Age of boat

[Topcat47]

My boat has a builder's plate from Halmatic with the hull number and date. It may be worth looking around your boat for something similar. The plate's not particularly legible anymore, but the number and date are distinguishable, despite the revages of age.

 

[rob2]

So sorry to see people at each others' throats again over nothing (or very little). I believe it's a problem with the written word, that one attributes a tone to the text which may not have been how it was meant.

Tracing the history of a given boat can prove impossible, though sometimes a long way down the line, a comment suddenly reveals the missing detail. I believe all Macwesters were factory produced (check on the owners' website?) which may help. My own boat was a design that was often home completed, so you end up with a moulding date, a completion date and a launch date. I've just seen one whose sail number suggests she was moulded in the early seventies, yet launch date was 1999, more than ten years after mine which was moulded by another company who bought the moulds when the original went to the wall!

For insurance purposes, a best estimate will be good enough for the age of the boat - they can't prove otherwise and I believe they're only interested in the implications it will have on the seaworthiness of the boat and gear and here a recent survey can help to show the condition. if there are any major projects to complete, it may be beneficial to do these and then get a survey as a benchmark.

Rob.

 

[Bobbyjameshudson123]

thanks all, will look at owners ass and sail number - prv, no name on boat but was told by vendor " cestrian lady " whether original or not i could not say thanks

My family used to own a blue macwester 26 called cestrian lady, be good to know if she's still on the water...appreciate this is an old thread