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Steve (Aranui?) has a pic of his Mk1 on Seabreeze: http://www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Sail ... 2#lastpost
The stern looks different. Anybody got ideas if this was a standard option?

I don't know for sure but I would think it has been customised.

Since I had a MkII I am unfamiliar with the MkI cockpit but is the cockpit coaming and winch mount standard MkI? The MkII is very different, it doesn't have the bridge mount but just in the coaming. Interesting.

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Steve here who owns said tophat. Just asked the old owner and he doesnt know. First owners had boat nearly 30 years and put new Double spreader mast and roller boom furler. Looks like they pulled the engine out too and had a tiller pilot. They put goid haarken self tailing winches on too

Just posted this on Seabreeze,

Looking at the traveller and the stern [where the removable section has been deleted] I am pretty sure that Steve's Top is a Formit build, not a Baker.

Steve can confirm this if the manufacturers plate is still in place on the main bulkhead or if the deck is of a composite construction.

Formit built 6 or 7 Mark 1's before introducing the Mark 2 late in 1972. Formits first Mark 1 lives near me at Port Macquarie.

All of Formits Top Hats [1,2,3 & 27'] had composite decks. The pulpit is an original Top Hat type but the pushpit is a later build [maybe Formits version?].