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Hi Donald/Christian,
I'll remove it. They were images I thought I'd pulled off the web.
Please let me know if there are any more that shouldn't be there.
Sincere apologies.
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Anyone got a photo of a 'hull belt'?  I can't see any topside difference between mine and  1622
http://www.rania.co.uk/boat%20photos/ST/OtherSeaplaneTenders /st1622.html

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Hi Don

1622 was a 41.5ft broad-beam type, they did not have them. Your boat is very similar to a 40ft narrow beam type (e.g. BPB ST 295 or Brooke Marine Zeta et al) but without the horizontal wooden rubbing strakes running along the hull sides, between the gunwhales and the chine strakes, which were particular to RAF (and other services) ST's. They were to stop big metal buoys stoving in the topsides.



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Don

I think that Christian is corect that your boat should not have the rubber down the side. I have not seen any pictures of your type of boat with that feature. I think that they were mainly added to military boats that spent a long time up against the big admiralty mooring buoys.

Your boat looks great as she is. unless you intend to bump up against pontoons then it is not required, but these types of hull are very bad for damage on hard edged pontoons.

Just a pointer, ST1622 has quite a few constructional differences in the top sides as she is a later boat (I think one of the BPBCo built boats rather than local ones) and is 11'6" overall beam. Your boat is somewhere around the 8'6"~9' mark I think.

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This boat has none either or am I missing something.
http://www.rania.co.uk/boat%20photos/ST/OtherSeaplaneTenders /magazineadvert1942.html

2753s photo replaced by nice one of a MAS boat.
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The ad shows a very early 37.5ft ST, they did not have them either. I think they were only fitted to the 40ft boats.
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I thought my little boat was mid-30's and more like the 37.7 ST than a 40' one in which case she wouldn't have had one anyway.  What beam were the 40' ones?

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Don, Have you measured your boat length? From memory I think that it should be either 32' or 35' for the early flying boat tenders. AndyS

 

 
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Andy-Don's boat is 32ft but possibly shortened from a longer boat.

Don-Perhaps Donald will clarify this for us all?
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I'll take a photo of her bottom sides as she seems to flatten out correctly for a 32' boat. 
If she were a 37.5 chopped down ( which I did think), it's likely that  there would be little if any flat area aft at the P brackets. Does this  make sense?
I think it's down to Donald. I too doubt she was RAF, probably a private yacht.
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