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It's sort of the reverse of what most do, which is put a huge cabin on a small boat.

Full story here http://www.tritondaysailor.com/

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Interesting idea. The Triton was about the first successful glass cruiser and quite a few have unremarkably and safely circumnavigated. Of glass boats, one of the finest.

For those interested in the early days of glass, check "Heart of Glass."

Gosh, that is quite lovely.

Doesn't look like frozen snot any more..

A couple of my favorite shots:

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She looks like an oversize ensign (not surprisingly) in those pictures.

I understand there's a class of chopped J24's somewhere.

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Curious what the interior looks like. Could be quite serviceable.

would have looked even better if he had cut a little more sheer into her before re-decking.
I wonder what price is on that "for Sale" sign.

Another one... this for $249K (!!!) and not as successfully executed IMO.

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249k for a daysailor cobbled together from an old blister infested plastic boat!?!?!?

is it just me, or does it appear the whole world is smoking crack?

That's what you do when you find an old 6mR or 8mR that has been reconfigured for cruising. You rip that stuff off of there and get her back flush!

As much time as you spend in the Carribean, I am surprised you haven't seen the IC24's, Gareth. That's a J/24 hull with a different deck on the. Originally used as a club boat among the different venues of the Carribean, they have now made their way to Dallas and I hear a couple of other places in Texas are considering them.

Mickey Lake

Re-imagining boats like this is great stuff! A rock solid hull you can dress however you wish. Those hulls were built like proverbial tiger tanks.

A lot of work! He's got many thousand hours in this project, just in case people think it's a walk in the park.

I notice he's selling it. He won't see his investment in time, not even close. But, who cares? Nicely done, and I wager a fine boat for someone who wants to day sail a large party or to weekend. It's not my cup of tea, but it opens the doors to imaginative thinking.

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Loverly,

Thanks for posting that.

Excellent! I've always been fond of the Alberg-Pearson boats. I honeymooned in a triton and owned an Alberg 35 for many years.
I wonder how much lighter the Triton daysailer ended up. Losing some weight would improve it.

Thanks, Gareth.

TimH may not have been afloat longe enough to know that glass boats like the Triton made before the Carter-era energy crisis have not experienced osmosis blisters.

I think a lot of very ordinary looking glass boats could be transformed by chopping off their glass houses and replacing them with wooden ones, large or small.

That $249K boat has been "on the market" for at least 5 years now, and has become something of a running-joke among Triton owners.

The boat that started this thread, on the other hand, found a new owner shortly after its launch.

Jim, I don't think they did any match-racing before the boat was sold, but I've come to doubt that the reduced weight would have made a remarkable difference. Tritons can vary significantly in weight from one to another before one even picks up a saw.

This pic shows the relative waterlines of three Tritons, and that represents a difference of roughly 3000# (30%!!) between the top and bottom tape.. It's been suggested that the Daysailor above floated somewhere between the bottom two tapes, which means it turned out to be about the same as a light-ish unmodified Triton.
In comparison to the bulletproof-weight hull, Pearson built the deck/cabin components rather lightly.

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Actually I *was* wondering about that. When I was working in marinas back in the 80s the only boats we did blister work on were the lower quality stuff, like your catalinas and columbias.
I was wondering especially about the Ingrid 38 hulls built by Blue Water in Port Townsend (actually they were made in Woodinville I believe).

There was an era when glass hulls often were mated with wood cabins, coaming, etc. Even a handful of Folkboats were built this way--with the lapstrakes molded into the glass. The urge for low maintenance seemed to kill these efforts, however. There are lots of junkyard hulls laying around these days waiting for the transformation. As a project, i would be inclined to do this rather than a wood hull from scratch, myself.

Do I recollect correctly that the Tritons did not have molded headliners? The later Pearson boats did.