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N3398


Name: Arctic Fox

Design: Design 8

Designer: Phil Morrison

Year built: 1994

Build type: Professional

Builder: Ovington Boats

Construction: Foam sandwich

Hull type: Single Bottom

ntoa
26-Feb-2007

The life of N3398 Arctic Fox.?? Design: Design 8, designed by: Phil Morrison in 1987
Previous boat names: Charlotte Sometimes,?Full Circle, Fantastic Mr Fox.

Phil Brown
01-Mar-2007

Feb 07. Now owned by Phil and Dawn Brown and sailing at Spinnaker (and beyond). Lightweight (family) crews also available for the right conditions!

Sold to us by Vyv Game at Starcross. Any earlier history and photos?
Was originally named Charlotte Sometimes and does feature in the handbook.

According to Ovingtons, one of 6 (?) built by them in a female mould. Epoxy and Divinacell and would have been vacuumed and possibly cooked.

It's a great boat and really looking forward to sailing

So, look out guys, we'll be after you . . .
. . just as soon as I work out what all these strings do (book2)



See you out there(sunny)

Tim L
08-Mar-2007

Boat may have had something of a head on altercation with an Exe navigation mark due to supposedly competent 12 helm showing off while rudderless sailing...can't think who that might be...


THG
08-Mar-2007

Didn't show any damage in the pic ;D

Phil Brown
08-Mar-2007

And no visible signs on the boat either, I've just been out and checked!(shock)

Phil Brown
22-Mar-2007

Now renamed

"Fantastic Mr Fox"

Antony
11-May-2007

Charlotte Sometimes was owned from new by Jon Ibbotson. I think, although he or Charlotte (his sister), might correct me that the name is a reference to a song by (perhaps) The Cure. The boat won a lot of open meetings in the time that they owned her, I mean lots and lots, before the lure of a Double Bottom took them in the direction of a Waller Chapter.

Jon sold her to a very nice guy at Grafham who got too involved in childrens sailing to ever have time to travel with her.

Antony Gifford

Phil Brown
14-May-2007

That guy at Grafham was Peter Saxton.

Not sure when it made its way down to the West Country.

Phil Brown
08-Aug-2009

Some people think that sailing at Spinnaker is only about light winds . . . .

Phil Brown
08-Aug-2009

Oh look, there's the cameraman, boat flat, smile and sit out!

Phil Brown
28-Nov-2009

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Phil Brown
28-Nov-2009

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Phil Brown
28-Nov-2009

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Tom HIll
21-Mar-2010

Bought by me from Phil and Dawn Brown and being sailed at Twickenham YC. Re-named Arctic Fox she is my second National 12 and brings the club fleet back up to 6 boats.
Pictures from her first race at Twickenham:




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