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- Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:34 pm
- Forum: Boats and bits wanted
- Topic: Wooden project wanted, Moth, Ok, Graduate etc
- Replies: 1
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Wooden project wanted, Moth, Ok, Graduate etc
Hi Folks, Apologies for the long absence on here, but I'm back and now (unexpectedly) have time and space on my hands, so I'm looking around the southern UK for another wooden boat project to keep me occupied :D It needs to be a relatively light dinghy, as I'm getting older, and it also needs to be ...
- Sun Jan 07, 2018 12:00 pm
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Laser 1 possibly very early #39
- Replies: 19
- Views: 22932
Re: Laser 1 possibly very early #39
Yes, indeed, I knew quite a lot of what you mention there, and my comment re "proper dinghy" was more aimed at drawing a line between what is, and what is not, a CVRDA eligible boat. My personal view is that a Laser IS a proper dinghy, and certainly not one of the sailing surfboards such a...
- Fri Jan 05, 2018 10:17 am
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Laser 1 possibly very early #39
- Replies: 19
- Views: 22932
Re: Laser 1 possibly very early #39
Many years ago....around 1979...someone local to me had Laser #3111, which is the oldest I've seen in the UK, and I believe it may still be in the same ownership. There was another local one that was also in the 3000s around at the same time, and my friend owned one in the 8000s. I tried doing some ...
- Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:57 am
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Any information on my GA Feltham built Stormalong dinghy
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11677
Re: Any information on my GA Feltham built Stormalong dinghy
Hi Pete,
I'll keep an eye open for the pics, very interesting. Glad you're giving some thought to the restoration
I'll keep an eye open for the pics, very interesting. Glad you're giving some thought to the restoration
- Mon Oct 09, 2017 11:52 am
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Any information on my GA Feltham built Stormalong dinghy
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11677
Re: Any information on my GA Feltham built Stormalong dinghy
Hi Pete, Just chanced across your post on one of my rare (these days) visits to the forum. My dad bought Stormalong number 2 back in the early 60s ad it was the first boat that I ever helmed. We had the cruising (gunter) rig with tan sails, and the racing Bermudan mast (but no sails). We were sailin...
- Mon Mar 28, 2016 6:06 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Are we ready for reproductions yet?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 28009
Re: Are we ready for reproductions yet?
I've been thinking for ages that classic designs (as opposed to classic boats) should be catered for......the guys on the other side of the Big Pond are doing well with keeping classic Moth designs going.......would be great to see that sort of thing here. It is not just the racing, but the fun and ...
- Mon Mar 28, 2016 5:46 pm
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: On the tip of my tongue..........
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5389
On the tip of my tongue..........
Hopefully these pics will be good enough for someone to say "oh, that's a........." This dinghy has been sitting in a garden not far from me for some time......it was the other way up and with the bow visible, but is now turned over and more can be seen. I'm sure I know what it is really.....
- Sat Mar 26, 2016 10:47 am
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Fleetwind?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11156
Re: Fleetwind?
I've had 4 of these pass through my hands.....sailed 2 of them quite a lot, and I love them....maybe that's just a personal thing though. An Alan Eckford design, (hope I have the spelling correct), 12ft 1.5" long, ....love the all important 1/2 inch :D.... and most of them were actually on the ...
- Mon Mar 14, 2016 10:09 am
- Forum: Boats and bits for sale
- Topic: N7 on ebay?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3060
N7 on ebay?
This has just appeared on ebay:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Clinker-Dingh ... SwZQxW5cRt
Interesting project
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Clinker-Dingh ... SwZQxW5cRt
Interesting project
- Fri Dec 11, 2015 10:26 am
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Advice wanted, please...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16761
Re: Advice wanted, please...
Or a Graduate maybe?.....or a Pacer?....I love Pacers, light, roomy, quite stable, but decent performance all round.
- Sun Nov 15, 2015 12:05 pm
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Lugsail pram....Norfolk connection
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7528
Re: Lugsail pram....Norfolk connection
Yes, I thought that would be the answer.....a knockabout dinghy I guess then. I did wonder if the rig was meant to dip, as there is no real wear twixt mast and spars, which I would have expected to happen when she is on the"wrong" tack.........I've never had a lugsail before, so wasn't sur...
- Sat Nov 14, 2015 4:15 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: The worst classic dinghy.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29433
Re: The worst classic dinghy.
Just catching on various threads on here, and reading this one, the poor old GP14 is getting a bit of a bashing :(.....having used Wayfarers when I was teaching many years ago, I thought Gps looked narrow and old fashioned.....didn't fancy trying one......until we had one a couple of years back........
- Sat Nov 14, 2015 3:15 pm
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Lugsail pram....Norfolk connection
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7528
Lugsail pram....Norfolk connection
Hi all....... Not posted for some time as I have been boat-less.....yes,...several months, determined that I was "retired"....and I was down to a handful of bungs, 4 shackles and a sail batten from a one time fleet of 13! :) But then.........even though I'm still struggling with this wretc...
- Sat Nov 14, 2015 2:31 pm
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Wot's this then?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16093
Re: Wot's this then?
Hmmm........now if you just add a 10ft bowsprit and a couple of headsails.....and maybe an oppy rig....and you could enter the old gaffer's events.......and take the wooden spoon
- Sat Nov 14, 2015 2:23 pm
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: help with boat ID
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21424
Re: help with boat ID
100% a Scorpion.......the early ones had the beautiful dished after-deck/tank.....this one would have been registered around 1964/65 with the hull number of 401 if I'm reading it correctly from the pic. I've had a couple of these, one with aft tank, one without......my first ever race was as crew in...