January 18, 2010. This boat has enjoyed much speculation and theorizing but thanks to Senior DFI Mark Steinhilber (Rascal) we have breakthrough news. She is not a hybred Dolphin 24, although a couple of her genes may well be mixed up with our Dolphin's. She is a Phil Rhodes design called an Outlaw, 26 ft overall,  and is a bigger sister to the Tempest.  Both were built by O'Day in the early 1960's - after the start up of the Dolphin 24 production. Her nameplate indicates that she was built by O'Day Corporation, a corporate change from the earlier O'Day Manufacturing Corporation which built Dolphin 24's. For more info on nameplates, click here.

We will remove her from the Rosters but will give her a page in our Stories section. The similarities are perhaps not coincidental. Palmer Scott who built the first Dolphins, built Rhodes 19s, and of course his Marscot Plastics company built the first Dolphins which was acquired by O'Day.

Here is Mark's report (minor edits). Following his report is the chronological record of how we found Windswept.

Hi Ron:
I was digging around and found out that the black hulled Windswept, full keel version for sale, alleged to be hull 16, is not related to the Dolphin. It is actually a Phil Rhodes design called an Outlaw, 26 ft overall,  and is a bigger sister to the Tempest.  Both were built by O'Day in the early 1960's.

At left is a similar picture I found on the Tempast website where I found the info. Here is the link.

http://www.sailthetempest.com/outlaw%20layout1.jpg

The hardware looks familiar, just what O'Day was using on their  boats of that size in the 1960's. Looks to me like the Dolphin gives you more interior amenities and an inboard on a 2  ft shorter boat!  And which is also faster and sails to it's  PHRF rating more easily ???? 

Mark S.  

here's the profile from that website

Here are side by side interior pictures - despite some different interior wood detail unmistakably the same boat...

                                       Windswept's interior                                                 O'Day Outlaw interior

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June 15, 2009 This boat was for sale on Craig's List  (see below) in St Petersburg and has just been bought. The new owners, Angela Robbins and her boyfriend, have been in touch and we look forward to more photos, especially of the nameplate, and solving the mystery of what appears to be a full keel Dolphin 24.

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April 7, 2009. DFI (Dolphin Field Investigator) Rick Garrett brought this boat to our attention. It first appeared on CraigsList, Miami then on Sarasota's List, advertised as a 24 Dolphin Full Keel Pocket Cruiser. Rick took a number of pictures which indicate that this is might be a hybred built from Dolphin tooling?

Note the full, deep keel and rudder, transom well, boot stripe

The pictures in the CraigsList ad below are not of the actual boat for sale. The ad photos are actually of Wally Strang's Black Dolphin !!! at left which is a Lunn built boat.

 This is the nameplate that was in the boat                          Bow registration - Maryland

The Dolphin molds had a molded cove stripe, 2 'dots' (G D), the arcing Dolphin, and the tail. Hard to tell but these do not seem to be on this boat. The keel looks very much like an Atlantic keel. The early O'Day and US Yacht investors had a close connection to Southport, CT and the Pequot YC, home to an active Atlantic fleet in the early 1960's. This might be a stretch but maybe one of them, or a connected friend, had a Dolphin 24 custom made with an Atlantic type keel and rudder? The water line lengths are close as are the ballast and overall displacement. Nope.

Here is the ad that appeared on CraigsList. The text acknowledges that the interior photo is "interior of one finished to show layout'. That photo is of Feather's interior,Yankee # 104

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Maybe we can track down where Windswept has been these nearly 50 years. Here are a few more pictures.

v berth and main cabin, note the mast support arch and front portlight

galley and panel

inside main cabin, port side

Same forestay fitting as Marscot/O'Day hulls # 10 and 12, looks like same bow pulpit as #12

Large transom hatch - not like one we have seen before

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