Skip Asay’s old Type XXIII

[goshawk823]

off topic a bit…. Does anyone remember when and in what model magazine Skip’s Type XXIII was featured? I think the article was back in the late 80s or early 90s. Appreciate any insight!

[Das Boot]

off topic a bit…. Does anyone remember when and in what model magazine Skip’s Type XXIII was featured? I think the article was back in the late 80s or early 90s. Appreciate any insight!

I don’t remember Skip having a Type XXIII. The only subs I know of him having were the Marlin and Albacore. Of course I could be wrong, and I’m sure I’ll be corrected if I am.

[Ken_NJ]

I have a bunch of Scale Ship Modeler magazines from back in that time but too many to find any specific article's.

I do have these pictures from the early days of our club of his XXIII when we sailed at the Monmouth College indoor pool. The first one is from the dive end of the underwater viewport. These were taken in 1986.

[redboat219]

Is that the one with a box type WTC in the stern and a PVC pipe ballast tank with a servo operated vent valve?

[Ken_NJ]

I don't recall how he set that one up, it was 40 years ago.

[Das Boot]

Skip Asay did not own that sub. That was a kit manufactured by 32 Parallel. I should know, I built two of them. Good sub kit, crappy WTC.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HJjOjMi2LuJ2PJdx0cgj0_DMm8GBbR00/view?usp=drive_link

[goshawk823]

Skip Asay did not own that sub. That was a kit manufactured by 32 Parallel. I should know, I built two of them. Good sub kit, crappy WTC.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HJj...usp=drive_link

lol. Yes, he did. I currently own it. And I had a 32nd Parallel Type XXIII (that I gave to David M years ago), so I know all about that model. This is about 1/24 scale, is fiberglass, and was bulit the “old fashioned way” - he had separate sealable compartments for the ballast components. It’s a beast of a boat. I even have the trailer he used to haul it to the water.

[goshawk823]

Is that the one with a box type WTC in the stern and a PVC pipe ballast tank with a servo operated vent valve?

And a windshield washer pump to raise and lower the snorkel and scopes…

[goshawk823]

I have a bunch of Scale Ship Modeler magazines from back in that time but too many to find any specific article's.

I do have these pictures from the early days of our club of his XXIII when we sailed at the Monmouth College indoor pool. The first one is from the dive end of the underwater viewport. These were taken in 1986.

Thanks for sharing those pics. I had seen these before (they may have been from you!).

[Das Boot]

lol. Yes, he did. I currently own it. And I had a 32nd Parallel Type XXIII (that I gave to David M years ago), so I know all about that model. This is about 1/24 scale, is fiberglass, and was bulit the “old fashioned way” - he had separate sealable compartments for the ballast components. It’s a beast of a boat. I even have the trailer he used to haul it to the water.

As many times as I talked to Skip, and met him at different places to run boats, I never heard him mention a Type XXIII. Never saw it. I never saw anything other than the Albacore and Marlin. Well I said from the get-go if I was wrong, I’d be corrected. I was.

[Ken_NJ]

I probably have other pictures of some of Skip's boats from our regatta's, but too many rolls of non-digital pictures to go through. He also had an e-boat and I think a Type VII. At one time he gave one of them to Charlie Callas the comedian, then he got back from him, not sure which one it was.

[goshawk823]

As many times as I talked to Skip, and met him at different places to run boats, I never heard him mention a Type XXIII. Never saw it. I never saw anything other than the Albacore and Marlin. Well I said from the get-go if I was wrong, I’d be corrected. I was.

Skip sold this boat some years before he was in on developing those two models. He sold it to the comedian Charlie Callas; Charlie died back in 2011, so I’m not a sure where it floated around until I got it about 3 years ago ago. He talked about this model a lot with me, but I was building an OTW Type XXIII back then, so we shared info about these models.

[Ken_NJ]

Thought I would add this....

https://forum.rc-sub.com/forum/general-topics/170258-skip-asay-article-and-other-model-boating-articles-maybe

[Das Boot]

Skip sold this boat some years before he was in on developing those two models. He sold it to the comedian Charlie Callas; Charlie died back in 2011, so I’m not a sure where it floated around until I got it about 3 years ago ago. He talked about this model a lot with me, but I was building an OTW Type XXIII back then, so we shared info about these models.

Do you know now that you mention it, I do remember Charlie Callis’s name mentioned about something or other. It’s been so long ago, I had forgotten. But I would’ve never placed the Type XXIII. I figured it would’ve been one of his prototype boats. I’m glad I wasn’t playing poker.