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Sad to say but she went into a dumpster yesterday my brother in law owns the demo company that did the deed ,it was a bahiamar that was ready for a final resting place

They all cant be saved and I think that the insurance companies starting to not insure these old boats will cause more to go this route.

Neil

Was she really that bad. Suprised someone did not want to try and turn her ito a center console or something else.

Tony I had a few friends look at it, one said no way he already just built two and my other friend would have taken it but the bulldozer got there first.

Shame

#2 would have been a special hull to have. I wonder if #1 is still around. I remember reading one time that the first hull was not white, but a shade of orange.

Tony you are correct my freind that looked at hull number two has a very early 60s and sure enough it’s orange we call it the pumkin

Neil

That might be #1. If I remember correctly, that was the only one that was orange.

Tony the color was San Mateo wheat just spoke to the guy but yes it was orange my question to you wasn’t hull number one a moppie

Neil

I thought #1 was a sport fisherman. I might be wrong. I probably do have an old article someplace that has the answer, but I have to search for it.

I bet it was 40 years ago when I read. It.

Either way, number 1 or 2, mama Bertram should have been informed in time to save it.

Many years ago I spoke with one of R.Bertrams original partners and he gave me all kinds of info on my boat serial number 535, he explained that the first glass boat pulled from the mold of wooden moppie, went to R. Bertram and was not serialized. He said my Boat was the 36th hull pulled from the original 2-piece mold and therefore was serialized as number 35.

When I asked about the 5 in "535", he said they did not know how many they would sell so in the early hulls the first digit was the month and the next two digits was the serialization number. He Said they originally thought they would never sell more than 100 per year.

I have it all written down somewhere.

Here is a pic of glass moppie

https://www.boote-magazin.de/aktuell/ne ... 40415.html

Capt,very interesting thanks for the info