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    Media Vintage 1965 era rudderless Sailboat, not sure if homebuilt or kit, pictures attached. Hope to identify.

    Turns out that the designer of this boat was a retired architect named Lowell Christman. He designated it as a "GO" sailboat. He received a patent on it in 1959, it is featured in Life Magazine issue June 15th 1959 starting on page 55. I will attach the patent as a PDF file, at the end of the...
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    Media Vintage 1965 era rudderless Sailboat, not sure if homebuilt or kit, pictures attached. Hope to identify.

    Update: 1-9-20 One extra picture added of the interior of the two piece hull structure. Hull is made up of two pieces of plywood, 4' x 8'. The mast is 15 foot high, either a 2 x 4 or 2 x 6. The sail is 12' high x 7' wide, with the hypotenuse 14'. The base of each sail has a wooden dowel inside...
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    Media  Vintage 1965 era rudderless Sailboat, not sure if homebuilt or kit, pictures attached. Hope to identify.

    My late father-in-law had this sailboat, we still have possession of it. Made of wood. Trying to determine if it was home-built from imagination, kit built. or something at a dealership. I see initials on the hull, maybe "GC or GO". They lived in Michigan in Detroit at the time, waterway...

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