INVESTIGATOR 563

Thanks for the additional photo. I had Mishka down as sail 107 but not sure how I had determined this. The last record I had of Mishka was in 2012 when she was in Kalamunda.

On my to do list for this year, is to recompile and post my list of Investigators.

Thanks Peter for the additional photos of Minnow. She is definitely a drop keel model so probably migrated to WA sometime in her life. I've noticed a couple of drop keels among the WA boats. This boat is also the early stern version.

I thought that I would have a go at enhancing this picture a little with photoshop. The old colour photos seem to redden with age. When I enlarged the picture in Photoshop, I was delighted to see that the outboard was a Seagull. This was a common outboard in the sixties but very rare these days.

Thanks Peter. I don't think I have come across this one before. That makes the 8th Investigator known to reside in WA.

This one was sold before I had a chance to look at the photos. From the thumbnail, it doesn't look like any of the WA Investigators that I have listed. (If anyone downloaded any of the images, could they post them here.) I'm interested to see if this WA boat has a drop keel or not. If you are the ne...

Peter, you can post the PDF as attachments.

Great information Peter, directly from the source. This blows my theory that the change to the stern design was a result of the mould fire. The confirmed production date also firms up the production timeline. I've amended my graph based on Peter's findings. If anyone else has a definite production d...

Here is my only photo of Mishka next to the yellowed hulled #172.

My conjecture on the "change points" comes from photographs I have collected over the years of various Investigators. The problem is that you need a confirmed boat number as well as a photo of the aspect you are looking for. In some cases, the boat number given by the owner may not be corr...

Some years ago, I went through my list of Investigators. It was obvious that many of the dates of manufacture that I had accumulated were just guesses by previous owners, but others seemed to be about right . I plotted the boat number of these Investigators against the given year of manufacture and ...