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- Thu May 05, 2011 8:08 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Ply
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2624
Re: Ply
Thing is if you get it to a close match now by the time it has had a seasons sunshine it stands out again as it fades / doesn't fade at the same rate.....
- Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:42 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: 1960 Sailing Tutorial on YouTube
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2390
Re: 1960 Sailing Tutorial on YouTube
I don't think the Ent with a rear deck is an Ent.... Looks like a GP14 to me.
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:22 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: This one's going to be a challenge...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3801
Re: This one's going to be a challenge...
Has a look of an Osprey in the forefoot and foredeck but not clinker and 4 foot too short so not that but something similar by Ian Procter? What though I have no idea
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:04 pm
- Forum: Boats and bits wanted
- Topic: Need some of these
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2837
Re: Need some of these
Posted this afternoon Steve - hope they are what you need
Graham
Graham
- Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:05 pm
- Forum: Boats and bits wanted
- Topic: Need some of these
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2837
Re: Need some of these
I have about 15 I can post to you - mine are 18 mm ish across the inside. Just PM me your address if yheat would be enough.
Graham
Graham
- Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:29 pm
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: 4.10 Class.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1442
Re: 4.10 Class.
No Idea but I am heading South to Sunderland Yacht Club to finish a yacht repair next week - If you need any pics or anything let me know
Graham
Graham
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:40 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Thorough cleaning of covers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2132
Re: Thorough cleaning of covers
I have read that Thompsons water seal for brickwork is great for re-proofing covers and spinnakers at half the cost of Fabsil.... I have not tried it though!
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:29 pm
- Forum: Banter
- Topic: Rats, Moths and Mould...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10957
Re: Rats, Moths and Mould...
We have to remove sails from boats in September as the mice start to make winter nests. One year Chris Herbert left his pink spinnaker in the chute of his Osprey - when he rounded the windward mark and hoisted the lake was scattered with pink confetti whilst he reached away powered by a large pink d...
- Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:03 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Why does my Epoxy come out all orange peely?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6162
Re: Why does my Epoxy come out all orange peely?
It is also possible to get small bubbles forming and bursting to leave the surface dimpled if the epoxy gasses off whilst curing - thin coats in a reasonable curing temp helps with this but to be honest with me this sometimes happens and sometimes doesn't - I have not tracked down the cause but if I...
- Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:44 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: displacement and stability?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5909
Re: displacement and stability?
Think there must be a lot more too it than weight - one of the tippiest boats I have sailed (I have always been too large for a Moth....) is an RS Vision - this lump of thermomoulded soapdish weighs a fair old bit and is quite beamy and slow. Why it is so tippy I don't know. My Miracle which weighs ...
- Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:33 pm
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Can anyone help please? The Osprey, some information?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2985
Re: Can anyone help please? The Osprey, some information?
Of the top of my head and therefore probably completely wrong..... As far as I am aware there was only ever one MK 1 built for the Olympic Trials against the Flying Dutchman and Coronet. The Mk II was the production version built by or supplied as a kit from Bell Woodworking. The MK IIa lost the rea...
- Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:26 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Not an Osprey?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5995
Re: Not an Osprey?
My "Racing" Osprey was tweaked to the nearest millimeter when she was built by John Claridge. She has two large sections of her rocker built up with epoxy and microballoons to get her in class. Funnily enough her 20 year old hull shape is very similar to the latest mark 4 Ospreys.
- Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:05 pm
- Forum: Boats and bits for sale
- Topic: anyone want a vintage fireball?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1415
Re: anyone want a vintage fireball?
Nessa - instead of cam cleats you take a couple of turns of the genoa sheet around the snubbing winch, which is like a ratchet block in that it turns only one way. You can then easily hold the load on the sheet. The old Foreland one designs that were sailed at Broadstairs all had snubbing winches. A...
- Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:35 pm
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Bill Kempner on Fireball
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10648
Re: Bill Kempner on Fireball
Ted Heath was presented with a set of Rolly Tasker fireball sails by the Australian government whilst on a visit there. My father who sailed FB No. 20 at Broadstairs acquired these sails from Ted and still has them in the cupboard under the stairs for some reason. Unfortunatly it would appear FB20 w...
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:57 am
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Bell woodworking catalogue of boats
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1689
Re: Bell woodworking catalogue of boats
No but I do have a late 60's copy so if you are interested in anything in particular I could scan copies....