Picture of the Week
October 12-18
Norwegian sailor Ådne Andreas Bratthammer poses with his Selco Mariner discovered outside a campsite in a fjord on the west coast of Norway back in 2010. He writes, “The hull shape attracted my attention and my brother [and I] moved it next to his barn with a tractor. I traced it back to a naval base in Bergen, and luckily enough I got a name: O’Day. The finished boat was popular and went on numerous trips the next two seasons. In the third summer of its second life, we had a storm in the summer, straight from the west into the fjord, with no where to escape. So it sank. A sad ending, but the O’Day got a second chance on the water and did bring joy to a group of young sailors.” O’Day licensed the Mariner to the Norwegian boat manufacturer Selco in the 1960s; click here to see an advertisement in my collection from 1969.
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“…One of the most versatile sailing craft ever produced.”
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ORION is a 1970 O’Day Mariner 2+2, hull number 1922, one of nearly 4,000 Mariners built by the O’Day Sailboats Corporation in Fall River, Massachusetts. She spent much of her life in New Jersey before I bought her in early spring, 2007 and brought her home to Connecticut. This website features my many projects, pictures and stories with the hope they may provide inspiration for others.
I got an e-mail and text from the East Lyme Harbormaster with an urgent storm preparation advisory directing all East Lyme mooring holders to “implement full storm protocols.”