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- Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:18 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: MR 950 Shake down.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9408
Re: MR 950 Shake down.
When you get your "Rubber", (They are not rubber are they, but God knows what they are made of and does it matter we all understand rubber!) universal tiller extension joint you will save yourself a possible and uneccesary breakdown at some time in the future if you de-mount it after saili...
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:03 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Bosham last Weekend
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6656
Bosham last Weekend
Looks as though Bosham held a very succesful Vintage regatta anyone there from the CVRDA? http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=152628
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:52 pm
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Old International 14 Dinghy
- Replies: 25
- Views: 28403
Re: Old International 14 Dinghy
This will give you somewhere to start. http://gbr.international14.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=6&Itemid=9 without being contentious, I hope, I like painted hulls in dinghies especially moulded ones unless the veneer is laid fore and aft and very well matched. It is a...
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 4:28 pm
- Forum: Boats and bits for sale
- Topic: Int Moth Hull - Free
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8976
Re: Int Moth Hull - Free
David H is correct a boat is a boat, Oppie to J Class and above. Twin hulls may be different as may asymetric skiffs who very seldom sail square down wind.
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:16 pm
- Forum: Boats and bits for sale
- Topic: Int Moth Hull - Free
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8976
Re: Int Moth Hull - Free
And another way of putting it was as Peter Scott and Beecher Moore both told me, just pretend the mast is a broomstick and you are balancing it on your nose and steer to stay under it it's then instinctive.
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:18 am
- Forum: Boats and bits wanted
- Topic: Merlin rocket
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12667
Re: Merlin rocket
Chris they never went right down, I think that boat was Cirrus by the way. Built in tanks were banned from about 1949 (After the O'brien Kennedy smooth skin double bottomed boat) untill the spring of 1966 when Tony Lane had a bulkhead glassed into 1926 as a authorised experiement we passed it as a r...
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:06 am
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: MR 950 Shake down.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9408
Re: MR 950 Shake down.
I am sure rupert has the Rols royce solution both practical and semi if not totally permenant two things Chippendale did not varnish the inside of his plate cases, he used a rather pernicious form of Cuprinol or similar which might even at this late age react with epoxy if any got right through, als...
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:53 pm
- Forum: Boats and bits wanted
- Topic: Merlin rocket
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12667
Re: Merlin rocket
You are a fortunate man - but then you know that, I was by the way being jocular in the interests of Glasnost and Peristrioka.
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:50 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Oulton Week 2010
- Replies: 115
- Views: 48180
Re: Oulton Week 2010
Just to point out boats CVRDA qualified are available to borrow, another excuse gone!!!!
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:49 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: 2010 confirmed locations and dates
- Replies: 76
- Views: 30174
Re: 2010 confirmed locations and dates
Just to remind you of the availability of local Vintage Boats to borrow so the excuses for not coming are getting less credible.
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:43 pm
- Forum: CVRDA organisation
- Topic: AGM Proposal
- Replies: 43
- Views: 50938
Re: AGM Proposal
Not that I am proposing anything but is it possible to clarify the date by which proposed and seconded items for inclusion and members of the commitee officers etc need to be delivered to the secretary for this years AGM also I know when and where it is but is there a formal notice?
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:39 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: MR 950 Shake down.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9408
Re: MR 950 Shake down.
I hate to banter with my headache and temple throbbing (As my six year old daughter pointed out nearly 30 years ago it's the Dinner Jacket that gives the headache! But my ephasis was on properly contructed!
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:35 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Early International Moths
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13409
Re: Early International Moths
It's the old story og great grandads spade still original just had four new blades and six new handles of course you can rebuild it's ridiculous to decide otherwise. But then common sense increasingly seem to be less present rather than the jealousy and bigotry which increasingly come into this vint...
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:29 pm
- Forum: Boats and bits wanted
- Topic: Merlin rocket
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12667
Re: Merlin rocket
ED, Presumably to quote MB you couldn't get away your wife wouldn't let you! DH I don't know if the rain reached Hamble but it didn't arf pour in Goucestershire where we were recovering after a day at Henley and then a hectic drive to Gloucester for a dance which ended at dawn today. I hope you did ...
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:04 pm
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Identification - USA boat
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9162
Re: Identification - USA boat
I am told I will just pick up my bed and walk, no waiting for the screws and plates to settle down, they let it set and stitch you up, droop a collar size or two which will save a fortune next time I am in Jermyn Street!