Fanny Haddock
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Westerly owners will immediately get it.
Did the company ever produce Centaurs with the Tiger's cabin top?
Looking at a boat. Otherwise a very attractive offer. Seller claims it is a Centaur & has the documentation for it, but the top is clearly a Tiger's. I actually like the Tiger's top from a practical point of view (more light & headroom in fore cabin) which makes it even more attractive, & I think it would fit, but apart from one custom made one, I've never heard of it being done by the factory.
Seller's not a sailor & my manners prohibit me from telling them to stick their head underwater & have look. But would like to know before I invested the time & energy into going to see it.
Thanks.
Think ...
Coincidentally, the Chinese have a word for one, which is Mamahuhu or "horse tiger". A way of saying something's neither one thing nor the other, which read like a cool boat name.
The story goes that a particularly lazy artist drew a tiger's head then someone asked him to draw a horse, so the artist just added a horse's body to the tiger's head. The customer didn't want the resulting painting so the artist kept it, leading to unfortunately results. The artist's elder son mistakenly killed a horse which he mistook for a tiger; and the younger son got killed by a tiger that he tried to ride like a horse.
I guess there's a moral to that story.
Did the company ever produce Centaurs with the Tiger's cabin top?
Looking at a boat. Otherwise a very attractive offer. Seller claims it is a Centaur & has the documentation for it, but the top is clearly a Tiger's. I actually like the Tiger's top from a practical point of view (more light & headroom in fore cabin) which makes it even more attractive, & I think it would fit, but apart from one custom made one, I've never heard of it being done by the factory.
Seller's not a sailor & my manners prohibit me from telling them to stick their head underwater & have look. But would like to know before I invested the time & energy into going to see it.
Thanks.
Think ...
Coincidentally, the Chinese have a word for one, which is Mamahuhu or "horse tiger". A way of saying something's neither one thing nor the other, which read like a cool boat name.
The story goes that a particularly lazy artist drew a tiger's head then someone asked him to draw a horse, so the artist just added a horse's body to the tiger's head. The customer didn't want the resulting painting so the artist kept it, leading to unfortunately results. The artist's elder son mistakenly killed a horse which he mistook for a tiger; and the younger son got killed by a tiger that he tried to ride like a horse.
I guess there's a moral to that story.