Please help me identify this trailer sailor. It is approximately 8.2m long and 2m beam.
Please help me identify this trailer sailor
- Thread starter restless spirit
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I see her name is Sasha. I wouldn't describe that beauty as a trailersailer. She is not launched or retrieved by that trailer.
Can you tell us a little more about the boat? Where is she? Any history, like where has she been? Did you measure her or is there a range (+/-) to her length beam and draft? Do you have a good profile picture? Marconi, gaff, gunter rig? Sloop, cutter?
I would speculate that she was built before 1980, she looks like she was built to a class rule, for racing, so, maybe later than 1980.
Her design actually looks pre-WWII. There's probably an association to go with her class.
This is all just a place to start.
-Will
Can you tell us a little more about the boat? Where is she? Any history, like where has she been? Did you measure her or is there a range (+/-) to her length beam and draft? Do you have a good profile picture? Marconi, gaff, gunter rig? Sloop, cutter?
I would speculate that she was built before 1980, she looks like she was built to a class rule, for racing, so, maybe later than 1980.
Her design actually looks pre-WWII. There's probably an association to go with her class.
This is all just a place to start.
-Will
Now that's a smooth bottom! Likely dry sailed - no bottom paint. Hull shape is reminiscent of a Soling although it is not. I don't know much about Australian sailboats but I'd guess it sat on that trailer at a yacht club and was launched for races - likely one design.
I would love to see that beauty refitted with modern hardware, electronics, a suit of top shelf racing sails.. and me as the skipper with an enthusiastic crew. That's definitely not a trailer sailor.... unless you have a special trailer with a super long tongue the yacht club's crane will be needed to get the boat in and out of the water. I agree with Will and Andrew that this boat hasn't seen anti fouling paint for a while, if at all, because it is not left in water between regattas.
My first thought was that the seller recently painted the hull and bottom to help it sell or perhaps hide something?
Agree with @shemandr that the looks and dimensions area lot like a Soling - (from 1964 - definitely not pre-WWII). Freeboard much higher, however, and more overhang. A shot from the side showing the profile (including the rake of the transom) would be helpful. Since the OP is in Brisbane it is likely an Australian design.
Look up International 8 metre sailboats. They are a class rule racer, not a one design, and not 8 meters LOA. Pre-war class and look very much like this boat.
IEMA - International Eight Metre Association
-Will
Thanks to all who have commented and replied. I don't have any other info on her unfortunately. I can say it's a post 1984 make as her HIN has 14 characters. The last 3 characters following the serial number is B54, any idea what that means? I'll upload another picture which may help. We thought it also looked similar to a Soling but not exactly the same. Online it also looks similar to a J Class racing yacht.
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Soling was my first though from the underwater profile too, but the cabin and profile on deck doesn’t match at all. I think PaulK is right - something uncommon and possibly local to the area, from around the same 1960’s design era as the Soling.
You might mean a J-boat. J Class are about 4 times the length and have a more full keeled hull design that predates the Soling by about 40 years. J Boats have a slightly more modern underwater profile.
Looks like a high gloss finish, which will show every imperfection. If a previous owner cared to repair damage well enough that it could be hidden by that kind of paint I’d have no reservations about what was done. More likely it’s just the original gelcoat, kept in racing condition.
Transom seems too vertical for a Soling.
The OP's boat and 8-meters are both long and narrow with overhangs. As are Skerry cruisers, Alerion designs, and J-Class boats. The OP's boat is not any of those.
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You might have some luck asking this question in the boat design network. They get a lot of these queries
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-Will
There is a wide knowledge base of professionals that know their boats.
-Will
Definitely not a Soling mast . The aft deck also seems to extend further past the rudderpost than it does on a Soling. It looks like a registration number on the topsides. The "N" apparently means it's from New South Wales, so I looked up New South Wales boat registry. Their website lets you check registration numbers. The boat's registration expired in 2021, and the last four digits of the HIN are 1B54. It says the boat is a white sailboat 7.9m long and not much else. It would be good to get the first three letters of the HIN to determine the builder.
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WWA at first seems that it could be WhiteWater Manufacturing in Arizona, but they deal in kayaks and smaller paddle-type boats. Prior to that WWA seems to have been assigned to Industrial Moulded Fiberglass in Santa Ana California. They apparently went out of business in 1979. Sailboatdata has no listings for any boats built by them or Whitewater, so we're not progressing much.