Sail Number of the Day
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Topic: Sail Number of the Day
Posted By: JimC
Subject: Sail Number of the Day
Date Posted: 29 Dec 13 at 6:06am
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As the advent calendar was so popular, why don't we have a sail number of the day thread starting with 1 on Jan 1st, up to 365/366 on the 31st Dec?
I suggest a few tighter rules to make it more interesting and get more variety in How about Rules ===== 1 photo per person per day Exact Sail number only no-one to post first more than three days running (rule expires at midday gmt if no pics have appeared) Guidelines ========== captions and credits no repeat photos ideally photos are cropped to relevant boat photos are kept modest in size as much variety as possible. |
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Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 29 Dec 13 at 8:45am
| Good idea and I'll find some more but I have to post before 6:30am as I can't post from work pc due to security and firewall restrictions, can't put photos on work pc and can't take own laptop or tablet in to work. |
Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 30 Dec 13 at 6:11pm
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Excellent idea. http://www.epochconverter.com/date-and-time/daynumbers-by-year.php?year=2014" rel="nofollow - This link showing date and day number might be useful... And it might be a challenge not to repeat any of the first 25 from the Advent Thread! |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 01 Jan 14 at 12:00am
My one off, the Plus Plus. Image © Alison Wilde/Jim Champ Fakery: Corel Photopaint! |
Posted By: Time Lord
Date Posted: 01 Jan 14 at 12:06am
Kate, the Number 1 Merlin Rocket built by Jack Holt in 1946 and still sailing plus in the best tradition of the BOG OFF, you also get 1066 which could start a new thread on significant dates eg Agincourt and Waterloo. ------------- Merlin Rocket 3609 |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 01 Jan 14 at 9:52am
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Two at once here - and I think Kate (Merlin 1) was at the event too!
Classic regatta at Norfolk Broads YC 2010
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 01 Jan 14 at 12:23pm
Firefly No1, from the nmmc website ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 02 Jan 14 at 8:51am
This is a fake Irish Firefly (the TR3.6) and as such may actually be No2, rather than just a team racing 2, as not many can have been built, rip-off that it is. Photo fro sailingscuttlebutt. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 02 Jan 14 at 10:04am
Here's another 2 for you - Stuart Childerley's XOD |
Posted By: transient
Date Posted: 02 Jan 14 at 12:19pm
Signet sponsored by the Sunday Times I believe:
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Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 03 Jan 14 at 6:42am
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Jollyboat 3 at Roadford Lake last year - Classic and Vintage sailing at its best!
When the first of these Uffa Fox designed Jollyboats were built they were the fastest dinghy in the world!
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 03 Jan 14 at 8:36am
29er prototype 003 with a big rig on. From http://www.29ernorthamerican.org/29er/history.html |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 04 Jan 14 at 9:02am
Shamefully I've forgotten who sent me these. Obviously they're from 1957! |
Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 05 Jan 14 at 10:31pm
From Y&Y website: Devoti Icon From Y&Y report on Oxford yesterday: Devoti D-one - helm Nick Craig  |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 06 Jan 14 at 9:57pm
Merlin 6 again but earlier picture |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 07 Jan 14 at 8:02am
Frank Cammas' Little [redacted] Cup winning C Class Groupama at Falmouth, 25/9/13 (c) me! |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 07 Jan 14 at 8:31am
| What a contrast 1945/6 boat and state of the art 2013 on subsequent posts. |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 07 Jan 14 at 8:43am
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And yet the both work in exactly the same way, ultimately.
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 08 Jan 14 at 9:52pm
This is the only pic I can find of Merlin 8 even though she is still about |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 08 Jan 14 at 11:28pm
B Class (precursor of International) Canoe Aquamarine, designed in 1913 by Linton Hope as his own boat. Major Linton Hope was surely the predominant dinghy designer of his time: responsible, amongst much else, for many Thames Raters and much early development in what was to become the International 14 Class. He was even involved in the design of seaplanes and was consulting Naval Architect to the Air Ministry during and after the First World War. In 1908 Hope designed a B Class canoe called Haze, which was a planing boat and on a reach she could lift her bow clear of the water back to the mast. Photo is 1923, and she seems to me to be carrying something special in the way of jib setups. Photo and information via Andrew Eastwood's "History of Canoe Sailing in Britain" As for Merlin 8 above, I just found the following... http://www.britishpathe.com/video/two-men-in-a-boat/query/two+men+in+a+boat |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 09 Jan 14 at 12:19am
Another of my C Class photos from last September. This is the 2010 winner Canaan. I was struck by how very different the hulls of the european foilers, like FRA007 earlier, were to the north american displacement boats like Canaan here - the foilers had lower rocker and flatter sections aft, hopefully you can see. |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 10 Jan 14 at 7:44am
same boat as in the advent calendar Plymouth Dolphin at an early cvrda Roadford |
Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 10 Jan 14 at 7:47am
| The black sails set the wood off well! |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 12 Jan 14 at 8:17am
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Lark 12 sailing in a snowstorm!  |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 12 Jan 14 at 9:06am
| I couldn't find an 11 yesterday. disaster. Does that mean we have failed |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 12 Jan 14 at 9:56am
It would be extraordinary if we found interesting photos of all 365, so I don't think it matters in the least if we miss a few. But if it worries you, how about this for a port tacker on the start line? I thought we'd had enough of my C class photos for a bit though.
