On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 06:28:32 -0500, DSK wrote:

I've got an old and a new photo of the vessel.
http://klightspeed.customer.netspace.net.au/nellie-wellers.jpg
http://klightspeed.customer.netspace.net.au/nellie-peddells.jpg

We've found some records on it from 1898-1907, indicating a Nellie which
has an elliptical stern and a raking bow. I don't know a lot about
boats, and I'm wondering whether anyone could confirm or deny that the
described vessel and the photographed vessel could be one and the same.


Don't think so. The old B&W photo of the beached boat shows a counter
stern with a transom, as far as I can tell. The profile view doesn't
really show enough, but an elliptical stern would not show that corner at
gunwhale.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
For my money, it's not the same vessel.

Maybe... the newer photo doesn't show enough of the hull, nor anything to
give it's scale. It does have a plumb bow, low freeboard, and
approximately the right quarter buttocks angle. I wouldn't make a bet
either way.

I've moved the photos to
http://klightspeed.customer.netspace.net.au/nellie, and added two photos.
There are now 2 old photos (one floating, one on a sandbank), 1 photo of
her on a sandbank in about 1995 or 1996, and one photo of her from about
2000.
The old photos are from around the 1950s or 1960s.

Thankyou.
Ben.