[Seafarer]

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[Jorge Lang]

In July of 2003, we designed and fabricated the exhaust systems for both the mains and gensets for this boat. It was shipped to New Zealand under the name Flinders. I hope this helps in the mystery.

[Kevin]

Given the historical significance of that name I'd have guessed she was in the RAN, but according to their site listing all former ships, there's no mention of a Flinders.

Captain Matthew Flinders, RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned as a spy, identified and corrected the effect upon compass readings of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships, and wrote the seminal work on Australian exploration A Voyage To Terra Australis.

A little more digging and I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Flinders

She was commissioned in 1973 and decommissioned in 1998.

[K1W1]

Hi,

This looks like it is the boat now called Plan B. I worked out who the owners are, -I very nearly became involved in their previous conversion project.

[Blair]

Yes, the original conversion of HMAS Flinders was ultimately completed in Whangarei, New Zealand and the (then) yacht maintained the name 'Flinders' for a period. You can see the look, as it was, on Specialtist Marine Interiors website - but that look was not that different to its current aspect nor many years ago really. The more recent refit is really tastefully done as well.

As to military conversions surely the acknowledged example over time must be 'Christina O'.