Dream Classic Dinghy

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Dream Classic Dinghy

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If you could have any CVRDA eligible dinghy what would you choose. I'm greedy and would want several Lady Helmsman and the original wooden FD Super....docious.Sailed Grahams Super....350 and would have loved to have owned her. Hellcat no.3 kept in N.Ireland in a custom built boathouse even has the original sheets and is immaculate.
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ooh ooh I dont know. Spriteful as she goes upwind so well. The IC I so very nearly bought off Stu and never did. Shoestring has to be on my list. An FD, a 5o, someone to maintain them all for me..
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In many ways I think I own mine! Having sailed a Fairey Finn when I was a teenager as the most competitive Finn I could afford it's great to be sailing one again. I thought I'd want a wooden Taylor Finn but haven't been tempted to part from my Fairey.

However, if I had a 21' long garage I think I would have bought the 1960s FD I saw for sale a few years back. Either that or a Jollyboat.
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An International 12 - not sure why, but there is something about them - not even seen one in the flesh.
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that's one ambition I've succeeded in achieving 8)

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Isn't that the fun of classic dinghies....

If you said 'what classic car' would you like....or 'what classic bike' the list would be full of things that would be just impossible to find, or impossible to afford.

The beauty of a 'dream classic dinghy' is if you have a look around....you can most probably have it....and not for too much money either.

If I had the infinite size garage....what would I put in it?

Not much different to what I have now.

A couple of Jollyboats....a couple of ICs (one 50s one 70s)....a couple of Merlins (one skinny and one wide)....a Firefly, a duckling....maybe a Fairey 505. Don't want a 14 (been there, done that).....really not sure what else I would like.

I would certainly have a couple of sculling boats. I adore my Phelps and could easily buy another...or a double-scull.

After that, if money and space were no problem, then I guess one or two of the metre classes - most probably a Skerry Cruiser....but by now of course I am both outside 'dinghy' and outside my budget!

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"Swallow", Superdocious and Lady Helmsman. I would not be sailing without their existence and for the writing about them I read in 1969 - 72
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Rupert wrote:An International 12 - not sure why, but there is something about them - not even seen one in the flesh.
Rupert - make your dream come true! Contact me and I'll try to fix you up with a boat to sail in the forthcoming championships at Bracciano, Italy. We're expecting over 120 boats at this event which takes place in mid-July.
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Oh go on Rupert!

that would be a fantastic experience.

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Steve wrote:
Rupert wrote:An International 12 - not sure why, but there is something about them - not even seen one in the flesh.
Rupert - make your dream come true! Contact me and I'll try to fix you up with a boat to sail in the forthcoming championships at Bracciano, Italy. We're expecting over 120 boats at this event which takes place in mid-July.
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That is a fantastic offer Steve, thank you! Sadly, work and family stuff makes it tricky to get to sail at Whitefriars as much as I would like, let alone Italy. However, Kathryn, my wife, is an Italian speaker, and we have been planning on a trip to Italy in 2011 - I may well try and sway her to an area where I would be able to make contact with International 12 sailors and arrange something...

Thank you again for the offer!
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As part of our efforts to 'spread the word' we provide a small number of boats for 'visitors'. These are available at certain regattas in Holland, Italy and Turkey...
Rupert: Sorry you can't manage the Bracciano event, - but I'll be happy to put you, (or anyone else), in touch with Int 12 sailors when you next visit the Netherlands, Italy or Istanbul.
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I feel I have also achieved my dream in that I have the Finn I coveted for years, and having restored and enjoyed the FD 'Superdocious', even if it was in its last evolution, I am happy, but I am looking forward to getting both the Finn and the very tatty FD 365 into the condition they deserve to be.
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The National 18 thread has made me realize I'd love one of them, too, but a Proctor designed GRP one, rather than an Uffa Ace. Too many rivets! That would intimidate the Wayfarers on the startline!
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We had one turn up at the SGP one year and even the FD sailors were saying it was scary.
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Well.... maybe I'd a sad old ******** but I feel that I have my 'dream fleet' now!

An spot on, wooden Contender, made from strip planked cedar.....

A 505 - as I have said on many occasion, simply the best all round dinghy that has ever been made. There are faster boats - sure, cooler, more modern skiffs - cannot argue with that, but there is just nothing to beat a 505 across the whole spectrum of sailing conditions. I've watched a five O ghost around a reservoir, beating the specialised lake boats, yet the same boat thrashed around an open sea couse in conditions that were at the extreme end of the scale - a day that saw the skiffs either ashore, broken or simply unable to make it downwind.

Remember the last day of the Olympics, the medal race for the 49ers? There have been 505 worlds in places such as Durban, Kiel and San Francisco where that would have been one of the 'better days'....... so yes, the 505 has to be a dream boat

and finally.........

a classic Merlin. In the absence of 3199, a Smokers delivers up an expereince that is as good a 'sail' as anything. Like the 505, the merlin does everything well and though 'out-moded' by the skiff revolution, is still a wonderful boat.


I'd love to have access to a ghost, Typhoon...GP14 even - but for me, the three boats I would want to own - I own already!

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