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Designed at Vandestadt, the Sirius 21/22 was an innovative boat and indeed is said to be the first North American production-built, ballasted cruising boat with positive flotation. In a more expensive procedure, closed-cell foam was injected into some compartments, then into the gap between the inner and outer hull the full length and up to the ...
SS Sirius was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship built in 1836 [1] by Robert Menzies & Sons of Leith, Scotland for the London-Cork route operated by the Saint George Steam Packet Company. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The next year, she opened transatlantic steam passenger service when she was chartered for two voyages by the British and American Steam ...
The MV Sirius was a Greenpeace ship named after the star Sirius. The Sirius was built with modern specifications at the Boele shipyard in the Netherlands in 1950 as one of 7 pilot vessels. The ship, originally owned by the Royal Dutch Navy , was sold to Greenpeace during 1981 while in dry dock .
YachtWorld.com was established in March 1995. In 2000, it became part of boats.com, Inc. and in September 2004, Boats.com, Inc was purchased by Trader Publishing Company, a joint business venture of Landmark Media Enterprises and Cox Enterprises.
The Brunswick Boat Group is an American pleasure boat manufacturer. Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee , United States , it is the largest maker of such craft in the world. Net sales were US$ 1.7 billion in 2008, [ 2 ] and US$ 1.0 billion in 2012.
Bayliner operated a sailboat division from 1970 until 1984. The Buccaneer Division of Bayliner produced sailboats under the brand names Buccaneer Yachts and United Sailing Yachts (US Yachts). The boats sold well though the 1973 oil crisis period, but the division was sold off to Pearson Yachts in 1984. Pearson continued producing the designs ...
The Boat is now SeaJeannie and owned by Vito Costanza hailing from Montauk NY; Belama (USCG #580128, Hull #26) was completed in 1977 for owner Newt Belcher. Today the boat is called "Mistress" and shares her time between South Florida and Cape Cod. Fighting Lady (USCG #604991, Hull #27) was Dinny Phipp's second 43, completed in 1978.
She was 111 feet over all, with a 21-foot beam, and 260 horse power and an engineering feat for luxury yachts of the time. [5] After the First World War the company rebranded itself as Consolidated Shipbuilding. It was heavily involved in the production of small yachts and military vessels, employing as many as 3,000 skilled tradespeople to ...