Recent content by PeterV

I’m balancing the dinghy over my head, just about to put it on the roof rack. “ Let me help” says a passing dinghy sailor then instantly pushes one end up so that the other end goes down sharply and puts a sizeable dent in the corner of the car’s roof.

Skippers were made well before officials decided we couldn’t work out carrying capacity by common sense, so you will not find a definitive answer, only much later did dinghies start to carry plaques to tell you. 2 in rough water, 4 in flat water should be fine, 6 or even 8 if you’re playing by...

Thanks for the replies, much as I think I suspected. There are very few cruisers in the fleet, most are more specific racing boats, so I think I’ll stick with the NHC and see how it goes. The sails are pretty new and a folding prop is planned for next winter! A new spinnaker may be on the...

I’ve recently started racing my GK29 in an NHC series which also includes IRC results. My boat is very much a cruiser, furling Genoa at about No. 2 size, 3 blade fixed prop and an old spinnaker. I’m not too sure about the ‘personal handicap’ nature of NHC and so I wonder if it’s worth getting...

Many dinghies with bendy masts have this arrangement, as said, it prevents the halyard dropping down when the mast bends. On my wooden Finn mast I pull the halyard to one side of the cleat and let it down from there so it doesn’t recleat.

It’s not a mystery, he explained what he was doing and why on video just before he left.

Diesel isn’t a fire hazard, if a fire melted a plastic diesel tank the diesel would probably put the fire out, as it did for magazine fires in warships during the Falklands war.

I remember sailing between them before the barrier buoys were put around them, early 70s!

For some reason the Lynx looks right. Very well proportioned.

It looks to me like one of the Selway Fisher designs, I think there’s a 14’ and a 16’ version.

If I were you I’d get a quote from Rain and Sun. They make very good covers, I have them for both of my Finns and your price looks way over the top.

It cost me £850 to do the complete interior of my Westerly GK29. As said earlier, the ply panels are very easy to do at home.

I do the same as egbod, halyard has a whipping on it for each reef, that goes in the cleat, halyard doesn’t fall down when I put the crinkle on the ramshorn.

At that size I’d prefer an outboard in a well to an inboard. Have a look at a Hunter Duette, they sail very well, are easy to handle and have a reasonable accommodation .

I too have my doubts. The maintenance costs of almost anything operating in sea water are the reason nearly all wave and tidal generators don’t get past the prototype stage.