very nice Jeremy. give stan sussman at interlux a shout when you are ready to paint. name the boat what you like. i changed my last boat's name to SCRED - http://www.freewebs.com/m15-named-scred/whythenamescred.htm i inherited my M17's name, SWEET PEA. her name 'stuck' in my head so i haven't wanted to change. :: Dave Scobie :: M17 #375 - SWEET PEA - www.m17-375.webs.com :: Sage Marine - www.sagemarine.us --- On Wed, 4/6/11, Bowman, Jeremy <JeremyBowman@my.unt.edu> wrote:
I got the 9' dinghy! Here are some photos: http://s61.photobucket.com/albums/h63/jiminypricket/dinghy/
The only thing missing is a gooseneck pin, and one of the oars is broken. I don't think the mast or sail are original, but they work. The sail bag is really interesting. In the picture you can see the current design, it says "20 SPIN". But in faded letters underneath the design, it reads "M17 Genoa"...which of course makes me very curious about the history of the bag and the boat in general.
Don Rypinski owned it before the guy I got it from. Don created "Back Bay Boatworks" and also worked with Richard Arthur (of Arthur Marine) on the Balboa 20s, so he was around Lyle Hess and Jerry Montgomery at the time the dinghy was built.
If anyone knows more about the boat (like, what model is it, besides "9"? or "A 9"?), please let me know.
In the future I plan to match the paint with Griselda (black bottom, green hull, gold boot and cove stripe, gold letters). I want to come up with a good name but am not sure what... I thought about something like "Doughter" (middle English for "Daughter") because it's being "reunited" with Griselda (in the story, Griselda's husband takes her children away, but later brings them back). But "Doughter" seems like a weird name...