Original Installs by serial number?

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  • Myranda
    Member
    • Sep 2011
    • 1
    #1

    Original Installs by serial number?

    Good Day,
    Does anyone have any idea where to find information concerning the original installation of an Atomic Four, based on the Engine Serial Number?
    Also, does anyone know where to "age" an engine based on the serial number.
    Yeah, I am new on this forum.

    The engine in question is in a wooden hulled sailboat - unknown vintage, unknown design, unknown builder, unknown just about everything except everything wrong!

    I've been told that she is a Rhodes 29 - but that boat is 29' - LWL and is 42' OAL .... this boat is;

    LWL about 21'6" - 22'
    LOA 28'10"
    Beam 7'6"
    Draft about 4'6" (max)
    she carries an iron keel (long/full keel)
    Her mast is about 39' and is a "boxed design" wooden mast, two shrouds on each side and jack stays for the upper mast

    She looks a bit like a Hinckley 21 but the dimensions a not quite right - I cannot find a Rhodes design that is even close.

    Can send pictures if you think you may have some idea what she really is.
    Thanks.
    Tags: serial number, wooden sailboat
  • Dave Neptune
    Afourian MVP, Professor Emeritus
    • Jan 2007
    • 5050
    #2
    Myranda, first welcome to the MMI Afourian Forum.

    Yes there is a "production date" cast into the block and a serial number. The casting date is when manufactured and would have little to do with "installation". Some manufacturers of boats bought them in lots and had them for many years before installing. Don't remember just which side of the block, someone with a better memory will chime in with the exact spot.

    Send out some pics and perhaps one of us "ole guys" can help identify yer' boat. She may be a stretched custom build of something. Very popular when they were "building boat" instead of molding them.

    Dave Neptune

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    • edwardc
      Afourian MVP
      • Aug 2009
      • 2511
      #3
      Welcome to the forum!

      The date stamp can be found on the side of the block, behind the carb.
      Older ones had a readable date of the form mm/dd/yy, while newer ones have a 6 digit number, of the form MMDDYY.

      Aug 22, 1966


      May 13, 1976
      Last edited by edwardc; 07-02-2015, 11:22 AM.
      @(^.^)@ Ed
      1977 Pearson P-323 "Dolce Vita"
      with rebuilt Atomic-4

      sigpic

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      • Crazer
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2011
        • 101
        #4
        I concur with Dave-post pictures! You might also post over on the WoodenBoat Forum, someone over there may know what it is you've got.
        -Avery

        Rhodes Swiftsure 33 SV “Clio”
        Sparrow’s Point, MD

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        • Mo
          Afourian MVP
          • Jun 2007
          • 4519
          #5
          Check out Roue Sailboats....
          Mo

          "Odyssey"
          1976 C&C 30 MKI

          The pessimist complains about the wind.
          The optimist expects it to change.
          The realist adjusts the sails.
          ...Sir William Arthur Ward.

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          • lat 64
            Afourian MVP
            • Oct 2008
            • 1994
            #6
            My brother's girlfriend just bought a Rhodes Ranger. Lots of bronze all around. I could compare it to yours. So yes, post a few glamour pics for us.

            Russ
            sigpic Whiskeyjack a '68 Columbia 36 rebuilt A-4 with 2:1

            "Since when is napping doing nothing?"

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