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Looking for a smaller Jib and main for a GP 14 for use when very young people are aboard. Something from an 11 or 12ft dinghy might be good. Certainly don't need to be pristine!

What have you got in your shed/attic/garage?

The use of t&g double diagonal construction is indeed very interesting. I wonder, would it have a sheet of calico covered in white lead between the layers in the RNLI way? Or did the t&g make this unnecessary? Of course a RNLI boat is not ribbed in this way. When working on a lifeboat from 1...

The rigging people down our way (Holman?) have a purpose built mast trailer that seems to spend a lot of time sitting around...

I'll try and find out the overall diameter of these, they look like a good solution.

I have just received this: Graham Cockle <graham@gc-c.co.uk> 12:41 (52 minutes ago) to Thanks to the generosity of John ( I am keeping his surname secret) We have now received the original scale drawing and instruction manual for the Kit-boat 11 Plus sailing dinghy. Although Dobson of Derby built th...

Thanks for the ideas, I need to see what space I have between tyre and launching bars/guides or whatever they are called.

For those of us with heavier boats... My experience is that puncture proof trolley tyres/wheels seem to deform when the boat is too heavy. While at rest they get squashed flat at the bottom and the top becomes loose. Unless someone has found some better ones...? Inflatable trolley tyres seem to have...

Thank you Michael, good to see all the info in one place. One thing that is not mentioned is tyre age. Trailer tyres can look fine when ancient, plenty of tread etc but sometimes you can see cracking in the tread grooves or walls which is presumably the beginning of the end. I think that somewhere o...

Alan, the best training for anticipative (?) braking is an Austin Seven...and in those day a camper was just a camper. The extended trailer bar was the builders solution to trying to keep the towing car's brakes dry when launching. It would have been easier to shorten it, remove the bowsprit and re-...

Not particularly relevant (but nor am I). A few years back when we used to sail that (a Winkle Brig) on Rudyard Lake (after which Mr and Mrs Kipling named their son). Overall length a little on the long side but the camper's brakes would get somewhat warm on the Macclesfield to Whaley Bridge road. h...

Another wooden one...but no rig. It's in Cardiff

http://www.gc-c.co.uk/products_info2.ph ... jkpmbqofo5

My copy of 'Sailing Boat Recognition' by Blandford 1970 also mentions GRP and builders Dobsons Yacht and Boat Builders, Derby.

I've got over the initial excitement of seeing the lots and...if someone in Chichester area wants a Pacer (I don't) I know of one looking for a 'good home' if it hasn't gone already. Grp.

I've made contact with Eric Parkin's daughter. She will look to see what she has in the way of information on the boat in the New Year.

Of course I will share.

To clarify, the search brings up this which has plenty of detail. Looks like over 500 boats, or at lest kits.

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