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10-28-2016, 09:46 AM
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Newbie
City: Atlanta
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 4
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38 Single Engine Conquest
Long-time lurker, just now posting... getting closer to the final retirement and looking at a boat for looping and island hopping. Came upon a 1978 38' Conquest. Really having a hard time finding historical info on builder. The HID begins with "BLN" and "online" decoders define that as Bayliner. Any insight from owners or other knowledgable contributions most appreciated.
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10-28-2016, 10:52 AM
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Enigma
City: Slicker?
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,541
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Greetings,
Welcome aboard. A quick search for "Bayliner Conquest" turned up a fair number of hits. I didn't look at any of them but could it be that the Conquest was a Bayliner model? Like Pinto, LTD, Galaxy 500 (Ford) or Biscayne, Yukon, Escalade (GM)?
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10-28-2016, 12:06 PM
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Newbie
City: Atlanta
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 4
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It's a Defever 38 Conquest, has a Defever plate on the flybridge. But I suppose it could have been aped.
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10-28-2016, 02:48 PM
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Newbie
City: Atlanta
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 4
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It is confounding. Of all the searches I've done, I've only found 3 references. The boat was built in October 1978.
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10-28-2016, 03:39 PM
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Guru
City: Fort Myers, FL... Summers in the Great Lakes
Vessel Name: Slow Hand
Vessel Model: Cherubini Independence 45
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 12,818
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Can you post a link to the listing or some pictures?
Ted
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10-29-2016, 12:30 PM
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Newbie
City: Atlanta
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 4
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Menzies, thanks for the importer link, exactly what I was looking for! And I believe the "inautica" link is the boat I am looking at... In need of a lot of TLC to bring her back to that picture.
Thanks again! Now to figure out if it's in my abilities to make it work.
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12-20-2016, 10:43 PM
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Veteran Member
City: San Diego
Vessel Name: Morning Star
Vessel Model: Defever 41
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 42
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Sorry for jumping in two months late, but I have a 40' or 41' 1978 Conquest Defever.
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Morning Star
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12-21-2016, 06:41 AM
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Guru
City: Annapolis
Vessel Name: Ranger
Vessel Model: 58' Sedan Bridge
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 7,068
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If the HIN on the boat in question starts with BLN...
Seems to me a monkey wrench in the whole identification process? Or perhaps the HIN was simply incorrectly ascribed to that boat? Or...?
-Chris
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