A 20 foot boat was stolen from premises at Mullacott Industrial Estate near Ilfracombe.

The dory style boat is bright orange in colour and has a cabin, a cream coloured hull, tall hand made guard rails and a Mercury 60 horsepower outboard engine.

It was on a cream trailer and at the time of the theft, the front of the hull was stripped for painting.

It is thought to have been taken sometime between June 1-19 and police say there was a possible sighting of it being towed from Mullacott by a white van in mid-June this year.