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July 28 - Brian Nilsson sent in pictures of two Taos, New Mexico Dolphins - His Yankee #100, See Ya Sooner, and Charlie Thomas' Wave Length, Yankee # 152 - in Rosters

July 27 - Update on Kitty C, Charles Coles' Marscot/O'Day #11 - Chapaquoit Island, Massachusette - in Rosters

July 26 - West Light, a Shaw 24, FOR SALE, New Orleans, Louisana - in Rosters and For Sale Sections; Updates on Trailer Overview and Grand Finale's trailer, Pacific Dolphin #300 - in Technical/Trailers and Rosters

July 25 - DFI Brian Neillson, (See Ya Sooner, Yankee #100) has found 2!! Dolphins in Taos, New Mexico. They are Yankee #142 and Yankee #152, (Wave Length), and they both belong to Charlie Thomas. They are our 185th and 186th "found Dolphins" - in Rosters and Newly Found Dolphin Sections; Kitty C, Newly Found Dolphin #187, an early Yankee? Padanaram, Massachusettes - in Rosters and Number of Found Dolphins

July 23 - Updated Trailer Overview - in Technical/Trailers; updated Marionette's trailer - in Technical/Trailers

July 22 - Updated Marionette's Log, Summer, 2011 - in Stories; Adam Hayes checking in as the new owner of Tern, 1972 Yankee, Edgartown Harbor, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts - in Rosters

July 21 - Mark Larson has checked in as the new owner of Agape, Yankee #146, Dana point, California - in Rosters; Cattivo, Yankee Dolphin #204, Lake Oneida (Syracuse), New York is still FOR SALE - in Rosters and For Sale Sections; Marionette's dinghy "TEER has a dolly - a breakthough design in dinghy dollies, the Skeg Dolly - in Technical/Dinghies and Related

July 20 - Glen Korpi'' Agape, Yankee #146, formerly Think Big, has been sold - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

July 18 - Prompted by a question on the Forum regarding a dodger's clearance beneath the boom we have clarified the 'black band' location on the mast - in Technical, Sail Plan, Dodgers and Boom Sections

July 17 - Fred and Sharon Balfour's Tern, a 1972 Yankee, Pocasset, Massachusettes has been sold - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

July 15 - Brian Nilsson checking in as the new owner of See Ya Sooner, Yankee #100,Taos, New Mexico - in Rosters

July 13 - Mark Spruell's Paradiso, Yankee #203, nee Shambles, checking in - Lake St Clair, Michigan - in Rosters

July 11 - Marionette, Ron Breault's Marscot/O'Day #12, Old Lyme, Connecticut has 'new' back up engine - in Rosters; Marionette's Log, Summer, 2011 - in Stories

July 8 - update from Gary DeLong and Savilli, Lunn #200, Great Waas Island, Beals (Jonesport) Maine - in Rosters

July 1 - Thru Hull Fittings and Seacocks, the start of a discussion prompted by Clinton Hodges' restoration work on Windswept too, Yankee#245 - in Rosters and Technical/Misc Sections

June 27 - update on Ruby, nee Clover and the Rachael K, South Berwick and Brooklyn, Maine - in Rosters; Chris Brown's See Ya Sooner, Yankee #100, Taos, New Mexico, checking in - in Rosters

June 26 - O'Day/Dolphin article from January, 1960 Yachting Magazine Boat Show issue - in the History Section/O'Day Corporation; Updated History Overview - in the History Section/Overview

June 25 - Angel, Yankee #73, and Marionette, Marscot/O'Day #12 meet at Dark Harbor, Islesboro, Maine - in Rosters

June 24 - Dario Rubinisky, Breeze, Yankee #83, Marina del Rey, California has a novel 'tiller tamer" - in Rosters and Technical Sections

June 23 - Yankee #227's foil shaped Centerboard Repair Project - almost done, with great pictures and board measurements - in Technical/Centerboards; Update on Centerboard Discussion/Measurements - in Technical/Centerboards

June 22 - The Grimstons' Summer Wine, a Falcon 24, showing her stuff in a racing breeze - in Rosters; More on toe rails from Clinton Hodges, Windswept too, Yankee #245, Bremerton, Alaska - in Rosters; Rick Kennedy and Boethius, Yankee #149, go to Eel Point, San Clemente Island - in Stories; Update on Halsey McGowan's Elizabeth, 1961 O'Day, Lincolnville, Maine - in Rosters

June 21 - update on Carl Harrington's Yankee Girl Esther, Yankee #89, Edmands, Washington - in Rosters; There is a book review of Rod Kulbach's (Monika, #301) Baja Dreaming in the June, 2011 issue of Cruising World magazine - in Rosters

