Help with identifying my boat?
- Thread starter rgouette
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New pics up.. and I found my 1st identifying mark on the boat, in the cuddy area, underside of the deck:
My first sailboat! – The Goose Report
My first sailboat! – The Goose Report
I looked at this pretty comprehensive list:
And, no I didn't see it. They even had my Mark 25, of which only 17 were built. Still stumped.
"Sailboat Logos Version 111905"
www.angelfire.com
It's funny, I figured that the "Viking/warrior" logo was going to be such an obvious clue, and that we'd find it in minutes...
Shows ya how much I know...
The mystery of this boat continues...
I just removed the transom motor mount to look for anything... nothing but smooth paint.
I did just snap a bunch of pics, of the undersides of the bow, gunwales, and stern areas, if anyone is interested.
The Styrofoam is troubling me:
1) When did Styrofoam come into usage aboard sailboats?
2) What maker would ever leave it exposed as shown?
My first sailboat! – The Goose Report
I just removed the transom motor mount to look for anything... nothing but smooth paint.
I did just snap a bunch of pics, of the undersides of the bow, gunwales, and stern areas, if anyone is interested.
The Styrofoam is troubling me:
1) When did Styrofoam come into usage aboard sailboats?
2) What maker would ever leave it exposed as shown?
My first sailboat! – The Goose Report
The Styrofoam is there for floatation. Back in the day, there was no "encapsulated" foam. Lot's of older built dingy's had plain Styrofoam inside for floatation. I also seem to recall some sailing dingy's built entirely of Styrofoam, name escapes me at the moment.
From Wikipedia:
The Snark is a lightweight, two-person, lateen-rigged sailboat manufactured and marketed by Meyers Boat Company of Adrian, Michigan. The Snark was initially marketed by Snark Products, Inc. of Fort Lee, New Jersey and has been marketed with numerous slight variations, most prominently as the Sea Snark, Super Snark and Super Sea Snark.
The sailboat was marketed heavily in numerous co-branding campaigns. The New York Times reported that the Sea Snark outsold all other sailboats in 1970[1] and that over 48,000 Sea Snarks were sold in an 18-month period in 1971 via a mail order campaign with Kool Cigarettes.[2] By 1973, over 200,000 Sea Snarks had been sold[3] and The New York Times reported that by 1976 that Snark had built more sailboats than any other manufacturer.[4] The manufacturer currently estimates that nearly a half million[5] Sea Snarks have been manufactured since 1958.[6]
Noted for its 11' expanded polystyrene hull and marketed as "unsinkable", a 1971 Popular Science reviewer doubted there was a sailboat "more foolproof".[7] Originally, the purchase of a Sea Snark included a 16 page booklet on "how to sail",[8] and a 1975 Popular Science article described the Sea Snark as the least expensive and lightest sailboat on the market.[9]
Early Sea Snarks featured an unclad one-piece injection-molded EPS hull and weighed a total of approximately 30 lbs.
More here: Snark sailboat - Wikipedia
From Wikipedia:
The Snark is a lightweight, two-person, lateen-rigged sailboat manufactured and marketed by Meyers Boat Company of Adrian, Michigan. The Snark was initially marketed by Snark Products, Inc. of Fort Lee, New Jersey and has been marketed with numerous slight variations, most prominently as the Sea Snark, Super Snark and Super Sea Snark.
The sailboat was marketed heavily in numerous co-branding campaigns. The New York Times reported that the Sea Snark outsold all other sailboats in 1970[1] and that over 48,000 Sea Snarks were sold in an 18-month period in 1971 via a mail order campaign with Kool Cigarettes.[2] By 1973, over 200,000 Sea Snarks had been sold[3] and The New York Times reported that by 1976 that Snark had built more sailboats than any other manufacturer.[4] The manufacturer currently estimates that nearly a half million[5] Sea Snarks have been manufactured since 1958.[6]
Noted for its 11' expanded polystyrene hull and marketed as "unsinkable", a 1971 Popular Science reviewer doubted there was a sailboat "more foolproof".[7] Originally, the purchase of a Sea Snark included a 16 page booklet on "how to sail",[8] and a 1975 Popular Science article described the Sea Snark as the least expensive and lightest sailboat on the market.[9]
Early Sea Snarks featured an unclad one-piece injection-molded EPS hull and weighed a total of approximately 30 lbs.
More here: Snark sailboat - Wikipedia
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ok thanks for that info!
Don't spose you know of any way folk can encapsulate it somehow, to keep it from falling apart gradually?
Some kinda spray poly...? I dunno..
The Optimist Class uses airbags for floatation. Google "Optiparts airbag" to see what's out there.
I’ve used spray foam on sailboats before. Not for floatation I was filling in spaces that liked to trap water. If you go that route I’d use firebrick foam. It is more dense
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If you want to add floatation, I’ve used the pink foundation foam sold at Lowes
to encapsulate your existing foam an epoxy based paint will work well… but a polyester based paint will dissolve the foam.
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If you want to add floatation, I’ve used the pink foundation foam sold at Lowes
to encapsulate your existing foam an epoxy based paint will work well… but a polyester based paint will dissolve the foam.