This was taken in August 1979 at Walstrom Marine in Harbor Springs Michigan a couple of weeks after she arrived. My grandfather ordered her in the fall of 1978 and she was launched mid July of 1979 and the delivery route was up the east coast into the Great Lakes. My mother took these pictures with a Minolta 110 camera. I still have the camera. LOL
My Grandpa Dale
Me at 17. I weigh a little more now, but haven't aged a day. LOL
I hope you don't mind the history posted here. I did it also about eleven years ago but thought you might get a kick out of these.
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09-19-2021 07:43 PM #1
Salty Lady 53 #555 Pics when she was new.....
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09-19-2021 07:44 PM #2
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Interior pics....
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Decca 110 radar. We paid something like $5k in 76 but it was far superior to the super 101. You don’t look happy to be there.
"DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU READ OR HEAR AND ONLY HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE" - BEN FRANKLIN
Endless Summer
1967 50c 12/71n DDA 525hp
ex Miss Betsy
owners:
Howard P. Miller 1967-1974
Richard F Hull 1974-1976
Robert J. & R.Scott Smith 1976-present
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Back to the future. Thanks for the share.
SEVEN
1979 53' MY Hull #563
Antioch, California
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In 1979 or 80, your Grandpa and Grandma pulled into Whitehall and docked next to my dad's 43DC. I was washing the waterline from the dinghy and he called out and said that he needed his washed too. I did it and he invited me aboard to pay me for my work. I was really excited because I'd never been aboard a 53MY. He made me sit for a while and your Grandma got me a soda while we talked. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Last edited by SKYCHENEY; 09-19-2021 at 10:36 PM.
Sky Cheney
1985 53EDMY, Hull #CN759, "Rebecca"
ELYC on White Lake--Montague, MI
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09-20-2021 12:43 AM #6
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My face belied my emotion to being there. The night before, me and my parents were at the Bluebird Lodge in Leland for a lake perch dinner, which was a rare treat for me. We had docked at Leland municipal marina that day and my dad had said he had enough, no more cruising north on the Trojan F-32. My mother, bless her heart, who was much more crafty than my dad, got him loaded up on a few whiskey and waters and showed how on the chart it wasn't that much farther to Harbor Springs from Leland. He said "well shit" and the next day was obligated to go on up to Harbor Springs to visit grandpa on the new rig. I was a little in shock that I was with my grandpa on a brand new Hatteras 53. It was the be-all end-all for me.
And I learned how to read radar on that 110. It was a bitch and made me grateful for the tech that was to follow.
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09-20-2021 01:14 AM #7
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I think that was 1980 around the fourth of July. I think his best friend Dick LaValley and his wife Connie were aboard. My grandpa didn't really want to take the boat out but Dick reminded him that if they came up for the holiday my grandpa said they would take the boat out. So, off they went. What marina was that at Sky? The municipal wasn't built until 1981.
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"DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU READ OR HEAR AND ONLY HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE" - BEN FRANKLIN
Endless Summer
1967 50c 12/71n DDA 525hp
ex Miss Betsy
owners:
Howard P. Miller 1967-1974
Richard F Hull 1974-1976
Robert J. & R.Scott Smith 1976-present
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Re: Salty Lady 53 #555 Pics when she was new.....
Sky Cheney
1985 53EDMY, Hull #CN759, "Rebecca"
ELYC on White Lake--Montague, MI
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09-20-2021 06:58 PM #10