Actually, it’s a Soling, and it is free to a good home – if you bag it today. Thi picture is a few years old, and the boat is lying at Edinburgh.
Read about Solings here.
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Actually, it’s a Soling, and it is free to a good home – if you bag it today. Thi picture is a few years old, and the boat is lying at Edinburgh.
Read about Solings here.
We used to have to race against Solings at Blackpool and FleetwoodYC on the Wyre in Lancashire in mixed dinghy fleet handicap racing – sometimes a bit scary in the confines of the river. It was always entertaining when one of them cut it fine near the shore and went aground on a falling tide – panic would break out as safety boats were diverted to tow the stricken Soling off.
This is a sad story but all boats eventually have negative real value even fairly modern fibreglass ones but definitely geriatric wooden ones where the factor ‘n’ is a large negative number!