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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: A thing of shear beauty This is a Shain of about 65 feet in length. I've been aboard a number Shain's and they are magnificent boats. Out shine a Chris Craft any day.  Designed by Morris Shain and Ed Monk Sr., vessel construction was begun in late 1941 by Morris Shain in his shipyard located around the 2700 block of Westlake Ave N. in Seattle, Wa. Her keel was laid and hull completed when WWII broke out. Since the vessel cabin had not been finished, and most private sales of vessels were suspended, she was stored until the war was over. Her "Airflow Trimmership" lines did not meet the requirements of war that her "Commodore Trimmership" sister, Spindrift, possessed. Fred Dobbs of Coolidge Propeller came by the Shain yards in late 1944 and began arrangements to purchase the vessel with a special fuel allocation from the government, with the understanding that it was to test his experimental variable prop. He had the cabin finished out with many of the interior appointments that still exist today. Copro II or Copra II, as is listed in Pacific Motorboat, was reported by Pacific Motorboat to be the first yacht commissioned at the end of WWII in the Seattle area. After a time, Fred Dobbs arranged for the construction of a larger vessel with a similar hull and sold Copro II to Archie Iverson, who operated Iverson Construction Co. and who was a principle stockholder in the Ballard State Bank in Ballard, WA. After Iverson had owned the vessel for 13 - 15 years, he sold it to a man named Berkeley Lamb, who owned it for 3 or 4 years. Unfortunately, he ran across bad times financially and was forced to sell the vessel to a pair of men, one of whom was a pharmacist and the other a clinical psychologist. The vessel was purchased by Fred Cox in April, 1976, from these two men, and Bob Moore became the 5th owner in 1978, renaming the yacht Forevermore. After 25 years of dutiful service to the vessel, Bob sold her to David & Heather Ellis in September, 2003. | ||
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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | |||
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Master and Commander Posts: 1107 Location: Tucson AZ | Subject: Here's a classic Lake Tahoe cruiser One has to love maintaining acres of wood to keep one of these babies 'looking good', but when one is well-cared-for it is a thing of beauty! | ||
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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Here's a classic Lake Tahoe cruiser To keep a wood or glass boat looking good it takes the same work, just different types of work. I ran my own business doing yacht maintenance and repair for years. I'd rather work on a wood boats any day. Here I am setting a plank in a 1927 "Lake Union Dream Boat" You can see the "type" here: http://www.classicyacht.org/pnw/pnwgallery2.htm  | ||
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Master and Commander Posts: 1107 Location: Tucson AZ | |||
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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | |||
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