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Picture Of The Moment Archive - 2003
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Scott McAllister of Flowery Branch, Georgia, sails his 1986 O'Day 272 "Scott Free" on Lake Sidney Lanier. |
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Jim Lanahan shows his 1969 O'Day Mariner 2+2 "Blue Moon" on her mooring on Union Lake in Millville, New Jersey. |
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Hurf Sheldon is shown at the helm of his 1965 Daysailer "Silver Swan", west of Meyer's Point lighthouse, Cayuga Lake, Lansing, NY in October of 2002. Hanging off the back is a 1948 Montgomery Ward outboard. John Greenly (in O'Day Rhodes 19/keel) took the photo. Says Hurf, "We've had SS since 1985 - we've re-finished the mahagony floor boards and combing a couple of times - sails well - it gets used for training young sailors one week a year and just for kicks the rest of the time. My students routinely put the gunnels under - one year they put the cockpit under; I thought for sure we were going over - the boat swamped & immediately righted. "What do we do now Mr. Sheldon?" - "Sail & bail, sail & bail" (:-) We were back on our way after a few minutes." |
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Luis Grass Rodriquez and 11 of his friends are shown motoring across the Florida Straits in their "truckboat", a converted 1951 Chevy pickup. Even the dullest vehicle attracts interest when it is apprehended floating in the middle of the Florida Straits, as this one was. The U.S. Coast Guard, citing safety concerns, removed the migrants and then sprayed the vehicle with 25mm machine-gun fire, causing it to blow up and sink.
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Bob Todd is shown sailing his 1987 O'Day 272LE, "Lazybones", under gennaker off Warwick Neck light in Rhode Island. Bob says "I purchased my 272 in August of 2000 to replace my 1976 C&C 25 MkI and never regretted it.
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Henry Hey of New York City shows off his labor of love, a 1967 Mariner, which has undergone quite a bit of maintenance, restoration and such over the last few years. "We keep in on a trailer in Montauk, LI and sail it out of the Montauk boat launch and harbor onto the Long Island (technically Block Island) Sound." |
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Andy Vomastek sails "Caity Rose", a 1980 O'Day 28, out of his home port of Groton, CT. Says Andy, "We've completed a complete rebuild on the boat including saying good bye to the OMC saildrive and hello to a Yanmar 20, saildrive. Sweet." |
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Marilena and Ciro sail their 1973 O'Day 22 by Naples in the Mediterranean. Says Ciro, "It is wonderful very strong and very mariner." Language difficulties make communication a bit difficult, but take a look at their web site, http://spazioinwind.libero.it
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The Weingarts, Gerry and Chris, make sailing a family affair with their sons Andy and Ben. They sail Moonrise, a 1988 O'Day 272LE out of the St. Joseph river in southwestern Michigan. This picture was taken in July at the start of their vacation. |
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Linden and Nancy Debassige are the proud owners of Emerald, a 1968 O'Day Outlaw. Says Linden "We purchased the last boat out of the mould from the original owner two years ago and we've loved it ever since. It is #89 and there was a mould breaking ceremony that the original owner attended. He was able to give us the original sales brochure from the boat show where he purchased it in Ontario. |
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