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Originally Posted by Rex Delay
I heard it was wrecked on a reef many years ago. I was communicating with JDR about buying the plans when he told me that.
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Thanks for the sad news. She was HMS Dolphin, and she had four
bronze deck guns and two swivels. I had a lot of fun on that little ship for three years. She was mahogany planked over oak frames, not the
cheap pine/fir that others used. The elderly owner and I sailed her together, just the two of us, many times. Met my wife while skippering her. At first she was WAY more interested in the
boat than in me, but things happened. We sailed her from Meteghan River NS to
Florida and
Bahamas, back to the Chesapeake, back to Florida-Bahamas, then through the
Great Lakes and back south. She was
sold to a
California owner and sailed to
San Diego, where I last saw her in 1984 or '85.