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CALYPSO Boat
after refit
Note that this model is not built from
a
popular
kit. Here're
some differences:
- Our hull is wooden.
- Our model "nose" on the hull is
taller and of different shape.
- The number of doors and their
positions on our model are correct.
- Our portholes positions are
correct.
- The kit cranes are completely wrong. The kit
manufacturer used cranes that they are also in Zwarte
Zee kit, with only minor modifications.
- Kit's anchor winch has no details.
- The bilge keel on the kit's hull is too
short and it starts too far aft.
- The rail stanchions used in the kit
are not correct
in shape and height.
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Calypso Is
Preparing To Resume Voyage (Excerpts
from
the Associated Press
dated
July 15, 1986)
MIAMI, July 14— After extensive refurbishing, the yacht
Calypso is preparing to re-embark on her five-year
around-the-world excursion to study the relationships
between the world's water systems and its people.
Jacques
Yves Cousteau, the vessel's 76-year-old captain, said
the Calypso is to leave Miami in about three weeks, then
pass through the Panama Canal and head for the South
Pacific, where she is to visit Cocos Island, French
Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea.
The ship
is also to tour Southeast Asia. ''She's an
old ship, but she's a darling,'' Mr. Cousteau said of
the 44-year-old vessel. ''Now it's really a new ship.''
The Calypso has spent six months here being renovated.
Dismissing
questions of age, Mr. Cousteau said he would continue to
participate in undersea exploration. ''As long
as I'm in good health, why should I stop?'' he said.
After an
extensive refit in 1986, the Calypso was given more
technology and tools. For example, the big bowl radar plus the other radar
on the mast and some more details were added/changed.
38" long. Email
us for price.
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