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Hello,

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

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Thats a Buccaneer!! Dreadful old heap, 1970's i think. Sorry, cant remember the builder, but fairly sure they were british made :rolleyes:
 
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.
 
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
 
I apologise Sail Design, of course you are right............
 
D'ARTOIS said:
of course you are right............
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Well, I would like to believe that to be true, but in many cases it is pretty far off the mark. :)
 
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/sail_images/Buckler.jpg

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

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?
 
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? :)
 
What's that "sail" boat

Knowing where it is, makes it easier to avoid it..... :D
 
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.
 
I am looking to buy one of these fantastic boats (comments aside)! any info welcomed.
 
I dont think that is a buckler-look at the forward windows...
 
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.
 
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