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Does anyone have any experience / advice to offer regarding equitable scoring methods for race series spread over a whole season with races at different locations and with widely varying number of competitors? For the first time the International 12 foot dinghy class is holding a series of regattas ...

My son plays cricket at CERN. The Collider track runs directly under the pitch (which must give some scope for excuses for poor performance not yet used by the England Team)
Steve

JB9 wrote: Happy to send you the book to read, after Ed.

I'd appreciate that, thanks
Steve

I would very much like to know whether there is anything in the book regarding International 12 Foot Dinghies - I believe that there were some at the club at one time....... I am collecting information with a view to publishing an official history of the class sometime before the class celebrates it...

Not a sailing dinghy – but a testament to mans ingenuity and desire to get onto the water. This ‘boat’ started life as a fuel tank on a German aircraft that crash-landed on the Seine during WWII. At this time all boats belonging to the local populace had been confiscated by the occupying forces. htt...

You can have my 1962 Europa Moth for free!!! But you will have to collect it from Switzerland! However it is certainly car-toppable.

Steve

For what its worth, I can confirm that it definitely isn't an International 12 - does look nice though! I'm going to be racing against the guy in the 'October picture of the month' in Turkey this weekend - should I insist on my right of way when I meet him and I'm on starboard? Steve PS: He's a puss...

I have a similar (virtually identical) Europa Moth - complete with an unused 1960s vintage sail. Free to a good home - the only problem is that the boat is currently in Switzerland!

Steve

Just for the record...... The International 12 was designed in 1913. By 1914 it had already spread to the Netherlands and Belgium. It was adopted as the first International one-design class in 1920 and was used in the 1920 and 1928 Olympics (1928 as a singlehander). Twenty boats competed in the 1928...

The boats that I was thinking of were the gaff rigged 'Cambridge University Cruising Club One Design' drawn by Uffa Fox in 1937. Length: 12 foot Beam: 4ft 6ins. Sail area:90 sq ft Apparently Uffa hoped that one of these would be re-rigged and registered as a National 12 - but there is no record of t...

I believe that there were a few boats built to National 12 rules, but equipped with a gaff rig, which were constructed for Cambridge University SC. I'll look up the details this evening....
Steve

Sadly, I'm not too young to remember looking down my nose at an early Mirror Dinghy and thinking 'I suppose that it's alright - but it's not a <b><i>real</i></b> boat'

Several years later I rather enjoyed racing one !

Steve

I came across this pub sign on the Bluegreen Pictures website:



Apparently it was photographed 'somewhere on the south coast of England' and is signed L.R.S February 1984.

Does anyone know where the pub is?

Steve

I'm pretty certain that Wyche & Coppock also sold Nat 12 kits

Steve

I think that you are right, Chris, it is a Smuggler. Certainly the shape of the transom matches the photographs on the National 12 website and in Robin Steavenson's book. The title on the plans - RYA 12'-0" Dinghy - gives a clue, because prior to 1953 the RYA was known as the Yacht Racing Assoc...