Back to the original inquiry. Let's forget that the sales brochure calls it a daysailer and I'll call it a weekender so that's not the focus. I believe it was the next year, 1970, that Cape Dory removed all the mahogany, added scuppers and lazarettes, deck stepped mast, and moved the tiller totally into the cockpit, which would constitute a signifigant design change to me, and was essentially the new design going forward in production.
So, does anyone out there have or know of someone who has a 1969 or earlier Alberg Typhoon (weekender) w/o scuppers, with all the mahogany and slatted seats, thru deck stepped mast, like ours? Or is this the last of this design left as far as the CDSAO membership knows?
Also, I never did hear what the "pre 1967" in the registry meant. Anyone know or is it a default if left blank?
Thanks Everyone!
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Full Sails & Calm Seas,
Chris & Dale Schnell
s/v MISS DALE, #27
1969 Alberg Typhoon Daysailer
Southport, NC[/quote]
Chris,
Say what you want but an important part of the focus on this thread is striving for correctness. You have been calling your sailboat a Daysailer when it is a Weekender, a completely different entity.
I previously mentioned in an earlier post that the makers of the Ty used teak trim, not mahogany.
I both own Ty Weekenders as you describe as well as know someone else who owns one. I have two of them sitting in my yard at the present time and have as recently as in the last two years sold two other early Tys that I had rehabbed.
For the record, not all CDs are of the Alberg design but all Tys were designed by Alberg.
The Ty Weekender was first built in the early and mid sixties by Naugus Fiberglass Industries. That was in Salem, Mass.
Sometime around 1968 (not sure of exact date) the right to build the Ty Weekender was transferred from Naugus Industries over to Cape Dory Mfg Co.
From the onset of Cape Dory now making the Weekender, changes in the Ty were being made bit by bit from the original Ty.
The Naugus hull numbers ceased and Cape Dory initiated a new set of numbers. The design of the Naugus hull plate was also changed from a squarish shaped bronze plaque to the new Cape Dory oval design.
In the following years, the Weekender became very popular in the sailing community and Cape Dory introduced other models of the Typhoon. They then produced two models of the Daysailer. One had a completely open cockpit and another version had a small cuddy cabin for storage.
The weekender was Type D.
The completely open cockpit Daysailer with no cuddy was type G.
The Daysailer with a small cuddy became type K.
I hope that this sheds some light on the subject.
Sorry Warren for the disruption of your thread.
O J
