"Had a look at the Shakespear Site reckon it's not the first Shapespear Special as it has a stepped bottom first one didn't I'' do a scan and post a line drawing.
ooopsss turnning into an Anorack sorry guys"
Hi, just a quick reply a few years later
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The Avon Special shown on the site is the original Avon Special shown in the line drawings.
You are 100% correct, it was not originally built with the hydroplane hull ( or cobbly bottom as she was known ). This was added in 64 to increase speed, in fact I had the guy in my workshop a few weeks ago who actually built the boat and added the "cobbly bottom" with Bill Shakespeare .
This was Bills personal race boat, although a few other Avon Specials were built including "Mon Amie" in the scanned pic, this one has shorter spray chines than the others he made as well as his hydroplane hull design.