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Mayfly and Seafly were also derived from a Merlin design. There are still a few Seaflys lurking in the dinghy park at Starcross

If you expand the scope slightly, there must be plenty of classes that can trace their ancestry back to a dev class design. For starters -

Lark - Nat 12, Jackson March Hare design
Laser 2 - Bethwaite Cherub (think I read that somewhere?)

The decks on the first one don't look quite right for a 505 - Wineglass maybe?

I did mean the 505 style one.

How about a Daring?

Hi Neil, you can delete this thread - contact sorted.

Ta

Think I'm going to need some really tough varnish then

To the gentleman who phoned me from "offshore" about my wood Phantom - I now have the piccies you want, but have still not received your contact email.

All - I know this should really be a PM, so apologies for the public posting.

Hi David Her fit out is very spartan, very few fittings and certainly no snubbing winch. I get the impression she may even be a part complete build - the original owner never got around to buying or rigging a spinnaker and the documentation seems to indicate he took at least 5 years to build her. He...

Ok, figured out how to upload piccies.

Oops, meant to add, no she isn't the 505 from ebay. There is a little more to the story - K698 was only advertised locally and I think the seller really just wanted to vet any potential buyer. When I started to talk about making an offer against his advertised price he just stated this was to deter ...

Hi, yes, I am the Starcross Dave Lee K698 is still called "Trollet" - her original owner was working over in Sweden when he built her and the name relates to local folklore. I have an amazing pile of documentation which came with her which includes the receipts and invoices for probably ev...

Hi all A long time since I've posted here, or indeed sailed at a CVRDA event, but I'm now hoping to make a return at some of the 2011 events (assuming the missus hasn't killed me first :shock: ). The reason for my return from the wilderness is the almost accidental purchase of a beautiful cold mould...