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09-16-2017, 12:19 AM
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Member
City: Cairns
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 6
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Can someone help Identify this OLD girl
Hi,
Looking at buying this old Girl as a live abroad in the Marina. Only question is What is it? Have had insurance companies ask and no doubt I will have to survey.
The only info I have is 40FT 1964 which seems a bit young and has a single 120HP ford lees Turbo Diesel. I do have a HIN but turns no results. The Manufactures code is ADF which seems like an Defever.????
Im lost....
Any help?
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09-16-2017, 06:45 AM
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Senior Member
City: Houston
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 333
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Home built?
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09-16-2017, 06:51 AM
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Guru
City: Mt Crested Butte
Vessel Name: Artemis
Vessel Model: Cheoy Lee 67
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 542
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MIC Company Address City State
ADF DE FEVER MARINE 2740 SHELTER ISLAND DRIVE SAN DIEGO CA
Manufacturers Identification
Do you have the complete HIN # This would reveal model, year Prod # and year etc.
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09-16-2017, 07:08 AM
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Guru
City: Carefree, Arizona
Vessel Name: sunchaser V
Vessel Model: DeFever 48 (sold)
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 9,973
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i have been on DeFever's first yacht build. Unmistakable in its design. The boat pictured is not of same type. The DeFever Club website may be of help.
Where do you guess build occurred?
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09-16-2017, 08:06 AM
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Member
City: Cairns
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 6
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Hull number is AUADF000036QT6
I really have no idea of where built - Been in Australia for years though
Regards
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09-16-2017, 10:55 AM
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Senior Member
City: Subic Bay
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 194
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HIN numbers were not required nor used prior to 1972,
The first two letters show country
The next three the builder (ADF) is defever
The next five is the serial number
The next letter is the month
The next two figure's is the manufacture year
The last is the model year
Cheers Steve
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09-16-2017, 11:12 AM
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Senior Member
City: Subic Bay
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 194
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In actual fact the number you posted seems to be an invalid HIN number(AU-ADF 0000 36QT6) although it has the correct number of digits (14)
A correct one with country code should format like this(Current HIN format - AU-TRX 48119 H7 65)
Pre 1984 -Like this Format 1 – no country prefix - ABC 12345 1278
Aft 1984 - like this Format 2 – no country prefix - ABC 12345 M78D
Your number seems not to match any of the above formats
Cheers Steve
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09-16-2017, 03:14 PM
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Guru
City: Between Oregon and Alaska
Vessel Name: Charlie Harper
Vessel Model: Wheeler Shipyard 83'
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 2,964
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Looks like a former commercial fishing boat. The sloped stern is for a heavy following sea, to lift the boat and pass under. Common design in old schooners.
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09-16-2017, 07:48 PM
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Member
City: Cairns
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 6
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Year QT? Doesn't seem like a number...
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09-16-2017, 08:29 PM
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Veteran Member
City: Sydney
Vessel Name: Poseidon
Vessel Model: Ocean Alexander 50 Mk1
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 67
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Nathan - your HIN seems to be in the format of one issued by an authority not a manufacturer. See at https://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/...om_Thieves.pdf
The ADF is the code of the issuing authority (not the manufacturer) and the QT is a code for the boat code agent. I don't have a list of authority codes (I did once determine that WWA in Australia indicated Water Ways Authority). You're best bet will be to contact a registered boat code agent and they will decode for you.
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09-16-2017, 08:45 PM
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Guru
City: Concrete Washington State
Vessel Name: Willy
Vessel Model: Willard Nomad 30'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 18,704
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Hull dos'nt look fishboat at all to me.
I think this boat was a sailboat.
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North Western Washington State USA
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09-17-2017, 02:23 AM
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Guru
City: Sydney
Vessel Name: Sojourn
Vessel Model: Integrity 386
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 13,044
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomad Willy
Hull dos'nt look fishboat at all to me.
I think this boat was a sailboat.
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Possibly with a transom hung rudder.
I don`t see the De Fever connection, and I suspect it is quite old. Too beamy to be Herreshoff. Plenty of wooden boats were one off builds, or close to it. Unless you find something telling you where it was built it will be hard tracing its origins.
Maybe a Letter to the Editor of "Afloat " Magazine, with a pic, might yield results.
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BruceK
2005 Integrity 386 "Sojourn"
Sydney Australia
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09-17-2017, 02:58 AM
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TF Site Team
City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 10,033
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomad Willy
Hull dos'nt look fishboat at all to me.
I think this boat was a sailboat.
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It does look a bit like a yacht hull, with custom built cabin & pilot house.
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Pete
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09-17-2017, 02:19 PM
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Guru
City: New Orleans
Vessel Name: Scot Free
Vessel Model: Cheoy Lee 53' Efficient
Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 754
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Does look like a sailboat hull along the lines of an Easterly. But deck up is more like a motor launch. Wonder what the keel looks like?
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05-19-2018, 08:16 PM
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Newbie
City: Cairns
Join Date: May 2018
Posts: 1
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Hi NathanS was just wondering if you found out any more information about this old girl? I’m the current owner and just joined this forum and saw your pics. I have little to no past on her and yes the hull identification number was issued by qld transport when I registered her as I had the hull fully rebuilt and fibreglassed. Let me know how you go mate cheers my number is 0450636022 for a chat
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05-20-2018, 03:34 AM
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Guru
City: Sarasota,FL/Thomasville,GA
Vessel Name: Steppin Stone IV
Vessel Model: Marine Trader Kelly Trawler 46
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,815
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Benny you may want to start a new thread and best of luck with your new to you boat
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Alan
Skype roatan63
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