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829 Southdrive
My Excuse
- Baydog
- New Jersey, Sailing, Food, Family, and anything I think is interesting at the time make up the contents of this blog. Bear with me, I'm still learning.
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Have A Great Weekend!1 year ago
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All the way to Reedy Creek5 years ago
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Peru10 years ago
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This boat has the lines of the old Fairey Marine Fire Fly, which my dad bought and built from a kit. Cold-moulded mahogany plywood (is the way I remember it), again from the 1950's. The plumb bow is reminiscent of the Thistle, which I sailed once or twice, and the International 14, which I owned and raced in the 1970's. As a matter of fact, the insignia on the main is the Int 14 insignia, at that time, at least. My boat, of course, was fibreglass, and not nearly as fast as current I-14 hulls.
ReplyDeleteThe International 14 is a descendant of the Norfolk 14, can't exactly remember the history but I recall an old boat Cecile which was a Norfolk boat from about 1910 competing as a classic with all the hot 14's a few years ago - didn't do too badly even with her lug rig.
ReplyDeleteI'm also doing some research on Morgan Giles - the Teignmouth museum has sold plans dating back to 1920's - we're down that way in April and plan to spend a few hours in their archive