whiting 1/4 tonner

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  1. expressr
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    In an earlier post there was reference to someone who had found a whiting 1/4 in S.F was there any truth to this
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  2. Paul B

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    Yes. The 1976 World Champion Magic Bus is in Alameda. It seems to be sitting and rotting, and from all reports the owner is not interested in selling.

    Here is the thread about it and other QTs: http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/sailboats/old-quarter-tonners-magic-bus-24492.html
     
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    paul,

    magic bus wasn't Zeke's boat afternoon delight was and it went to bay area too, looking for it

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    By the way there is another 1/4 tonner sitting in a storage yard in Lake Isbella
     
  5. Paul B

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    No, Afternoon Delight was a sister to MB, with a daggerkeel.

    I found out the boat (AD) was converted with a Martin 242 Keel and then taken to FLA, where she was destroyed during one of the hurricanes about 5 years ago.

    If you knew Zeke back in the old days we might know one another.
     
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    Do you know anythng about it?
     
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    we do, you didn't figure it out spent enough time with you on an olson 30 the other 1/4 tonner belongs to a gentleman from Huston and has a house in Isabella it has a board and a second board with a abut a 150 lb shu large fractional beyond that it needs work and he won't sell he did say that he had it designed for him
     
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    Paul,
    saw what I think was MB when I was in Alameda last week a friend of mine knows the owner checking to see if it can be bought
     
  9. Paul B

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    Hmmm, you used to have an Express 37?


    Do you know who designed it for him? Not too many daggerboard QTs ever here on the West Coast. I've been talking to Harry O and he is currently restoring the old Peterson Daggerboard QT "Rat Race" nee "Blitz". It used to sit in the Windjammers yard next to the Olson 30. If the project gets to be too much he might consider selling it to me.
     
  10. Paul B

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    I have the phone number for the owner if you want to PM me. He was contacted about a year ago and said he would not sell.
     
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    Paul

    want the number as follow up

    lost all info on you about 18 months ago
     
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    paul,

    haven't been on an express in 5-6 years, but yes I owned 2, I do not know who designed the 1/4 tonner in Isabella it but the next time I'm fly-fishing on the kern I'll run him down again. if your not going to move on the peterson I'm looking for a new project
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  13. Paul B

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    It would be cool to know. I asked Bruce Nelson about Blivit last year and he said he thought it was rotting in Long Island 20 years ago, so probably gone. But if there is a daggerboarder out here maybe it is Blivit?
     
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