June 18 - Anne Bonny, a Yankee Dolphin found in Sausalito, California, our 183rd Found Dolphin - in Rosters and Newly Found Dolphins; Gandalf, a 1969 Yankee Dolphin found in Sausalito, California, our 184th Found Dolphin - in Rosters and Newly Found Dolphins; From a post on the Forum on the subject of lag screws for a Dolphin 24 mast hinge plate/tabernacle - in Technical/Mast Tabernacles

June 17 - Yankee # 186 has been sold. Her new owners are Kathy Bryant and Tony Franklin, Wrightsfield Beach, North Carolina - in Rosters

June 15 - update on Rod Kulbach's Monika, the 301st! Dolphin 24, and our 182nd! Found Dolphin, Friday's Harbor, San Juan Islands, Washington - in Rosters and Stories

June 14 - Developing - Rod Kulback's Monika, a 'unique' Dolphin 24, Friday's Harbor, San Juan Islands, Washington - in Rosters and Stories

June 11 - Updated FOR SALE/price reduced ad for Cove Dweller, Yankee #111, Arnold (Annapolis), Maryland - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

June 9 - Jann and Derek Dawes update, with photos, their restored S&S 24, SPIRIT, formerly Tiana, Rangitane, Bay of Islands, New Zealand - in Rosters

June 8 - Steven Fruth checking in Melia, Yankee #158, Santa Barbara, California, formerly Jenisa S for sale in Riverside, CA - in Rosters

June 5 - a Dolphin 24 sighting at Santa Cruz, California - in Rosters

June 4 - A Dolphin 24 sighting of a different sort - in Delphinidae's sail bag, Pacific Dolphin #256, Dallas, Texas - in Rosters

June 2 - Bob Johnson updates Delphinidae, Pacific Dolphin #256, Dallas, Texas, and a heads up on a Practical Sailer comparative article mentioning the Dolphin 24 - in Rosters

May 30 - More good news and pictures too, about Willy II, Yankee #196, Aztec, New Mexico - in Rosters

May 29 - Andy Vwygart advises that he has changed his mind (whew!) and Willy II, Yankee #196, Aztec, New Mexico, is no longer for sale - in Rosters, and no longer in the For Sale Section

May 28 - Leah Volpe's Bittersweet, Lunn # L212, checking in - in Rosters; Photos of Jim DeMeola's Yankee #90, FOR SALE, Lake Tahoe, Nevada - in Rosters and For Sale Sections; Update on Clifford Dasco's Abbie Burgess, Lunn # L212, Spruce Head, Maine - in Rosters; Update and cost summary - Marionette's Barn - in Stories; A report on 'clamps' and backing plates from Clinton Hodges, Windswept too, Yankee # 245, Anchorage, Alaska - in Technical Section, Repairs

May 23 - update on LAKKA, Pacific Dolphin #266, Hacks Point, Maryland - in Rosters; Jenisa S, Yankee #158, Riverside, California - FOR SALE; she is a newly found Dolphin, our 181st - in Rosters, For Sale and Number of Found Dolphins Sections; Another rainy day and a chance to update the website photo technology for David Baumer's Aeyla Makaira, his Yankee #81, Norfolk, Virginia - in Rosters

May 20 - Kathy Tucker's Yankee #186, New Bern, North Carolina FOR SALE - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

May 19 - Ed Fellows and Bob Valentine's Half Mine, a Lunn built Dolphin, Huntington, Long Island, New York - in Rosters; Mike Horn has re-launched his Angel, Yankee #73 and sent in a detailed report - Islesboro, Maine - in Rosters

May 16 - update on Whimbrel, Yankee #117, Rockport/Camden, Maine - in Rosters

May 15 - Rakka, Pacific Dolphin #266 - her official "before" pictures - in Rosters; Clifford Dasco is the new owner of Abbie Burgess, a Lunn built boat, Hull #L212, Spruce Head, Maine - in Rosters; Nick Apollonio's Whimbrel, Yankee #117 - Rockport, Maine - in Rosters

May 13 - Jim Wetteroth checking in with LAKKA, Pacific Dolphin #266, Hacks Point, Maryland - a newly found Dolphin, our 179th - in Rosters and Number of Dolphins Found

May 12 - Karearea, A Falcon 24 FOR SALE, North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

May 11 - update on Yankee #197, Yanqui, Portland, Oregon - in Rosters

May 10 - Jason kruback is the new owner of Sugar Bear, Yankee #162, now in Virginia Beach, Virginia - in Rosters

