November 1, 2011. Your webmaster and Ed Glover finally got together by phone and email. Lets start with a picture of Dolphin.

A good zoom will pick up the Jack Daniels label....

Ed advises that he bought Dolphin from a man who, he believes, may have been the first owner. That man lived in Connecticut but kept the boat in Maine. Dolphin was her name when Ed bought her in the late 1990's. Ed advises there is no nameplate on the boat. The sail # 4 on the main is highly indicative as, in these early days, it was fairly common to have a boat's hull number put on the sail. However, we have another boat, Ruby, nee The Rachael K, that also claims the hull #4. Stay tuned on this.

Dolphin has been in a barn in Hope, Maine for the past several years while Ed plays around with a wooden lobster boat. He is going to to do some research and see if he can find the documentation of his purchase and any other details which may help us track down the first owner.

Here are 2 more pictures. All were taken 6-7 years ago sailing on Muscle Ridge Channel in western Penobscot Bay, off Owls Head and Spruce Head.

Note that Dolphin has no lifelines and has an unusual reddish buff colored deck (Marionette, Marscot #12, has a redish deck color - we call it red ochre)

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The following is our website content timeline on Dolphin. We first found out about this boat from an email we found in Jim Huxford's old website archives. There was no date but it was in with some others dated in 1999....

"Dolphin" One of the first O"Day Dolphins

I bought a Dolphin 24 a couple years ago, called "Dolphin" She was built in 1960, as I understand by Marscot Plastics, a division of US Boat - according to the scant literature I have.

"Dolphin" spent most of her life in Long Island sound, then retired to Maine. She is a sweet sailing boat, on most any point of sail.

She is mostly in her original state, with all varnished teak and original gelcoat. The inboard was converted to a 10HP Vetus Diesel in 1990. I re-installed the marine head with a holding tank under the starboard settee. Some of the sails appear to be original inventory and are in remarkably good condition, but has a new main, blade and cruising spinnaker

I do not know the hull #, have not located it on the transom or stern quarter. Any advice you have to locate this would be appreciated.

Any other information, advice you might have would be of interest, thanks in advance.

Smooth Sailing,

Ed Glover
Spruce Head, ME

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February 23, 2008. We have recently been in touch with Ed and look forward to pictures and an update

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October 22, 2010. Your webmaster, on a recent Fall mini vacation with the Admiral in Camden, Maine, went AWOL, found a nearby phone booth in which to put on his DFI badge, and then tracked Ed down. During our conversation he mentioned seeing a Dolphin with a light green hull - this is in addition to Ed knowing about Abbie Burgess, another(!!??) blue/green hull Dolphin found by your webmaster on this trip. We need to follow up on this...

As soon as Ed can get some Dolphin photos out of his old laptop, he will send them in. Dolphin has been in a barn in Hope, Maine for some years

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October 31, 2011. We have been holding off on this but, while we don't know exactly which barn in Hope, Maine, that Dolphin is in, we are sure she is in Hope. While we are still hoping for more info on this we have decided to call her a 'found Dolphin'! We also called Ed and left a message on his answering machine. And, later today he called back! See above.

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