Help me ID this homebuilt 17' Day Sailer

[MooneyDriver]

I recently bought this boat on craigslist. It it is a homebuilt, first registered in 1993. It is 17' long, has a swing keel, sheet plywood with a fiberglass overlay on the hull. It came with an aluminum mast and boom. The mast has a fixed spreader and the bottom mounts to a plate about halfway up the cabin (between the two U brackets in the last picture in the album below). Can anybody ID / tell me more about it? I am particularly interested in how the mast is rigged, as it didn't come with a forestay.

Here are the best pictures I have: 17' Homebuilt Day Sailer - Imgur

 

[Ned L]

Re: Help me ID this homebuilt 17' Day Sailer

Well, first, she is not 'stitch and glue' construction. She reminds me a bit of an oversized sheet plywood "Tinkerbell". She seems a good bit older than 1993 to me.

 

[matt167]

Re: Help me ID this homebuilt 17' Day Sailer

Doesn’t look like S&G in the cabin, but it may be. There is a tape seam separating on the stem and a few other areas look like S&G so it may be a hybrid of sorts.. Not a Glen L for sure. Being that most home built designs are quite old, 1993 completion date isn't out of the realm of possibility and if it's been sitting uncovered since 2002, no supprise it's quite rough

 

[MooneyDriver]

Re: Help me ID this homebuilt 17' Day Sailer

Well, first, she is not 'stitch and glue' construction. She reminds me a bit of an oversized sheet plywood "Tinkerbell". She seems a good bit older than 1993 to me.

What type of construction is she? The hull is plywood. There are stringers backing the areas where the plywood joins, which S+G boats usually don't have, right?

I am sure that she was built no more than a few years before 1993, from talking to the family of the man who built her. She sat outside for at least some of the time in between, hence the rough condition of the cockpit area and the top of the cabin.

 

[Ned L]

Re: Help me ID this homebuilt 17' Day Sailer

She looks like just regular sheet plywood construction. The frames were set up, ribbands and chine log set in place, then the plywood is bent on and fastened in place. Just because the chine is glass taped doesn't make it S&G
She looks like she could be a fun little camp-cruiser.

 

[MooneyDriver]

Re: Help me ID this homebuilt 17' Day Sailer

She looks like just regular sheet plywood construction. The frames were set up, ribbands and chine log set in place, then the plywood is bent on and fastened in place. Just because the chine is glass taped doesn't make it S&G
She looks like she could be a fun little camp-cruiser.

Any idea where I can find more information on the mast rigging?

 

[MooneyDriver]

Re: Help me ID this homebuilt 17' Day Sailer

I recently bought this boat on craigslist. It it is a homebuilt, first registered in 1993. It is 17' long, has a swing keel, sheet plywood with a fiberglass overlay on the hull. It came with an aluminum mast and boom. The mast has a fixed spreader and the bottom mounts to a plate about halfway up the cabin (between the two U brackets in the last picture in the album below). Can anybody ID / tell me more about it? I am particularly interested in how the mast is rigged, as it didn't come with a forestay.

Here are the best pictures I have: 17' Homebuilt Day Sailer - Imgur

Update: Jacques Mertens at bateau2.com and Chuck at duckworks have both suggested that it may be a Hartley. It looks a lot like a Hartley 16 or 18, so I'm going to do some measurements and see if she's just a slightly odd looking Hartley.