This beautiful commuter yacht was designed for Laurance S. Rockefeller who used it to commute to work between Tarrytown and Manhattan in the mid 40s. The boat has a length overall of 66 and was powered by twin Packard PT-Boat engines generating 1,350 hp each which translated to a top speed of 40 knots. Not a bad way to get to work.
The boat was fairly luxurious. Heres an artist rendering of the interior. I suppose we have come a long way in the 60+ years since Dauntless was designed in our graphical capabilities.
Rendering of Main SalonHeres the bad news. This falls under the heading "When bad things happen to good boats". Heres a shot of the boat taken recently down in the Caribbean islands.
This is an 80 year old timber boa and it is lucky to be floating still. A lot of money and effort to maintain a vessel this size
ReplyDeleteNot timber, this yacht was state of the art in it's day, was aluminum. I knew the owner, my folks were on her in Newport at the '83 America's Cup. Sadly, this boat has since been cut up for scrap.
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