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 12 Jan 14 at 3:12pm
| No Jim keep them coming. They are beautiful machines |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 12 Jan 14 at 3:41pm
+1  |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 12 Jan 14 at 4:58pm
Two days in one |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 12 Jan 14 at 5:07pm
Next one is some time in February anyway... |
Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 12 Jan 14 at 8:32pm
| I looked for an 11 but no luck. Could have sworn I had a cvrda pic of a dinghy 11 sail because at the time I wanted to draw a smily mouth under it! |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 12 Jan 14 at 8:35pm
For 11 there is of course Bjorn Dunkerbeck - the 40 million time windsurfing world champion. |
Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 12 Jan 14 at 9:16pm
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Great photo!
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Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 13 Jan 14 at 10:37pm
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I have no idea what this is; found it by randomly trawling through google if you will pardon the pun. Maybe it is called a Vagabond but that could also be an advert...  |
Posted By: iansmithofotley
Date Posted: 14 Jan 14 at 12:47am
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Hi Er-Indoors, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vagabond-Thames-A-Rater/128243144378?id=128243144378&sk=photos_stream Ian (Yorkshire Dales SC)
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 14 Jan 14 at 1:54am
More raters. From this sites' collection... |
Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 14 Jan 14 at 8:29am
| 14 and 15 to get ahead of ourselves! Thanks guys. |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 14 Jan 14 at 8:31am
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Bearing away round the back of an RoW A Rater is one of the scariest things out there. You bear away like you would to go round a normal boat, then realise there is still 15 feet of boat to get around after that!
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 15 Jan 14 at 6:31am
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Swordfish - National 15ft class
Think very heavy plate Albacore with kite!
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 16 Jan 14 at 4:02am
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Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 16 Jan 14 at 7:13am
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4am!? Anything with the big hand on the "6" in it is bad enough.....Probably worth it though for the pic :-) |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 16 Jan 14 at 8:38am
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I didn't get up just to post the pic. I was eating an early breakfast before going milking.
Now after second breakfast off to the day job. 
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Posted By: SymBoy
Date Posted: 16 Jan 14 at 8:57am
Sweet 16!
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 16 Jan 14 at 10:01am
| Thats a lovely pic. Interesting that she has no sliding seat was that added later in the design life. Both 140 and 191 built in 1953 have sliding seats. I still have that rig on 191. |
Posted By: vscott
Date Posted: 17 Jan 14 at 4:20pm
 My fathers 1956 Finn17 - genuinely no. 17. One careful owner! (First time I have tied to add an image so might need 2nd attempt) ------------- Mk IV Osprey 1314 Think Again 
Kielder Water Sailing Club |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 17 Jan 14 at 5:18pm
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Wow!
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 17 Jan 14 at 6:42pm
| Yes Wow is she still about? Keep her away from grumps matches |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 18 Jan 14 at 11:44am
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 18 Jan 14 at 1:01pm
| Where's that? Are they Norfolk broads racers or what? |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 18 Jan 14 at 2:04pm
| Yes I think it was taken on the broads. I should credit it to PatJ its one her pictures from the cvrda collection. |
Posted By: Do Different
Date Posted: 18 Jan 14 at 4:08pm
| 18. Oulton Broad, Lowestoft?? |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 19 Jan 14 at 7:52am
Yes, Oulton Week 2010, when it was too windy for much else to race, these cruisers were quite a sight, really going for it.
Here's another view of that boat. One of those "wish I'd been onboard" days!
