Anyone have experience of Island Plastics 23 ??

[kgwanchos]

Hi all

Im in the process of rationalising what type of boat would be best for us now that we have a young family. I will be selling our Trident 24 as I cant afford the rest of the restoration till the wife goes back to work in a year or two so we will go without a boat till then (sob!). I saw this the other day

http://www.albion.uwclub.net/index.htm

and was quite intrigued but cant find out much about them. I get the impression of a good solid safe fishing/cruising/motorsailer hybrid with reasonable comfort levels ..... which is kind of what I had in mind. Can anyone shed any light on these boats.... ie
Are they well built
Are they good/bad under sail
General Pros and Cons
Anything about the company
Anything similar along these lines that you might recommend

Many thanks in advance

 

[photodog]

Island Plastics was a IOW based manufacturer who closed around the early 90's.....

Tended to make seaworthy 20-30 foot boats, many of which were fitted out and used as small fishing boats.

If I recall they were building Lloyds supervised hulls... so build quality was generally robust and of a high quality.

 

[kgwanchos]

thanks photodog at least that gives me some clues ..... anyone know of owners club etc can find very little on the web ... perhaps they only made 20 or thirty boats ? ...