Someone please identify this make of boat

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Can anyone identify the make and model of this boat:

She is a pocket trailer-sailor; year and place of manufacture unknown.
Sloop
Length 15.5 ft.
Unsinkable
Vertical drop keel.


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Yes, but unlike the Titanic this boat has fully sealed watertight compartments, so your theory that this 15.5ft boat is somewhat like the Titanic doesn't really ..er..hold water.

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Maybe a Seafarer 575 (565?), designed by Leo da Costa, or another of his designs, had foam buoyancy as standard. the 465 was only 13.3 ft and the Sandpiper was 15 ft

Manta 16 is similar too but came with twin, fin or centreboard not lifting keel afaik. it is 15.75 ft
 
There is no such thing as an unsinkable boat. Your watertight compartments can be punctured and fill with water. If only one is holed it will make the boat unstable which can lead to disaster. More than one and you are close to sinking, particulary when the water begins to slosh about inside the accommodation area which is not sealed and watertight.
 
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There is no such thing as an unsinkable boat.

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You are quite right: no boat is actually barred from Davey Jones's locker. But isn't it the case that when manufacturers use the term "unsinkable" in a boat's spec, they are using it as a short-hand way of saying that it contains foam-filled compartments capable of supporting the boat in a partially submerged state. As you point out, this theory is not "fireproof".

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Could be a Hunter 490 although that was 16'1" oal. It had a ballasted retractable keel which yours appears to have too. Designed by Oliver Lee in 1971. Displacement 1000 lbs. Sail area 120 sq ft. Built, of course, by Hunter Boats. Peter Poland would know for sure - contactable through (dare I mention it) Sailing Today.
 
Yes, you are quite right about the manufacturers' claims, but then the builders of the Titanic were making similar claims for her when she was first launched. That was my original point.
 
All the hunters are pictured in the "Gallery" on the Hunter association web site The 490 is the fist one but although it is not a very good picture I would say that is not it.

The pic is HERE

We should be asking what is the sail insignia on the boat in question? May be not a fool proof method of ID but it could well tell us.
 
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Maybe a Seafarer 575 (565?), designed by Leo da Costa, or another of his designs, had foam buoyancy as standard. the 465 was only 13.3 ft and the Sandpiper was 15 ft


[/ QUOTE ] Forget all that I was reading LWL not LOA The only one that is close is the Seafarer 465 at 15.2ft but its not that I am pretty certain.
 
I beg to differ, re “there is no such thing as an unsinkable boat” My boat is constructed using foam sandwich, if a piece of the foam sandwich is put in water it floats therefore the whole structure must be unsinkable. If fact a boat similar to mine sailing off South Africa took a keel of, the boat filled with water up to the bridge deck and was then sailed several hundred miles home.
 
I didn't mention the sail insignia in the original post as I am not certain that the mainsail that came with the boat is the correct one. However what came with it
depicts a Naval armband insignia that shows the wearer's rank. It has something like three narrow bands plus a wider band with a sort of loop. I don't know what rank this is supposed to signify - something like admiral perhaps.

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