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Posted By: Do Different
Date Posted: 19 Jan 14 at 8:13am
Did you see Storm there? If she was you'd know it 
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 21 Jan 14 at 11:11am
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 21 Jan 14 at 11:11am
| Sorry I don't have a 19 or 21 or anything until 28. |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 21 Jan 14 at 12:58pm
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Good to see the Puffin!
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 21 Jan 14 at 1:23pm
OK Open meeting at Upper Thames SC. Photo ex OK website, photographer uncredited that I could see. I was thinking, to open this up a little to other classes, maybe we should also allow ddmm and ddmmyy, so today 2101 and 210114 would be permitted. So I went in search of a photo of a 2101, and failed... But... OK 2101 was sailing at the above event, finished near the front and is in none of the photos that I can see, so maybe that's 2101... |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 21 Jan 14 at 1:33pm
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Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 21 Jan 14 at 10:41pm
Just so we have a "19"! Better late than never...  By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Gabriel S. Weber [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons ------------- Lightning 418 "Octarine" |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 22 Jan 14 at 8:28am
| American navy trialling the new sheet metal sail with integrated anchor option |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 22 Jan 14 at 8:45am
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Its the next AC boat.
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 22 Jan 14 at 1:09pm
Ah that would explain it.
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 22 Jan 14 at 2:37pm
UK Cherub 22 (honest!). see here... http://www.uk-cherub.org/doku.php/boats/22#section22" rel="nofollow - http://www.uk-cherub.org/doku.php/boats/22#section22 |
Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 22 Jan 14 at 8:58pm
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Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 22 Jan 14 at 9:00pm
| Cherub 22: shiny shiny |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 22 Jan 14 at 9:29pm
| Is that your boat Jim |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 22 Jan 14 at 9:33pm
I wish. I'm not that good with the varnish brush. Sadly my vintage Cherub is a long way from that condition. |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 22 Jan 14 at 9:34pm
Looks lovely. |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 23 Jan 14 at 8:10am
According to the http://www.larkclass.org/register/boat_info.php?sail_no=2301" rel="nofollow - Lark Website this is Lark 2301 :-) |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 23 Jan 14 at 10:53am
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Seeing it at that angle is a reminder that they are a pretty racy hull shape for a boat designed in 1965.
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Andymac
Date Posted: 23 Jan 14 at 2:24pm
Are there colour options, other than 'Vela Grey'?
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 23 Jan 14 at 2:51pm
Its still under trial but other colours may become available. How about stars and stripes?
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 23 Jan 14 at 3:25pm
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Maybe the camouflage schemes they have used to make ships seem like they are going the opposite direction, like they used in years gone by? Trouble is, it won't fool radar.. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 24 Jan 14 at 10:47am
 randomly found on the web! https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBYJq_U8psMdj5oVzhmw2IUClGtIs1oOKzo4j9dPJwZBHdaKFu |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 28 Jan 14 at 5:56am
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I've been saving this one since the Advent calendar!  |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 28 Jan 14 at 8:01am
None for a few days and then two at once |
Posted By: vscott
Date Posted: 28 Jan 14 at 2:34pm
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A jolly boat!!!! How gorgeous! My parents had J17 but sadly she went to a cousin who parked her under a tree for 15 years, and she did not survive. I might have a photo of her for next month. ------------- Mk IV Osprey 1314 Think Again
Kielder Water Sailing Club |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 28 Jan 14 at 3:39pm
| Post it now as next month the plan is to continue on up through the year to 365. There are still a few about. J 3 is down in Devon. This pic was taken at Netley during the cvrda Nats a few years ago. |
Posted By: sargesail
Date Posted: 28 Jan 14 at 4:50pm
| Lovely Jolly boat sails at our club, proper cold moulded varnished wood. And I remember one at Rock when I was a boy, less pretty blue painted but just so effortlessly quick! |
Posted By: I luv Wight
Date Posted: 28 Jan 14 at 5:08pm
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There's a Jollyboat in a front garden in Cowes - in a sad state under a very ripped cover. ------------- " rel="nofollow - http://www.bloodaxeboats.co.uk" rel="nofollow - http://www.bloodaxeboats.co.uk Andy P foiling Int Moth GBR3467 Freedom 21 Codling |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 29 Jan 14 at 6:02am
29 leading the fleet of Brightlingsea One Designs at Pyefleet Week 2008
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Posted By: NickM
Date Posted: 29 Jan 14 at 11:25am
| Good one Pat. That does for tomorrow too ...and would have done last Saturday which everybody missed. |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 30 Jan 14 at 7:10am
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Another from a Baltic Wharf cvrda event. With the waterside walk enabling closer shots and the coloured houses behind it's a great spot for photographers even if the winds are usually "challenging".
