I think I can name that tune in 1 note... (if anyone can remember THAT far back)

Your boat is a Half-Meter. It's a long story... but suffice to say... that a guy on the East Coast *(Maryland) took a Santa Barbara, and made a knock off plug from it... took the transom off and put on a flat deck... and there you have it. There are about 60 of them out there. It is a wonderful boat, and the late Jerry Dolis who was S/B Class Sec. for more than 20 years even allowed it to race with the S/B's which I thought was a incredibly generous thing to do.

I can say this because when I bought the molds from John Reynolds estate in 1981, the mold for the Half-Meter came along with it. John did NOT make the mold, it came from someone else... (name witheld) but when they decided to get out of it... the mold ended up with John in Orlando. I still have the mold, it was well made... and quite a bit better than some of the molds I have purchased in the last 20+ years... it makes a wonderful boat and it sails exactly like a Santa Barbara... which technically it is... minus about a 5" off the transom.

Now.. the bulb keel is something I have not seen done to the Half-Meter before... but *is* something we are doing to the Santa Barbara. It is called the "Santa Barbara Magnum" which includes taller mast, and more than double the sail area and a bolt on bulb keel. The S/B is an awesome boat that was designed for open water in the Gulf or on the coast...and when you get it on an inland pond with little wind... the boat suffers. SO... we fixed it. We gave it enough righting moment to support the spars and sails... and it becomes a light air monster. By contrast, the Half-Meter was my first platform for the genoa winch and it performs magnificently.

Everything is bolt-on... so you can switch back and forth from one boat to the other in minutes. Needless to say, the Magnum is *NOT* Class legal.... but sometimes you just want to show the other guys at the pond that you can get it done in light air too.

If you look inside the hull and come up with any markings I would be very interested to learn what you find. Scratch around and you may find something you missed before.

I have all the parts and pieces to the boat if you need any help with it, and can still manufacture it... but there really isn't much demand for it when the S/B is available from the mold sitting right next to it.

Larry