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Cool item....!!
Posted: Jul 28th, '11, 09:51
by tunawish
Posted: Jul 28th, '11, 21:35
by Tony Meola
Prety cool.
I wonder if that was Hull #1. I always heard rumors that the first hull was orange.
Posted: Aug 2nd, '11, 23:08
by 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.
Posted: Aug 3rd, '11, 20:37
by 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.