Rybovich: "The Fighting Lady"

bstet · Jun 14, 2022

There was a good story several years ago, in Professional Boatbuiler magazine parting shot, I think it was called "The Lady behind the name". If I recall, it said the boat was a Mortensen 37' with chrysler gas engines. They would fish the boat in New England in the summer, and Central America in the winter, and how they would do valve jobs after dinner

saltysenior · Jun 14, 2022

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saltysenior:

I can't do that right now, but you sound authoritative enough to me to take your word for it.

When you write your autobiography, you can give it one of those titles like, "HELL, I WAS THERE!"

It is curious that when you google Ogden Mills ("Dinny") Phipps, a number of vocations come up, financier, horse breeder, philanthropist, but nothing I have yet seen about a passionate pursuit of fishing for sport.
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can you see the boat now ??

stumpstalker · Jun 14, 2022

saltysenior:

I am up in Massachusetts. The boat is in Florida, isn't she?

Unless I am missing something, like some sort of link to a camera at the marina where she docks, I'm out of luck for viewing.

Below I have a snapshot I took in Florida in 1980, that looks to me like an older Mortensen, which also has the light blue color that I associate with the FIGHTING LADY when I saw her in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in (I believe) 1961.

saltysenior · Jun 16, 2022

Bahia Mar charter boat..

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