Old Gaffers weekend

We welcomed 15 OGA entrants to the club over this weekend and all had a great day on the water with a good breeze. TSC’s Richard Ham and Nick Lynn won the ‘Hotshots class sailing against Dirty Girty, a ketch with carbon fibre masts and laminate spritsails and ‘Fyre’ a stunning gaff rigged 505 dinghy with carbon spars. The…

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Building an OK (2)

As we headed into 2016, work continued to complete the jig. Stringers were added for the chines and gunwhales and the whole jig was screwed to the floor and trued up. Then I measured the whole thing again and was still happy that the dimensions were ‘OK’. Did I mention in chapter 1 that ‘CNC’ means ‘Computer Numerical Control?….

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