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What’s a Patchogue?
So what is a Patchogue? Something like a cross between a pirogue and Patch Adams? Nope (but that does give me an idea for an avatar). It’s actually the name of a Native American Indian Tribe, but for our discussion it’s not a what, but a where. The village of Patchogue (named after that tribe), on [...]
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J? K.
My daily trek to RL work takes me through Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan. Pushing past the crowds of tourists gathered around the Today Show studios, one comes upon Christie’s auction house. I always enjoy browsing their windows, decorated with sample representations of upcoming lots.
One morning this last winter, a maritime art auction was announced [...]
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Take Control
We’ve been hard at work sea-trial testing our new J-Class Yacht. Unfortunately, it seems the SL grid has been just as hard in resisting our efforts. expired_region_handoffs on what seems like 9 out of 10 sim crossings lately tends to dampen the spirits much more than any virtual water ever could.
The thought occured to us, [...]
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Hanna And His Sisterships
The Tahiti Ketch has been part of our fleet since our early days - in fact it was our second release, built on the heels of our Trudeau 32. Now we are especially proud to launch our all new version of this classic, the Trudeau Tahiti II. As with her predecessor, she is modeled after the famous John Hanna [...]
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The Leetle Cat!
Our latest Trudeau Classic Yacht was inspired by the Beetle Cat, a wooden one-design centerboarder catboat well-known up and down the northeastern US coast. The Original Beetle Cat Boat, named after the family who designed and originally constructed it, was introduced in 1920 and over 4,000 have been built to date. The Beetle Cat class [...]
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A sailboat loaded to the toerails with features for skipper and mate… A completely enclosed cabin… Sleeping berth for two, accessed via 2 operating companionway hatches… Other nautical detailing such as standing rigging with turnbuckles, forward mooring cleat, pennant telltale, animated moving tiller and rudder…
Sounds like one of those Trudeau high primcount yacht attachments, right? It does, but [...]
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Trudeau Twenty Launched!
Renowned American naval architect Nathaniel Green Herreshoff designed and built the world’s finest yachts, including 6 consecutive America’s Cup champions, from the mid 19th to the early 20th centuries. Despite the attention those magnificent boats have received and rightly so, probably his most beloved, popular and enduring design is his 12 1/2.
Known variously as Bull’s [...]
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Naming Templates Published
Trudeau Yachts is no longer taking boat naming orders. Instead, we are publishing links to our templates and detailed instructions here. All the instructions are for Photoshop CS2. If you are using another graphics editor that reads PSD files, please translate for your application :)
If you do not have experience or familiarity with 3rd party graphics applications or [...]
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In time for holiday shopping…
If you’d like to purchase a Trudeau yacht as a gift for a friend or loved one this holiday season, you are in luck. We’ve switched over to a vendor system that has a “Buy as a gift” option:
Just click the “Buy as a gift” button, the vendor will prompt for the recipient’s name on [...]
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