Dinghy development: CVRDA national Rally

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CVRDA national Rally

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Topic: CVRDA national Rally

Posted By: Rupert
Subject: CVRDA national Rally
Date Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 10:00am

Well, we had a lovely time at Clywedog, with boats ranging from Mirrors to a Flying Dutchman. It was won by a late 60's Shelley design Int Moth, with a Firefly and Finn 1 point and 2 points behind. The Moth took the "old" wing, and the Firefly the "classic" (pre 1965) wing, edging the Finn out on the last leg of the last leg on handicap. The "Vintage" wing was taken by a double-diagonal built just post war built Int 14, recently rebuilt from being a rotted out hulk. A truly amazing restoration.

Not sure how many boats, but somewhere in the 20s.

Packing away in the rain not fun, but most of the racing was without precipitation, which made things more pleasant!

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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686

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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 1:04pm

Congratulations Rupert on beating Peter no mean feat. Sorry we couldnt be there this year.

Posted By: MerlinMags
Date Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 7:30pm

Looking forward to the photos...

Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 9:37pm

We have just sent some to PatJ for the cvrda site. I hope others will do the same. Maybe Pat can choose the best and send some over to you. Not sure who is supposed to be doing the write-up, actually.

A lot will contain low cloud, mind...

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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686

Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 27 Aug 14 at 5:09pm

Originally posted by MerlinMags

Looking forward to the photos...

especially if any of them capture a suspicious looking vertically-challenged type, with a petrol can and lighter, in the background

... on a more serious note, I do also look forward to some wood-worm porn, striped sapele and some cold-moulding would be a nice antedote to all this carbon stuff ... if only for a few minutes