Glass Slipper Potter

Gordon (hlg@pacbell.net)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 20:36:21 -0800

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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Many thanks, Steve. I've added your Glass Slipper brochure to the PY web
page <http://songbird.com/py/oldbroch.htm> along with some comments and a
link to the photos of your boat. Apparently the C Type Potter was built by
two different manufacturers, both located on the Isle of Wight. For some
unknown reason, West Wight Marine could not use the name "Potter," or chose
not to, so they called the boat the "Glass Slipper" and gave it an
appropriate sail emblem. They did refer to it as the "C Type," and it
appears to be identical to the "C Type" West Wight Potter made by the other
company, and, as I pointed out, both brochures use the same photograph of
#66.

I don't know which came first - the C Type WWP or the C Type Glass Slipper.
In any case you've provided an interesting piece of Potter history, and you
have a unique boat, probably the only one like it in the U.S.. Now, if
someone asks you, "What is that "cute little boat"? you can say, "It's an
English-built version of the West Wight Potter called a 'Glass Slipper.'"

Does that help you?

By the way, that's a very nice looking lady in the photo on the Glass
Slipper brochure.

Harry

>Harry,
> Sorry it's taken so long to send you this Potter copy. I'm still
>learning how to use my scanner so I'll need to send it in two segments. if
>the quality is too poor or thhe picture is too big or small let me know.
>Please send it to anyone you think that will be able to give me any info.
>
> Thanks
> Steve Oliveira
> C-14 "Mydaoff" #79
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