"Rattler"
1978 Tayana Mariner 36 - Hull#315
Owner: Jim Roedel - St.Louis, Missouri - USA
I am the original
owner of my 36' ketch which was located in Imperial Yachts
Longbeach , CA facility in 1981. The boat had been completed
at the Tayana yard probably in the spring or early summer of 1979
and shipped to the Longbeach office sometime that year along with other
boats, some sold and others unsold - for stock. They explained that
to build these boats they needed to build several at a time to keep the
cost down and that the unsold boats would be divided among their four sales
locations. My boat was shipped via their truck
on it's return trip from it's Great Lakes (delivering an in-stock Mariner
40 ) location , to the Longbeach location. My boat has been
exclusively sailed in freshwater - the plan was to retire and
take her to sea in a few years which ended up being 20 years . I've
put on many ocean miles over those years but none have been on my
Mariner thus she has stayed fresh looking and all original,
no salt !
Rattler on the hard
/ Starboard quarter in the water
/ Cockpit