It looks like it was a stock 424 except for the hanging locker on the port side in the V-berth. Why you would want yet another hanging locker is a mystery. For that matter, a third sink can be a waste of space too. It works for us since our daughter uses the forward cabin for her stateroom. She spends a lot of time primping.
It appears that someone has removed the main cabin companionway hatch and replaced it with a standard deck hatch. It’s hard to tell what they did there since there is no photo of the modification. I would ask them to send photos of the modification, both the deck and the cabin. If the new hatch is hinged, it is probably not suitable as a companionway hatch because someone is bound to overextend the hinge. I don’t know if you can do something to prevent the hatch from getting damaged. If the new hatch is unusable as a companionway or if the ladder is missing, this would be fairly straightforward to correct; assuming you want to restore the companionway.
see the link below.
http://www.marinershardware.com/ProdCHatches.php
There are probably other manufacturers of similar hatches. From their description, I can’t tell how watertight these would be. The double-window sliding hatch looks cool.
The boat otherwise appears to be in good shape. Poor resolution images can hide a lot of cosmetic flaws however.
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Rich Carter
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