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| 2007/12/30 06:53:09瀏覽93｜回應3｜推薦0 | |
 As a T37 owner, its always fun to see many brothers and sisters of my boat with similar beautiful butt but different names on the water / dock. I was wondering what's the story behind it. Well, chapter 1-7 of Perry's new book provides certain answers. Before T37, John Edwards of Hans Christian asked Bob to design a 54' ketch (later CT54 due to some conflicts) and a 34' double ender (by the way, Bob also designed Valiant 40 at about the same time). However, Edwards played game by producing a similar double ender at 36' to avoid loyalty. That was Hans Christian 36. However, Edward had troubles (again) with the Union boat yard (who owned the 36 mold) later. So there were other boats under different marketing name - Union 36, Mariner Polaris 36, EO 36, Universal 36 + lightly modified Mao Ta 36 (extra stories). However, all of these boats were claimed as Perry's design but, in reality, it was based on Bob's design and Bob didn't get any loyalty - its like forced-to-adopted kids. John Edwards, never talked to Bob Perry since, went on to develop the whole series of Hans Christian double-enders later. Then, there was the Tayana 37 , manufactured by Ta Yang - of course that was a successful story as we all known about. Based on T37 design, Bob also created Baba 30 and Flying Dutchman 35 - similar hull design but move the mast forward a bit. This group of boats were manufactured by Ta Shing boat yard at Taiwan. When Bob was asked to design a 40 footer for Baba, he put in a lot more new concepts. The basic hull shape was actually modified from a Valiant 40 (with touches of T37 group). The hull has a sharper entry, harder bilge, moved forwarded mast, moved backwarded keel, and a smaller rudder (to improve backing and reduce draging). It had great improvements on performance. This boat was Baba 40 or Tashiba 40 (different marketing names). The later designed Tashiba 35 and 30 have further improvements - Bob considered those as his best efforts on this whole series but those boats didn't sell well due to marketing reasons. I have half hull models for both T37 and Baba40. I can tell those changes he made on the hull by comparing it (well, you can check the line drawing too). I love the ride of my T37 but also appreciate those efforts on its sister ships (Baba/ Tashiba 40, Tashiba 30 /35). Bob mentioned that the stern of the whole series of his double enders was inspired by Aage Nielson's "Holger Danske". Here is a picture of it and a link. Brother and sisters with different moms - heritage of a good ass from papa! http://www.hugohein.com/classic.sail/holger.danske/holger.danske.specs.htm  |
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