Mikelson SF

I can't find any motorboats using the "Elliot Yachts" search on Google. Only ones are sail boats.
Any pointers on seeing these?

two t's.

Tried that in the first instance, same result.

You won't find many. From the 1960's to the begining of the 1980's Ted only built a couple dozen boats. But they were usually for fairly high profile owners. The Elliott brand is an important part of southern California/Baja yachting and fishing history.

Over the years I've been fortunate to fish on, and sell a few.

Many were Ed Monk designs. All were cold molded glass over ply except one that was built on a Buck Smith molded fiberglass hull.

Not so much by today's standards but in those days they were considered large for a sportfisher. Here's a couple of the last ones built. Early 1980's.

The Ted Elliott Ed Monk & Jr. partnership took the West coast Pilothouse Cockpit Motoryacht and turned it into a true Long Range Sportfisher. Bucket towers became the standard, hefty glass over plywood construction. Saw Newport Harbor Shipyard renovate Gladiator awhile back, and they cut into the stringers of the '70's built boat and the wood was as dry and perfect as the day it was built. Not too bad after 35 plus years. Pictures are hard to come by, but names such as Legend, El Tigre Gambler, Flyer just to name a few, mostly in the 60-65-70 range sent the groundwork for the larger 80' - 100' Jones-Goodell and Nordlunds that are so admired today. They have fished all over the West coast and I know of at least one that traveled back and forth to Hawaii.

Not too bad a legacy for a small dirt yard boat shop in Santa Monica. After his retirement, the torch was carried on by the Barratucci brothers in Wilmington, CA. A group of colorful, strong willed and very Italian boat builders who immigrated to the states and their first boat building job was with the wooden Owens boat line back east.

A well know quote from Ted Elliott - a journalist asked him if his boats were the Rybovich of the West coast, and he replied "that he always felt like the Rybovichs were the Elliotts of the East coast"!

Check yachtworld wih two t's -- Tunantor is for sale now.

The boat, Go Fisch, that starred in the cable show "Offshore Adventures" was about a 70.

Built as a 65' footer with a smallish cockpit. An eventual 7' cockpit extention to 72' LOA made room for a bait tank, fighting chair, and additional fuel. GO FISCH has traveled from Alaska to Florida and beyond, up the Tenn Tom, and numerous trips through the Panama Canal.

Good to read all the background info on these boats. We certainly share a passion!

I enjoyed reading your post. I had the good fortune to have known Ted Elliott from the early 1960's. Dale Jeffries was building 35' & 44' boats in Venice, Ca Ted was the foreman. Jeffries went into Bankruptcy and Fran Weinberg bought a 44' hull at the liquidation auction. Fran hired Ted and Mac McCaully to finish the boat at his manufacturing plant in Santa Monica, launched 1964. Ted then finished another hull for Gil Wayne named it Dolly. Next would be a 60' Drake Hull for Bill Heath and named Heathco. The first true pedigree Elliott was 62' for Eddy Goldstein 1964 named Little G. Fran Weinberg then had Ted build a 65' Capricorn launched December 1967. I was skipper on Capricorn and fished southern California the first two years. 1971 we loaded it up with deck fuel and did the crossing to Kona Hawaii where the boat remained until 1978. Ted Elliott was a regular guest aboard during the annual HIBT those years. I did the crossing back to Marina del Rey, Ca where it was repowered, sold and renamed Challenge II. Ted was in demand and started building two boats at one time, 70' Sagittarius for Bob Leonard, 70' Princess Gloria, Homer Harvey and continued with several others and the last being the Buck Smith Hull Don Juan for John Lyddon

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