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Any ideas from anyone with ref to the above picture. I have no idea aside from someone saying its a cormorant. Sail sign shows 2 interlinked "s" letters. Any help appreciated.
 
How about a few facts, length for a start. Fin, twin or lifting keel

Looks as though it has a pretty tall rig. Fractional?


Looks like a Cormorant 24!
 
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Looks very like one

[/ QUOTE ] You found the same pic as me so our two votes only count as one!

The stem head and pulpit look very characteristic (and horrible)

Not a bit like the Challenger Scout IMHO.
 
Actually, not only is it similar. It's the same boat!

Look at the pontoons, the slightly baggy sail cover and especially the artful mooring line on the foredeck cleat.



The Challenger suggestion is way out. The deck mouldings are nothing like.
 
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It's the same boat

[/ QUOTE ] Rats. Thats proved nothing then. Need independent confirmatiom.
 
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Still think it is a challenger

[/ QUOTE ] Those two pictures look a lot more similar but very different to the first.
I found This website with loads of pics but my French is not really up to navigating it.

Some of the pics look similar but many definitely dont. I wonder if there were two versions over the years. Perhaps someone who understands the lingo can make something of it.

Could also have been sold in the Uk under a different name!
 
Thanks for info - looking more like a challenger to me, as previous posts have picked up on boats for sale website with cormorant. As I paid considerably less than quoted price, I couldnt turn it down.
 
Very similar, I'll grant you that.
The Challenger doesn't have chain plates or the custom pulpit of the Cormorant. It also is listed on that Froggie site as "Export" so it could well be they are the same hull.
The fact that the Cormorant from the ad and the one in the enquiry are the same boat, not similar boats, makes it a Cormorant for me, provided the ad had the correct description.

(No-one could copy the Turk's Head of mooring lines on that cleat /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)
 
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provided the ad had the correct description

[/ QUOTE ] That's the whole point, we don't know that it did.

This page From the "Froggie site" has some interesting diagrams at the end, in particular note the outboard position in a well.

Also note the sail insignia is an S inside a C. Not as described earlier IIRC

There are loads of photos on that "froggie site" but I still can make up my mind about it. Need more piccies of the boat in question I guess.
 
I think you're right. The Challenger uses the chain plates for an "A" frame to unstep the mast. Details all look similar and this pic has a transom mounted outboard.

Looks like the advert has wrongly identified the boat, unless it was imported here as a Cormorant.

The arrows point to some distinctive profiles in the cabin roof which are similar on both boats

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If you have not already do so copy the original picture into Photoshop and play with the lighting levels a bit. You can bring out a bit more detail of the superstructure. Does all look more and more like the Challenger Scout.

Its this isn't it. Challenger Scout Export

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Yerbut the space between the front edge of the coachroof and the front edge of the forecabin hatch looks very different. Also the moulding of the area around the 'rubbing strake/cove line' looks like it may be different on the two pix.

There's certainly a family resemblance, but maybe one is the big sister of the other?
 
Pretty impossible to tell as the first pic has most of the highlight detail burnt out.
The seam moulding/rubbing strake may just be a spec change during production.

I'm still guessing it's basically the same boat with export differences.
 
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