alecB
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I'm hoping that someone can help identify the fibreglass sailing dinghy in the photo attachments.
The dinghy was bought as a project, having some damage to the area that sits on the trailer that came with it. It is fairly old, possibly 70s vintage, just over 13ft in length x 5ft 10ins at the rowlocks. It has a plate saying that it was made by "Adams Martin (Leeds), Cape Mills, Farsley, Pudsey, Yorkshire".
Other parts include a wooden mast of 12 ft 6ins which I hope I'm correct in saying with my limited terminology is a gaff rig? (1 upright mast, hinged sail holder length of wood) + a wooden boom. The photos show a hinged daggerboard inside the blue housing. There is a large square hatch compartment forward with its lid missing, and the same rectangular one
for the rear compartment, which I hope someone will confirm should be covered with a rear seat.
The gent I bought it from was unsure of the dinghy type as he had bought it from someone else previously. He had been told it was a 'Hobbit', but I can only find one instance of Hobbit on google apart from the wee guys with hairy feet of Tolkein fame. There is no information to go with the Hobbit name, nor a picture to compare it with. The only reference I can get to Adams Martin was that they built a dinghy called 'Crossbow' designed by John White, but again I can't reference this further.
Not being very clued up about dinghy designs, I'm bracing myself for someone to say it's not a Hobbit but a........(insert any famous name with thousands of them made). I'll live with the humiliation if that is the case, and welcome any feedback and info on the dinghy regardless.
The dinghy was bought as a project, having some damage to the area that sits on the trailer that came with it. It is fairly old, possibly 70s vintage, just over 13ft in length x 5ft 10ins at the rowlocks. It has a plate saying that it was made by "Adams Martin (Leeds), Cape Mills, Farsley, Pudsey, Yorkshire".
Other parts include a wooden mast of 12 ft 6ins which I hope I'm correct in saying with my limited terminology is a gaff rig? (1 upright mast, hinged sail holder length of wood) + a wooden boom. The photos show a hinged daggerboard inside the blue housing. There is a large square hatch compartment forward with its lid missing, and the same rectangular one
for the rear compartment, which I hope someone will confirm should be covered with a rear seat.The gent I bought it from was unsure of the dinghy type as he had bought it from someone else previously. He had been told it was a 'Hobbit', but I can only find one instance of Hobbit on google apart from the wee guys with hairy feet of Tolkein fame. There is no information to go with the Hobbit name, nor a picture to compare it with. The only reference I can get to Adams Martin was that they built a dinghy called 'Crossbow' designed by John White, but again I can't reference this further.
Not being very clued up about dinghy designs, I'm bracing myself for someone to say it's not a Hobbit but a........(insert any famous name with thousands of them made). I'll live with the humiliation if that is the case, and welcome any feedback and info on the dinghy regardless.
...I also have just found out this snippet from the CVRDA forum from someone else's post that the dinghy they were trying to identify was:
