CVRDA

Web use increased with lockdown and visitors to our website are mainly (90%) from the UK but the next two highest number of visitors are from the USA and Australia where there is a good classic dinghy scene. The most popular topic this year has been varnishing and how to do it and this has been refl...

Does anyone have any other points to raise?
Date & place of next meeting: We hope to hold the 2021 AGM and Nationals at Clywedog over the August Bank Holiday

Since we cannot have the usual get together at the Nationals, I propose to hold a forum AGM starting on Tuesday and running for a few days to allow time for comment. If anyone has any CVRDA topics they'd like to discuss, please let me know, otherwise the agenda is: 1. ratify the previous minutes, 2....

The new membership year started on 1 August so with the Nationals cancelled, please could you all help in this difficult year by paying your membership fee or renewal. It's only £10 and it keeps this website and our activities functioning. All you have to do is fill in this form http://www.cvrda.org...

Sandy & I in the van as usual would come. It would be good to manage a suitable socially distanced event and an outside AGM - nothing unusual in that! Self catering wouldn't be difficult, we'd just need parking space for the vans.

The idiots guide to varnishing is a popular article on the main website but similarly what would you tell someone who wanted to do small gelcoat repairs on a boat for the first time?

The idiots guide to varnishing is a popular article on the main website but similarly what would you tell someone who wanted to paint or repaint a boat for the first time?

Have flagged this up on the Wayfarer group on Facebook.

It's the baby brother to the Bobbin and Sailaway dinghies they produced. Same rudder, centreboard and mast design. I knew they made 9ft (Bobbin), 11ft (Sailaway) and 13ft dinghies but hadn't seen this one before.

Sadly, Mike Liggett of Hunts passed away yesterday due to cancer, having been ill for a while. He will be remembered as a true gentleman both on and off the water and a long time vintage Merlin Rocket sailor and CVRDA supporter in his early, original boat Squirrel and later in War Horse. I shall sen...

Lovely pictures. It's on the main website.

I've already got 4 to choose from thanks, out of the 22 boats in our care at present. That's more boats than in Shearwater club!
But if I absolutely had to buy another boat and actually had space and storage for one and the money, it would be the Ghost. But I still think it is too expensive.

Gosh I recognise that boat too - after you sold it Peter, it spent many years at Shearwater and was there until about 2008 ish. Hardly ever used in that time.

And I hope considerably less weight too Keith?

I guess the Falkirk wheel on the Forth & Clyde canal which makes it passable again from Glasgow to Edinburgh.
Though you don't actually need to use the wheel to go on through the lower part of Falkirk to join the Carron by the Kelpies and out to the Forth near Grangemouth.