Delta 25

[phantomc92]

i saw that boat about 10 yrs or so ago at eastlands,im sure it was yellow

 

[SacreBleu]

Colour

Hi Carl,
You are right: it was yellow. I was fitting some vents to the transom and drilled though yellow paint.
One step of the puzzle completed.

 

[Jon Fuller]

There was a yellow Delta 25 up on the Thames at Sunbury for many years called 'Delta Lady', dunno if it's the same one. That had a single Mercruiser and belonged to a friend of mine for a while in around the late 80's / early 90's. Very pretty boat.

 

[amott]

I think you will find that a number of Delta25's had a mustard colour yellow hull. This was the gel coat colour.

 

[edsboat]

Delta Lady

Hi All,

My husband happened to stumble accross this older thread about Delta 25's and the mention of a boat called Delta Lady. I'm not sure if this message will reach Deltamad or eclipsescilly but we owned Delta Lady in the early 1990's.

We bought her from a guy who moored her on the Thames at Plaits Ait and she was a bit neglected. We moved her to Wallasea Island in Essex until she was sold to the Medway/Rochester in Kent. (I think we bought her about Sept 1991 and sold her in about 1995)

We spent about 2/3 years trying to restore her (but being our first project this took a while!). she came with no cockpit seats - only the stainless steal bottom frames and the back bench seat was black vinyl. We were given a set of front seats by a local boat builder and had them all re-upholstered in Blue/grey/white.
Her inside was in quite a sorry state and this too was all re-lined and re-upholstered in blue and white. The hull was always white and when polished you could definately see the outline of numbers so we guessed it may have raced at some time. We had the back teak wood strip replaced as it was rotten and also fitted the trim tabs as she rode very nose high (but still managed to get a respectable 23 knots out of her!)
So glad she is still around!

 

[Jon Fuller]

I remember Delta Lady on the thames back then.
A pal of mine bought another yellow delta 25 in the same area (Chris Murdock)

I was based at Shepperton.

 

[edsboat]

Delta Lady

Hi, I think I've got Delta Lady, I can just about see the numbers 317 when she's polished. when I bought her from Rochester Kent in 2003 she still had the 888 Mercruiser, albeit worst for wear. I have put in a 165hp Mercruiser Diesel on a Bravo 3 Leg.
She now lives in the Isles of Scilly, Great to see the pics of her racing.

Hi All,

My husband happened to stumble accross this older thread about Delta 25's and the mention of a boat called Delta Lady. I'm not sure if this message will reach Deltamad or eclipsescilly but we owned Delta Lady in the early 1990's.

We bought her from a guy who moored her on the Thames at Plaits Ait and she was a bit neglected. We moved her to Wallasea Island in Essex until she was sold to the Medway/Rochester in Kent. (I think we bought her about Sept 1991 and sold her in about 1995)

We spent about 2/3 years trying to restore her (but being our first project this took a while!). she came with no cockpit seats - only the stainless steal bottom frames and the back bench seat was black vinyl. We were given a set of front seats by a local boat builder and had them all re-upholstered in Blue/grey/white.
Her inside was in quite a sorry state and this too was all re-lined and re-upholstered in blue and white. The hull was always white and when polished you could definately see the outline of numbers so we guessed it may have raced at some time.
We had the back teak wood strip replaced as it was rotten and also fitted the trim tabs as she rode very nose high (but still managed to get a respectable 23 knots out of her!) she was still named Delta Lady when we had her - so I don't know when the Charlie Delta name was added?
So glad she is still around!
(We still have some photo's if you are interested? )

 

[Martin The Talker]

I raced Oh Lor in 1975/6 with Roger Kelly (named after his wife Lorraine). We did two seasons 1975 and 76, including CTC. After that we ran the 31 Bertram Canadian Moppie which was bought as a hull, reengined with Sabre diesels and named McQueen Jeans. Aftre Oh Lor was sold we lost trace her.
I only have acouple of pics, and if you have any info on what happened to Oh Lor I would love to see it

My understanding is that 'Trident/Oh Lor' is in the hands of Maxwell Beaverbrook, who is planning the restoration I believe.

 

[blackbeard]

Hi All,

My husband happened to stumble accross this older thread about Delta 25's and the mention of a boat called Delta Lady. I'm not sure if this message will reach Deltamad or eclipsescilly but we owned Delta Lady in the 23 knots out of her!) s
So glad she is still around!
(We still have some photo's if you are interested? )

pm sent

 

[edsboat]

I remember Delta Lady on the thames back then.
A pal of mine bought another yellow delta 25 in the same area (Chris Murdock)

I was based at Shepperton.

We were looking for a new boat at the time and saw Delta Lady advertised in MBM I think and so only visited the Thames to view her - unfortunately did not know of the other Delta 25 was there. It would have been good to see it though.

 

[edsboat]

Delta Lady

some photos of Delta Lady (from the early 1990's)

 

[edsboat]

Delta Lady

Some more photos of Delta Lady ( in the early 1990's)

As you can see from the dial in the first photo - we actually got 28 out of her and not 23 as I thought !
So nice to know that she is still afloat and bringng pleasure!

 

[DaveS]

Delta Owners

Hi All,
Nice to see more photo's of Deltas! I have been looking for a long time to find fellow owners. I bought Ammot's Schrazade and have spent the last year bringing her up to date (Sympathetically Adrian!). I have lots of photo's and will try and post them , as soon as I find out how!

 

[DaveS]

Looks like I did it!
Please contact me if you still have one as the posts are from a while back.

 

[Martin The Talker]

Delta 25's

For anyone interested, we have TWO Delta 25's For Sale on our COPC website.
See www.classicoffshore.com & click on For Sale, scroll thro' & you'll see them - one yellow & one blue I think !

 

[DaveS]

I think the blue one was from a while ago, about 10k, restored but with no engine. The yellow one I think was mine, Scherazade, before the hull was re painted.
Edsboat, where is Delta Lady now? Scherazade is lying in North Wales.

 

[Scousegit]

LYING (in North Wales) being the operative word as the old dog never leaves it's berth due to engine faults.

 

[DaveS]

Cheers Bruv! Lol, Small electrical fault ... Took far too long to find though. Hopefully ok now?
See you round the island soon!

 

[freddie]

Hi DaveS I own fleche dor delta 25 1973 still going strong after all these years went out yesturday,speed down a bit but can still pull 30 knots after being in the water a year. great boats.Have fun .

 

[phantomc92]

wheres the boat based now,loved that boat