I have been thinking of making a garage dolly for my collection of old boats, after recovering a broken wheelie bin from the Thames i now have 4 trolley wheels to make some sort of boat cradle to move a boat around the garage. I am now looking for design ideas, so if any CMBA members have made somet...

It's a Moonfleet! From a distance it looks like a Silver Shadow but when you get time to take a few more photos i will be able to tell you for sure. I have all the info on Moonfleets that you will need for your restoration so when you are ready please feel free to contact me on this forum or a PM on...

Hi Dakota, I have some original Silver Shadow brochures to show you next time we meet up
Tony

Nick i think i may have seen these pictures before !!!

Wow! what a lovely original boat,it would great to find out some more details about it where it was bought from ,if the owner has still got the sales invoice etc. Im think this boat might have built about 1968/69 ? only a guess and happy to be corrected. Quite a lot of changes on this later boat - n...

WOW!! These pictures are fab!
They have inspired me to drag my old Albatross out of storage and do some restoration on it .
I bought it on the 16th April 1994 the day my twin girls were born! . So maybe its time to do something with it !!!!

I never could understand these rules at the TTBR , when you consider that the Fenn and Wood meteor was mostly plywood construction (mk1) and built on the Thames at Taplow near Maidenhead on Thames !!! And that when Fairey Marine rented Ray Mead Boathouses from my old friend Dave Smith in the 60's to...

I was involved in the pageant in a professional capacity i was the helmsman on the Environment Agency launch HARTSBOURNE. We had three launches there ISIS, SEVEN SPRINGS and HARTSBOURNE we were pace boats for the narrowboats and dutch barges.There was indeed a Riva at the event it was BIBI the boat ...

I have a book here about the racing lives of 50's racing drivers Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins which states that Peter Collins kept an Albatross in Monte Carlo although he said that it was a great boat to ski behind but he thought it a little slow!!

Hi i think you will find your boat is a Belton Speedbird from the early 60s , although they look similar i don't there is any Albatross connection . i have some 1960's boating mags here somewhere with a Belton ad in it i will hunt it out over the weekend.