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Steve, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, if it works it works and who is going to go wandering round the dinghy park in the winter anyway?! I'm trying your 'half tennis ball idea' on Desperation's shrouds at the moment, they tend to get blown off in a strongish wind but in theory at least they m...

Here's a thought.

Over in Emsworth Marina at Harbour Chandlers I think the son of the owner (Jim) has been restoring an Int14, which when I last saw it looked as if it was almost ready to go.

I'd suggest you get in touch and see if you can have a chat and find out more.

Michael

I thought the decks and the surrounding pieces looked a bit odd, decks very plain and a rubbing strip that wasn't a half round. The description says they have just been replaced. Mind you a boat that needed 37 'new timbers' must have seen a spot of action! I think the Twinkle is a bit pointier than ...

For anyone who can be tempted by the much maligned 'cruising dinghy' this is surely one of the prettiest and uncommon too: http://www.findafishingboat.com/listings/view/63580/1 No connection etc, probably too expensive but someone will love her. Plenty of stuff to dream about on the FAFB website and...

one of 'those questions'... OK, so I know that the varnish will not last forever as the boat slides across the supports on the trolley but what do people use to minimise wear? The trolley hasn't got a roller (guess not many do these days), the cradle has a softish plastic covering. I thought of usin...

So is this time to start talking about the slot (on a jib+main boat)? I adopt the 'slacken off everything' approach so long as the sail still has shape and the jib doesn't back the main...or have I just proved that I don't understand anything!? Anyway, I sail single handed a lot. I let the main trav...

Thanks, understood.

On a rope horse the jammers allow you to have the horse, usually called a traveller, loose to centre the boom or tight which causes the mainsheet block to move out more to the sides of the boat. However, a single hander always needs the mainsail off the centre, so the traveller should always be tig...

Surely, Stephen, you need it for your N12 collection, looking through the Nat 12 book L for Leather is no.1023 built 1952. Looks in good condition, an easy(ish) project for someone to get a real vintage wing boat. or this, which is for sale just round the corner from me by Michael Goffe for whom it...

Steve, you need this...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171393706607? ... 1423.l2649

mmmmm.....lovely! Yes, I have another Proctor MkVIII, which I have also heard others refer to as a 'banana boat'. eib If there were only six Mk VIIIs built as I have read somewhere (two Chippendale and four W&C) then we can account for two thirds of the population! Who built yours? But one wond...

Called...''Desperation'!. Proctor MKVIII 1959 I took the boat over from Steve Hawkins a couple of months back. She's a beautiful thing and now ready for the water. https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3925/14728658663_56a4387868_c.jpg DSC00887 by dralowid , on Flickr She's been sharing the garage with a 1...

Yes I've done the drill job but it is a bore (joke), the smell of melting plastic...

I bring the boat in over roughish stuff, and then winching (Cobnor) the softer the better but something solid and squidgy might be the answer.

Sorry to revive this rather dull thread... But...did the standard size of trolley axle/wheel hub change at some point? Am I right in thinking that the axles got ever so slightly smaller and the hubs a wee bit narrower? If there is an 'old size' am I to assume that it is no longer available? One of m...

Saw a ribbed I14 close to completion outside the chandler's at Emsworth Marina today. Tall wooden mast, two sets of cross trees.