has only recently come on the market. This boat is a deep-water ocean 

 racer with six berths {&4" and 6^5'' ), a head, galley, and all of the usual 

 accommodations for a 35-foot cruising yacht. She may be obtained in either 

 a sloop or yawl rig. Price with sails is approximately $20,000. Northrop and 

 Johnson (366 Madison Ave., New York 17, N.Y. ) is a leading dealer. 



VITAL statistics: L.O.A. 34V'; waterhne 24'; beam g'S''; draft 

 5V; sail area 535.5 sq. ft.; displacement 12,600 lbs,; Cruising Club of 

 America; power 30-h.p. Universal Atomic Four. 



AMPHIBI-CON 



The 25-foot auxihary sloop Amphibi-Con^ designed and built by the 

 Mount Desert Yacht Yard ( Mount Desert, Me. ) , was so far as I know the 

 first of the now-many cruising auxiliaries designed specifically with trailing 

 in mind. Cyrus Hamfin and E. Farnham Butler (President of the company) 

 were pioneers when in 1954 they anticipated the recent trend toward easily 

 trailable auxiliaries. The name "Amphibi-Con" was adopted as an abbrevia- 

 tion of amphibious controversy— amphibious because it was to be trailered, 

 controversy because it m^s to be of light displacement with a reverse sheer. 



Several years ago when I sold my Dutch-built 21 -foot sloop, it became 

 very clear that the fact that she was trailable greatly enhanced the de- 

 mand. For instance, the fellow who bought my White Tulip (on a trailer 

 in my backyard at Scarsdale, New York) was expecting to be transferred 

 by his company to parts as yet unknown to him. He purchased the boat 

 not only because he liked it, but because he was reasonably sure that he 

 could take it with him wherever he was sent, and find a nearby lake large 

 enough for sailing it. He was right. He went to Burlington, Vermont, on 

 Lake Champlain. 



Easy trailabihty is one of the very important assets of the Amphibi-Con. 

 She is a moderately light displacement yacht made of wood-strip planking, 

 with reverse sheer and centerboard fully housed in a keel which provides 

 shallow enough draft (2^4'' without the board) both for shoal- water cruis- 

 ing and trailing. Small enough for trailing and large enough to be com- 

 fortable, 110 have been built at the time of writing, of which 102 are in 

 the United States. About 50 per cent of the present class was built from 

 kits or partly finished by amateurs. 



Despite her small size for a cruising boat, the Amphibi-Con has four 

 &&' berths in two cabins. A convertible canvas-top "doghouse" provides 

 a cabin with over six feet headroom. This can be taken down for day sailing 

 or racing. The cockpit is self-bailing. With a galley, head, and other facili- 



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