Just seen this on Ebay and began wondering what it was, history etc. Looks like a vane A or possibly 6m , but the class registrar has nothing for the number on the bow. Anyone got any ideas, just out of interest. I suppose it might be a 10R, but the shape didn't look right to me for one.

Edited August 19Aug 19 by tiggy_cat

A thin character followed by a character with a rounded bottom followed by an R? I'd call that a clue. The original 10R rules meant that anything could be registered as a 10R if waterline length (metres) * sail area (square metres) * 8 <= 10. A Marblehead with a larger rig makes a brilliant light airs 10R. The rule is based upon a full size yacht rating formula from the 1850s. The earliest boats were free sailing and had some weird fin / rudder designs to make then sail in a striaght line.

I grant you that the hull shape and the jib foot fitting are very A like. The 10R rules mean that that most designers would choose circular underwater cross sections and very fair transverse sections to minimise wetted area. Maybe someone found an old A hull and made a 10R rig for it?

Yes! It's definately a VC2 (Venceremos mk2) or otherwise known as Syan after the very famous A class raced by Peter Maskell of the Leeds & Bradford club in the 1980's.

Other famous models to this design are Corsario (my boat) WISIWIG owned by David Rose & Graham Reeves, and there wer several others owned by David Geldard Richard Costigan and Mike Harris, but the names have escaped me!!

There were 2 fairly modern versions one all carbon (Evolution) sailed by Josh & Greg King, racing 3 weeks ago in the Vane A Nationals.

Hope this helps.

Thank you both for your replies. I was actually reading the obscured numbering on the bow as GBR .

I already have a Venceremos MK1 hull that I saved from going in a skip some time ago. Unfortunately, the fibre glass hull had been stored with something heavy on top and one side is badly deformed. Keep meaning to get it out of store and try reshaping it using a bit of subtle heat.

GBR is right in my opinion. The second letter has a corner at bottom left which reveals it as a B (certainly not a 0) and the small piece of what's left of the first letter indicates the bottom of the vertical stroke of a G, which would also put the GBR nicely centred above the number whereas, if it was a 1 the ehole set would be off centre....