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bit of a long shot but you never know...

Just the ticket! Thanks very much, Garry! (I now have to speak nicely to Martin and Wan who are about to set off for a camping holiday in Scotland in a towbar fitted 4x4...)

This IS an impressive organisation!

Inspection reveals a row of screws on each side, rather neatly disguised, so I had forgotten they were there. So, "Skyfly" started life as a Mark One! In which case, since the gunwales are delaminating, and she sails on an estuary, the thing to do is to rip out the delaminating gunwales at...

I will inspect for screw heads after the race tonight!

She might be a Mark One to Mark Two conversion...

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A question. Uffa the Great talks about stowing buckets and spades and going prawning in it.

However, it appears to have a double trapeze...

Can a boat really have such a Jekyll and Hyde personality?

Falcon would be top of the pops, as it offers some outstanding cruising potential -m better than a Wayfarer (mind you, one can cruise in a Firefly...) but they are scarce as hens' teeth. I know what an Albacore is, as there is one made of what LF Herreshoff called frozen snot parked next to the Fire...

Can confirm she is a Mark 2 with longitudinal veneers. No screw heads visible externally - so that suggests that they are an addition, though they certainly look contemporaneous with the rest of the boat. I would MUCH rather have slatted side benches and a bouyancy bag under them. Well, they will co...

Allow me to explain: I have a not-particularly sailing, but non un-keen wife and two sons, aged 6 and 13. I have been owned for the past 24 years by a 73 year old 37ft gaff cutter. Nothing is going to change there. In 1991 I built her a 9ft dinghy. Four years ago I rescued a Firefly and presented it...

Thanks!

Garry R wrote:Why not dry out and get one of those electric sprayguns and fire a spray of G4 inside giving a few coats - it's pretty runny and I am sure would spray well. I would wear a large gauntlet!!

Sorry - what's G4?

I don't know if beauty enhances speed, but undoubtedly a varnished round bilge hull attracts attention in a mixed fleet.

Thanks, Rupert. I will follow your advice, fit hatches, dry the tanks and fillet and tape them.

To my eye, at least, the lines of the CUCC 12 footer in Uffa's pre-War book look identical to the lines of the Firefly in his postwar book.

The construction of course was different - the CUCC 12 footer was clinker.

Please excuse me butting in, but Firefly side tanks are on my mind. My son Alex has Firefly F3000, a fore and aft "planked" Mark 2 which we rescued four years ago. The boat is now being actively sailed and I am getting more and more unhappy about the condition of the built in side tanks; t...