Poole shredded most of the plans, and only kept what was sold in the shop. It was the (outsourced) shop that duplicated and sold the plans on behalf of the RNLI - the engineering dept. no longer had anything to do with them.
Since the debacle that saw the online shop go down for two years or so, a new outsourced shop took over, and they don’t want to sell the plans any more.
There’s some question coming out (from the legal dept.) that the plans contain some supplier details that are held under NDAs and cannot be disclosed, although I don’t see how that applies to the older boats - it seems more likely that Poole just have no facilities for copying and selling the plans directly, and there’s no will to set something up again, as it wouldn’t be cost efficient.
(There are people at Poole who would love to sell them again...)
Lance