Jeckells Sail Number

These were the sails in the sail bag.  It looks like the originals with a fain imprinted number on the Jeckells of 262180. Other sails of interest were Neil Pryde of Hong Kong.  Comments?

Hi Tom
It's just possible that Jeckylls have a record of that sail and may even have the boat number on file.  Try emailing Richie Dugdale   richie@jeckells.co.uk.  Worth a try ;)
Brian

Thanx! Doing it now.

brian johnson wrote

Hi Tom
It's just possible that Jeckylls have a record of that sail and may even have the boat number on file.  Try emailing Richie Dugdale   richie@jeckells.co.uk.  Worth a try ;)
Brian

Hi Brian,

It is almost certain that Jeckells will have a record of that job number - well, it would have been ten years ago and probably that still stands today. However, it won't reveal much more than who placed the order, what for, and the date. I recall turning up the order for the cruising chute for Mr Toad and discovering the name "Mr Blackwell" who ordered sails for a tall rigged version in 1993, but no contact details. If they had been present I would have followed the discovery up with a letter.

In 2005, Chris Jeckells allowed me to go through their job books for the early 1970s. It was soon after I started the site and I was aware of a Tall Rig Version that had, apparently, been displayed at the Earls court Boat Show in January 1992. That turned up a memo about a design for a tall rig dating from 1972.
(See the History page which has a link to a Jeckells Internal Memo.)

What I can say categorically is that their records do not have any reference to a builders hull number. All the indications and evidence is that such things do not exist for any of the builders.

Hi Greg
My thinking is that Jeckylls would have put the hull number on the mainsail and might have kept that on file.  They have just made a new mainsail for me and wanted the hull number so they could put that on the sail.  So Tom might be lucky ;)
Brian

Hi Brian,

Ah! Now I understand your thinking.

However, I can only assume that your experience was because the guy handling your order was not familiar with the SeaHawk. I know wasn't asked for hull number when I placed my order back in 2005. No doubt all the guys used to the boat have retired since then.