Pretty boat, not a lot of cash...

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...more money than I have sloshing about in my bilges, but this still looks like value to me:

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She's a Seafarer 31, from 1974. Yawl rigged, GRP. Under $12,000...what's that, £8,000?

Prettier than a Centaur, I'd say. Sorry, Centurions... :rolleyes:


How do I attach pictures which aren't sad little thumbnails? :(
 
It's a beautiful boat, a William Tripp design.

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I daresay the photo is nearly as old as the vessel...but in that pic, I reckon she's worth £8,000 of anybody's money!

Thanks for the enlargement. (I mean, of the photo. I'm excited by beautiful boats, but not in that way...:rolleyes:)
 
This thread raised my curiosity about this boat. There are two Seafarer 31s. The William Tripp design reflected in the photos in this thread was in production from 1968 to 1974 < http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=678 >. There was a McCurdy and Rhodes design in production from 1974 onward < http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=1450 >. Looking around the Internet, the William Tripp design was produced with two different keel configurations. Early versions had the rudder attached to the keel. Later versions had the rudder on a skeg.

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interloper said:
This thread raised my curiosity about this boat. There are two Seafarer 31s. The William Tripp design reflected in the photos in this thread was in production from 1968 to 1974. There was a McCurdy and Rhodes design in production from 1974 onward. Looking around the Internet, the William Tripp design was produced with two different keel configurations. Early versions had the rudder attached to the keel. Later versions had the rudder on a skeg.
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In the 1970s I owned a Santander 30, basically the William Tripp Seafarer 30 built in the UK with the mould bought from Holland. Mine was the first one built and with a spade rudder, which was a big mistake and subsequent models reverted to the designed keel-hung version.

She was the prettiest boat I ever owned, but, like the original Folkboat, one sacrifices accomodation for aesthetics.

BTW, the first photo is posted so large that the whole thread runs off the page and I have to keep scrolling to read the text on the little netbook I use on board.
I had thought this new forum software resized such images - in fact I'm sure it did, but not for this thread.
 
Barnac1e said:
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BTW, the first photo is posted so large that the whole thread runs off the page and I have to keep scrolling to read the text on the little netbook I use on board.
I had thought this new forum software resized such images - in fact I'm sure it did, but not for this thread.
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My apologies. I linked the image from another website. It displays fine in Chrome. Other browsers might not automatically resize it.
 
interloper said:
My apologies. I linked the image from another website. It displays fine in Chrome. Other browsers might not automatically resize it.
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No big deal, but your comment made me wonder if the problem lies with my latest incarnation of Mozill Firefox and had nothing
to do with the forum software, which I had assumed did resize as I saw it happen when the latest version was installed.
In fact, it was the one good improvement to accompany that change, I thought.

So I fired up IE Version 9 and still had the text streaming off the page driven by the monster photo.
 
^^ Just for you, I saved the photos to my computer, resized them, uploaded them to my own web space, and edited new links into my previous post. Now they should fit the screen. I'll also use this opportunity to provide arrangement plans for the Seafarer 30 and Sefarer 31-1.

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Just in case there is any doubt, I must say that I really do like these boats.
 
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Thanks for those plans, Interloper. Fabulous looker, isn't she. I'm not even sure why I find her so perfect...

...but if somebody now showed me an indestructible, unsinkable, 20-knot 31-foot AWB with two double en suite staterooms, I'd still much prefer the Seafarer.
 
interloper said:
^^ Just for you, I saved the photos to my computer, resized them, uploaded them to my own web space, and edited new links into my previous post. Now they should fit the screen. I'll also use this opportunity to provide arrangement plans for the Seafarer 30 and Sefarer 31-1.


Just in case there is any doubt, I must say that I really do like these boats.
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Now that is well beyond the call of duty - you are a star, interloper, Sir, many thanks for that, it provoked happy memories.

But no one has indicated if they too have the screen overrun problem with large images or is it just me and my netbook ... Maybe you all are using vast monitors that can accommodate large photos.

Those Bill Tripp designs are indeed gorgeous but all seem to have one minor niggle I had with mine - the overly large companionway. Somehow that typical warmer climate attribute seemed out of place in my sailing area of those days, the North Sea.

For all us dinosaurs who still think overhangs and sheers look beautiful in a yacht, here is Duet, a Santander 30, a sister ship to mine.

 
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But no one has indicated if they too have the screen overrun problem with large images or is it just me and my netbook ... Maybe you all are using vast monitors that can accommodate large photos.
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i get the same big pic effect with the centaur paint shop thread.. IE8 on 1024x768
 
chewi said:
i get the same big pic effect with the centaur paint shop thread.. IE8 on 1024x768
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I went to check out the thread you mention and, of course, Dylan Winter's opening photo invokes the identical problem of text disappearing out of sight for all subsequent postings. This no longer happens to this one as interloper kindly resized and re-linked his offending photo. Not only do large graphics corrupt the display layout but they involve unnecessary bandwidth. It used to happen a lot, so much so that I once started a thread asking for a solution:
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?335282-Big-Pics

Then immediately coincident with the recent implementation of the much-maligned new forum software upgrade, it stopped. Oversized photos that previously had stretched off the screen were displayed within the display dimensions, just as any standard graphics application, e.g. Windows Photo Viewer, does. Hooray, I thought, at least the upgrade has a real improvement to counter all the negative comments.

Now I'm not so sure. I have only recently returned to my boat to use the small Atom processor netbook (to keep the current drain down while sailing) - could that be a factor? I'm running Win 7 and Mozilla Firefox V21.0 (the latest) ... oh, and get the same effect with IE V 9.
 
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