CVRDA

I would just like to add my thanks to those already posted to Rupert , Kathryn and all those who helped make my first CVRDA experience at Whitefriars extremely enjoyable. Great event , great racing, fantastic boats, excellent hospitality, reasonable weather and above all lovely people...what more co...

I agree with Sami that the rig is probably not the original one and it may well have been transplanted from another Hull. The sail is a Low Aspect Anderson Aerosail and if you look closely at the photos you can just about make out traces of the original sail number beginning with a 2 which makes sen...

An easy one: It is a National twelve and the design is a Warlock by Mal Mcdougall (I think) and built by Woof. A guy called "Pud" Rice used to sail one with a reasonable amount of success. There will probably be more info on the Nat 12 website, but they would have been built in the early 70s when Ch...

Hi, Westie is right, it is too narrow to be a Shelley and the chines are full length unlike those on a Shelley which are only in the aft third of the hull. Although some Mk3 Shelleys had wings I think that i am right in saying that these would have been plywood box section as opposed to tramps and t...

David H, I have got the Yachts and Yachting report on the Moth Worlds held in New Zealand in Jan/ Feb 1981 which Dave Iszatt won sailing K3796. There is a small B&W photo with the report showing Dave going upwind and a scow KA8779 tanking downwind. I could try scanning this and sending it to you if ...

Hi Paul, I agree totally with David that it's a Pegasus and probably built by Fosrite Plastics. Rebore specialists of Leicester also built fibreglass Peggies, but I don't believe that any were composite....? The giveaways as to the true identity are the bow profile, the relatively high washboards, t...

Hi Rupert, I got your reply to my email about the Europe rudder stock then put 2 and 2 together and realised that you were the same Rupert I had read posts from on these forums. Anyway, I am definitely interested and I am not far away in West Oxfordshire so it should be possible for me to come acros...

If the Moth mast is a Sparlight DQ2 I don't think that it would suit a Magnum 5 (or 6) as it will be far too floppy even with a prodder/spreader. To get a 17' luff fully battened Mylar sail to set properly you need to have a powerful downhaul which due to the lack of cloth stretch creates compressio...

Hi David et al, Much as I'd love to meet up with yourself and Ridgey tonight to look through old moth stuff, unfortunately I am a bit too far away in West Oxfordshire to make it for an evening. If any of you fancy a get together at some later date at a place and time to be mutually agreed then I wou...

Hello fellow enthusiasts, I have only recently discovered this forum and have been overwhelmed with feelings of nostalgia as well as relief borne of the realisation that I am not alone in having a rather sentimental attachment to some of the older classes and designs that have contributed much in th...