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by Mark
Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:44 pm
Forum: Boats and bits wanted
Topic: FIREFLY WANTED
Replies: 6
Views: 3689

Re: FIREFLY WANTED

Rupert, Peter came and looked at mine a couple of weeks ago; deal not done
Mark
by Mark
Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:20 pm
Forum: Boats and bits wanted
Topic: Looking for aMark II Gulll
Replies: 3
Views: 2658

Re: Looking for aMark II Gulll

Thanks Alan, close, but they are MkIIIs, or to be pedantic, IIIa's, or so I gather (round bilge with twin mast positions)
Mark
by Mark
Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:10 pm
Forum: Boats and bits for sale
Topic: Boat/handicap bandit for sale
Replies: 14
Views: 4379

Re: Boat/handicap bandit for sale

Interesting set of plans but of course if you built it, it wouldn't qualify!!! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-SET-boat-building-plans-ELEVEN-PLUS-sailing-dinghy_W0QQitemZ200414917799QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_BoatEquipment_Accessories_SM?hash=item2ea9a8f4a7 Not even as a "lost class&...
by Mark
Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:22 pm
Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
Topic: Yesterday's Times
Replies: 10
Views: 4128

Re: Yesterday's Times

FOUND IT! Must have been one of the last papers I bought before I retired,not the best quality photo, but Karen will try a scan later this evening
BTW We had a Fulmar and an Atalanta at the SYC in the early '60s, the former made the latter look quite sleek :lol:
by Mark
Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:38 pm
Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
Topic: Yesterday's Times
Replies: 10
Views: 4128

Re: Yesterday's Times

So who can identify the dinghies and yachts in the picture from yesterday's Times (1959 Boat Show)? I recognise the Atalanta but cannot remember the name of the bigger and smaller sisters, was one a Titania? I assume that's an Enterprise in the middle of the pool. The three cats are, I assume Prout...
by Mark
Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:09 pm
Forum: Boats and bits for sale
Topic: Firefly1709
Replies: 0
Views: 2062

Firefly1709

due to an enforced change in sailing plans I must sell 1709, Fairy hull , with built in buoyancy ( nicely done by Graham Pope at Severn Sailboats) , Fixed Proctor mast, ally plate, deep rudder, cover and a very substantial combi
£650 or offers
Mark Collyer
moth533@yahoo.co.uk
by Mark
Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:02 pm
Forum: Boats and bits wanted
Topic: Looking for aMark II Gulll
Replies: 3
Views: 2658

Looking for aMark II Gulll

Circumstances dictate that I will have to change my sailing habits: Therefore I am Looking for a Mark II Gull (The chine GRP one with no foredeck) There were not that many built, but they should have survived. I have a lead on a Mk1, but am not sure that I can be doing with the maintainance. I had a...
by Mark
Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:32 pm
Forum: Boats and bits for sale
Topic: Wooden Flying Fifteen.
Replies: 4
Views: 1239

Re: Wooden Flying Fifteen.

Nessa wrote:Do you know whereabouts in Hertford it is? I'm pushed to think of a fifteen friendly lake in that area. If it were near my in laws I could go take a look, but I don't like to venture inside the M25!
by Mark
Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:21 pm
Forum: Events
Topic: Chichester Harbour Event.
Replies: 32
Views: 15784

Re: Chichester Harbour Event.

I think you've damaged yourself enough recently, Mark... That was figuratively speaking. I fell in love with sailing at a school sailing camp at Chidham in 1962( in E7000 if my memory serves me correctly). I need to sort myself into something more suitable before July, but will move heaven and eart...
by Mark
Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:05 pm
Forum: Events
Topic: Chichester Harbour Event.
Replies: 32
Views: 15784

Re: Chichester Harbour Event.

I think you've damaged yourself enough recently, Mark... That was figuratively speaking. I fell in love with sailing at a school sailing camp at Chidham in 1962( in E7000 if my memory serves me correctly). I need to sort myself into something more suitable before July, but will move heaven and eart...
by Mark
Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:43 pm
Forum: Events
Topic: Chichester Harbour Event.
Replies: 32
Views: 15784

Re: Chichester Harbour Event.

I think you've damaged yourself enough recently, Mark... That was figuratively speaking. I fell in love with sailing at a school sailing camp at Chidham in 1962( in E7000 if my memory serves me correctly). I need to sort myself into something more suitable before July, but will move heaven and eart...
by Mark
Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:08 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: firefly 709
Replies: 3
Views: 1838

Re: firefly 709

very nice
Mark
by Mark
Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:46 pm
Forum: Boats and bits for sale
Topic: Hopeful price of the day...
Replies: 5
Views: 1577

Re: Hopeful price of the day...

Rupert wrote:Is this the skeleton in the Chippenham boat park or another one?
Exactly !! :roll: