Curiosity killed the Cat

No clue!

Looks like a Dart 18

Ted

I can't make out any detail with the beams or the daggerboards - but it looks like a Prindle 18-2 or a Prindle 19...except that I don't recall them having bridel tangs onthe outsides of the hulls (Doesn't the Dart 18 have skegs instead of boards?)

http://www.performancecat.com/prindle/pdffiles/Prindle18-2.pdf

http://www.performancecat.com/prindle/pdffiles/Prindle19.pdf

Looks like a Dart18?

Could be the camera angle, but the forward cant of these hulls looks more pronounced than the sideviews of the Prindles.

Any pic's of the Dart? And BTW, they say it's an 18 footer.

Without an accurate scale it is difficult to be 100% sure, but I am 99.9% sure it's a Dart 18.

It has oval beams, no plates.

It's a Dart.

If you go to Google images and type in 'Dart 18' you'll get a lot of good pictures. This one has a good shot of the bows:

http://www.peter.cruickshank.btinternet.co.uk/Timeout/Sailing.HTM

Sharks are WAY different.

100% Dart 18 - no doubt

Enjoy your sailing

Wait a minute! It could be a Dart 20. Photo seems stretched a bit but still, it could be a 20.

The picture you are looking at is a dart 18 probably around the late 1980's vintage.

How can you tell the vintage, I tought the Dart 18 was strict one-design?

You can have some idea via colour schemes.

It's 100% Dart 18. Done some more diffing around.

Not a Dart 20

Yea the inner hull waterline was on Dart 18s from the early 90s.
I owned 5 Dart 18s in a row from the late 80s to mid 90s.

Sharks had hard decks.
Dart 20.

Dart 18 before 1984? when the stripe on the side changed to a wide slash stripe. I had the one with the wide slash marking on the side before the one I now have with the center double line. Single stripes have been on and off since the early 70's. See 8th photo at http://www.tampabaycatsailors.com/2006_hangover_pics.htm for the double line. The class never changed much except for the gelcoat design on the side. Have fun get it out on the water. The designer Rodney March did a great job along with Kim at Panthercraft. They started the first GPR Olympic Tornado.

The dart in the photo does not look too good, so I would not argue about its age. Anyone know its sail number? Darts stick to their sail numbers - unlike Hobie - so you (almost) always know the year.
My first Dart 18 was a '86, with red stripes where you have blue. It was the boat used in Brian Phipps book, "The Catamaran Book". I bought it directly from Kim Stephens - it was our first demo Dart in Ireland.
I remember an '83 boat, sail no. 2589 that had a thin stripe similar to the Dart in the photo. The 90s Darts had a black stripe in the gelcoat - but only on the inner side of the hull.