WITHDRAWN - Boat on Ebay Oct 10

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way of finding out the sail number, unless you have some owner history and rely on them to tell you - but a dis-masted boat only used for fishing is not likely to have been used by anyone with an interest in that aspect of her past.

Have you a name for her? I'd like to store the eBay images in my archives under the name you'll use - as I haven't anything better to go by.

Hi Greg'
She will take the name of my long departed British Moth..."ENIGMA"
Under all the slime is a Reedcraft Sticker,She is a Two Berth version minus any sink or toilet mouldings.She has a cast bronze handle on the keel strop.No tabernacle,just an aluminium mast fitting.
As she will have to go out across the Bideford Bar to Clovelly or Lundy Island She will have a Honda 7.5 fourstroke engine mounted at the transom in the middle.I have a large stainless ruder that bolts to the engine,this has worked well for me with my old Bell Seagull sloop.Any drag caused by the freewheeling propeller wont be significant at sea,Ihope I will convert the front to a double bunk,putting the cooker on the starboard side just at the cabin entrance.Porta Potty can live in port coffin bunk hole.I will fashion a shortbowsprit to hang the anchor on and utilise the masthead rigged mast to give me a two foresail arrangement.Not to radical i hope,I have  sails from a redwing plus a mirror,all red so quite trad.
Plenty of work but she deserves to be cherished,brilliant site this is,thanks.
Robin

Hi Robin,

Robin Boyes wrote

She will take the name of my long departed British Moth..."ENIGMA"

I will file the images in my archives accordingly!

As she will have to go out across the Bideford Bar to Clovelly or Lundy Island She will have a Honda 7.5 fourstroke engine mounted at the transom in the middle.

I assume the engine is something you have already so is a no cost option. If considering an engine for purchase, I would always advise sticking with the recommendation for 4hp maximum.

Remember that a displacement hull (effectively, any boat that doesn't plane) has a certain design speed that it cannot exceed. All that you do as you increase power lift the bow and dig the stern in further. You don't go any faster you just create more wash. A 7hp motor is already going to be significantly heavier than a 4hp engine and will have the transom in the water anyway, further adding to drag even when not running.

However, I'd always rather be sailing than ashore saving for a the ideal boat - so go for it!

Ihope I will convert the front to a double bunk

My only concern with that plan would be the mast bracing. There's not enough space in the bows for adult-sized berths with the bulkheads still in place and they are needed to support the mast - but as you know there are ways round that:
http://www.seahawk17.org.uk/boatshed/mastbracing.htm

Hi Greg,
Indeed the engine is already here,but I take the point about power,this engine is so econimical on low power.
I reconsider re the berths,I will leave it as standard.
Has any body had a knockdown,it looks as if the door aperture would be very likely be clear of the water when on its side.I guess the ballast will right the boat then.
I shall foam fill the bilgefin depressions and glass over,I detest water sloshing about.
Thanks for the info,
Robin

Hi Robin,

Robin Boyes wrote

Has any body had a knockdown,it looks as if the door aperture would be very likely be clear of the water when on its side.I guess the ballast will right the boat then.

I have heard of one guy who had a knockdown, but the tale was second hand when it reached me, so I don't have all the details. However, I do recall being told that the problem was a cleated main sheet - That was the reason that the block and cleat were being sold and how my contact learnt of the tale of a SeaHawk knock down.

I shall foam fill the bilgefin depressions and glass over,I detest water sloshing about.

Maybe it's me being a lake and river sailor that doesn't understand the risk - but as you're working on the assumption that no water is going to enter the cabin even in a knockdown situation, how do you figure that those depressions will ever fill up unless you fill a watering can and deliberately pour it in?