Pix to illustrate earlier posts + what is she ?

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Hi

Finally got the pictures sorted. Click on the thumbnails for a larger image.

Firstly, anyone have any idea as to the identity to this (potential) boat? I've rescued it from the chainsaw and it has been abandoned for several years... no indicators as to origin whatsoever!

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Hopefully you'll agree that she could end up being a very pretty boat. The interior is oak and mahogany

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Here's a pic of the bow section , you can see the gaps in the planking

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Here are the keel bolts. It looks like someone has attempted no 3. \I've had a go at no 2 , which has collapsed about 3 ins in.\I need to get the interior furniture out before I can access no 1.(top)
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Take a look at this section of lead keel that seems to have been installed as an addition to the original iron keel (sawn off). Why would they have done this ??
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Any comments more than appreciated.

Thanks

Norman
 
Beats me, but lets have a cup o tea an a yarn.
Actually i just thought of someone who might have a little info.
We'll discuss over a cuppa....

Nicko.... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
She looks a bit like a Stella (http://www.btinternet.com/~stella.association/index.html
except that Stellas are clinker built.

She looks to be quite a project and I wish you joy of her. As a point of interest I am beginning to get a few warning signs from my other half after spending four years working on my boat and she was nothing like as bad as yours is!!

Best of luck
 
Looks like a Stella?
She looks like a Stella in the same way that I look like Brad Pitt. Well, I've got arms & legs etc.
As you say, Stellas are clinker, also different shape, much finer bows and lighter build. True, they have wooden hulls.
I don't recognise the boat in the pictures, but could she be a Hillyard?
Dan
 
Hi
Having had another look at your pics, I think that she has the look of many East Coast yards. Possibly Shuttlewoods of Paglesham or Johnson & Jago of Leigh.
I had a Johnson & Jago 2.5 tonner once and there are lots of similarities in the general shape and details.
Very often these traditional yards didn't build exactly to plans but adapted designs to suit their methods and materials.
Re the lead keel. This was often done to try to improve stiffness. The boat would probably have had internal pig iron ballast, my bilges were full of old sash weights.
Theory tells us that outside lead ballast must be more efficient, being heavier and having a greater leverage. Many owners tried this ploy with some success.
Good luck with your new lifestyle, she will be worth it.
Dan
 
Yachting Monthly 3-tonner? Keel version (some have centreboard).

Designed by Alan Buchanan as a standard design for YM, covered in detail in Michael Verney's "Complete Amateur Boatbuilding".
 
Not a YM 3tonner. Difficult to put a finger on it but the hull is not 3Tonner.. Also I think all 3T were built with a flush deck full length cabin in most cases.

BTW my first wooden boat was the 3Tonner which i finished building and launched as a new boat in 1977

Anyone interested there are a few pics of her in the gallery pages of this site.

All best Nick
 
Hi,

Yep, tricky isn't it.... could she be a home build? All the fastenings except for copper nails fixing the planking to the frames are ferrous, every interior screw rusted ! .. but I did manage to get one of the keelbolts out this weekend ....
 
Certainly not either Deben 4 or Z4 . The keel garboards, and deadrise to the floors makes it difficult to identify her. South coast Southampton, \Poole possibly.
 
Hi. Looking at the photographs she appears quite bluff forward, could she be a one off based on a work boat design? As for the lead section that has been added to the keel it looks to me to be a replica of the wooden fairing piece that would have been fitted aft of the iron ballast keel. Good luck with the restoration. Mike.
 
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