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The
Gypsy is the newest model to join the Marlow Yachts Fleet. This lovely,
lively dinghy will grace your yacht with a perfect crowning touch and
carry you over the harbors with grace, agility and spirit. Whether you
outfit her with oars, sails or a small motor, she will be the envy of
the dinghy docks or any boat deck.
This
new model dinghy joins our Marlow Sprite and is simply gorgeous. It is pressure
injected with closed cell foam to form a small yacht so strong you can drop it
from an airplane at 100 feet into the ocean and it will not break. In fact you
can saw it in half and do the same thing and it will not sink. Yet, it has not a
stringer or bulkhead in it anywhere other than to provide dry storage and
insulated drink coolers. Weighing just 300 lbs, the Gypsy represents the gilded
age of yachting over space age materials and processes.
As far as capability, the new classic dinghy does
it all. It is a superb rowboat, a wonderful sailing craft and a brilliant
performer with very small power, achieving 25 miles per hour with just 20
horsepower and consuming less than two gallons per hour. It is also the most high technology dinghy ever
built by anyone and it looks like a jewel, with a finish as fine as a Steinway
Piano. In just twenty minutes the Marlow Gypsy can be converted without tools
from a high speed runabout to an elegant sailing craft.
 David Marlow describes
its birth: "It is the antithesis of the simple boats I built as a child
on Frog Creek in Manatee County, Florida, which were nothing more than a sheet of used
roofing tin. I decided to design and build the Gypsy after my trip to the Maritimes
last summer where I stopped for a few days in Nantucket. I was jealous of the day-sailors who tacked and jibed all around REBEL YELL as we lay at anchor in
Nantucket Harbor. Though I had Little Rebel, a charming Sprite, in the water as soon as we arrived
flying around the harbor at top speed like all the other crazy
people, I wanted to sail and race those who pirouetted to and fro among us. Some
came very close to us during the race including one loaded with small kids
who tacked under our bow. They got all tangled up with our anchor chain, breaking
into tears when I came to release them. Soon the prototype of this classic will
be under sail and power as well."
This
lovely work of art is almost 14' in length and boasts over five feet of beam. It
will float in just six inches of water and float upright when filled with water
to her lovely teak gunwales. |
