Gale's 1m

 

 

I have a boat that was given to me to sell. I’m trying to figure out what it is exactly so I can understand what price I should put on it, or if I should buy it myself.

The boat is 1 meter long. It has a wooden deck and stern that is 1/16” thick plywood. The rest of the boat appears to be a plastic material. The mast appears to be original and is 62 ½” tall. It has brass fittings on the deck and mast. There is a third servo on the boat that controls the back stay. The sail servo is a Futaba S25 servo. It is hard chinned, and the keel is massive and made of aluminum. The ballast is has an unusual shape, in that it has wings. I hope the picture helps.

Any info would be appreciated. Right now we are thinking it might be a Robbe Boat

vmyg comment

I don't think this is a commercial product. The style is very much home brew, with its alu fin and winged keel, linked to wooden spars and to a curved main boom. I'm certainly not aware of anything by Robbe that looks like this. Given that it originates in the US and is 1 metre long in that stronghold of Imperial measurement it MAY be built to the US 1-m Rule, but I don't know the detail of this Rule so I can't say definitively. I would have thought the depth of the fin is too great for a boat to that class. Certainly none of the few pictures of US 1-m that I recall had anything so extreme. RP