I ran across a 21-22' twin keel sailboat that the owners says is a Cape Dory. It has a mast and fittings from England. Did Cape Dory license England to build a twin keel version of the Cape Dory. I know that the Catalina comany did it. Thanks for the info-- Bill
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Cape Dory with twin keels.
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Bill Bloxham
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John Phillips
Re: Cape Dory with twin keels.
Bill:
Clipper Marine offered a 21-22' twin keel boat. If you get the first three letters of the hull number, we should be able to cross reference that in a NADA guide and come up with the manufacturer.
It really doesn't sound like a Cape Dory, but I am not a CD historian.
John
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Clipper Marine offered a 21-22' twin keel boat. If you get the first three letters of the hull number, we should be able to cross reference that in a NADA guide and come up with the manufacturer.
It really doesn't sound like a Cape Dory, but I am not a CD historian.
John
Bill Hummel wrote: I ran across a 21-22' twin keel sailboat that the owners says is a Cape Dory. It has a mast and fittings from England. Did Cape Dory license England to build a twin keel version of the Cape Dory. I know that the Catalina comany did it. Thanks for the info-- Bill
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Bob Malinka
Re: Cape Dory with twin keels.
Bill:Bill Hummel wrote: I ran across a 21-22' twin keel sailboat that the owners says is a Cape Dory. It has a mast and fittings from England. Did Cape Dory license England to build a twin keel version of the Cape Dory. I know that the Catalina comany did it. Thanks for the info-- Bill
I believe the boat you are talking about is a Signet 20. They were built in England in the sixties and imported to the US East Coast. The local yard nearby was the US distributor. They had twin keels with shoal draft of 2 or 3ft and powered by outboard. Above the water line they did look similar to a Cape Dory however they were very lightly built to the point of resin starved. I know a lot about the boat because my parents had one when we were young. It was our first cruising sailboat and we did a lot of cruising with the boat in the early to mid sixties. My father had the boat for almost 15 years before finally selling it for a Herrshoff America. Then 10 years later graduated to a Marshall 22, which he still has to this day. We still see a few of them on the Great South Bay on the south shore of Long Island.
Bob
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