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  1. #1
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    Default Can you Identify this design?

    Just bought a new project, design is unknown so I am hoping someone may be able to help.

    19ft long, diagnonal strip planked, (round hull), sloping stern, Bilge keels, V Berth and single berths under cockpit seats. Although it has an outboard bracket, there is a hatch at the rear of the cockpit which I suspect may have been intended as an outboard well.

    Wooden mast around 20ft long.



    I believe it was designed for use in Macquarie Harbour?

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    I believe the boat was a soft blue when I last saw it. It had dual steering wheels mounted on the back of the cabin. I think at one time it was owned by an electrician by the name of Brian Edmunds. I am not sure if he is still around Launceston but I am pretty sure his son was an electrician also. Brian used it on the Tamar and also at Coles Bay
    The boat reminds me very much of a boat called Treka ( might be a double k) that was sailed around the world and there is a excellent story about it called "the voyage of the treka"
    I bought a copy of it about 8 years ago out of west coast of Canada. Just Google it.

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    Thanks for the info, I bought it in Burnie, history/make unknown. The keels are still light blue so it is very likely the same boat.

    Wouldn't happen to knopw the design????....... LOL

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    TREKKA 20 ft. was designed by J.Laurent Giles for John Guzzwell and built in Victoria-British Columbia. At the time was the smallest vessel to circumnavigate. That boat appears to be an earlier Sopranino design, 19 ft. design by Ian Mudie and John Illingworth and in her day, the smallest to cross the atlantic.Just google both those names for their histories.

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    Thanks for the suggestions, unfortunately the lines are different.

    It seems to be closer to the Alacrity or Vivacity

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    Just a bump to see if an updated pic might help anyone identify. The Alacrity from 1960 Is the closest I have come at this stage to an identity.......
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