1959 YW Sea Horse

[Leighpilot]

I’m looking for any information regarding the Sea Horse , a design featured in the June 1959 edition. I’m advising on the new build of a hull for a boat that recently sank here in Scotland. I’d particularly like to read the article in the magazine but would also like to get a materials list and an estimate of construction hours. If you’ve built one , I’d live to hear from you.

 

[Bajansailor]

Welcome to the Forum Leigh.
What a fine looking yacht!
I saw that spade rudder and thought it looks very van de Stadt'ish, and Google brought up the Sailboat Data entry (which has the same drawings that you posted) - and I see that Mr van de Stadt won the Yachting World design competition in 1967 with this design.
SailboatData.com - YACHTING WORLD SEAHORSE Sailboat

I’m advising on the new build of a hull for a boat that recently sank here in Scotland.

Apologies for being dense, but is this boat being re-built, or are you starting from scratch and building a new hull?
If the latter, do you have a set of plans?
If you do have a set of original plans, would you stick to them faithfully, or incorporate more recent 'inventions' like stitch and glue with epoxy and fibreglass tape?

 

[Leighpilot]

Hi Bajan ,
This would be an entirely new hull to replace the old one that sank. I believe the client has plans but they’re still available from Van de Stadt so they’re not a problem.
I would expect that the hull would be built to the original specs and methods with just the substitution of modern epoxy glues for the old casein or resorcinol glues. Switching to stitch and glue would require a design review by a naval architect to determine the effect of the loss of the chine stringers. So it’d be simplest to build it as designed.