Can anybody identify this boat please?

[keith1506]

Recent eBay acquisition. The seller called it a "Voyager 19", and said that it's an Uffa Fox design (it isn't) and that his dad bought her new in the 80s from a boat-builder in Wolverhampton.

Thought at first it might be a post-Hurley version of a GRP Silhouette, but the info on the SOIA website would indicate not; after Hurley stopped making them Varne Yachts in Essex built a few, then a company called Beresford Marine in Derbyshire, but I have brochures for both those versions and it isn't either of them. (Also it doesn't have the serpentine sheerline of a Silhouette).

I found one other pic on the internet which describes it as a "Voyager 19 designed by Robert Tucker", but it's not one of his either! (They were probably assuming the Silhouette connection I first thought of).

Anyway I've now reached a dead-end with my detective work, so any light any of you kind folk can shine would be much appreciated. (She is bilge-keel, masthead sloop, self-draining cockpit twin berth with one quarter berth, skeg-hung rudder)

 

[Old Harry]

Sorry no idea what class she is but I know somebody who has one but cant contact him until lock-down is over

 

[PhillM]

I was going to say it looked like a Newbridge. .. but I am wrong: Newbridge - Navigator in Essex, Eastern | Boats and Outboards

 

[keith1506]

Sorry no idea what class she is but I know somebody who has one but cant contact him until lock-down is over

No rush, so would really appreciate that

 

[Old Harry]

No rush, so would really appreciate that

I have found his phone No so sent txt

 

[keith1506]

I have found his phone No so sent txt

Brill, thanks!

 

[cat ketch]

I think it is a Mirror Offshore Mk.2

 

[Sharky34]

Recent eBay acquisition. The seller called it a "Voyager 19", and said that it's an Uffa Fox design (it isn't) and that his dad bought her new in the 80s from a boat-builder in Wolverhampton.

Thought at first it might be a post-Hurley version of a GRP Silhouette, but the info on the SOIA website would indicate not; after Hurley stopped making them Varne Yachts in Essex built a few, then a company called Beresford Marine in Derbyshire, but I have brochures for both those versions and it isn't either of them. (Also it doesn't have the serpentine sheerline of a Silhouette).

I found one other pic on the internet which describes it as a "Voyager 19 designed by Robert Tucker", but it's not one of his either! (They were probably assuming the Silhouette connection I first thought of).

Anyway I've now reached a dead-end with my detective work, so any light any of you kind folk can shine would be much appreciated. (She is bilge-keel, masthead sloop, self-draining cockpit twin berth with one quarter berth, skeg-hung rudder)

Looks like a boat called a Sharky, 16' long, with a centre keel, which it could sit on (about 6" wide).

 

[Mistroma]

I think it is a Mirror Offshore Mk.2

I'm certain that the Mirror Offshore Mk.II didn't have that amount of shear. It also had a round forehatch at an angle on a rounded forward part of the cabin.

I still remember their reputation for build quality. You could be stuck in the head until you went on to opposite tack because the door frame sagged and jammed the door.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

The bow certainly suggests a motor sailor .

I have a friend with a very similar yacht and he never has found out what she is.

 

[keith1506]

I think it is a Mirror Offshore Mk.2

Had one of those, and it's not (but thanks for taking the time to reply)

 

[Habebty]

Sorry no idea what class she is but I know somebody who has one but cant contact him until lock-down is over

Yes that’s Ratter’s boat. He told me what it was once but I can’t remember either!

 

[Dan Tribe]

Looks like a boat called a Sharky, 16' long, with a centre keel, which it could sit on (about 6" wide).

My first thought was also a Sharky. No idea where they were produced though.

 

[Sharky34]

My first thought was also a Sharky. No idea where they were produced though.

Designed by 'Parkgates Marine Ltd',
Built by 'Waterside Plastics Ltd',
Sole UK agents 'Salterns Yacht Agency ltd, Chichester Yacht Basin, birdham'

Sail ID was a shape of a shark, below which was PG + number, sail area 90sq ft.
LOA 16', LWL 15', Beam 6', draft 1'6", displacement 1080 lbs, 2 berths, headroom 4'6", ballast 380 lbs.

Its in Bristows 71 Book of Yachts & Motor Sailers.
If I knew how to post a picture, I would.

 

[Sharky34]

I think it is a Mirror Offshore Mk.2

No way.

 

[Sharky34]

Recent eBay acquisition. The seller called it a "Voyager 19", and said that it's an Uffa Fox design (it isn't) and that his dad bought her new in the 80s from a boat-builder in Wolverhampton.

Thought at first it might be a post-Hurley version of a GRP Silhouette, but the info on the SOIA website would indicate not; after Hurley stopped making them Varne Yachts in Essex built a few, then a company called Beresford Marine in Derbyshire, but I have brochures for both those versions and it isn't either of them. (Also it doesn't have the serpentine sheerline of a Silhouette).

I found one other pic on the internet which describes it as a "Voyager 19 designed by Robert Tucker", but it's not one of his either! (They were probably assuming the Silhouette connection I first thought of).

Anyway I've now reached a dead-end with my detective work, so any light any of you kind folk can shine would be much appreciated. (She is bilge-keel, masthead sloop, self-draining cockpit twin berth with one quarter berth, skeg-hung rudder)

Voyager, was sold by Polycell Prout & was a Maurice Redman/Trevor McMullan design, built by Juxta Mare Marine ltd, only 13'2" loa,

 

[davidaprice]

If the boat in this page is correctly identified as a Sharky, then Keith's boat is not a Sharky: Local Lad Shows Us The Way | Millbrook Lake Mooring Association

 

[dombuckley]

If the boat in this page is correctly identified as a Sharky, then Keith's boat is not a Sharky: Local Lad Shows Us The Way | Millbrook Lake Mooring Association

No, the boat in the article is a Seasafe Dandy.

 

[Sharky34]

No, the boat in the article is a Seasafe Dandy.

Yep, no way is that 16' or a Sharky.

 

[keith1506]

No, the boat in the article is a Seasafe Dandy.

Sorry, not a Dandy - different stern and topsides (and windows), but thanks for taking the time to reply