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This boat looks like a flying saucer trying to abduct a bunch of old Hobie 16's.

yesh

Coyote ugly.

fugly! but more weird than fugly

That is UGLY with three syllables " UG A LY"

Carl, That is a great description of this .... huh , I guess you'd call it a boat.

Flying saucer + H 16. That's exactly how it looks. I would be curious to know its history: who made it and WHY. (Aliens perhaps?)

Best possible use would be as a self-destructing explosive device. Or maybe as a large pinata.

This boat should be a class. We need hundreds of 'em.

Class rules are simple:

Points awarded for "most unruly boaters skewered" on those claw-like bows - all three of them. Points awarded all season long, not just during sanctioned events. Just show up with the bodies and a video of the offense.

Think of it as a Darwinian process. Survival of the safest.

How about a pinata that doubles as a race mark....you smack at it as you round it and whoever breaks/sinks it....well, something like that.

Ed, how did you figure which were the bows?

YOu can just go either direction, just spin the sheets around!

Reminds me of the ship in the ile TV series, Lost in Space.

Todd

Sail into a swarm of the buzzing little hornets, grunch up a few up forward, backwind the sails and get a few astern, just when they start thinking "whew, he missed me, too bad about ol' crazy carl over there, I'm sure gonna miss him OH $HI][!!"

Just happen to be here, may go over to Keehi for a closer look. Caleb Tarleton

Consider the source. This "boat" was made in San Francisco. It's no secret that SF is full of fruits and nuts.

Are you kidding, Caleb? Are you actually there? Take it out for a sea trial. Maybe it works.

Well it is still there in the Marina. Could not get too close, owner not around. Closed on Ebay, but said it did not sell and will be relisted. No Owner contact given, but I left a note on the Marina Board. Caleb
Pictures attached

ddd

Actually, it is starting to grow on me. I am starting to think of it as art. It looks like a low-budget version of a trimaran that came down our canal when we were liveaboards back in the early 1980's. That one looked very much like a flying saucer, or maybe a horseshoe crab, but it was obviously very high tech and very expensive. You really had to look under the superstructure to see the three hulls that supported it. Its mast was a big triangle designed to support a huge spinnaker or foresail of some kind. It was sailed here by some Frenchmen, and they said that in big seas it was underwater a lot. I took pictures, and I will post one if I find them.

Courtesy of Caleb....looks like you guys found a sneaky way to get some photos!