Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[jackiewilson]

...me too gene. but everyone needs to compare the hulls...not the decks. having been in the plastic boat business, everyone also needs to understand that when a new boat mold is tooled from a wood plug that was a boat, they are not tooled just like the wood boat(plug) identically. design changes have to be made that allows parts to be pulled from the finished mold. no reverse angles, a minimal amount of hull side draft angle(s), sharp corners & edges need to be eliminated, transom angles need to work, and so on. so the finished product counter-part is never going to be just like the wood plug it was pulled from... and then of course, the deck designs are almost always changed radically, to reflect the new owners taste...and to minimalize the recognition of the boat it was copied from...

. Just wish I had some better pictures of the little fifteen foot Torriggia tunnel. It looked more like the MagMiss than the MagMiss itself. Except it was incredibly beautiful.

[jackiewilson]

OK Fuji, now you have your work cut out. Unfortunately i dont have any phoggies of the little Torriggia apart from this. Was taken the morning after i arrived back from Italy . It snowed every bit of the way back and all the Italian rads were closed so i came back via Ventamigglia and Monte Carlo. Took me 28 Hours.
Transport was interesting. A morris J2 van with an MGB 1800 motor and overdrive on every gear including reverse. Could pull a trailer at around 85 mph but swallowed gas like a drunken Gippetto downing Buds.

[FUJIMO]

...those were some beautiful hull designs for there time...

[robert j garner]

Hi Jackie

Were the two torriggia cats in the photo above classed as pure race boats or pleasure craft also used for the occasional race just noticed
the cleats on the foredeck.

[jackiewilson]

Hi Jackie

Were the two torriggia cats in the photo above classed as pure race boats or pleasure craft also used for the occasional race just noticed
the cleats on the foredeck.

Only the big one was a pure bred race boat. The little 15footer was a four seater ski boat.

[FUJIMO]

[jackiewilson]

Amazing how much those boats look like RON Walbold’s Blue Fins !
Rule in England was you had to carry a passenger, wasn't until years later that single seater racing came along.

[FUJIMO]

Amazing how much those boats look like RON Walbold’s Blue Fins !
Rule in England was you had to carry a passenger, wasn't until years later that single seater racing came along.

...well, we've been ahead of you on quite a few things, lol

[jackiewilson]

...well, we've been ahead of you on quite a few things, lol

Never mock the teacher Fuji . Go back even further and you will find that it was the English boatbuilders. That were teaching you colonials how to do it in the late 1600’s, long before we gave you independence. Whoops !!!!

[jackiewilson]

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Yesterday, for the very first time i began to feel my age. Above is one half of a pair of gates im constructing for an old friend. Only twelve foot wide and five feet high, but you would not believe how heavy the damn things are.
Fashioned out of inch and a quarter Burma Teak , eight inches wide and nine foot long. My friend Eddie Jehgla , bought 25 of them out of Brighton Marina for Twenty five quid the lot. But that was forty years ago.
I set to and planed and thicknessed the planks Cut tham to size , then finally teak polished the planks ready for construction .
Yesterday a finished one of the pair of gates . Realised just how heavy the damn thing was and how i can no longer chuck large items about .
Will be another week or so before i tackle the other half.

[GENE LANHAM]

Amazing how much those boats look like RON Walbold’s Blue Fins !
Rule in England was you had to carry a passenger, wasn't until years later that single seater racing came along.

Rule in America was---

There were no rules

[jackiewilson]

Rule in America was---

There were no rules

Ive always loved the run what you brung races .

[GENE LANHAM]

Ive always loved the run what you brung races .

Outboards--Inboards-Diesel--Gas--Airboats?

[Bob V]

Outboards--Inboards-Diesel--Gas--Airboats?

[FUJIMO]