What is it?
- Thread starter SailingLoto
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Loto looks to have won this one! It's being lifted in its slip to keep the racing bottom clean. Toerail, angles of cabin trunk & cockpit coaming look like a good match. Ports may have varied some during production run & with post production changes.
it sits in the back of my cove. It hasn't moved in probably a decade. I never got close enough to pay it much attention until today. it's a sweet looking boat!
Windows are wrong... perhaps a 23 with added portlight?
This is a Merit 25
-Will (Dragonfly)
I was thinking Seidelmann too, but it looks like the mystery boat shrouds are on the top of the cabin roof, not outboard.
The toe rail is also similar to S2’s, but I can’t find any of those that line up either.
Merit 25 with the windows replaced looks like a good guess to me.
Merit 22.
Fast (213 phrf). comfortable. solid build. Masthead rig with 600 lb lifting keel. sexy as hell. hard to find anything to complain about on this one. love mine
Fast (213 phrf). comfortable. solid build. Masthead rig with 600 lb lifting keel. sexy as hell. hard to find anything to complain about on this one. love mine
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I think you are correct.Merit 22.
Fast (213 phrf). comfortable. solid build. Masthead rig with 600 lb lifting keel. sexy as hell. hard to find anything to complain about on this one. love mine
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Don't think so. No cockpit coaming on the Seidelman and the cabin trunk is rounded, not angular. Toerail also has fewer perforations than the subject boat. Looks like Loto was right with the Merit Brand, and Russ got the length.
Yep, Merit 22. Crewed on one once. Wind was 15-20 on the nose. Yikes. Water coming through board trunk, hull flexing, and boat going sideways. We turned back half way up the first leg of the race and reached back to the dock. Boat is fast in light air and flat water. Out sails it's rating in light air and flat water. Not a boat for high wind or steep chop area.
the cut out (by eyecrometer) is about 6x8, most of the roof is removed on the front half over the boat.
A lift mounts on 4 arms that swing on the sides of the dock slip. the pontoons or floats are mounted on a frame with bunks that attach to the arms. the arms pivot at both ends. the arms keep it all parallel to water level. Each pontoon has a big air line going to it and a hole in the bottom. on the dock is a blower and a control valve. to lower, open valve, water flows in the hole in the bottom sinking the floats. to raise, open valve and turn blower on (high volume, low pressure) it blows air through the air line into the float displacing the water and raising the lift.
nearly all boats here are on lifts, just not usually sail boats due to the keel though. this merit, being swing keel is an exception. Across the cove is an s2 7.8 on a lift as well. that's the only 2 sailboats I've seen on lifts.
I can get a better pic of a boat off a lift, or the lift out of the water if you want to see it in more detail.