This week, we’re revealing the history of our sailboat, the classic and legendary 1958 Bounty II sloop, Vashti, of Detroit, Michigan. The first fiberglass hu...

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a name with a long history is John

Detweiler --zf a sh t John has used it

ever since his childhood sailing days on

Cape Cod the current Vashti is a regular

Mackinac race contender it's the name of

a biblical Queen from the book of Esther

and for further explanation the debt

Wyler's find it easier to let the

curious read the story themselves

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the year as we know it is 479 BC King

Xerxes of Persia holds a magnificent

banquet for his Prince's nobles and

servants Vashti the Queen holds a

separate banquet for the women on the

seventh day of the banquet when the

Kings heart is merry with wine the king

orders his seven Chamberlain's to summon

Vashti to come before him and his guests

wearing only her royal crown in order to

display her beauty

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Vashti refuses to come and the King

becomes angry he asks his advisor how

fast he should be punished for her

disobedience

his advisor tells him that Vashti has

wronged not only the king but also all

of the husbands of Persia whose wives

may be encouraged by Vashti's actions to

disobey Xerxes takes the advice and

sends letters to all of the provinces

that men should dominate in their

households

Vashti is dethroned and executed for

disobedience

Vashti is refusal to obey the summons of

her drunken husband has been admired as

heroic and many feminist interpretations

of the story early feminists admired

Vashti's principle and courage Harriet

Beecher Stowe author of the 1852 novel

Uncle Tom's Cabin called Vashti's

disobedience the first stand for women's

rights

an article in the May issue of Popular

Mechanics in 1960 describes the

techniques with which the arab marine

plastics corporation in Sausalito

California uses to construct a new type

of boat one constructed entirely out of

plastic the craft is constructed of

three solid pieces molded in fiberglass

among the advertising stunts used to

promote the impenetrable new material

there's a demonstration where a hull is

hoisted 60 feet up with a crane and

dropped without sustaining significant

structural damage designed by Philip

Rhodes with those classic lines within a

modern material she looks like a rocket

ship here's an excerpt from the daily

Independent Journal San Rafael

California September 24th 1958 say love

to all plastic bounty loops were

announced today by Frederick and Coleman

vice-president of Aeronautics plastics

Corporation of Sausalito

John T Detweiler the Grosse Pointe Park

Michigan contractor bought the bounty to

vashti the first summer after vashti was

delivered she won her first race at the

Thames River on Lake st. Clair under

epic racing career began going on to win

her class of the bayview Mackinac race

in 1960 and 1965 eventually she was

semi-retired to live as a well loved

family cruising boat during the 80s at

the d'etre

but her racing days went white number in

1992 a new owner refitted her and she

came back with a fury bringing him to an

overall win at the Bayview magress there

you have it a quick history of our boat

bash T tune in next week for some

footage of the Detroit hydroplane races

our trip back out across Erie to

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