I'm sure someone can identify these boats Please

[John R - Kitenui]

A friend of mine who also owns one of the local K Class yachts here was sent these and is looking for help to identify the class and location.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/JohnRawson/P1010009.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/JohnRawson/P1010019a.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/JohnRawson/P1010024.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/JohnRawson/P1010028.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/JohnRawson/P1010065.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/JohnRawson/P1010080a.jpg

[Hwyl]

Ukraine?

[John R - Kitenui]

UKR is most likely Ukraine so does that make SR Soviet Russia and F Finland ? If so this looks like an international class.

[John B]

You need to track down Boris/ Lana, they'll know . Stevey boy will know a number.

[Kaa]

UKR does mean Ukraine in this context, especially as the boat is flying the blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag.

SR cannot be a designation for Soviet Russia because "Soviet Russia" was never an official name for any entity -- it used to be the USSR or the Soviet Union and now it's just (non-Soviet) Russia. The common abbreviations are SU (Soviet Union) or RU (Russia).

Kaa

[martin schulz]

Could be a Seefahrtskreuzer, which is quite common in the Baltics, but then I am no expert on yots.

[bamamick]

'F' was France and Finland was 'L'. I don't think that Ukraine had a IYRU designation because it wasn't an independant country. 'UKR' is the ISAF designation. Don't have a clue on the 'SR' thingee. According to the ISAF the old Soviet designation was URS, but for some reason I just don't remember that.

Honestly, those boats look like some of the Irish and Scottish cruiser/racer classes I have in one of my boat books, but I am sure that they're probably something different.

Mickey Lake

[Chris.]

Dunno about the UKR tag, but the boats look a lot like the 8 metre Cruiser/Racer types that McGruer built quite a few of.
I found one on yachtworld just now at:http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1572749/0

Tres bloody nice whatever they may be.
http://newimages.yachtworld.com/1/5/7/2/7/1572749_1.jpg?1161068400000

[paladin]

The top 4 piks look like the old yacht club just on the outskirts of Odessa....the first picture with UKR659 on the sails is in front of the new club house that was finished 4 years ago, If you look up the hill to the white building, that is a new luxury condo that opened in 2001, Sweet Thing and I looked there and was going to keep the other two places as rental properties and move in the new building...top class, well built and well decorated. I had made arrangements to keep my boat at the old yachy club, and they were going to build me a 22 x 32 shed/workshop on the beach behind that breakwater, I could put all my tools etc and not be forced to lug them up and down the hill...There/s full time armed guards there, in a completely do your own work marina, and leave your tools and not loose anything......It was more comfortable and more cozy than the new yacht club....Membership $50 U.S. a month....

[John R - Kitenui]

This is my friend's boat "Thelma vi "
You can see why we were struck by the similarities

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/JohnRawson/Thelma.jpg

[Chris.]

They do look a lot alike don't they?
But I still reckon that the boats with the UKR labels look very much like the international 8m cruiser/racer class that was promoted to encourage more wholesome racing boats.
BTW, Seefahrtskreuzer translates as cruiser/racer, so the Seefahrtskreuzer may have been part of the same movement in, I think, the 30s as might the K class of your friends.

[John R - Kitenui]

The intention with the K's was to encourage a wholesome racing cruiser and the design competition and its parameters which created them occurred just after WWII. The competition was conducted by the R N Z Yacht Squadron in Auckland and only 10 boats were built to the rule The fact that they are basically built to 30's aesthetics is due to lack of progress in yacht design during the war years. "Thelma" was launched 1951 and "Kitenui" in 1950.


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/JohnRawson/160-6023_IMGLcS.jpg

This shot of Kitenui was taken by John B from Waione