2 Attachment(s)
Original hull or former boat?
#S-3 - Mongoose - B.Cook - ? 1? x ? - stern drives? - 1974-75
Was it this a new boat for Betty Cook?
Very probable that instead it was sold together with the homonym cat Zippè and then modified with a cockpit advanced toward the bow.
pic1 1974?-75?
pic2 today
Bertram outstanding queries
Continuing the Anglo - Italian dialogue.
I would have thought the tops of the outdrives would be visible on McQueens Jeans if it had any.
My Zippe references for 66 & 71 are a mixture of race reports and searace info.It seems odd that in 67 Fortney had a 25ft Bertram then uses a 31ft Bertam later on,as seen in the Suncoast film.Poor old Crousy does mix things up occasionally,like on P101 he refers to Boss O Nova as the former Mona Lou III,yet in the 68 Hurricane report refers to it as Mon Lou IV,which he also calls the yellow/white Bertram of 69 Bah 500 as Mona Lou IV.As far as I can see the Mon Lou boats did not have the model number written on,rather like the cigarette Eraf boats,which only Marco has managed to work out which was which.Maybe we have to make our own minds up as to what number we give them.
Going back to Zippe,I reckon that when it raced in 71 it was the cat,and not the 31ft Bertram after all.
So,the call goes out again,where are the U.S. devotees to clear all these outstanding questions.
2 Attachment(s)
Some Question for Brownie
Brownie do you remember the sterns of the 31' Bertrams?
Were they modified (cutted toward the inside) for lodging the sterns drives Speedmaster #3?
Could the Speedmasters #2 be lodged directly on the transom of the firsts 31' Bertrams that they used the drives shaft?