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As I recall Guthrie Penman was British, and a 14 stalwart for some years. He won many of the class's top trophies, but I think the POW itself eluded him. Many apologies if I have got that wrong. He always wore a monocle I seem to remember. He designed Yeti about 1960, and some 12 or 13 were built. A...

Snow Maiden is a Yeti, #773, by Tough Bros. Would be nice to see it fully rigged.

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Is Windsor South East enough ? I use Stanley and Thomas for more complicated work, they do an excellent job. the website is http://www.stanleyandthomas.co.uk.

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Nick C Intl 14 - 839

For my part I too have lusted afer a FD, J, or similar. But I really would want somewhere to put it, and I don't think I could bring myself to leave it outside - particularly if I had spent some money bringing it up to scratch, or back to basics, whichever you prefer. So for me one woody at a time i...

What you ascribe is just one motive, there are others. Just because an original exists is no reason to deny someone else the pleasure of sailing a boat as originally designed/built. There is as much pleasure in seeing what you can do with an original as there is with a tarted up boat, and I know whi...

When we got Janine, 839, our intention was to try to restore the boat to what the first owner would have picked up from McCutcheon's yard in 1963. That meant using as much original material as possible, and racing her in that condition. We allowed ourselves a new suit of sails, as that's what she wo...

I'm just up the road from you, in Farnham. If a drink includes a viewing of Tiptoes I'd very much like to be included.

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I tend to agree, and the wildly different amounts between restoration and final saleable value (even if I seriously underestimated it) would not make restoration worthwhile unless the boat had an equally worthwhile history. The Hobbyhawk design was not particularly original, but this example was an ...

Further to my earlier note. Looking at the plans in more detail there is a pronounced flare in the upper part of the hull in the first 4 feet or so. This is replicated clearly in the interior shots of the hull, though is not apparent in the outside shots. I think it is clear, therefore, that this is...

Can only reitrerate, if it's Hobby Hawk it is number 479, a Henry Curtis Hall design from 1944, built by Uffa Fox. The boat itself is a 1946 build, was originally registered to T C Ratsey, and later owned by E E Deuchars. The plans of this design are shown in the International 14 book, but I haven't...

Don't know if it helps, but Int.14 - 812 was a 1963 boat, a Proctor design built by Souters. It was called Willowfly, and was built for E.B. Wolfe. The Wolfe brothers did, however, have a claim to fame, winning the 1969 POW after 34 years of trying ! Hobby Hawke was #479, another Hall design built b...

Don't remember the boat myself, but I think you have something of a find there. 521 was called Tiptoes, but also at some point Almanak. It was originally registered to Colin Ratsey, then later by C.M.B. Charles. She was built by Uffa Fox to an American design by H C Hall. Suggest you get hold of a c...

Speaking of 'one-offs' like the Calypso (elsewhere) does anyone know if there was ever a second Peregrine built ? This was said to be what an Osprey wanted to be when it grew up, particularly downwind, when the spinnaker was the same size as a Dragon's ! I was rather taken with this design from Ian ...

More likely a Graduate, me thinks, especially at 12'5", and that high foredeck.

Nick - Intl 14 - 839

..........and the blood stains would have been a bit off-putting as well.

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