May 7 - update on Mark Gaudette's Stella Maris, 1961 Lunn built Dolphin, FOR SALE, Quincy, Massachusettes - in Rosters and For Sale Sections; Sam Fiske's Dauphine, Marscot/O'Day #23, somewhere on the eastern Chesapeake, circa 1980 - in Rosters

May 6 - Update on Astrolabe, a Falcon 24 in Mana, North Island, New Zealand - in Rosters; Tim Busse's Brigadoon, Yankee #102, ready to launch - in Rosters

May 5 - Ian Outhtred photo attribution - Marionette's Feather Pram tender 'Teer - in Technical/Dinghies; Dolphin 24 Website Book Comments, updated - in Home/Website Book

May 3 - update from David Le Mestre and Davarsa, his Falcon 24 in Brittany, France - in Rosters

May 2 - update from Bob Johnson and Pacific Dolphin #256, Delphinidae, her arrival in Texas, and pictures of her new look - in Rosters

May 1 - Scott Salzer's Yankee #155, Promise, FOR SALE, Sitka, Alaska - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

Apr 25 - Tim McNally's Pacific Dolphin #271, checking in, a newly found Dolphin, our 176th, Skaneateles, New York - in Rosters and Number of Dolphins Found Sections; Giulano Mervoli's Cattivo, Yankee Dolphin #204 FOR SALE, Lake Oneida (Syracuse), New York, a newly found Dolphin, our 177th! - in Rosters, For Sale and Number of Dolphins Found Sections; Zesty, a Yankee? Dolphin - a DFI report, our 178th newly Found Dolphin, Richmond, California - in Rosters and Number of Dolphins Found Sections - busy webmaster day!!!

Apr 24 - Jim DeMeola's 1968 built Yankee #90, Lake Tahoe, Nevada FOR SALE/Price Reduced - in Rosters and For sale Sections; Buck Owens Yankee #80, Humboldt Bay, California - For Sale/updated - in Rosters and For Sale Sections; Update on Arnold Sharpe's El Gitano, Yankee # 80, Humboldt Bay, California - in Rosters

Apr 20 - A beautiful arial photo of Dauphine, Marscot'O'Day #23, Noank, CT racing under her spinnaker - in Rosters; Sugar Bear, Yankee #162, Norfolk, Virginia FOR SALE/Price Reduced on CraigsList - in Rosters and For sale Sections

Apr 19 - Sam Fiske's early O'Day, Dauphine, Noank, CT was hull #23 - in Rosters; Robin Farrand's Compass Rose, a Shaw 24 - Sold - Whidby Island, Washington - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

Apr 18 - A DFI report on Dave Hilgendorf's Prim, Marscot/O'Day #22, Great South Bay, Long Island, New York - in Rosters; update on Bonnie Lassie, Yankee #175, Punta Gorda, Florida - in Rosters; Thanks to Karen Larson, editor of Good Old Boat Magazine, we have a clean copy of the introductory Dolphin 24 ad that appeared in Yachting Magazine, March 1960 - in the History Section/O'Day, the company;

Apr 17 - Mast plates and halyard organizer set up - In Technical/Spars and Related

Apr 14 - Updated FOR SALE/Price Reduced ad for Sugar Bear, Yankee #162, Norfolk, Virginia - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

Apr 11 - Sam Fiske's Dauphine, an early O'Day, Noank, Connecticut - in Rosters; Update from David Rodgers on Dorado, Lunn #208, Eddyville, Kentucky - in Rosters; Second printing of the Dolphin 24 website book??? - click here for details

Apr 7 - Starbuck, a Yankee Dolphin, 10 years ago located at Lockwood Boat Works, South Ambouy, Raritan Bay, New Jersey - in Rosters

Apr 6 - An early Dolphin that was For Sale in May, 2010 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas - in Rosters

Apr 5 - Update from Joe and Arnold Sharpe and Yanqui, Yankee #197, Portland, Oregon - in Rosters; A DFI report on Chris' Yankee #100 somewhere in Baja?, Mexico - in Rosters

Apr 4 - Updated FOR SALE ad for Fred Balfour's 1972 Yankee Dolphin, Tern, Pocasset, Massachusettes - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

Apr 3 - A photo of Giles Grimston's Summer Wine, a Falcon 24 sailing in Hawkes Bay, North Island, New Zealand - Rosters

Apr 2 - Update on the New Zealand built Falcon 24/S&S 24, Ferris de Joux, Wallace McNair and Douglas Bremner story - New Zealand Fin Keel Dolphins

Mar 29 - David Rodgers has bought Eric St Mary's Dorade, a Lunn built Dolphin hull # L208, Lexington, Kentucky - in Rosters and For Sale Sections; Mark Gaudette's 1961 Lunn built Dolphin 24, Quincy, Massachusettes - FOR SALE ad updated - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

Mar 28 - John checked in on the Forum with Barbara Joyce, Yankee #141, Mission Bay, California. She is newly found Dolphin #175 - alas - lost in an arson fire in Cartagena, Colombia - in Rosters and Number of Dolphins Found Sections

Mar 26 - Today, 4 years ago the Home Page of this website was put up on the web! This seemed a good excuse for our 8th Newsletter, a copy of which is posted in our Newsletter Archives - Click to go there. Copies were sent to those that subscribed to the Newsletter List. Only 13 came back as undeliverable - so a reminder - if you have changed but not updated your email address on the email list, and wish to receive the newsletters, please do so; Robin Farrand's Shaw 24, Compass Rose, updated, FOR SALE, Whidby Island, Washington - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

Mar 24 - Update on Andy Vwygart's Willie 2, Yankee #196, FOR SALE/Price Reduced, Aztec, New Mexico - in Rosters and For Sale sections; Delphinus, a particularly unusual fiberglass hull Shaw 24, Galveston, Texas - in Rosters

Mar 20 - Jim Robinson, Pacific Dolphin #273, Jasmine, Morro Bay, California, provides photo album links to more Jasmine photos, plus tsunami effects in Morro Bay, and product commentary on Epiphanes varnish, PoliGlow topside finish and Garhauer hardware - In Rosters; Daniel Hayes' Conchita, a Falcon 24 FOR SALE, Okahu Bay, Auckland, New Zealand - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

Mar 19 - Kevin O'Leary's Delphinidae, Pacific Dolphin #256, has been sold to Bob Johnson and will be moving from San Diego to Texas - in Rosters; Update on Robin Farrand's Shaw 24, Compass Rose, FOR SALE, Whidby Island, Washington - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

Mar 9 - Eric St Mary's Dorado, Lunn #208 - PRICE REDUCED - Louisville, Kentucky - in Rosters and For Sale Sections (link corrected)

Mar 8 - update on the Website's Home Page - Home page

Mar 7 - Fiberglass Shaw 24s - an interesting, and unfinished story - in Stories; Senior DFI Jonnie Walker filed a report on Yankee #100 sighted cruising in Mexico's Sea of Cortez - in Rosters; Update on Trina's page, Shaw 24, hull #1 - in Rosters and History Sections

Mar 6 - We have confirmation John O'Toole's Sinn Fein, Yankee #189 now FOR SALE in Chicago was the Anderson's Antigua II, Lake Minnitonka, Minnesota - in Rosters; Kevin O'Leary's Delphinidae, Pacific Dolphin #256 FOR SALE, San Diego, California - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

Mar 5 - Giles Grimston reports on his first sail on Summer Wine, his Falcon 24, Hastings, North Island, New Zealand - in Rosters; Mana/Wellington area, New Zealand Falcon 24 FOR SALE - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

Mar 4 - The Dolphin24 Website Book is SOLD OUT! - in Home/Website Book

Mar 1 - Robin Farrand's Compass Rose, a Shaw 24 FOR SALE, Whidbey Island, Washington - in Rosters and For Sale Sections; 1960 O'Day Dolphin at Weeks Yacht Yard, Patchogue, Long Island, New York - possibly #24, and a Newly found Dolphin - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

Feb 28 - Tim Busse's Brigadoon, Yankee #102 is on Facebook - in Rosters; Connect! John O'Toole's Sinn Fein, Yankee #189, Chicago, Illinois is probably Jim and Arlyn Anderson's Antigua II that first sailed on Lake Minnitonka, Minnesota - in Rosters

Feb 23 - Update and pictures of Giles Grimston's Summer Wine, a Falcon 24 in Hastings, North Island, New Zealand - in Rosters

Feb 19 - update on the Dolphin24 website book - 2 remaining for sale; latest "Comments" update; report on local library purchase of website book and a list of 21 Connecticut town libraries where the book can be obtained - in Home/Dolphin24 Website Book

Feb 17 - Andy Vwygart's Willie 2, Yankee #196 FOR SALE, Aztec, New Nexico - in Rosters and For Sale Sections; John O'Toole's Sinn Fein, a Yankee Dolphin FOR SALE, Chicago, Illinois - in Rosters, For Sale, and Newly Found Dolphins Sections; Bonnie Lassie, Yankee #175 has arrived in Florida - in Rosters; Han van Diemen, former owner of Arlette, a Jensen (Denmark) built Shaw 24, sent in a specification sheet we have translated from the original German - in Technical

