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by LASERTOURIST
Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:55 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Competition time
Replies: 13
Views: 5966

Re: Competition time

Somebody cut in halves an old GRP kitchen sink or washbasin??? :lol:
by LASERTOURIST
Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:43 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Double vision
Replies: 25
Views: 12360

Re: Double vision

It is indeed a MK2 Fennec (the word means a small , agile desert fox with tall pointed ears, hence the logo in the sail)
Nothing to fo with fennel (in any sense of the word or fennet (whatever it is :lol: )
Seems Dupuy Chautard had found an active importer in GB....
by LASERTOURIST
Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:48 pm
Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
Topic: Finn Wooden Boom Repair
Replies: 27
Views: 12996

Re: Finn Wooden Boom Repair

Seems that the "Whale" grade, suitable for boat fittings is also intended for gears....but perhaps not gears running at 4000rpm for 200 000 Km...but as this is an industrial supplier maybe they sell big quantities , not small chunks
by LASERTOURIST
Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:36 pm
Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
Topic: Finn Wooden Boom Repair
Replies: 27
Views: 12996

Re: Finn Wooden Boom Repair

In France Tuphnol (suppose the name comes from phenol as it is phenolic resin - a rather poisonous chemical- on cloth) is called Celoron...don't know why....there was a marine hardware company that was called CELINOX...all the products (very similar to Gibb) clleats , blocks...etc were made of Celor...
by LASERTOURIST
Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:05 am
Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
Topic: Finn Wooden Boom Repair
Replies: 27
Views: 12996

Re: Finn Wooden Boom Repair

Yes, Tuphnol was the hi tech material in the 50's for blocks, sheaves, cleats (gets quick wear on the teeth though)... It is basically (sometimes even cotton) hard presed and saturated with phenolic resin, and some qualities are harder than most qualities of wood (and denser than water...) It is sti...
by LASERTOURIST
Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:45 pm
Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
Topic: Finn Wooden Boom Repair
Replies: 27
Views: 12996

Re: Finn Wooden Boom Repair

Hello! On old OK's or Finns some people used Tuphnol strips or dometimes brass or stainless steel to protect the boom in the mortise/ gooseneck zone, along with a primitive vang made with a solid Tuphnol wedge un a thick stainless steel band that was forced in place by a block / purchase arrangement...
by LASERTOURIST
Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:11 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Double vision
Replies: 25
Views: 12360

Re: Double vision

DA GWELAN is the trademark (means seagull in breton, i suppose). Though i've never been customer , friends of mine were and say the guy is serious. (he does that as a part time job after retirement and dosent count his working hours) http://www.dagwelan.com/contact-deriveur.php He is in southern Bri...
by LASERTOURIST
Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:45 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Built like a tank
Replies: 4
Views: 4330

Re: Built like a tank

With double bottom boats, there is little air left when turtled..as a sailing instructor had quite a job wilh a turtled laser 16 in a fresh Mistral , half panicking youngsters, and the rather green apprentice instructor /helmsman would'nt duck too pull the centreboard out...and whats more the cleat ...
by LASERTOURIST
Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:10 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Built like a tank
Replies: 4
Views: 4330

Re: Built like a tank

The description seems to fit with the Windy (of german origin , design and built by Leo Bruckner, but also produced in France)...quite a handful of a boat, heavy and very wide, but of course it can be anything else , hard to tell without photos
by LASERTOURIST
Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:07 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Double vision
Replies: 25
Views: 12360

Re: Double vision

http://www.voilesportive.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2267 http://www.voilesportive.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4446 Strangely enough , two recent topics about Fennec / Fox / Duo on a french dinghy forum (only a sketch of the fennec though) for non french readers: there were 3 marks of the fennec MK1 w...
by LASERTOURIST
Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:34 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Double vision
Replies: 25
Views: 12360

Re: Double vision

In France there were very few comparatively few dinghies made with the wooden cold molded process (while in England there was an industrial tool eg the Mosquito / Vampire works, to make cold molded wooden boats on an industrial scale) The prewar and wartime boats were either conventional carvel buil...
by LASERTOURIST
Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:19 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Double vision
Replies: 25
Views: 12360

Re: Double vision

Aloys Roland was from belgium and had his own boatyard manufacturing splendid wooden cold molded
Europes (much in the style of later Cristallis) but the Duo was made in France (Dupuy Chautard was in he Marne , some 150 Km east of Paris
by LASERTOURIST
Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:01 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Double vision
Replies: 25
Views: 12360

Re: Double vision

http://www.dagwelan.com/upload/photo0127.jpg http://www.dagwelan.com/upload/photo0129.jpg http://www.dagwelan.com/upload/photo0128.jpg http://www.dagwelan.com/upload/photo0130.jpg This is the Duo , and ist is such a rarity that Da Gwelan ( aprofessional restorer and a good one) mistook it for a 445 ...
by LASERTOURIST
Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:43 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Double vision
Replies: 25
Views: 12360

Re: Double vision

There are indeed a few Duos still around (one has been restored by Da Gwelan in Brittany , though the guy mistook it for a 445 and advertized it as a 445 on his second hand restored dinghies website another is in Ablon (upper seine) and recently someone discovered another one and asked me about...it...
by LASERTOURIST
Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:37 am
Forum: Boats and bits for sale
Topic: Are the sellers joking?
Replies: 9
Views: 3902

Re: Are the sellers joking?

Well as we say here : Faire et défaire, c'est toujours travailler ...if installing a phone booth on an old racing boat is the toll to pay for having the boat converted to a second (lacklustre but useful ) life, and escaping destruction .... And then having the phone booth removed when the old thing ...