Any Colin Archer design boats available as kits?
 

Does anyone know if there are any Colin Archer design boats
available as kits; in various stages of completion?
Thanks,
Tim

You're thirty years late. Westsail offered 'em.

"Tim Campbell" wrote in message
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Does anyone know if there are any Colin Archer design boats
available as kits; in various stages of completion?
Thanks,
Tim

On Sat, 28 May 2005 01:00:25 -0400, "Jim Conlin"
wrote:


30? Colin Archer died on 3 February 1921

You're thirty years late. Westsail offered 'em.

"Tim Campbell" wrote in message
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Does anyone know if there are any Colin Archer design boats
available as kits; in various stages of completion?
Thanks,
Tim

you might try the john hanna desgins, they are similar and either is a great
design.

ask around in the Pac. NW as I seem to remember someone saying that the
Westsail molds are still floating around.

Brian

Jim Conlin wrote:
You're thirty years late. Westsail offered 'em.

I know. In the mid 70's I put $5k down on a Westsail bare hull but
pulled out before taking delivery...

Tim Campbell wrote:
Jim Conlin wrote:
You're thirty years late. Westsail offered 'em.

I know. In the mid 70's I put $5k down on a Westsail bare hull but
pulled out before taking delivery...

Not a kit but CA40 is a nice one
http://www.kolumbus.fi/haukilahden.veneveistamo/

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To those that difficulties in reading the text:
"The traditional yachts of Haukilahti boatyard,
Colin Archer 30 and 40, designed by Christian Lydman....

I have no idea how close these fiberglass designs are to original Colin
Archer boats.

-lauri

r.k wrote:


Tim Campbell wrote:

Jim Conlin wrote:

You're thirty years late. Westsail offered 'em.

I know. In the mid 70's I put $5k down on a Westsail bare hull but
pulled out before taking delivery...


Not a kit but CA40 is a nice one
http://www.kolumbus.fi/haukilahden.veneveistamo/

Lauri Levanto wrote:
To those that difficulties in reading the text:
"The traditional yachts of Haukilahti boatyard,
Colin Archer 30 and 40, designed by Christian Lydman....

I have no idea how close these fiberglass designs are to original Colin
Archer boats.


I've gotten the impression that most boats which imitate the Colin
Archer rescue cutters do not follow through with many of Colin Archer's
most functional features. For example, the sterns of the Westsail series
and also of the "Colin Archer 30 & 40" don't have anywhere near the
flare (ie reserve bouyancy) of the originals.

Another point often lost by modern imitators is that Colin Archer's
boats were built as lightly & strongly as possible with the technology
of the day. They were not built extra-heavy on purpose.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

ask around in the Pac. NW as I seem to remember someone saying that the
Westsail molds are still floating around.


The Westsail mold and production was in Costa Mesa CA.

However the Ingrid 38 was produced by Bluewater boats in Woodinville WA and
the molds are still available from Bill Ingerson (also in Woodinville). (I'd
have to do some searching to find his address.)

There are still a couple incomplete Ingrid hulls around. I found mine in
'94, sitting under a cover, in the woods of western WA. Just as it had come
out of the mold in '76. New (circa '76) Volvo engine waiting for me to
complete the installation it. Got the whole package for $10,000. The
original owner had paid (according to the Bluewater invoice) over $18,000 in
'76.. ('whole package' was just the hull, no deck, no tanks, no ballast, no
rudder, etc. Bluewater boats had installed all 5 1" bulkheads and did a
excellent job on both the hull lay-up and the bulkheads. Best glass work I
have ever seen.)

Steve
s/v Good Intentions