What's that "sail"boat

[nico]

Hello,

I am looking for some infos about that boat (builder):

[Kythoni]

Thats a Buccaneer!! Dreadful old heap, 1970's i think. Sorry, cant remember the builder, but fairly sure they were british made

[D'ARTOIS]

It is a Buccaneer indeed. I believe you might find the moulds in the UK where all the moulds finally are going: sorry, can't remember the name all in a sudden. come back to you.

[SailDesign]

I beg to differ - that there bathtub is NOT a Buccaneer (the only monohull so called being a nice little van de Stadt design) but a BUCKLER. They started around '73, and were about the fugliest things I ever saw afloat with my own two eyes (that were sail-powered, anyway )

Buckler Boat Company,
1 Bryanston Avenue
Guildford, Surrey, UK

[D'ARTOIS]

I apologise Sail Design, of course you are right............

[SailDesign]

Originally Posted by D'ARTOIS

of course you are right............

Well, I would like to believe that to be true, but in many cases it is pretty far off the mark.

[Kythoni]

I'm sure you are right, but i believed the buckler was 23ish feet long as seen her in this link,

http://www.caleyboats.co.uk/graphics...es/Buckler.jpg

I thought they made a bigger one, Buckler Buccaneer???

Maybe this is someone who has tried, and succeeded may i add, to destroy a perfectly good Colvic or some such. those windows dont look "factory fitted" to me?

[SailDesign]

I think the question that must be asked here, nico, is WHY, for the love of all you hold dear, are you trying to find info on this boat?

Huh?

[Bergalia]

Knowing where it is, makes it easier to avoid it.....

[nico]

haha, good answer Bergalia. Unfortunately i am already in the UK, and see quite a few of those, just have to close your eyes for a while.

My father is doing some surveying on this boat and suspect that the builder is not the one that is written of the papers. So i am helping a bit.

[alijhood]

I am looking to buy one of these fantastic boats (comments aside)! any info welcomed.

[alijhood]

I dont think that is a buckler-look at the forward windows...

[keith66]

That boat is an 33 ft Atlantic Clipper, the hull was designed by Maurice Griffiths and was built by Phillips shipyard of Dartmouth England in the 1970's & early eighties. Phillips put their own lid on it but who designed that bit i dont know.
They were centreboarders drawing about 3' 6" with plate up.
I did a lot of work on a late one and it was very lightly built.
After Phillips went bust the moulds were aquired by Barbican yachts of Plymouth who put a conventional superstructure on it and built quite a few, As far as i know they are still going.

[PortTacker]

Originally Posted by SailDesign

I beg to differ - that there bathtub is NOT a Buccaneer (the only monohull so called being a nice little van de Stadt design)

Not true.
See: http://www.interactivejones.com/buccden/files/files.htm
and: http://www.buccaneer18.org/