A couple of what is its ?

[trevbouy]

Trying to identify this boat.
It's a bilge long keeler with two small 'wing' keels. It has a canoe stern. Aft cabin. Wheelhouse. Ketch rig.
I thought maybe a Colvic of some description but although the pics of Colvics look close they don't have the large cabin windows.

The other pic is unknown purpose item. It goes through overall but centre tunnel is blocked. There's 3 lugs in a triangle pattern.

 

[dansaskip]

Thought the boat might be an LM 28 like one in many ways but not sure. No idea about the fitting.

 

[Alex_Blackwood]

Trying to identify this boat.
It's a bilge long keeler with two small 'wing' keels. It has a canoe stern. Aft cabin. Wheelhouse. Ketch rig.
I thought maybe a Colvic of some description but although the pics of Colvics look close they don't have the large cabin windows.

The other pic is unknown purpose item. It goes through overall but centre tunnel is blocked. There's 3 lugs in a triangle pattern.

No idea but that fitting looks as though the centre part will rotate, may or my not be removable? it does appear to have a name on the base, I can see HO. May be a maker?

 

[Hermit]

Is the top bit on the fitting a cap? looks like the tag to keep it near the part screwed in is at the top and has snapped? So if you take the cap off you have a hole through to something? (No idea what for!)

 

[ProDave]

I suspect that inner part of the fitting is a blanking plug and will pull out, then revealing a hole. Some form of cable entry?

Where is it, on a vertical or horizontal surface, what is nearby?

 

[dolabriform]

Is there an autopilot?

 

[trevbouy]

There's a tiller pilot but the fitting is nowhere near. I've now magnified the pic and can see it's a plug of sorts, so there would be a hole through to locker. Next time I'm at the boat I'll attempt to pull plug out to see printed name.

 

[PeterV]

The fitting is a dinghy bung, with an attached cap which has broken. It’s a Holt Allen fitting but in that position it must have been used for passing something through the hole.

 

[trevbouy]

PeterV thanks, that makes sense. Other side is the twin batteries. It must have been a way to get temporary wires through.

 

[ChromeDome]

Thought the boat might be an LM 28 like one in many ways but not sure. No idea about the fitting.

No, not an LM. Far from - and very far from the 28



I'm 99.9992% certain LM never made a bilge keel. Never seen cabin front windows on them either.

 

[penfold]

The black bracket next to the mystery hole looks a bit like the one used for Autohelm control boxes.

 

[srm]

I thought maybe a Colvic of some description but although the pics of Colvics look close they don't have the large cabin windows.

Big windows may be the choice of a diy completion.

 

[PeterV]

The black bracket next to the dinghy bung is for a Sestrel grid compass.

 

[trevbouy]

PeterV 100% correct

 

[Daverw]

the grey one is a drain bung normally used on dinghies

 

[Jcorstorphine]

No, not an LM. Far from - and very far from the 28

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I'm 99.9992% certain LM never made a bilge keel. Never seen cabin front windows on them either.

Sorry but your 99.9992% was incorrect, I had a 198r LM 28 with bilge keels and a tabernacle for lowering the mast. Beautiful boat.

 

[andsarkit]

The black bracket next to the dinghy bung is for a Sestrel grid compass.

Nearly, it is actually for a Bosun grid compass.