Cool item....!!

[tunawish]

For the person who wants everything B31..

http://cgi.ebay.com/1961-Owens-Corning- ... 35a505de77

[Tony Meola]

Prety cool.

I wonder if that was Hull #1. I always heard rumors that the first hull was orange.

[nestorpr]

It's not a rumor, in a Motorboat magazine article in January 1977 it says that Sam Griffith, a Bertram yacht broker and racer insisted that the first boat be molded in a tangerine color for the 1961 New York Boat Show. The article has some nice B/W pictures of the original first hull coming out of the mold and its christening. I'll try to scan the pages and post them soon unless someone already did before.

[Tony Meola]

Well we have dispelled one rumor. The other one I heard is that Hull #1 is still around, orange and up to 10 years ago living on Long Island.

I would think that an Orange 31 would jump out in a crowd and one of us would know the hiding place of her today.