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Offline andyt

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Can anybody identify this picture and it's origin?
« on: November 04, 2017, 07:36:02 PM »
I stumbled across this picture while doing some house cleaning...anybody recognise the boat and or the crew?
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Re: Can anybody identify this picture and it's origin?
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2017, 08:10:30 PM »
Bee Gees album cover or sleeve. Not sure which album.

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Re: Can anybody identify this picture and it's origin?
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2017, 08:36:26 PM »
I think it's a CVX-18.

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Re: Can anybody identify this picture and it's origin?
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2017, 08:08:48 AM »
Open-bow boat. CVZ-18?
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Re: Can anybody identify this picture and it's origin?
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2017, 10:32:20 AM »
Hmm...I just don't think that's a Carlson...there's too much bottom hull out of the water.  70's Glastron-Carlson's just aren't that tall.
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Re: Can anybody identify this picture and it's origin?
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2017, 10:46:22 AM »
Bee Gees album cover or sleeve. Not sure which album.

Yup, Bee Gees album sleeve from Spirit Having Flown, very successful album, three singles went to number one, 16 million copies sold, their only number one album in the UK.

It's either a CVX-16 or 18 but Andy Gibb having his knees at the top of the windshield edge doesn't make sense to me for either model.
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Re: Can anybody identify this picture and it's origin?
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2017, 02:56:32 PM »
Open-bow boat. CVZ-18?

I think Rich is right, the ends of the windshield are the wrong shape for a 18 or a 16, they are the right shape for a CVZ.
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Re: Can anybody identify this picture and it's origin?
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2017, 10:08:33 AM »
I vote CVZ-18 as well.
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Re: Can anybody identify this picture and it's origin?
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2017, 04:10:08 PM »
I vote CVZ-18 as well.

Only if they took off the front wrap around bow rails.

You can also clearly see that its missing the plexiglass on the the windshield sides that a CVZ would have...
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Re: Can anybody identify this picture and it's origin?
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2017, 06:03:30 PM »
From a cursory review, and as previously stated, there are no front rails, but it does have a G/C hull look.  That's my best guess as it has been proven that staring at anything related to Bee Gee's can cause irreparable retinal damage.
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Offline V153

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Re: Can anybody identify this picture and it's origin?
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2017, 08:10:45 PM »
Nobody ever said ya couldn't get a CVZ18 sans bowrails ...

I'm goin with Jason'n Rich. Rich is rarely wrong. (And that really pisses me off ...)

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