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- Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:28 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Bought a boat last night...
- Replies: 20
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Re: Bought a boat last night...
Use the Snark Rig and name the canoe "Boojum" or even "Toasted Cheese".
Re: Is it me?
Michael I think you are mixing your music hall songs, my Grandmother spent her youth in East End Music Halls and sang all the songs to me. Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow wow............................... Cant get away to marry you today, my wife won't let me!!!! At to good Burgundy or any good wine yo...
Re: Is it me?
Nigel is again right as to the worth of this ship but no I have never owned a 505!
From the picture it does look very origina, and at least in good nick,l could it be an Austin Farrar one? David Chivers would know, or a Tormentor one Decks look too rounded for a Fairy finished one.
From the picture it does look very origina, and at least in good nick,l could it be an Austin Farrar one? David Chivers would know, or a Tormentor one Decks look too rounded for a Fairy finished one.
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:02 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Bought a boat last night...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6653
Re: Bought a boat last night...
I think nigel is right the Indian in Cochin do just that on their narrow canoes using Blue Plastic tarpaulin as sail cloth look like a fleet of Enterprises with the rigs turned through 90 degrees, confusing when the local Enterprise Fleet is racing as well!
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 4:31 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Buoyancy in boats designed to have none
- Replies: 5
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Re: Buoyancy in boats designed to have none
I assume it is Swallow? Well she's wood so she will float but without much if any freeboard her internal ballast will take care of that. Some years back now after a few sinkings and before we got bulkheads the Dragon Class fitted on a voluntary basis self inflating bags rather like grown up versions...
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 3:15 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Bought a boat last night...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6653
Re: Bought a boat last night...
A bit of quiet inspiration for you. Here's a rig drawing, good luck with it. The last present I bought my ex wife (2nd) was abeautiful Rob Roy Canoe made in cedar veneer with an amazing rolled edge to the cockpit and a rig rudder n everything I found it in a boatyard on the Broads sadly she's left b...
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:07 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: The Merlin Rocket Book
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10560
Re: The Merlin Rocket Book
BTW, I do not think Robin Fowler had any problems with Sugar Plum 1663 (Beautifully home built.) and deserved better luck with her than he had. Any death roll is down to basic handling problems in boats if it begins to roll beyond where you can control it pull in a length of mainsheet your mainsail ...
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:04 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: The Merlin Rocket Book
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10560
Re: The Merlin Rocket Book
Surf Scoter, 1451 Beat Nik 1523 et al (all 7 of them!) were never out of the first 6 in championships from inception to retirement John Harris had Paragon 1561 but it was the first two that shone, really a Wyche & Coppock mk 9 rip off crossed with a MK11! Beat Nik should have won the 65 Champion...
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:51 am
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: The Merlin Rocket Book
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10560
Re: The Merlin Rocket Book
Lets get picky! David proposed a chute for "Unit"! Article Yachting World 1966 if he ever built it you know better than me, he share a house with us for the 1967 MR Champs at Poole and he had unit there as well I do not recall seeing either it or evidence of it being there! I was refering ...
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:15 am
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: The Merlin Rocket Book
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10560
Re: The Merlin Rocket Book
DH
BAZ was a very odd boat she was however the very first Merlin Rocket spinnaker shute in 1969 it was an alloy thing over deck! She was at the the 1969 Championships as was Hugh's King Louise. Neither shone!
BAZ was a very odd boat she was however the very first Merlin Rocket spinnaker shute in 1969 it was an alloy thing over deck! She was at the the 1969 Championships as was Hugh's King Louise. Neither shone!
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:21 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: The Merlin Rocket Book
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10560
Re: The Merlin Rocket Book
DH, You would expect me have a view on this wouldn’t you! When Jim Park (Now sadly minus a leg!) wrote the book which is a good read, if deficient, the class was indeed South / South West/ Midlands centric with enclaves in the Industrial North West, A tiny fleet at Alnmouth and an equally small if v...
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:16 pm
- Forum: Boats and bits wanted
- Topic: Merlin Rocket bits - 950
- Replies: 39
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Re: Merlin Rocket bits - 950
It is a matter of the correct wire, which I will admit is hard to get it for perfection should be crane/lift construction 19X19X19 Harvey Churchward of the Racing Dinghy Equipment Company (No longer with us in either case.) had a vast quantity made up in dinghy and keelboat sizes (He overordered by ...
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:04 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Oulton Week 2010
- Replies: 115
- Views: 48180
Re: Oulton Week 2010
However thinking of Oulton Weeks past "experienced" was all that was required.
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:24 am
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Early International Moths
- Replies: 21
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Re: Early International Moths
Anthrax?
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:41 am
- Forum: Boats and bits wanted
- Topic: Merlin Rocket bits - 950
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15873
Re: Merlin Rocket bits - 950
I am never a luddite but for all its minus points wire has one advantage that you can see well in advance of its need for replacement and because of it resistance to abrasion its MTBF is higher anyway.