Do you know who made this sailboat?
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Second vote for Bayliner. Buccaneer. Hideous high-freeboard pregnant-guppy monstrosities...
Mega-tender; they heel just looking at them.
Mega-tender; they heel just looking at them.
That's funny, there used to be the same sailboat on Lake Hopatcong for many years (in better shape). It was stored in the winter at the same yard as our boat but I never saw where it was kept in the summer and I never saw it on the water. It disappeared a few years ago. The boat in our yard had a saildrive.
I asked the guys in the yard if they knew what it was since it had no markings whatsoever. One guy thought it was a Macgregor 25 hull that had been customized with the extra topsides section and a deck from another boat.
I asked the guys in the yard if they knew what it was since it had no markings whatsoever. One guy thought it was a Macgregor 25 hull that had been customized with the extra topsides section and a deck from another boat.
It doesn't look like the Bayliner Buccaneer ...
I've seen one identical to this up-close and the shape does not resemble the Buccaneer as far as I can tell. If you look at the hull from the first deck joint down and the cabintop from the second deck joint up, the top and bottom look like an old Macgregor. It looks as if the hull and the deck were separated and a mid-section was inserted.
That's why we were thinking it is a customized version.
I've seen one identical to this up-close and the shape does not resemble the Buccaneer as far as I can tell. If you look at the hull from the first deck joint down and the cabintop from the second deck joint up, the top and bottom look like an old Macgregor. It looks as if the hull and the deck were separated and a mid-section was inserted.
That's why we were thinking it is a customized version.
Agree on the Fugly. Bow is alright, but that transom...The Fugly Boat Company.
A moment or two of silence out of respect for those old boats. :cry:
I would have thought that Bayliner was a good guess also.
Are those pictures taken at the boatyard in GA? that lists on the internet?
I would have thought that Bayliner was a good guess also.
Are those pictures taken at the boatyard in GA? that lists on the internet?
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The hull looks nothing like the Bayliner Buccaneer. The U-shaped stern is shaped totally different from the Buc, which is more wineglass-shaped and has a skeg at the bottom. I don't see 2 deck joints on the Buc, like this one has. The port lights are completely different. The top deck of the Buc looks nothing like this boat.
I'll admit that the deck of this boat doesn't look exactly like any Macgregor that I can find, but look at the hull, without that middle section. It looks very close to an older Mac 25 with the shape of the cove stripe, right down to the shape of the stern. I'm convinced that it is a modified Mac 25 with a section added in the middle to raise the deck, which was detached to make this work. There are 2 distinct deck joints, which the bayliner doesn't seem to have.
The boat I saw in our yard, which is exactly like this boat, has an inboard engine with sail drive. I wonder if that provides a clue.
I'll admit that the deck of this boat doesn't look exactly like any Macgregor that I can find, but look at the hull, without that middle section. It looks very close to an older Mac 25 with the shape of the cove stripe, right down to the shape of the stern. I'm convinced that it is a modified Mac 25 with a section added in the middle to raise the deck, which was detached to make this work. There are 2 distinct deck joints, which the bayliner doesn't seem to have.
The boat I saw in our yard, which is exactly like this boat, has an inboard engine with sail drive. I wonder if that provides a clue.
You mean like a cigarette prior to execution? The best use for that boat is for the Navy to practice firing solutions.
top is from sections of a mac 26X that has been cut and extended, the middle part of the boat is a custom transition piece to fit the lower hull to the stretched mac topside pieces. the lower hull looks like a partial custom also with some of the hull from a donor mac with a transom extension. Lower hull seems to have the mac lines.
this would be my guess also. it sure does have the look of an early bayliner.
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- Jan 22, 2008
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I believe that is a Luger 27. Luger made kit boats at their plant in Burnsville, MN back in the late 50s through the early 80s. The kits consisted of fiberglass panels that the buyer would bond together with resin and tape. They made and sold a number of day sailors, the most popular of which was the Lugar 16. Their cabin boats were the Luger 21, 26, 27, and 30. At some point late in their history they "stretched" the Lugar Tradewinds 26 into a Fairwinds 27. They did this without changing the actual hull; they made a new 27' deck and married it to the hull with a one foot filler piece all the way around. This raised the freeload considerably and made her look top heavy, at least to me. Since these were kit boats their quality varied greatly. It was dependent on the skill of whoever put them together. Details, such as the number of windows and their shape, also varied.