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OK so ill try again , i bought this hull as a project and have starting sanding and will be spraying her soon but i still dont have a definate identification on her.Have been told its a Birchwood amongst everything else ,anyone who knows something or might even have a picture reveiw anything to help restoration get in touch .Ive hit a brick wall with this one hope some one can help. Photos to be found here http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=photos&gid=362985373468#!/group.php?v=wall&gid=362985373468 will post more soon .Thanks all.
If anyone can tell me how to add photos to the forum that would be great too
 
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patrickjohnson said:
OK so ill try again , i bought this hull as a project and have starting sanding and will be spraying her soon but i still dont have a definate identification on her.Have been told its a Birchwood amongst everything else ,anyone who knows something or might even have a picture reveiw anything to help restoration get in touch .Ive hit a brick wall with this one hope some one can help. Photos to be found here http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=photos&gid=362985373468#!/group.php?v=wall&gid=362985373468 will post more soon .Thanks all.
If anyone can tell me how to add photos to the forum that would be great too
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Well it aint a Birchwood, maybe a Supercraft.
 
Beats me. It put me in mind of a Vanguard Thunderjet but these were only a smidgeon under 18' long and didn't have the porthole.
 
Quite a pronounced tumblehome on the stern quarter,just had look in my 25 Years of Cruisers MBM book and nothing even remotely similar
 
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Hi Byron, they don't have pictures of the earliest Callumcraft but the first ones with grp hulls (and timber top on the 22 ft) had a tumblehome aft. Way back when you and I were boys me lad!
 
I guess it might have helped some had the originator of the query had given us some measurements.

I don't seem to have any photographs of any really old Calumcraft in my files.
 
I had a Callumcraft 22 many years ago. Early 1960s model if I remember correctly, with a 1200cc inboard Ford petrol engine and Enfield sterndrive. All GRP so if the very early ones had a timber top, obviously mine wasn't early enough! Sold it to a friend of Sue Pollard's (of Hi-di-Hi fame). It was still around when I was last Thames-based, about 8/9 years ago.

In addition to the tumblehome, that round window possibly provides an extra clue as this was a feature of the Callumcraft/Norman range.
 
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Byron, take a look at an early Callumcraft 22 on this chaps blog, here: http://www.aboatformypotplants.blogspot.com/

GRP hull, timber top, tell-tale tumblehome.
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The TH is certainly remarkably similar but other things aren't. I think we need this dude to give us the length as until we have it we are all surmising somewhat in the dark. Looking carefully at the side of the boat there's a symbol. I can't see what it is but it looks to me like a Coronet. Coronets were a superb Scandanavian craft. I had a 27' in the 1960s.
 
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I think I've seen one of these on my trips to Clitheroe from Longridge. It's on the right as you go towards Clitheroe. I don't know what it is tho'.
 
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