How to build a Firefly in five minutes.

[boguing]

And the man himself (Uffa) makes a cameo appearance.

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/firefly-racing-dinghy/query/wildcard

 

[LittleSister]

Great stuff!

I used to have one, about 30 years old at the time, IIRC. After a years ownership the varnish needed a bit of touching up, and I foolishly decided to revarnish the whole of the outside of the hull and deck. I was a bit slower than the chap in the film!

 

[saltylegs]

Nice, I think I saw it before but can't remember what the bigger hull in the background at about 3 min 12 was,maybe a Fairy mobo or something similar.

 

[boguing]

Pah, that's nothing. Try stripping a clinker Merlin!

Must say that the varnish was very thick - I'd have thinned it a lot, but I may well have been an idiot all these years?

 

[prv]

Must say that the varnish was very thick - I'd have thinned it a lot, but I may well have been an idiot all these years?

Thicker it goes on, the more protection you have, surely?

Certainly the first few coats need to be thinned to help them soak into the wood (I do 1:1, then 3:1, then 10:1 varnish:thinners for the first three coats). But once that's done you want to be building up film thickness, not spreading a thin layer and then letting most of that evaporate off anyway. Obviously not so much in one coat that you get runs, though.

Pete

 

[boguing]

Nice, I think I saw it before but can't remember what the bigger hull in the background at about 3 min 12 was,maybe a Fairy mobo or something similar.

The soft chines make me think Ray Hunt and the Christina? Alan Burnard's were harder chines I think.