern boats were so much better at sailing, a Catalina 30 was clearly a superior boat; faster, dryer, stronger.

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 09/21/2006 : 13:35:41

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by fhopper@mac.com
 Show me a boat from before the explosion of the 70s and I'll show you a bad boat...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Cal 40?

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djn
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Response Posted - 09/21/2006 : 15:03:09

I am very impressed.

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mashedcat
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Response Posted - 09/21/2006 : 16:29:51

Seems to me that the real loss came after the boom of the '70s. I like my boat, but I dont think it will ever achieve the classic status of many of those old beauties.

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HudsonM1
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Response Posted - 09/21/2006 : 21:30:07

Our C25s are definitely nice looking, fun boats to own with lots going for them, but IMHO, nothing compares to the beautiful sheer, elegant overhangs and overall grace the likes of Carl Alberg and Phil Rhodes designed into their '50s and '60s boats. No, they're not all fast, but I've got to admire a good sailing boat with head-snapping good looks and rock-solid construction. And nothing beats lots of displacement when the weather comes up!!

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