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Posted By: NickM
Date Posted: 30 Jan 14 at 10:35pm
| Solo 30 would have built in about 1956/7 of wood. That one looks as if it is GRP. Is that the right number? |
Posted By: jaydub
Date Posted: 30 Jan 14 at 11:02pm
| Almost certainly not. |
Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 31 Jan 14 at 10:57am
Moth 31 randomly from t'internet: http://earwigoagin.blogspot.co.uk ------------- Lightning 418 "Octarine" |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 01 Feb 14 at 9:25am
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Mirror 32 - and I thought Roger would get this on first!
This is at the Jack Holt Centenary event at Wraysbury in 2012 and if you want to see some more adventures of this boat look at http://www.sailpb.com/sailpb-blog/the-best-stand-in-the-boat-show-" rel="nofollow - http://www.sailpb.com/sailpb-blog/the-best-stand-in-the-boat-show- and http://vimeo.com/74565029" rel="nofollow - http://vimeo.com/74565029 .
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 01 Feb 14 at 10:04am
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Nicely done, Pat!
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Er-Indoors
Date Posted: 01 Feb 14 at 10:51am
Ah I also had that one! more pics of the boat at http://www.sailpb.com ------------- Lightning 418 "Octarine" |
Posted By: PeterG
Date Posted: 01 Feb 14 at 11:52am
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Used to be my cousin's boat for years - I think they bought it almost new. I sailed it a few times, and against it many - a very long time ago! ------------- Peter Ex Cont 707 Ex Laser 189635 DY 59 |
Posted By: vscott
Date Posted: 01 Feb 14 at 5:12pm
 Taken in 1969 - I still have the boat ------------- Mk IV Osprey 1314 Think Again
Kielder Water Sailing Club |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 02 Feb 14 at 7:49am
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N12 33 at Roadford Lake June 2013
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Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 02 Feb 14 at 9:28pm
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So pretty! ------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 04 Feb 14 at 12:05am
International Canoe Summer meeting 1948. 35 is Storm Petrel, the first of 3 Uffa Fox Canoes built that year - the first since the war. 35 was apparently the only one that could be persuaded to measure without measurement bumps! She won two races in the New York Canoe Club trophy that year. Storm Petrel was recorded still in existence in 1980, I have heard nothing later. 
Bit out of sequence, but I forgot a couple of days ago. This is Wake, a very famous Canoe built in 1937, but fitted with the fully battened mainsail in 1946. This was the first modern style fully battened mainsail on a Canoe in the UK (and probably one of the first two or three full stop), inspired by Manfred Curry's books. Wake is believed to be in a Swedish Museum. Photos and information from Andrew Eastwood's UK Canoe History "From the Rob Roy to the International Ten Square Metre Canoe". |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 04 Feb 14 at 6:36pm
Lovely pictures and if they are still around it would be amazing to see them on the water. A bit later on in this thread we will see Rannoch. If PatJ doesn't get there first I will post the pics. |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 04 Feb 14 at 6:48pm
| Roger - I'll leave you to do Rannoch if I can do Terrapin tomorrow ;-) |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 04 Feb 14 at 9:17pm
| I only have the one picture of Terrapin sailing as 36 and as its sail numbers that count she may show up later on. You are welcome Pat |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 05 Feb 14 at 6:37am
As promised Terrapin - Merlin 36, another boat with history, as it was Ian Proctor's first Merlin and he was third at the very first Merlin Nationals, behind Jack Holt in Gently (see no 16). Ian obviously disliked the big wooden mast as he went on to experiment with alloy masts and start Proctor masts, now Selden.
 The narrow early Merlins have rolled side decks and this shot taken at Clywedog in 2006 shows just how far you can go without capsizing - at that angle you'd never recover in a modern "flying saucer" shaped Merlin Rocket but 36 did!
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 05 Feb 14 at 7:06am
36 (honest) before rescue |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 05 Feb 14 at 3:38pm
A couple more early 50s Canoe shots, of 36, Mederka, again from Andrew Eastwood's book. Again I haven't seen any records of this one since 1980. Interesting that, even with an early cut and the wholly inadequate kickers of the early 50s, you can see how the lower leech stands up better on 31s fully battened sail than on the soft sails of the other boats. |