I can confirm Red Jacket is still at RCYC today and kept in fantastic shape.
> On Jul 24, 2018, at 8:24 PM, Ken Heaton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apparently, as of 2016 Red Jacket was still being raced out of the Royal > Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto, Ontario. > > http://www.rcryachts.com/news/2016/11/18/cc-yachts-part-one-by-don-finkle > > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com/archive/redjacket/redjacket.htm > > Ken H. > >> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 at 17:04, Chuck Gilchrest via CnC-List >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Let’s start with,”where the heck is the mast and the engine?” And move on >> to winches, sails, and pretty much anything of value. >> >> When I bought my first C&C in Rhode Island, it was in a modest boat yard >> right next to Young America, the 1995 America’s Cup defender (unsuccessful). >> This was the boat with the Roy Lichtenstein mermaid painting on the hull. >> Being an impressionable sailor and a huge America’s Cup fanatic, I was blown >> away to see every bit of deck hardware and parts that weren’t a molded part >> of the hull or deck, completely stripped off the boat. What a tragedy, I >> thought! Why doesn’t somebody preserve this boat as a piece of history? As >> it turns out, the boat was worth more as an art work than as a boat and it >> is currently sitting in an outdoor art museum up in the Catskill Mountains >> in NY, no keel, not a lick of boat stuff attached… >> >> For someone growing up thinking the America’s Cup was the coolest >> competition on the planet, seeing a boat in that condition was as if >> somebody was to take James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 and rip out the engine >> and paint it dayglo orange. >> >> At the same time, some boats with serious pedigrees of success have >> survived, witness Intrepid, Courageous, Dorade, Gypsy Moth IV and others. I >> wonder what ever happened to Evergreen and Red Jacket? >> >> Chuck Gilchrest >> >> S/V Half Magic >> >> 1983 35 Landfall >> >> Padanaram, MA >> >> >> >> From: CnC-List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David via >> CnC-List >> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 2:57 PM >> To: CNC CNC <[email protected]> >> Cc: David <[email protected]> >> Subject: Stus-List Holy Crap... >> >> >> >> ...what a shame. Must have been a Bruckman one off? >> >> >> >> https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1982/C%26C--3232551/Deale/MD/United-States?refSource=standard%20listing#.W1ZvV7gnaUk >> >> >> >> 1982 C&C Sail Boat For Sale - www.yachtworld.com >> >> www.yachtworld.com >> >> 1982 C&C Sail boat for sale, located in Maryland, DEALE >> >> >> >> >> >> David F. Risch, J. D. >> >> Gulf Stream Associates, LLC >> >> (401) 419-4650 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and >> every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use >> PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray >>
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