planteater
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Can anyone help in identifying this dinghy? I've Googled sail markings and drawn a blank.
thanks in advance
thanks in advance
Help identifying dinghy.
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spynappels
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Looks a bit like a GRP Albacore to me.
pvb
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lw395
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Looks smaller than an applecore.
May be a 'non class'.
You could try posting on the 'grots and grotting' forum, or the CVDRA, but the R in that stands for racing so it's a little tenuous.
TBH it looks like something a minor boatbuilder (and I use the term loosely) might have created as his own 'design' to sell without paying royalties to an established class or designer. It looks like a perfectly fine learn-to-sail machine all the same.
You have to remember the sails might have originally belonged to a different hull.
I don't know if there is a definitive list of classes anywhere, but IMHO a class needs a class association and a nationals to count....
'sailing tender'?
May be a 'non class'.
You could try posting on the 'grots and grotting' forum, or the CVDRA, but the R in that stands for racing so it's a little tenuous.
TBH it looks like something a minor boatbuilder (and I use the term loosely) might have created as his own 'design' to sell without paying royalties to an established class or designer. It looks like a perfectly fine learn-to-sail machine all the same.
You have to remember the sails might have originally belonged to a different hull.
I don't know if there is a definitive list of classes anywhere, but IMHO a class needs a class association and a nationals to count....
'sailing tender'?
yachtorion
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Pretty sure it's an "Adventurer".
VicS
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planteater
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Thank you. I'm currently using it as a tender as it rows/motors nicely and has plenty of internal space. I've sailed it once but only in very light winds so not sure what to expect.
Searush
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Does it have any centre board/ dagger board as neither picture seems to show one. With that bathtub hull it will need a decent board.
Yours looks in much better condition than the Noble Marine example.
Yours looks in much better condition than the Noble Marine example.
planteater
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Yes, it has a daggerboard and is in pretty decent condition. It's a great tender but I will endeavour to take it out sailing again.
yachtorion
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Leeds Sailing Center used to have a couple used for kids RYA sail training, which is where I came across it, as a customer, some years ago.
I don't remember it in detail but it was a competent and safe enough dinghy on a lake and fairly easy to handle. The Leeds examples were a bit tatty even then.
I don't remember it in detail but it was a competent and safe enough dinghy on a lake and fairly easy to handle. The Leeds examples were a bit tatty even then.
