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[richardabeattie]

Hullo - I'm new here so please bear with me while I learn!
 
I have the wooden hull of a large scale (I'd guess about 1/15) model of a Dutch Boeier type yacht.  Its about 23" long, very beamy, and has been fitted with a motor.  It is clearly from a kit because I can see part numbers on some if the interior woodwork.  But I have no idea who supplied the kit.  I'd like to finish it and rig it but have no plans and only a rough idea of what the sailing rig should look like - a single mast in a tabernacle - not right up in the bow - a big gaff mainsail and a head sail on a bowsprit.  No sign of any pivot point for leeboards and I'm not sure if all Boeiers had them.

 Can anybody identify it from this?

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[ballastanksian]

Hi Richard, sadly your text is minute  Could a moderator make it large please 


Welcome to the forum by the way.

[barriew]

Hullo - I'm new here so please bear with me while I learn!

[/size]I have the wooden hull of a large scale (I'd guess about 1/15) model of a Dutch Boeier type yacht.  Its about 23" long, very beamy, and has been fitted with a motor.  It is clearly from a kit because I can see part numbers on some if the interior woodwork.  But I have no idea who supplied the kit.  I'd like to finish it and rig it but have no plans and only a rough idea of what the sailing rig should look like - a single mast in a tabernacle - not right up in the bow - a big gaff mainsail amd a headsail on a bowsprit.  No sign of any pivot point for leeboards and I'm not sure if all Boeiers had them. Can anybody identify it from this?

[tonyH]

Model Dockyard listed kit under the SWM brand at 1:23 being 800mm long. Ref was B402 and it was the sperwer.
Supposedly a fibreglass hull but?

Good luck

T

[richardabeattie]

Thank you!  I looked at te 2001 MD catalogue and found B402 listed as a Billing kit so I have emailed Billing asking if they still have anything on it.  My hull lacks leeboards which seems odd.