CVRDA

Ditto - good day yesterday, thanks Tim and Pat!

Alan, sorry to hear you've been relegated to canoeing! Look toward to seeing you fighting fit back in the Finn next year!

I plan to be there on the Sat, we now have a second classic Finn at my club so I've been encouraging him to join us too - any other Finn sailors going to make it?

Looking forwards to this - hope I can make it!

This shows the flaky varnish - gone milky at the sides
This shows the scrape where the wood has gone soft.

Shame this area can't drain when the boat is outside (not often!), might have to experiment with taping a plastic bag round the mast!

Well after making progress have now taken a couple of steps back! Found that some of the (very thick) varnish around the mast step area is flaking off - fortunately the wood under these bits seems good and hard. Plan is to sand back and re varnish using a trad varnish as I'm not sure what the curren...

That's an interesting thought Cweed, thanks, I like the idea of making a tool that's slots on to give the leverage needed to mak moving it easy... Hmm, will get it back in the boat and have a think.... Might well be something in my garage that could be used!

Well the mast step is out of the boat and freed up fairly easily - vice, moles grips and dismantling lubricant! Have chopped the ends off the t-bar and think it will turn now (offers up right), might need pliers or moles to help get a grip of what's left of it - unfortunately welding a nut on instea...

I would aim to join you for this - no strong preference on timing though....

There's alway the finn if you want a cvrda-able big boy's boat!

Ditto to the above - thanks Clywedog for a very enjoyable weekend!

Hi Keith

I'm intending to arrive Saturday morning with a finn and a small(ish) tent...

Sorry for the late sign up!

Thanks
Keith

Merlin age adjustments don't appear on the RYA PY lists, my understanding (as sailing sec of a club which uses them) is they are just class association recommendations. We are currently going through a process of adjusting handicaps to suit our v. restricted river conditions, as part of this we have...

No idea what it is, but the rig does not look in proportion to the hull, seems too small to me. Interesting sweepy/high bows.

Thanks Peter! In that case sounds like I'd better get the wd40 out and put my thinking cap on!