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mickjtown

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Buzzards Bay 14 - seeking information
« on: January 13, 2012, 09:18:19 PM »
I'm the owner of a L. Francis Herreshoff 1948 design Buzzard's Bay 14 that was once sailed on Lake Champlain (circa 1986-1992).  I've been tracking down the boat's history so I can title the boat here in Rhode Island (a complicated process).

I'm wondering if there is a group or person who might know about this boat, probably named "Varnished Truth" when it was on Lake Champlain.  The history for those six years has been lost.

Briefly, the boat hull was one of two or three built at a boatbuilding school at Graves Yacht Yards in Marblehead, Mass. in 1982 and was finished at the Paul Rollins Boat Shop in York, Maine in 1984.  The owner previous to the person who kept her at Lake Champlain was Charles Baron of North Hampton, New Hampshire.
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Re: Buzzards Bay 14 - seeking information
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2012, 10:48:18 PM »
You have a fairly decent shot that Jon Brooks, an H12 enthusiast and resident of the Vermont side of Lake Champlain, might pipe in.  If he doesn't know of her, I'm afraid you may have a lot of digging to do.
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Re: Buzzards Bay 14 - seeking information
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2012, 11:40:54 PM »
Do you know where on the lake - NY or VT side?
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Re: Buzzards Bay 14 - seeking information
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2012, 02:30:59 PM »
1992 was the year we moved to the Champlain Valley, so my chances of a run-in with that boat were slim at best.  If you have an idea of where on the lake she was kept I could ask around.  Does Rhode Island require titles on sailboats in general?  Or does yours require one because it has a motor?  Vermont requires no title on anything over ten or twelve years old.

Jon   8)
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Re: Buzzards Bay 14 - seeking information
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2013, 08:06:43 PM »
Sorry to not reply to the January posts until now. Thanks for your replies. I don't know what part of the Lake she was in.  I'll upload a photo of her, though she's carrying blue topsides currently.  She would have been white when in Vermont.  As far as I know she's been gaff rigged her whole life.  I just recently found (I think - still waiting on a reply from a broker) one of the two sister ships built at Graves Yacht Yard in 1984, named "Lark," most recently sailed out of Bellport, Long Island.  But this chapter in my boat's past is still a mystery. A photo of my boat is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/33023179@N02/
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Re: Buzzards Bay 14 - seeking information
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2013, 04:04:11 PM »
A good guess would be to check with George Darling at Darling's Boat Works in Charlotte, VT.  If it's wood and needed work on Lake Champlain, then he might have touched it.

While on Great South Bay, I'd check with the Bellport Yacht Club, although I don't recall seeing her there on any of my trips through...

Jon  8)
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