As some of you will know last year I took on a 46 year old boat that's been in my family for a long time. I fact I grew up on it from a very early age.
She's an unusual vessel. the hull was penned in 1968 by Don Shead (he also designed many great race boats of that era like the "Cinzano" race boat and all the performance Sunseeker's from the Offshore 31 to the predator 108 plus many more) for class 2 offshore racing, Halmatic then bought the hull and commissioned Don Shead to style a superstructure.
they made 28 cruisers between 1969 and 72 to fund the ultimate goal of making fast gun boats.
So, anyway here she is from her long drive up to me in Yorkshire after being driven up from Southampton...
she needed all the old diesel draining (500L), clean the tanks (all 3), replace all the fuel lines, fuel separators, fuel taps and cut offs, install a new fuel filler on the port saddle tank, renew the gas cylinder locker, gas regulator plus loads more.....
more will come when i find time...