Feb 13 - Ray Kambietz's Katrina, a missing Dolphin, Niantic, Connecticut - in Rosters

Feb 12 - Purnell Delly's Yankee Dolphin, Sugar Bear, our 173rd Found Dolphin, FOR SALE, Norfolk, Virginia - Rosters and For Sale Sections

Feb 10 - Jerry Horan shows us Yankee # 210, Calmante's Transom Well Plug System - in Rosters and Technical Section

Feb 7 - Fred Croft's Flipper, O'Day #41, Menemsha, Martha's Vineyard, MA loves the snow - in Rosters

Feb 6 - Jim Oppy, Wisp brought this OldMarineEngine.com Discussion Board exchange on the Palmer 27 engine to our attention - in Technical/Palmer Engines; Jim's research on repowering found this interesting article on the Flicka 20 website on the Yanmar 1GM10 Diesel Engine - in Technical/Auxiliary Power; And, here's some information on the Beta 10 Diesel - in Technical/Auxiliary Power

Feb 3 - Tony Silva checked in Capricorn, his 1962/65 O'Day era Dolphin, San Jose, California - in Rosters

Feb 2 - Website Statistics Summary for January, 2011 - 9864 visits and 42142 page views. These are inflated numbers as they include visits by 'Bots' - computer robots that search websites to get information (Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, etc.) We are working on isolating the Bots numbers, and on a running monthly website statistics summary page which, one day, will appear in the Home link at left. Stay tuned...

Feb 1 - An update and a few more pictures of Ian Holzmacher's Yankee #122 getting a new winter cover - in Rosters

Jan 30 - Update and pictures of KALOKE, Chris Johnson's Mermaid 24, Guilford, CT - in Rosters; Stan Secora, JATO, Marscot/O'Day #7, passed over the bar at age 90. A major contributor to this website, he will be missed - in Rosters and Stories

Jan 29 - Noah Kornblum sent in an update and photos of his Yankee #219, Polly, who is getting a professional paint job - in Rosters

Jan 28 - Chris Johnson, the new owner of KALOKE, a Mermaid 24, Guilford, Connecticut, has checked in - in Rosters

Jan 24 - This will probably not make page one in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal but Dolphin24.org has acquired www.Dolphin24.com and www.Dolphin24.net consolidating its Internet position. Clicking on either of these domain names will take you directly to the Home Page of Dolphin24.org. Try it!

Jan 22 - Bonnie Lassie, Yankee #175, Edgewater, Maryland has been sold and is on her way to south Florida - in Rosters and For Sale Sections

Jan 20 - Dolphin 24 Website Book #2 went to John Shumaker, Founder of Yankee Yachts - in Book Comments

Jan 19 - Wallace Bremner checking in as the new owner of Whistler, a Falcon 24, Auckland, New Zealand - in Rosters

Jan 18 - an update from Peter Edwards and Two Moons, his Pacific Dolphin # 250, Holly Hill (Daytona Beach), Florida - in Rosters

Jan 16 - an update from Jerry Horan and his Calmante, Yankee #210, Kona, Hawaii - in Rosters

Jan 12 - Jim Oppy, Wisp, has a new toy - in Rosters; Alan Mountford (Blue Gum), Queensland, Australia gives us a first hand report on the severe flooding going on right now in his area - in Rosters

Jan 10 -Update and spectacular photo of Jerry Horan's Calmante, Yankee #210 in the Alenuihaha Channel between Maui and Big Island, Hawaii - in Rosters; South Bay Cruising Club Fleet 1964/68 yearbooks surface Joe French's Nalani Kai, an early Dolphin, Great South Bay, Long Island, NY, and also more information about Ian Holzmacher's #122, Wanderlust - in Roster

Jan 7 - update and photos of Jerry Horan's Calmante, Yankee #210, Kona, Big Island, Hawaii - in Rosters

Jan 5 - Update on Book Comments including a nice note back from Miriam O'Day about receiving Book #1 - in Dolphin24 Website Book Comments

Jan 2 - On a beautiful New Year's Eve afternoon, after driving to Mystic Seaport in eastern CT to return 2 of the 4! Eldridge Tide and Pilot books I received for Christmas, we drove thu the village of Noank, always good Dolphin sighting territory. We were not to be disappointed - Skua and Windsong offered transom photos we did not have in our library - in Rosters

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