More likely to find him at power boat nation dot com.

OP tried there. Best we can tell is it's one of many Donzi Classic splashes.

I tried Donzi.net, Donzi.org, PBN, OSO and Fiberglassics All with nothing definitive. The sticking point is how the sheer drops in the aft. And the roundness of the top deck, All of which point away from it being a splash of a Donzi hull. Hopefully when I get around to working on her, I will find some kind of identifying marks.

Where did you buy it out of?

This is my hunch but would need a few measurements and better pics.

My brother designed the original Baron/Powerplay/Powerquest 185 back in the mid 70s and built a wood plug for the hull out of cedar.

The plug was cracking and moving so much that he got it close than we pulled a mold off from it.

Than we pulled a plug/hull out of that mold and worked over that plug to perfection and added the lifting strikes and deck joint area.

After pulling a good mold off that plug my brother short on funds sold that fiberglass worked over plug with no deck on it.

The drop in the sheer about 4 feet from the stern kind of looks like the thing that always bugged me about the design.

I think its a modified U 19 Four Winns- there seems to be some glass work where the vents are on the deck near the engine hatch. The rounded upper deck is distinctive on the U 19.

It is much older then a "U"

This one does look close. They where Built in '69 ish

Ok I took a measurement off my old Baron that my buddy owns now.

Measuring across the transom at the waterline as low as you can go , basically the corner of the transom and the bottom of the boat where the chine meets the side.

I have a measurement of 71 and 1/4 inches.

I measured mine and it is 72" exactly.

Edge to edge? Well within a half an inch because my measurement was a little lean.

If your boat is the original plug than my boat that was pulled out of the new mold could have a bit of shrinkage in the mold.

Any better pics of it like at the transom and at the bow area. I am not concerned about the deck pics.

The more I look at it the more I am pretty sure it's the old plug. The hull was glass but the strakes are wood and filler. If you drilled one that might tell you something.