Thank You to all for your help on this. You Tanzerites were close, but I'm now %99 it's a Clipper Marine 26, pop-top model. Rodney solved it for me with his link to relavant web site clipper-sailor.net. At that site under photos are pics with the distinctive bow---and the offset outboard well and entry to cabin. I might buy a fixer CM 26 on a single axle trailer. Needs hull refinished, interior, and outboard but rigging and sails look good--as does the trailer--I just hope WA state allows licensing of single-axle trailer (w brakes). I also have to assist in getting title papers (owner missplaced...) I think I can get her for $1000---if hull is sound---ya think that's a deal? Thanks to all, Scott
Solved! HELP Need ID 26 sloop
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Clipper Marine Pics 26 sloop Solved!
Here's the pics that convinced me the 26 sloop was a Clipper Marine. The window ports don't match the boat I'm buying, but all else looks the same. Thanks, Scott
Here's the pics that convinced me the 26 sloop was a Clipper Marine. The window ports don't match the boat I'm buying, but all else looks the same. Thanks, Scott
Boy, do I disagree with Higgs
Our Clipper Marine was very well built. We went over it very thoroughly over the years. It was 10 years old when we got it and had been abandoned to 2 years. We sailed our Clipper Marine for 16 years and never had any serious problems with it. We aren't hugely fanatical sailors, just race once a week and cruise on weekends and for two weeks once a summer, so I don't know if the rig was optimum size and height. On construction though, the CLipper Marine that we owned was bulletproof. We got caught out in weather that we should not have been in, on a number of occasions and "Too Grand" took care of us. And never broke because of a storm. (Maybe that is a factor of a shorter rig) We thought that the rig was well proportioned for the flat bottom and swing keel of the CM. I think it would not have been wise to have a taller rig with that flat bottom. Anyway, we had a lot of fun with it for many years and only sold it to buy a larger boat when our family no longer fit on a 26 footer. We sold it to a guy who trailered it to Belize and is still sailing it down there after 6 years.
Our Clipper Marine was very well built. We went over it very thoroughly over the years. It was 10 years old when we got it and had been abandoned to 2 years. We sailed our Clipper Marine for 16 years and never had any serious problems with it. We aren't hugely fanatical sailors, just race once a week and cruise on weekends and for two weeks once a summer, so I don't know if the rig was optimum size and height. On construction though, the CLipper Marine that we owned was bulletproof. We got caught out in weather that we should not have been in, on a number of occasions and "Too Grand" took care of us. And never broke because of a storm. (Maybe that is a factor of a shorter rig) We thought that the rig was well proportioned for the flat bottom and swing keel of the CM. I think it would not have been wise to have a taller rig with that flat bottom. Anyway, we had a lot of fun with it for many years and only sold it to buy a larger boat when our family no longer fit on a 26 footer. We sold it to a guy who trailered it to Belize and is still sailing it down there after 6 years.
What you said was "a crappily constructed boat"
which may have been true of yours but certainly was not true of ours. I guess you hit a nerve because we loved that boat so much and still feel bad about selling her. Even though we only paid $2000 for the previously named "Hesperus" (Yugh!) we felt she was "Too Grand" for us. After all the work we put into her the first winter, Marybeth wanted to rename her "Too Grand Per Year". We are fair weather sailors who mostly sail downwind or broad reaches. When we go to weather, it is on sunny days with winds under 20 knots and waves under 4 feet. We never let our schedule force us to leave in uncomfortable weather. When we did get caught out in bad weather on the CM26, the boat was able to take more than we were. We never took our CM26 across Lake Michigan because we did not trust getting a 12 hour fair weather window for us both ways. With our Hunter 31 we have crossed many times because WE are more comfortable on a bigger boat.
which may have been true of yours but certainly was not true of ours. I guess you hit a nerve because we loved that boat so much and still feel bad about selling her. Even though we only paid $2000 for the previously named "Hesperus" (Yugh!) we felt she was "Too Grand" for us. After all the work we put into her the first winter, Marybeth wanted to rename her "Too Grand Per Year". We are fair weather sailors who mostly sail downwind or broad reaches. When we go to weather, it is on sunny days with winds under 20 knots and waves under 4 feet. We never let our schedule force us to leave in uncomfortable weather. When we did get caught out in bad weather on the CM26, the boat was able to take more than we were. We never took our CM26 across Lake Michigan because we did not trust getting a 12 hour fair weather window for us both ways. With our Hunter 31 we have crossed many times because WE are more comfortable on a bigger boat.
Marybeth
I have never owned a Clipper. I think your comment on why you did not cross Lake Mich is testimony to my point. The boat was not very strong. Great for the money you paid and the use you gave it. The Hunter is much more capable making that crossing, which I have done more times than I can count. My first crossing was in a 24 foot Eastwind, which was a much more solidly built boat than the C26. I would even make the trip on a C26, but it is not a solid boat - period. That is all I am saying.
I have never owned a Clipper. I think your comment on why you did not cross Lake Mich is testimony to my point. The boat was not very strong. Great for the money you paid and the use you gave it. The Hunter is much more capable making that crossing, which I have done more times than I can count. My first crossing was in a 24 foot Eastwind, which was a much more solidly built boat than the C26. I would even make the trip on a C26, but it is not a solid boat - period. That is all I am saying.
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