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A regatta to celebrate 100 years of the International 12 Foot Dinghy Class

  Main photo: the 2011 International 12 Foot World Cup racing at Venice, attracted over 100 entries from 10 (photo: James Robinson Taylor); Sylvia, built in Switzerland in the 1920s; recent Dutch championships (photo: Hanneke Gilissen) West Kirby Sailing Club … Continue reading

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Pathé newsreel films – including the ‘red boats’ of Brixham, boat building on the Thames, and making the Firefly dinghy

The British Pathé website has some charming bits and pieces of old film, not least this one of the Brixham sailing trawlers racing in a regatta more than 80 years ago. From 1950, here’s a great old clip about a boat building family on … Continue reading

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Good Wood Boat clinker built dinghies at this year’s Beale Park Boat Show

Good Wood Boat will be showing two clinker built dinghies – a new National Redwing and a restored Tideway – at the 2011 Beale Park Boat Show. Redwing R249 designed by Uffa Fox in 1938 was built by Good Wood … Continue reading

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