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I pegged it as an early Uniflite, but it is a bit unusual. Many of the 27's (which I believe this is) mostly had a hard top aft, with the helm on the aft bulkhead of the trunk cabin. The Mega (a 28) had the flying bridge more forward. I believe that this is called the 27 Sedan Bridge.

According to the book Boatwatch (reasonably accurate for these classic plastic boats) the 27' Uniflite Cruiser circa 1969 (27'3"/9'7"/2'8": 5,300 lbs) was "a smaller version of a 36 fotter of the same time" and has the configuration Bob described. The hull shap - with almost no sheer and a pronounced squared-off coaming - does look like boat in the picture. The superstructure, however, is almost identical to the 28 "sport sedan" circa mid-1970s (the same hull was also used on the "Salty Dog"). The Mega came after that and had a much larger cabin (with windows signifcantly different in height somewhat like a 26' Tollycraft) and longer flybridge.

While writing this post I discovered Unifliteworld.com:
http://www.unifliteworld.com/models/models.html

Here's what they show as the "27' Express":
http://www.unifliteworld.com/models/27express.html

And - this is funny - their picture of a 28 Mega is a (broken) link to a 26' Tolly!

As a kid I had a Uniflite brochure circa the early 70s that had a section describing the military boats that Uniflite made. They were touting that their boats were made from fire-retardant resins (because of the military requirements). The Unifliteworld.com link above talks about the change in this resin in 1975 which lead to the blister problems. That site lead me to the Uniflite Facebook page which has many original brochures - dammit, Bob was right again - that boat IS a 27 (I can't tell if it's a "Sport Fisherman" or "Cruiser"):
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p.../?set=a.108851485848904.15214.108843125849740

 

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Hmm...my previous post got swallowed:

I pegged it as an early Uniflite, but it is a bit unusual. Many of the 27's (which I believe this is) mostly had a hard top aft, with the helm on the aft bulkhead of the trunk cabin. The Mega (a 28) had the flying bridge more forward. I believe that this is called the 27 Sedan Bridge.

According to the book Boatwatch (reasonably accurate for these classic plastic boats) the 27' Uniflite Cruiser circa 1969 (27'3"/9'7"/2'8": 5,300 lbs) was "a smaller version of a 36 fotter of the same time" and has the configuration Bob described. The hull shap - with almost no sheer and a pronounced squared-off coaming - does look like boat in the picture. The superstructure, however, is almost identical to the 28 "sport sedan" circa mid-1970s (the same hull was also used on the "Salty Dog"). The Mega came after that and had a much larger cabin (with windows signifcantly different in height somewhat like a 26' Tollycraft) and longer flybridge.

While writing this post I discovered Unifliteworld.com:
http://www.unifliteworld.com/models/models.html

Here's what they show as the "27' Express":
http://www.unifliteworld.com/models/27express.html

And - this is funny - their picture of a 28 Mega is a (broken) link to a 26' Tolly!

As a kid I had a Uniflite brochure circa the early 70s that had a section describing the military boats that Uniflite made. They were touting that their boats were made from fire-retardant resins (because of the military requirements). The Unifliteworld.com link above talks about the change in this resin in 1975 which lead to the blister problems. That site lead me to the Uniflite Facebook page which has many original brochures - dammit, Bob was right again - that boat IS a 27 (I can't tell if it's a "Sport Fisherman" or "Cruiser") (I posted a link of their Facebook photos - that appears to be what killed the post)