It was an old tradition begun in the days of the great steam yachts. The yellowish color was called "buff".
Bellows Guys, let me know if I can help. I have a bunch of Lloyd's plus Geneologybank that has access to Merchant Vessels of U.S. which has a lot...
1929 built Ersa, 77' NYYL&E cruiser just sank in the lagoon in Destin, FL. Somebody please save this grand old vessel!
This topic greatly interests me. Please respond to maunsel.white at mchsi.com. Replace at with @. I have thousands of images of yachts WWII and...
Come to find out she belonged to an Italian publisher. She was once used by the Shah of Iran in 1958 and was involved in a collision. Here's a...
oops again All 5 above by Joe Selby
more yacht art Here are some more: Ilah, originally Ednada III 1911 Mathis Mascotte, originally Josephine, 140' Cox & Stevens, Newport News...
yacht art Oops! Forgot to identify the yachts pictured above, top-to-bottom: Wilmar, originally Sovereign of 1927 by Aladdin of Bay City MI,...
yacht art Selby and Taylor were both black and self taught "pier-head" painters who talked yacht owners into having their yachts painted. Taylor...
Fair Lady was originally built in 1930 as "Analgra" to a C,D. Mower design. A sad loss when she was sunk by vandals in 2010.
In the 1960's Disney put out a movie with the teenaged Hayley Mills starring called "The Moonspinners". In the movie was featured a beautiful...
Bellows is listed as owner in my 1935 LLoyd's , but her length is 94'-6" LOA. She likely was significantly modified and Defoe would be the logical...
Betcha she's Greek owned. Probably 1930's Camper & Nicholson or maybe Thornycroft. No name?
Carl, I have accumulated a huge file of old yacht images and information, mostly pre-WWII. I'd like to share it and start discussions about the...
Yachts in WWII service is a particular interest of mine. I can't seem to get a handle on the service histories of several large yachts which must...
So, the Aras II pictured in my ad was burned by the chef? You know what year and who the San Francisco owners were? Also what do you know about...
I collect digital images of these mostly long gone beauties. I'm looking for others interested in this topic to correspond, swap and share images,...
She is obviously much older with remnants of a bowsprit, clipper bow and counter stern but given a 50's treatment to modernize.
Aras III Any data on the third Aras? Length, designer , builder, picture, etc? Here's an article abut Aras I
