This is a Mutiny 28.
www.yachtandboat.com/listing/mutiny-28-5/Can't find a photo of a Mutiny 8 at the moment - only a handful built.
Yes the blue topsides aren't flash but the best that could have been done since the hull is a Mutiny 8 which was a great boat but rushed into the market after the S80 and Adams8 to try and get some of that ..........the concave bow topsides in particular were not very fair but from midships aft they were reasonable. A satin polyurethane roll and brush tip would be the best re-paint method.
The rig is a double spreader rig with lateral jumpers to support masthead kites in lighter winds. The normal angle of such jumpers now is slightly angled forward as you allude to - so that backstay tension can assist to maintain suitable forestay tension in low proportion fractional rigs as well as support mhd kites laterally. Fractional rigs now are much higher proportioned - so instead of 3/4 are 7/8 or even higher. The original rig was single spreader, fractional kite only.
The boat would really benefit from a 1.5m prodder enabling big or small 16ft skiff asymm kites to be flown off the masthead or fractional kite halyards. Such a prodder can easily be set up with the existing symm kite pole off the deck which is what Selden offer at an eye watering cost.
) are well sorted boats with a bit of history and set up for solo or short handed sailing. Maybe the attraction is a good boat on which much of the hard work has been done by the previous owner. Still a huge loss financially for most sellers, I suspect ...
