Craig Shuttleworth

Hello, just recently found this site searching for information on seahawks. We has just saved a little beaut off of the bottom of the southern broads, she's been down for about a year and in need of some real TLC. We would be really interested in talking to people who have also had to do big renovation work on these vessels. I'm brand new to all this so any tips or knowledge on restoring her back to her former self would be gratefully appreciated. We also have no idea about her history and previous owner, so if anybody could point us in the right direction of maybe finding this info out that would also be great. Hope to hear from peoples collective wisdom and happy sailing

Craig and Jenna

Hi Craig and Jenna,

Brockleworth wrote

We has just saved a little beaut off of the bottom of the southern broads, she's been down for about a year and in need of some real TLC.

Does that mean sitting on the bottom with her decks above water or full cabin submersion? If the cabin has been under a long time, you could be in for a strip back of the inner skin of the cabin roof, to replace the balsa sandwich - not to mention replacement of the berth cushions! All quite do-able by a home DIY-er though. There's the tale of a SeaHawk that's been through it at:
https://www.seahawk17.org.uk/boat-gallery-world-guanchito.php
Unfortunately, we haven't heard anything from Joseph Mercado since his first messages in 2008.

There's not much clue from the message at:
https://forum.seahawk17.org.uk/has-any-one-installed-a-bimini-td3279715.html
but, if you register and look in the "Photos" area of the old YahooGroup we used to use you'll find a number of pictures from Brian showing his roof replacement project:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seahawk17/photos/album/1886372798/pic/list

I know others have done similar work.

We would be really interested in talking to people who have also had to do big renovation work on these vessels.

Mike Lowson is no longer a SeaHawk owner, but he restored "Little Auk" since sold to a guy in Latvia. See his site at:
http://www.northboats.co.uk/home.htm
Again, there are plenty photos at the YahooGroup.

We also have no idea about her history and previous owner, so if anybody could point us in the right direction of maybe finding this info out that would also be great.

There are no central records of SeaHawks, but if there's a Broads Authority registration number on the boat then you may be able to get some help from Jim Shead's site:
http://www.jim-shead.com/waterways/boats.php