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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. |
 The
new Marlow Gypsy dinghy joins our Marlow Sprite and is simply gorgeous. It is
Epoxy pressure laminated 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 except for the dry storage area in the bow. Built as a fuselage, similar to high
performance aircraft it is light, incredibly strong and beautiful.
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 small power. It is also
the most highly technological dinghy ever built by anyone and it looks like a jewel,
with a finish as fine as a Steinway Piano.
David
Marlow describes its birth: "It is the antithesis of the simple boat I built as
a child
on Frog Creek in Manatee County, Florida, which was 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 daysailors 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."
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