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Bill Your request was approved at last night's sailing committee meeting, provisional PY 1142. If you start a series single handed and then race with a crew it will count as a separate entry, so you can't just leave the crew ashore when it's not windy and take him or her when it's honking. Seems fai...

The dog strength ones from Wilko's have one great advantage over the proper 'for men' type. If you accidentally run the club lawn mower over them they get sliced in two and the lawn mower remains more or less unscathed. It takes quite a while to unwrap the tie down rope from round the mower blades t...

Tried posting earlier but it seems to have disappeared into thin air . . . However, in addition to what's been written about trailers and ratchet straps, I'm sure 5mm gaboon ply for a new deck will be fine, I don't believe the class rules specify a thickness but they are strict about plan dimensions...

Ed
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Steve

Ed, Yep, cheap new ones are about £40 each. I went to America last year for the Albacore Internationals and bought loads of bits over there, they cost roughly half what you'd pay for them here. They found their way into my tool box which came back in the shipping container with the boats in. A pity ...

If anyone has a surplus pair of throw-off shroud levers cluttering their shed, I have a good home for them on an elderly Albacore I recently purchased. The present levers are the quadrant type which can explode under stress when they've spent their life quietly corroding in salt water spray. All the...

Ben, Saw your post on the Albacore web site, and read the article in Classic Boat with interest. I had hoped to get along to the event with my old Alb but my mrs has broke her leg and I've used all my points up in getting away for the Alb open in Largs next month. So maybe next year, and I hope it a...

Trevor, Some brilliant photographs there, I particularly like the 1989 Findhorn one of no. 319 apparently about to capsize on top of her crew in a death-roll, and the lads in the foreground lifejackets are beyond compare. Great stuff. I had a chance to buy N18 No. 3 once, for sale at Woolverstone on...

I'm selling a 1 year old set of Lonton & Grey ones. PM me your phone No. or email address if you still need some and I'll get back to you later.
Off sailing now
Steve

Gozzy I'd like to join the list of people saying well done for carrying on with your restoration. I have been following your thread, and it's sidetracks, with great interest as I hope soon to start a similar job on my F2125. Two years ago I bought an old Albacore (A195), which I thought I'd spend th...

Trevor, My GP14 (1831) had really tatty transom flaps when I bought her, I took them off and made some out of marine ply with hinges along the top edge. Had to make sure they didn't extend right down to the hull though in case they counted as an illegal extension to the length of the hull. They look...

Hello Trevor, A999 is a beautiful boat, the varnished topmast is the envy of the River Trent. Except perhaps the Laser sailors on it. When I get back to the UK I'll see if I can organise some photos for you. Cheers Steve By the way I've been told the reef points on the mainsail - a North one I think...

Hello All, Here goes for first post on cvrda site . . . I bought A999 off Trevor C a few years ago, but never quite managed to capsize her (metal plate helped). The friend I sold her to has not capsized her either. However I have refurbished A195, and capsized her quite frequently. No tanks, two lar...