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Old 30 April 2013, 20:05   #61
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Galt bros.
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Old 30 April 2013, 22:31   #62
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Think Galts were the boat builders that built the first GRP hulls for Avon after the wood hulls .
think they also built some of the first Atlantic 21 grp hulls too before Halmatic.
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Old 01 May 2013, 08:58   #63
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Atop a Hillman Hunter if I'm not mistaken. I had one of those once. Bought it for £20 without an engine. Had a Hunter engine for it, fitted it and had it written off by a local Tory MP 3 weeks later.
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Old 07 May 2013, 10:19   #64
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avon rover mk 2, used in south africa over 30years ago, pumped up this morning, bit dusty needs a good clean, but still no leaks, need a new outboard as the old one is solid, any idea on engine size ?
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Old 07 May 2013, 10:38   #65
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The 35 yr old girl managed a total of 64nm fault free this weekend.


It just a shame fuel is so expensive.
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Old 08 May 2013, 09:02   #66
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My 4 Meter Sea Rider was made in April 1974, still all original and still holds air all year round. goes a bit soft when stored in the garage through the winter, but when it is put in the sun it soon hardens up. I don't know any other Sea Rider that holds air like mine, my brother's Sea Rider is a lot younger than mine, but doesn't hold air as well as mine.
P.S. just remembered we had the valves replaced and Frenched in (I think that's the term) about 18 yrs ago. Also the bench seat and wind screen has been removed and replaced with a jockey configuration.
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Old 08 May 2013, 10:16   #67
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My 4 Meter Sea Rider was made in April 1974, still all original and still holds air all year round. goes a bit soft when stored in the garage through the winter, but when it is put in the sun it soon hardens up. I don't know any other Sea Rider that holds air like mine, my brother's Sea Rider is a lot younger than mine, but doesn't hold air as well as mine.
P.S. just remembered we had the valves replaced and Frenched in (I think that's the term) about 18 yrs ago. Also the bench seat and wind screen has been removed and replaced with a jockey configuration.
Fantastic. Amazing they last so well.
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Old 10 May 2013, 11:39   #68
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I think there once was a serial number at back of the transom of our old Atlantic on the starboard side. When I recently grinded this surface to remove the old paint, there was a vague print readable. We weren't able to make something of it, so it disappeared in some new layers of epoxy later. Therefore we don't know it's exact age, but think late 70's early 80's.

While I can read there's a lot of knowledge on this forum about the older Atlantic's and Britisch boat builders: We recently got some pictures of how our Atlantic origionaly looked like (before some idiot painted the tubes with black spaypaint)..

Perhaps someone who knows the age of this boat by seeing it?
We suspect Atlantics which were built in the early days they only deliverd with grey tubes, but they could have been replaced some moment in history offcourse. (don't mention the old Johnson hanging at the back, this was mounted at later date for sure. The boat has origionally been deliverd as a twin-rig, to be concluded from the two sets of holes which were in the transom ).

Offcourse we're very interested in it's history / origin offcourse of this cessel.
If anyone knows about it, please let us know!!

Pictures of the boat at this moment:
http://www.rib.net/forum/f8/atlantic...nds-51273.html
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Old 05 July 2013, 18:32   #69
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The recently refurbished Greenpeace 1976 RI28 RIB In Amsterdam last week
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That really is an interesting beast
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Very different!
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Picked this up on E-bay this week, it is a circa 1976 Humber Guppy SIB.
Never been in the water !!
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Old 07 June 2015, 22:01   #73
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Is it Australian?
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You beat me to it...
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My level of incompetence ensures that I am unable to get it the right way up !!
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Old 08 June 2015, 16:27   #77
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Adam...or would it be Eve?
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Old 08 June 2015, 20:28   #78
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Not a rib but a sib , I have a good working order 1970 3.1m Zodiac It be a bit uggly
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Old 07 October 2015, 16:10   #79
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Wiki says: The combination of rigid hull and large inflatable buoyancy tubes seems to have been first introduced in 1967 by Tony and Edward Lee-Elliott of Flatacraft,and patented by Admiral Desmond Hoare in 1969 after research and development at Atlantic College in South Wales."
My Flatacraft Force 4 has the serial number 40816 stamped on the port side of the transom. Does anyone know whether factory records still exist for dating purposes? Also, did anything come of the resurrection of Flatacraft in the late 1990s?
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Old 07 October 2015, 19:16   #80
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