Are you a SportFish fan? Name this!

NYCAP123 · 02-14-2009, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Bamboo

While the boat looks nice, the tower is ugly IMHO.

When I gave tours I'd always point it out as the tallest tower I'd ever seen. Personall, I like the look...as long as I don't have to be up there in a rolling sea

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FISHTIGUA · 02-14-2009, 04:04 PM

How can you call that ugly?

It does what it says on the tin, it's a Tuna Tower. Probably a Pipewelder's one that is the best in the biz. Just right.

All in the eye of the beholder.

Bamboo · 02-28-2009, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by FISHTIGUA

How can you call that ugly?

It does what it says on the tin, it's a Tuna Tower. Probably a Pipewelder's one that is the best in the biz. Just right.

All in the eye of the beholder.

Not anywhere in proportion to the vessel; makes it look like it's on the wrong boat and it looks like it'll snap off any minute. Puts more strain on most every part of the vessel. If it was just right then I guess it would be the industry standard- but it's not for many reasons.

NYCAP123 · 02-28-2009, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Bamboo

Not anywhere in proportion to the vessel; makes it look like it's on the wrong boat and it looks like it'll snap off any minute. Puts more strain on most every part of the vessel. If it was just right then I guess it would be the industry standard- but it's not for many reasons.

If you have a 78' Garlington you want it to be noticed. If you're the Garlington family it's your show piece so you definitely want it to be noticed. As for it being too much strain on the boat, it's been up there for at least 15 years so I think the boat is handling it. That said, yes of course it is out of proportion and you wouldn't get me up there in a rolling sea on a bet. It's there to show off one gorgeous boat that will probably never leave the family.

Capt J · 02-28-2009, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by NYCAP123

If you have a 78' Garlington you want it to be noticed. If you're the Garlington family it's your show piece so you definitely want it to be noticed. As for it being too much strain on the boat, it's been up there for at least 15 years so I think the boat is handling it. That said, yes of course it is out of proportion and you wouldn't get me up there in a rolling sea on a bet. It's there to show off one gorgeous boat that will probably never leave the family.

That boat was built during an era when it was the latest thing to have such a super tall Tuna tower. The Gina Lisa (65' Monterey 1991), Cookie Too ('58 Revenge) and many others from that era have a outlandishly tall Tuna Tower like that. It was a fad that came and went. I personally don't like it and it didn't last through the times. Neither did those Ugly Marlin towers where you stood on top of the FB hardtop of the same era.

47viking · 05-09-2009, 08:15 PM

I'll say this, ONE HOT LOOKING RIDE!!

Blair · 05-10-2009, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Capt J

It is owned by the Garlington family, first the father and now his sons. (The owners of Garlington Landeweer). They have owned it since they built it new and it was origionally run by Mike Ardito for many many years. I think it was built around 1990. Cookie-too (another boat) has a tower similar to that one and is a revenge.

I stepped on the boat in Bimini back in '99 when Mike was still running it, its just as nice inside and does indeed dock right near where the picture was taken.

I have to wonder if this pic is of the same Snow Goose, a Garlington Landeweer 80' that was built in 2000 by McMullen and Wing in Auckland NZ as Mike M queries - as that later one had an enclosed flybridge and no ports in the hull forward. No tower was added at the time of the launch. It was a high spec vessel and an award finalist in a superyacht competition in 2001.

84far · 05-11-2009, 07:10 AM

hi Blair

i believe its a different boat, so i have been told. the Snow Goose built by mcmullen and wing for one has a step in the sheer.

ill posts some pictures, enjoy.

Blair · 05-11-2009, 05:11 PM

Many thanks - yes that's the 'other' Snow Goose at her launch on the Tamaki River immediately adjacent to McMullen and Wing's yard. Cooncidentally I was at the launch of Wine and Roses, a 72' GL a couple of years after this. I understand that Snow Goose (#2) was thereafter shipped to the States but Wine and Roses was owned by a local couple. It seems that the first Snow Goose featured in this post was built by the Garlingtons prior to their sale of the business to Jan Landeweer and his family in 1993. Perhaps the 2000 80' GL now has a different name.

84far · 05-17-2009, 10:01 PM

hi Blair

i loved the whole range of GL's that McMullen & Wing built... what ever happen to Day Money... is she blue now, anyone know?

far

SportFishdaze · 05-18-2009, 04:42 PM

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hi Blair

i loved the whole range of GL's that McMullen & Wing built... what ever happen to Day Money... is she blue now, anyone know?

far

George Strait owned one for a while called Day Money. Same Boat????

Bamboo · 05-18-2009, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by SportFishdaze

George Strait owned one for a while called Day Money. Same Boat????

Yep. It was in Panama in 2000 at Tropic Star Lodge- I was the Dockmaster at the time. The captain was quite an entertaining character.

84far · 05-20-2009, 07:35 PM

hi

not sure of the owner SportFishdaze, more to see if shes still going strong. thanks anyway.

far

BrandName · 07-16-2009, 06:20 PM

Georges' Day Money is a Merritt and is currently docked behind his house in Rockport, TX.

Capt J · 07-17-2009, 02:42 AM

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Georges' Day Money is a Merritt and is currently docked behind his house in Rockport, TX.

I concur and thinking back its size is in the high 50's.