My Favorite RING!

[dowdy]

Originally Posted by Hydrostream

No Dowdy, 21 is still yellow on the bottom but flag blue all over, left over from a yacht we painted.

Mike will be getting upset now,you is doing more Rings than him,both look good.

[Hydrostream]

Originally Posted by dowdy

Mike will be getting upset now,you is doing more Rings than him,both look good.

Haha, doubt it. Just bringing them back to life! Anyway, by the amount of them springing up over here, I'd say hes done a few more!

[chop chop]

Going back to post from Tony Davis on page 12 Ring 24 OH YEAh
That was my old boat !! Some Very Good Times around the channl island in Her.Thanks Tony this is the only pic i have now.Its nice to see it again !!
Would buy Her back if i had the chance sad day when it left Guernsey went to the Uk about 10 years ago

[Bänkt]

Originally Posted by Carl_B

if you look under the dashboard it should be glassed in. Hope this helps

Crawled under there yesterday. Nothing Hope someone can enlighten me.

Making it lighter

[Carl_B]

Originally Posted by Bänkt

Crawled under there yesterday. Nothing Hope someone can enlighten me.

Making it lighter

Nothing at all on the underside of the deck behind the instrument panel?

[Carl_B]

should look something like

[Bänkt]

Originally Posted by Carl_B

Nothing at all on the underside of the deck behind the instrument panel?

Nope, nothing glassed in anywhere under the dash.

[wild card]

i have 2 of these , 1 under the dash and 1 in the back underneed by the backseat

[Hydrostream]

Take a look under the splashwell and the back of the inner deck infront of the splashwell.

[Bänkt]

Originally Posted by Hydrostream

Take a look under the splashwell and the back of the inner deck infront of the splashwell.

A lot less crawling there

[Hydrostream]

So, is there a number there?

[Bänkt]

Don´t know yet. The pictures are a few weeks old. Can´t remember seeing any labels when i took it apart though.

[Carl_B]

Give Mike Ring a PM he might be able to help

[Ring Owner]

Originally Posted by Carl_B

Give Mike Ring a PM he might be able to help

I had the same problem with my Ring 18, no serial number to be found. It was being discussed on here and I am sure Mike said that boats built up until 1985 (or could have been 86) didnt have a serial number as they were able to track the builds against the owners. After 85 it became to complicated and the serial number system was set up.

I had a quick look through my old posts for the original mail but can't find it at the moment. Will have another look when I have 5mins.

[Ring Owner]

Originally Posted by Ring Owner

I had the same problem with my Ring 18, no serial number to be found. It was being discussed on here and I am sure Mike said that boats built up until 1985 (or could have been 86) didnt have a serial number as they were able to track the builds against the owners. After 85 it became to complicated and the serial number system was set up.

I had a quick look through my old posts for the original mail but can't find it at the moment. Will have another look when I have 5mins.

Had a rake through the old posts and eventually found the quote from Mike - it was actually posted to Freedom but we were both asking the same question:-
Prior to 1985 none of the boats from the late sixties onward were numbered on the boat , we knew every owner by name and could usually track the progress of each boat as it changed hands and went on to race with a new owner.
From 1985 it was obvious that numbering individual boats helped me identify which model a person was referring to. I had introduced the R15 ( possibly the type this thread is all about ), series C 16 s ( the Bs being stepped ) , and up to series B 18s .
Stepped and conventional vee 20 footers ,some with special ventilated hull bottoms to series B. By this time the 21 range was on its second re-incarnation. The numbers were glassed to the underside of the screen from this date , this was common knowledge but a 'secret ' second number was glassed to the reverse of the rear seat backrest . not easy to spot.
By the eighties people were 'passing off' 20 footers for 21s by re decalling . ( there is a case of that happening at the moment with a red 20 series B being offered as a R21.
The 15 measured approx 15 feet nine inches , the sixteen was tailored to a particular racing class, the stepped 16 b being the shortest and the quickest, and used to very good effect in class 4 , lifting the record at Windermere.
18s were all around 18 feet nine inches , 20s nearly all 20 feet ten inches but EVERY genuine 21 measured exactly 6.5 Metres (21feet four and a half inches ) the max allowed for F1 ski racing to get the most amount of boat in the water to help the skier.

I can usually identify a boat prior to 1985 from the way that it was built and stiffened. mail me a pic or two and I will try to help.

[Bänkt]

Thank you Ring owner!

You just gave me a clue that my boat could be a R20. I´ve measured it to approx 6.3m. However, the bottom lift strake does not go all the way to the aft. I haven´t seen that in pictures of R20;s (which does not mean they don´t exist...)



Also the top of the windscreen has a little curve and the top sides of the aft isn´t smooth ar the 20;s I´ve seen.

[Bänkt]

Here are things that I think differ from the r20s i´ve seen



Windscreen
Lift strake
"Lines"
Width of the thing in front of the motor.

[Carl_B]

Looks like a 21 to me. Maybe you got a splash if there is no serial numbers in the two places mentioned? But somehow i dont think so.

[Tony Davis]

Looks like a 20 to me

[lloyde]

I thought the 21 had a sundeck and no wash well and the engine was on a gill bracket ???