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Lady Luck for sale in Fort Lauderdale, FL - 20.01.2011 by Matias Johansson

"1968, 5.5 METER—Fast and historic, mahogany/oak, composite deck, open cockpit, “cruiserized” with small cabin. Same loving owner 30 years. Healthy, good wood, lying Fort Lauderdale, FL. Asking $24,500, “to good home only.” 954–922–3224, aztecair(at)bellsouth(dot)net." See WoodenBoat Classifieds #218 (http://www.woodenboats4sale.com/pdf/wbclass218_bfs.pdf).

Per Matti Muoniovaara - 19.01.2011 by Daniel Rossi

This boat must be a 5.5 owned by Benjamin D. Gilbert.
It was built 1968. The first name of the boat was "Pregnant Whale" and later "Lady Luck".
I have never found out the US sail number for this boat.
The boat should have sailed the 1968 US Olympic trials at Newport Beach, California but never got ready for that test (was not competitive). Instead the the racing team, John Marshall, Carter Ford and Mike Lehmann used another Gilbert owned boat Bingo 2.
Benjamin D. Gilbert, a close friend to Bill Luders, from Stamford Yacht Club owned several 5.5s including, Madeline US-45 (Luders), Antiope US-47 (Luders), Bingo US-50 (Luders), BIngo 2 US-65 (Luders). The sails (in the photo) with letters US-50 are from Bingo.
Lady Luck was built by Chris Christiansen in Southport and designed by Jerome Milgram, MIT professor.

ZZZ / The place for unsolved cases - ZZZ 1 = US-? - 22.07.2009 by Kaspar Stubenrauch

For this boat the search is on, to find out about its original US-sailnumber.
The owner, Stuart Hanley, has told about its first name being "Lady Luck", built with mahogany planks on oak frames, in the 60's.
Information from Matti adds to the history of the boat: Owned by Benjamin D. Gilbert, built 1968 by Chris Christiansen in Southport and designed by Jerome Milgram, an MIT professor. She was nicknamed "Pregnant Whale", meant to race the 1968 Olympic US-qualifications, but in the end she did not.
Those having a hint to her sailnumber, please advise.

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