Mystery boat?

[VicS]

She looks like a Signet Super 20+, maybe a larger alloy job on the same sort of 1960's pattern.

I must say she looks like a Signet, except for the size and location of the middle window ?

No defnitely not a Signet.

Thompson T24?

Don't think so. It does not look much like the pictures I've found of one.

It looks to have a triple keel unless its the angle of the bottom photo. If it has that shouuld narrow it down a bit

Yes. Definitely a triple keel. If you Photoshop it and lighten the shadows you can clearly see the bilge keel on the port side.
I reckon the starboard side keel has been removed , hence the oil drum and the pieces of wood propping up that side.


I have seen that ugly shape of the cabin roof/ forehatch before but cannot place it.

 

[Seajet]

xeitosaphil and I said she LOOKS LIKE a Signet, and made it clear we don't think she is one, seems bigger to me and still looks alloy even though that's not very logical.

That coachroof pattern was very popular in the 60's, and includes everything from Halcyons and Sabres to Excaliburs.

 

[ganter]

She looks like the marine equivalent of a 'cut and shut' of the automobile world.

Some aluminium hull with a fibreglass cabin and deck attached from a donor vessel.

Avoid!

A good project for someone with the inclination.

 

[PCUK]

As per another reply, I'd say Ferro. Not metal of any kind due to the rounded hull form.

 

[jwilson]

As per another reply, I'd say Ferro. Not metal of any kind due to the rounded hull form.

My first glance made me think (poor) ferro: the hull does not look good. The coachroof looks like a GRP moulding though, and looks vaguely familiar, as someone else said. That does not mean the hull has to be GRP, you do find odd mixes. Once met a lovely wooden carvel hull with a GRP Nic 32 GRP coachroof moulding - and that had actually been built by Nicholsons as one of the "Yeomans" - in the dying days of wooden racing yacht building.

 

[halcyon]

xeitosaphil and I said she LOOKS LIKE a Signet, and made it clear we don't think she is one, seems bigger to me and still looks alloy even though that's not very logical.

That coachroof pattern was very popular in the 60's, and includes everything from Halcyons and Sabres to Excaliburs.

Post war we had loads of alloy available and a lot of people who could work it that came from the aero industry.


Brian

 

[VicS]

xeitosaphil and I said she LOOKS LIKE a Signet,

But it doesn't. No more than it looks like an A22.

 

[xeitosaphil]

It looks like either fibre Glass or Aluminium, can't see that the hull thickness is anything like thick enough at the sheer line to be Ferro Cement? It does look though like a fibre glass coach roof, Could the deck and coach roof moulding be separate addition? The position of the windows with the odd size middle window doesn't really conform to any of the window arrangements I have seen. Could it have been a Self Build fit out from a Production Hull Usually the two aft windows are the same size contained in the upper section of the coach roof, and any windows in the lower section being small oblong ones. I also can't help feeling this hull may have been made as a Fin only the bilge keel doesn't look like the same material as the rest of the hull and the OP’s partner could have been in the process of fitting the bilge keels before he passed away hence only one in the photo?

It doesn't seem like a production yacht to me, too many variables, a home build of various bits seems more likely IMO

More info on length, beam, photos of the foredeck, cockpit, rudder profile etc would be helpful to rule out a production yacht?

I know it’s a lot to ask for but any chance of more photos, the two photos you have supplied are not really very helpful in detail when it come to identifying the make.

 

[xeitosaphil]

But it doesn't. No more than it looks like an A22.

Come on now Vic if you look at the two photos below I posted surely you can see the resemblence?

I know the angle of the photos are not quite the same the blue one is more horizontal but if you move the middle window and reduce its size, and loose what I consider to be a add on bilge keel they do look similar don't they?