Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/30

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Subject: [Leica] Stone Horse date
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:22:28 -0400
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Larry - I suspect your nit-picker is right.  My 1960's Stone Horse  
brochure says the boat "first appeared in the 1930's."  There was an  
earlier similar boat, also designed by Crocker, I believe, with a  
trunk cabin.  Perhaps that's what you were thinking of.

Regards,

Dick



On Aug 30, 2009, at 9:25 PM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote:

> I slipped up when I said that Sam Crocker designed the Stone Horse  
> in 1923. Actually the plans were published in Rudder Magazine in  
> 1931. The 1923 design was an earlier version of a similar boat. So  
> it is not older than the Leica after all. It seems that we have some  
> nit picking sailors on the LUG.
>
>
>
> Larry Z
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