CVRDA

4mm dia works for me. Excel D12 .Or the cheaper 16 plait polyester covered type but this is stiffer and may not run through the mast head pulley so easily although it is less prone to wear around the knot. Pays your money and takes your choice. If you have more than one sail you use often, you can p...

I and others have been using the dyneema rope with knot set up for some time with OKs. Eventually there is wear around the knot where it fits in the V cleat but if you start off with a goodly length of halyard, you can cut the knot off, reattach shackle to the "new" unworn end and put a ne...

You are after the info on the original mk1?. Put an appeal for this on the Gull forum. You will have to register on your first visit but it’s quick and easy. www.gulldinghy.proboards.com I believe Harleys are building jolly good Gulls but these are very much to their own design and very different to...

Full details of this non CVRDA event in the Events section of this forum

Hello one and all. Not a CVRDA event but one that may well appeal to those of you lucky enough to have a Gull dinghy. This is not a regular event but one that has been organised to see how things go as there are still many of these little boats being sailed ,the forum is quite active, a Gull blog an...

So how goes it?

692 came with a newish Holt jib to the larger plan and was a totally different ride downwind to Dad’s Ent in which , in the early days, we always seemed to land up swimming on this point of sailing. In 74 when I left school I lost my supply of crews for the Grad so got a Laser. Had this for only a y...

Well, perhaps I should have said that the Grad is not very demanding to sail rather than vice free. Dad and I had been learning in an Ent (9677) up until the time I got my Grad. I have a huge soft spot for Grads but feel nothing for Ents. I wonder what the modern flat head main does to the Grad's ma...

A Graduate 100% most certainly. Pos 1960s as the early ones had a wooden square hatch on the rear deck and one just in front of the mast on the forward deck. My very first boat ( no. 692 from 1958) when I was 12 years old. Much later I had 856 from 1960 and even later, just a few years back, I had 2...

I took delivery of a new Laser from the factory in Banbury in Feb 1974, sail no 12268. But I was young and easily impressed. Had it for one year only. Sold and replaced by a six year old OK and so, at 17 years old, my world changed forever. I still have this OK today. K1211. Some of you may recall t...

[quote="Rupert"]The answer to the original problem is surely to simply keep on sailing south?[/quote]

Yep, I'd say this is the best option!

Hello Peter Stormalongs were a big class at Portsmouth S.C. back in the 1950s and Feltham's workshop was just a few doors away. When I was a member there in the 1980s with the OK some of the older members who sailed them were still about, one or two boats were still in the dinghy yard and Feltham's ...

Good time of year to get stuck into a project like this. You'll be back afloat at the very first sign of spring. Easy !?!? The business with the frence reminded me of a conversation my Dad had with a member at our first club when we had just joined. This chap was explaining how he built his Scorpion...

My mistake. This boat is 164. It has the name and a rainbow hand painted on the rear deck. I will not be down to the club now until late July but I will get a pic or two as soon as I can. The owner is French and the boat has been in this country for some years now. He rather likes my woody OK and ha...

Hello Stewart ,Ed.
A member at my club near Narbonne has owned Rainbow sail number 2?? for a few years and now has it at the club. I understand this was the Uk national champ in 83 and 84. It's in lovely condition and he certainly can sail it. Very impressive.