CVRDA

River Cleddau?

I gave up with D2, the finish was super but as you say, a bit soft and when wet it is very slippery. Not much good for dinghies but great for brightwork on bigger boats. D1 seems like an excellent idea and if allowed to go off properly varnish will be fine. The only thing I don't know is how much di...

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Olympics September 1960
Flying Dutchman event at Naples

Chataway462 by dralowid, on Flickr

Mr Desmond Plummer leader of the GLC and Mr Christopher Chataway leader of the Inner London Education Committee crew two sailing dinghies from Putney to County Hall to test for themsleves the pleasures and hazards which Londoners can find on the Thames. The trip takes place three days before the GLC...

I buy Robbins stuff through my local boatbuilder who orders regularly from them. He makes a small mark up that is significantly less than the carriage I would have to pay.

Repeated sloshings with warm wet water followed by the greenhouse heater works. The decks dry off nicely and stay dry even when it is damp outside. There are areas around old nail holes that behave a bit like seaweed nailed over a back door but they are black and a bit soft so they will receive furt...

Thanks for the replies. I too see salt water as 'good' and try to leave a couple of inches in the boat when 'on station'. It is clinker. For the winter I attempt to get the thing dry and de-salted before putting it in the garage. I guess what I want to do now is to get it dry enough to varnish. Alth...

I've started to strip the ply side decks of my dinghy prior to re-varnishing. The varnish was starting to lift in places. In one area I stripped down to bare wood (heat gun) and the following day it had darkened and felt damp to touch. Upon further investigation, a good lick that is, it appears to b...

Also noye Batt sail and Chichester Harbour sticker in first pic (East Head behind?). I'd suggest this hasn't n
been in France that long.

WWSC on the transom. West Wittering SC where only locals can join. I am something of a Coventry Victor afficionado, that is a small post war one (based on removable cylinder heads). I'd love to see the Hotchkiss water jet, they made some great cars (and trucks) and I am currently rebuilding a waterj...

Once my back has improved I will send a search party into the attic in an attempt to capture said item.

...nor a racing dinghy, but it needs saving, maybe. A chap in Worthing has had this in his front garden for many years. It is a 13ft Sussex Beach Boat built by Lowers of Newhaven in, I guess, the 40s or 50s. As such it is a rare survivor of a working clinker dinghy. It has a 'lute' stern, centreboar...

Of interest maybe? That Shearwater kit looks fun. http://www.vmyg.org.uk/index.htm In the attic I have a lovely carvel built keelboat signed by E Bostock of Wallasey. It is around 3ft long and probably from the 30s/40s/50s?. I had thought to restore it but suspect it is best left. On one side the va...

Try Google.

This is the first thing I came to:

http://www.gunfleetsailingclub.co.uk/gs ... sea-ranger

One has attended CVRDA meetings this year.

Reciprocating saw. I managed to get a Reliant Scimitar down to the tip in this way (well the body only).

If the unmentionable is full of foam it might get quite messy!

Quite fun though for those with a mean streak.