Purdy Boat Company
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Locality: Port Washington, New York
Phone: +51 66 035424
Address: Purdy Lane, Bayview Colony 11050 Port Washington, NY, US
Website: www.macgigolo.com/purdyboats
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The Nimitz Library at the US Naval Academy has some files relating to a Purdy yacht, SHADOW FAY, that served as an "Admiral's Barge" there for a time. If anyone has the ability to access those files, I'd be interested in the boat's history at the academy, and also copies of any photos.
From the archives. All parts cast manganese bronze.
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NEW YORKER, 151-class racing hydroplane, built 1927 (destroyed in boat shop fire March 1928)NEW YORKER, 151-class racing hydroplane, built 1927 (destroyed in boat shop fire March 1928)
Three views of a Purdy catamaran, built in Trenton 1924
A Purdy boat that never was. Proposal sketch (1930) for a launch for NY Air Terminals to take passengers from Manhattan to a flying boat base at North Beach, Queens.
Interior of Purdy shop 1936 showing frames of Aphrodite.
Grumman "Goose" amphibian takes off from in front of the Purdy shop, Bayview Colony, 1937
Purdy shop workers in front of the old Bayview Colony shop, 1925. The boat was probably Carl Fisher's Gold Cup racer "Baby Shadow."