Limbo 23

Here is an article from the Design section of Yachting World in February 1976 about the original plywood Limbo - I seem to remember that she was very successful.
She appears to be very beamy, but she has a lot of flare in her transverse sections, hence her waterline beam is fairly moderate.

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The Limbo's I know were built by Zygal boats in Whitstable; I thought the 23 most definitely GRP, a more cruisery ( but still pretty light ) version of the very fast race oriented 21, both lift keel, can't remember if the 23 had any other keel options.

Maybe a wooden one might be the original production mould plug, just as 'Barracuda of Tarrant' was the plug Barracuda 45 ?

Unless it's a completely different Limbo of course, but the 23 sounds more than a coincidence.
 
I've just looked at the link given ( I lose connection here when I do ) and she's nothing like the Limbo 23 I know; may still be by Andrew Stewart / Zygal, but obviously very racy.
 
She looks very similar to the original plywood Limbo. Could it be that someone has decided she's 23' and not 21' without actually measuring her? Maybe they though that 6.6 is near enough to 23'? The pulpit on mine sticks out a fair bit, so my marina insists on charging me for 7 meters instead of the 6.6 (at the rate they charge, I'm not complaining).

1 season in the water out of the last 19 years? Run away!!!! (even at that price)!

PT.

FWIW, The 6.6 is a beautiful little boat for not a lot more.
 
I think the first line, "Limbo design 23' yacht" suggests to me that it might be one that looks like a Limbo & not original. I'd be a little wary.
 
This is my old Limbo 6.6. Note the keel box protrudes below hull line. Round bilge and cutaway aft of the cockpit.
Built by Zygal.

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If she's the sort of boat which turns you on, and you either have or know a cheap mooring to take a small deep fin boat, I'd say it's worth keeping an open mind and having a look at her.

Wareham seems a slightly odd place for a boat with a keel like that, but she could have ended up there for one of many reasons.

I'm not at all optimistic as to what you'll find structurally, but for that price she's almost worth having for the rig and sails, bearing in mind the moment she moves an inch you'll be paying, possibly quite handsomely...
 
Cheers for all this guys,

If I was to buy here I'd move her to RNAS Culdrose on a friends yacht trailer. Be cheap to move and store then.
 
Seajet said:
popular place to store unused, dying or just resting boats.

I bet they'd love to hear that !

Do they use that phrase in their adverts ? :D
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Think they are pretty realistic about where they sit in the market - not changed much in the 30+ years since I first kept a boat there except they have superb lifting kit to handle quite sizable boats now.
 
FullCircle said:
This is my old Limbo 6.6. Note the keel box protrudes below hull line. Round bilge and cutaway aft of the cockpit.
Built by Zygal.
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Ouch! I'd be sh**ing bricks if I ever let her get into that situation. Fortunately, she has only taken the ground inadvertently for a few minutes at most (one of those tweaked the glass over the keel pin, which makes me wonder if your pics were a regular thing FC?).

Just to show what beauties they are (well... mine is :));

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Launch day at Thorpe Bay YC. A once a year, not to be missed event. Or your Limbo would stay in the car park for another year.

Does not do them any harm.
 
Must say my eyebrows raised somewhat when I saw Full Circles' boat on her bilges; fine briefly as long as the tide doesn't come back with waves to bounce her on her side I suppose.

I notice in one shot there's what looks very like one of her neighbours when built in the background, an Anderson 22; so it wasn't a totally wasted shot ! :D
- only joking FC !

Tranona, I've been past there quite a few times, noticed the hoist.

On one occasion I was trundling along just there when a 1960's Aquacar came around the corner, hazard lights flashing & 2 guys wearing top hats !
 
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