boat type - yawl rigged shallow draught sailboat - please help

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Anyone can give advice on the type of this yawl rigged sailing boat? probably bilge keeler as it was moored in tidal, partly drying out water. Photo taken near Barrow in Furness, Walney Channel:

google photos link:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BNzFLEXRA0HB21xs1

if no image visible, let me know and I will try to insert it another way.
 
Looks like the hull is hard chine, so could be ply rather than GRP. Does not ring a bell as a production boat and unusual for that size to have a yawl rig, so could be a one off.
 
Ok, good information. Can you give info on a proper design that does sail, taking into account: shallow draft: < 1m, possibility to dry out vertical, around 30ft length, classic design, affordable second hand availability.
 
maarten4 said:
Ok, good information. Can you give info on a proper design that does sail, taking into account: shallow draft: < 1m, possibility to dry out vertical, around 30ft length, classic design, affordable second hand availability.
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That draft restriction affects sailing ability in that length unless you have a centreboard, which further limits choice. one obvious boat would be a Golden Hind 31 but even that is 1.2 or 1.4m depending on which version. You don't say what you mean by "affordable". I could buy 3 or 4 of them for what my boat cost, but presumably your budget is lower than that.

BTW just had another look at the photo and the perspective threw me a bit and i think my observation about a chine is an optical illusion at the stern. The small aft cabin does suggest a Macwester Wight. Better sailing potential than the much maligned 26, but more a motor sailer with I think a 35hp BMC engine.
 
maarten4 said:
Ok, good information. Can you give info on a proper design that does sail, taking into account: shallow draft: < 1m, possibility to dry out vertical, around 30ft length, classic design, affordable second hand availability.
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Try the 28' Trapper 500 -or slightly later, same boat better interior Trapper 501 - they were available with fin or twin keels, I think most were twin; I sailed a twin keel 501 into a good breeze and she did well, also a good interior.

Engines were a bit small by modern standards ( 13hp ish ? ) and not much room in the engine bay but obviously one would hope for a re-engined example by now.

A good looking cruising boat - a bit of a well kept secret compared to the very good versatile Centaur everyone immediately thinks of.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=t...tuzYAhVsBsAKHZ-ZDy04ChCwBAhA&biw=1412&bih=781

- NB these ' images of ' sites always include others - some here are NOT Trapper 500/501's but the majority are.
 
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Tranona said:
That draft restriction affects sailing ability in that length unless you have a centreboard, which further limits choice. one obvious boat would be a Golden Hind 31 but even that is 1.2 or 1.4m depending on which version. You don't say what you mean by "affordable". I could buy 3 or 4 of them for what my boat cost, but presumably your budget is lower than that.

BTW just had another look at the photo and the perspective threw me a bit and i think my observation about a chine is an optical illusion at the stern. The small aft cabin does suggest a Macwester Wight. Better sailing potential than the much maligned 26, but more a motor sailer with I think a 35hp BMC engine.
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Agree - almost certainly a Macwester Malin or Wight - Malin being a sort of updated version of the Wight. In motor-sailer territory ...... to get to windward quickly you use the engine, though it will sail to windward if you have time to spare.
 
an employee of ours has a friend, ex junkie, ex jailbird, totally shot away but a clever chap in a wasted Keith Richards kind of way. He just bought one, and with absolutely no sailing experience at all I am told he is planning to sail it across the channel.
Should make the news
 
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