Ahoy mateys! I picked up this lovely little flat boat on Castleford's Thursday Market a while back, part of a job lot of small toy bits.
I had no idea what it was. The base gave some clues.
Some silver surfing later and voila!
Its the yacht off an obscure Tri-ang toy called Sailor Buoy!
This set, pictured is one seen on Ebay, was basically a table yacht blown around with a hair dryer! I wonder if it caught on with little landlubbers?
You can see it in action on You Tube with Phil'sWorkBench!
What do you think?
Did you have a Sailor Buoy!?
That is a great piece of detective work. What a strange toy - I have never seen anything like it before. The video showing it in action was great too. It seems the sets came in different colour combinations. I can not imagine there would be many still around, especially boxed.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paul. It was fun tracking it down. Can't imagine many survived I agree.
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