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Snowstar BH.217

Uploaded by dave-d , Jun 05 2010 03:45 PM

Snowstar BH.217



    Guest
    Jun 05 2010 04:09 PM
    Hi Dave

    Interesting to read that she was French built.

    # Hull material code :  1 - Wood
    # Year of Construction :  1953
    # Place of Construction :  FRANCE
    # LOA :  14.40
    # Tonnage Other :  19.24 T

    Retired 1994 (scrapped?)

    Regards

    Steve E.

    dave-d
    Jun 05 2010 04:11 PM
    ex- BM.217 if i remember right.   think she was used as pleasure boat

    Martin Johns
    Jun 05 2010 09:51 PM
    A typical ex-Le Guilvenec, Brittany trawler. There were hundreds down here in the seventies & eighties. They were normally around 48ft long with Baudouin engines of between 100hp (DK4) & 160hp (DNK6) & Bopp winches, built of oak on oak & with cast iron propellors. Slightly better looking boats with heavily flared bows & nicer wheelhouses came from further around the Brittany coast towards the Atlantic, these tended to have slightly more powerful Poyaud engines instead of Baudouin
    This one was BM 217 Dave & is still around, now an angling boat in Ramsgate.