any idea of boat type

[sleats]

This style of boat.... anybody have an idea of the name of this style boat. This is an image of a 35 footer although the one we have is 60ft.. Interested in looking up history and find original images of other renovated boats.. Have heard the name of 'girl Pat' boats!!! does that sound right

http://www.cockwells.co.uk/restoration_fanfare.htm

 

[nyx2k]

what a very pretty boat. i havent got a clue what it is but i want one

nick

 

[cliffordpope]

I've just seen an ex-fishing boat with that style of stern and general lines.

 

[PeteCooper]

Dayton's quote a Girl Pat 35 and 55. In the mid 60's there was a Girl Pat 35 kept on the River Ancholme at South Ferriby. I always thought it was a pretty boat.

 

[Gordonmc]

Girl Pat boats originated with converted MFV's. The original was a Miller Fifer (I think) whose crew went awol with the boat and ended up in the Carribean. There they were eventually arrested and brought back to blighty for prosecution.
But not before the skipper's tale was serialised in The People, which caught the imagination of the public. Girl Pat proved small fishing boats were efficient long distance voyagers, so people began converting small MFV's, then building them new.
I think the skipper's name was Osbourne. A google might turn up more.

 

[ianc1200]

Wasn't the Girl Pat boats standard cruisers produced at Lymington by Berthons when they did wooden boats?

IanC

 

[ianc1200]

Looked it up, Girl Pats were built by Morris of Gosport from 1935, I'm looking at a 1946 MB&Y, has a Girl Pat with non rounded stern, and the advert says "standard models 20ft to 55ft"

Fanfare is noted in a Lloyds Register as being by Morris's, buit 1946, and there's a two page article in the March 1946 MB&Y which looks as though it is Fanfare, with section/sailplan/GA plan all shown in detail.

IanC

IanC

 

[sleats]

ok cool thanks for that info, is there any info available on the web etc?

 

[srm]

The style of stern was used on wooden hulled Scottish fishing vessels (and no doubt others) and were known as 'cruiser sterns' if my memory is correct.

 

[Aja]

Looks typically GL Watson designed wheelhouse to me.

Very pretty all the same.

Donald