Similar to MacGregor?

[Bilgemaster]

While not ugly, exactly, I kind of see what you mean about the Farr. The window's slightly downward cast abaft somehow makes it look sort of "sad"...like a fat guy waddling off late to lunch, but knowing the buffet will be probably be closed before he gets there.

[Mac26Mpaul]

Our resident Farr owning mac basher has been known to talk as if he owned a sleek race boat. The next time he comments, I will be sure to pass on your description of his boat

[Bilgemaster]

Well, only if that Farr sailor's being particularly obnoxious. I mean, beauty's in the eye and all that. That said, now that I look at that picture again, it's kind of clear that the young guy on the bow is probably hailing a more attractive nearby craft requesting to come aboard.

[Y.B.Normal]

Congrats Mike

Mac as a limo

An M would have been more fitting for a wedding (at least one on TSP describes it as looking like a wedding cake )

On our way to launching our M one day, we DID have a wedding party who wanted to have pictures taken of their group aboard our boat. As they were all pretty snockered, we didn't let them go aboard.

[sailboatmike]

Well I must say the made a sensational backdrop for the photos with her pirate flag flying beautifully in about 10knts of wind.

Unfortunately due to the tight maneuvering conditions she couldnt sail in

[BOAT]

. . . . , the late great Ben Carlin in his modified amphibious Ford GPW Jeep "Half-Safe" back in the '50s. . . . .

Yeah, that's the one!



That was the one I saw on TV - they started out as a couple but his wife gave up on the trip part way through. It was not an easy trip.

[Bilgemaster]

. . . . , the late great Ben Carlin in his modified amphibious Ford GPW Jeep "Half-Safe" back in the '50s. . . . .

Yeah, that's the one!



That was the one I saw on TV - they started out as a couple but his wife gave up on the trip part way through. It was not an easy trip.

Ahhh Yes...Ben Carlin, the most amazing adventurer most folks have never even heard of. I mean, this fellow circumnavigated the globe in an amphibious jeep!



Nowadays he'd have his own TV show, but back then much of the media either completely ignored the feat or simply didn't believe he had done it. Frankly, in some ways I think he makes Magellan look like a weenie. He had NO support, starting off pretty much on his own dime, with the occasional kindness of folks he met along the way. He had to put on little exhibitions of his vehicle, Half-Safe, just to make gas money. His book, Half-safe Around the World: By Amphibious Jeep from Montreal, Across the Atlantic, Europe, Asia, Australia, Japan and the Pacific to Canada and Back to Montreal, a good part of which was first published in 1955 as, Half-Safe: Across the Atlantic by Jeep, just to try to make some money for a much-needed refit in England to continue the subsequent legs of the journey, should be right there on the shelf alongside Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki or Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World, as an epic of the adventure travel genre.



For years Half-Safe was just mouldering away nearby in Maryland:



But back in the '80s, after Carlin's death in '81, his alma mater at Guildford Grammar School in Western Australia rescued it, where it is now on permanent display. More on that and Carlin, with links to perhaps the most comprehensive register of amphibious vehicle wonders can be found at http://www.amphibiousvehicle.net/amphi/ ... fsafe.html.

[sailboatmike]

While not ugly, exactly, I kind of see what you mean about the Farr. The window's slightly downward cast abaft somehow makes it look sort of "sad"...like a fat guy waddling off late to lunch, but knowing the buffet will be probably be closed before he gets there.

The owner of one of these was Mac bashing again on the Aussie forum, I must say he took a real beating as a few of the guys on that forum are considering moving up to Macs and have done some homework, finding out that they are not the devils work, but good little sail boats.

One pointed out that on handicap the Mac wasnt just a bit faster but "considerably" faster than his boat, so if he as stated the Mac was a poor sail boat and his is slower then what does it make his, gee he cant even motor above 6knts.

So he cant out sail one, cant out motor one, has a tiny cabin in comparision, not much going for his boat in reality

he has been VERY quiet in the last couple of days