Posted by GregSeaHawk on
URL: https://forum.seahawk17.org.uk/SOLD-Nancy-Blackett-Wayford-River-Ant-tp4024445p4024450.html

Hi Malcolm,

After hunting down the broker's site:
http://www.wayfordmarineservices.co.uk/product/seahawk-17-bilge-keel-engine-trailer/
I searched this site for both "p113" and "nancy" found a little of her history on a 10 year old page at:
http://www.seahawk17.org.uk/gallery/uk/seahawkbap113.htm

As she was built from moulds from Moores I suspect she is a four berth. Harry thinks so too! See:
http://www.seahawk17.org.uk/forum.htm#nabble-td4024075

Incidentally, she is the only home-built SeaHawk that I know of and this would account for the unique cockpit lockers of the Reedcraft design but made of wood.

The EXIF data on my photos on the P113 page reveal I took them on 15 April 2004, just four days after I bought my own SeaHawk and before I created this site. I took a number of photos of SeaHawks around the Pleasure Boat Inn on that day. I guess that's when I was negotiating my own mooring at the pub and accounts for some of the very general comments about the boat, made on studying the differences I found in the photographs I had to hand, when I first created that page when I launched the site.

I remember updating the page the following year with a little of the boat's history after I had the chance meeting with her original owner and builder. I also recall later trying, but failing, to contact him, as I had been told that he had the skills, tools, and whatever, to make me a tabernacle. (In the end I got Marine Weld at North Walsham to do the job. They built something for me that was a little different to what was typically supplied with Moore's vintage SeaHawks However, I believe they were the supplier of all SeaHawk steel work throughout Reedcraft and Moore's manufacture and I would think they could do the work to fix a problem tabernacle with ease, and even supply a pulpit.)

There's also a more recent forum post at:
http://www.seahawk17.org.uk/forum.htm#nabble-td4024173
There Harry offers a better clue on the sail number. Whichever turns out to be the right one, that would date it amongst the more modern of SeaHawks. If Nancy Blackett is still as bare inside as Harry suggests then this could be an ideal boat for someone to take on without having to feel they are undoing cabin customisation that suited others.