Wooden boat Identification please

[KaiyaStMawes]

Hello all
I've just purchased a wooden boat approx 21' 2" LOD AND 7' 2" beam. She is a gaff-rigged cutter with an open cockpit but both of those could be additions/alterations from the original. I was told by the seller she was a Hillyard 2.5 tonner, but someone on the FB page said she looked like a Harrison Butler.
Many thanks. Ian.

 

[srm]

The Harrison Butler Association may be able to help, the website also list boats by Hillyard and other designers/builders:
The Harrison Butler Association : Official Website

 

[B27]

Transom looks wide for a Hillyard shape, I think of them more for cabin yachts.

Coombe with two 'o's suggests Teign Corinthian?

IT could be a local One-Design from somewhere, or it could be a small boatyard's one-off based on the fashions of the day merged with local practice.

 

[Tranona]

Pretty sure not an HB. The 2 1/2 tonner was a cabin boat and yours is clearly built as an open boat. Many boats were built in that style between the wars as either one offs or small runs. As suggested Coombe in the name might lead to the west country.

 

[ianc1200]

I'm sure this isn't it, but there is a Vixen in the 1935 Lloyds Register, built by J Hinks & Son, in Appledore, 1881. Shown as "Auxslp", 22.00' x 7.75' x 4.2'. In 1935 was in Bideford with a petrol engine. The length is 22.0' TM/OA/WL so very plumb stem & longer than your 21' 2", and 7.75' is 7' 9" so beamier. Vixen was a very common name in pre war Registers.

 

[KaiyaStMawes]

I'm sure this isn't it, but there is a Vixen in the 1935 Lloyds Register, built by J Hinks & Son, in Appledore, 1881. Shown as "Auxslp", 22.00' x 7.75' x 4.2'. In 1935 was in Bideford with a petrol engine. The length is 22.0' TM/OA/WL so very plumb stem & longer than your 21' 2", and 7.75' is 7' 9" so beamier. Vixen was a very common name in pre war Registers.

Thanks for looking anyway.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Pretty little boat regardless of provenance. What are your plans, looks like she could so with a bit of work.

 

[KaiyaStMawes]

Pretty little boat regardless of provenance. What are your plans, looks like she could so with a bit of work.

Thanks, yes she looks great. I'll restore her and probably, in the longer term, put a cabin onto her. I'm already lucky enough to have an open boat to sail, a Falmouth working boat, as I'm Master and Skipper of Softwing, a 123-year-old Truro River oyster dredger owned by the Cornish Maritime Trust.
cornishmaritimetrust.org
I have another restoration project underway too, restoring a Truro river punt as part of a larger project to build and operate a new Falmouth Packet Ship. Details of this can be seen below.
thefalmouthpacketship.org

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Wow. Best of luck. Please do a restoration thread with plenty of pictures!