Eric Twiname - Int Canoe

Going back to the Eric Twiname photo reminds me when he had first bought that IC, he came to sail at Lee on Solent SC in 1976/77, because we had another IC sailor, Chris Doughty, who built his own boats and in a breeze he was one of the fastest in the UK, and Eric wanted to practise with him.

It was a light wind and at the start Eric ran out of room, and ran into the stern of a brand new Cherub punching a hole in the transom.

To say sorry to the Cherub owner, Eric presented him with a signed copy of his “ The rules book”!

Good to hear that they are still around. Yes I worked at SP -I was hired as a chemist-so I first had to develop the resins for it then laminate the boards in the workshop. It did teach me a lot, about composites!

Love the sailing apparel of that era. all the guy in the photo needs is a beer towel on the rear of his boiler suit and he'd look just like the dinghy sailors from my youth.

Edited by Late starter - 10 Feb 21 at 9:08am

Originally posted by Oatsandbeans Riv-so do you have one on the mistral div 2 boards with Al honeycomb in them?

What do you want to know?

I was involved with the first prototypes in the honeycomb, they were made by SP systems on the IOW, had to take Karl (Charlie)Messmer over there, at the time I was making Turbo boards that I'd designed up at Parkers and we were negotiating to take Mistral on here in the UK it was 80-81 thereabouts, they were hollow. Eventually the M1 got made with a low density solid foam core they were the best, fastest, lightest, I've still got mine.

I also found two or three Dinghy mags just recently, I used to write for them, it was how I met Eric Twiname, it's funny I was just thinking of mentioning how much I miss having mags like that, there are interesting articles that I read in one of them about trimming masts using spreaders, fascinating, don't see anything like that nowadays.

Riv-so do you have one on the mistral div 2 boards with Al honeycomb in them?