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Ok,

It sounds as if the dinner is now sold out at 80!!  Please let me know if you do want to come, we will do our best to accomodate greater numbers (indeed a final recount may reveal the odd spare seat) but to be fair to the caterer she has already been pretty fair with us (I think we initially guided to 50) and so this might not be possible.  I am staggered, and really looking forward to seeing who shows up!

Sailing, we should certainly be able to break the Y&Y threshold for a reportably event!  I am pretty sure you can add:
Myself & Jo,
Fran & Soph
Jon and Jules Brown
Tom & Liz
Jon & Char Ibbotson
This leave plenty to confirm whether they will sail or not, including a large number at the dinner the night before that will come under considerable peer pressure to join in the fun.  I hear that there might even be a couple of surprise entries from West London, but that will have to wait until the day.

Antony

40 for the dinner already, should be over 50 by the time we sit down.  details on the website.

Now for the sailing, which will be a bit earlier than in previous years due to the tide:
Briefing 10.00
Sailing 10.30

It will be a good test of our powers of recovery from the night before.  Chris Brown is PRO once again, and will be expecting to do his usual top job of firing off a number of shotr races so we do not get cold.  Contact me with any further questions.

Come along, it will be fun,
Antony

As I understand it the answer to that is no, these are boats that you can buy from P&B with their brand and reputation at risk.  In fairness to them there are two points:
1.  If the first boat it not to their high standards the next one might come from another new builder and so there is little point advertising the name.
2.  The builder of the new boat is not a builder that has ever built a 12, or indeed until the last few months any racing dinghy, so their name will not have the selling point that Winder had.

The good news is that they are on schedule to have the boat at P&B in 2 weeks, to be fitted out in plenty of time for the Dinghy Show.  I am pretty excited to see it, despite what I have heard about the colour scheme, and assuming that it looks good I suspect that a fresh off-the-shelf product could be just what is needed to kick-start new builds and create a trickle down of good DB boats on to the 2nd hand market.

Antony

The committee met on Saturday and one decision that was taken is as follows:

The survey will remain open until one week after the dinghy show (11th), with a further effort to encourage participation to include the stand at that show.

Please encourage your friends, crews, helms etc to fill in the survey, the results are already pretty interesting.

Antony
N3484

More details on the dinner:

http://www.national12.org/events/2007/RHYC_National_12_Dinner_2007.pdf

Please RSVP as soon as possilbe, there were over 50 there last year and it was great despite the early closure of the bar (rectified for 2007).

Antony

Whoops, on reflection I think I must have sailed her at Burton Wk in both 1990 and 1991 (Paignton)!
Antony

I bought this boat from Ronnie Millar in 1991 or was it 1992, Ronnie having had her from new.  I sold her in late 1993 to Tony Dale at Broxbourne.  N3286 was one of the early epoxy D8s, and so one of the best built and light 12s of her era.  I had a  very happy summer with her sailng with my sister Frances, before being tempted by a one year old Waller Chapter (3384).

Antony Gifford
1/07

I owned this boat briefly, from late 1989 until 1991.  I only managed to sail her in one Burton Wk (Landudno in 1990) before I bought a Design 8 in time for the summer season in 1991.

I believe that she was owned for many years (possibly from new) by Patrick Elcombe, and then for a couple of years in Suffolk by the guy that I bought her from (I cannot remember his name).  She was re-decked by Gerry Ledger while in my ownership.

I sold her to John Hugo who took her up to Scotland.

Antony Gifford
1/07

Dave,
A big thank you for not only lending your boat, but for making her look so good.  I wondered whether you had built another one on the quiet when I saw her shining away.  Thanks also for being the two that stayed late on Sunday to get the boat and the remaining kit out of the show on Sunday.

We are already followiing up a few leads from the show, with more to collate.

I am guessing it was not Cliff (so presumably Steve?) that you met as the ages sound wrong.

To the point that Rick made, the fact that the association pulled it together was in large part down to the efforts of Nigel May and his impressive list of volunteers that turned up to man the stand.  I was a sceptic that was proved totally wrong about the ability to get it all together.

Antony

Llink:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/National-12-wooden-sailing-boat_W0QQitemZ290071215174QQihZ019QQcategoryZ98955QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Before I owned her I believe that one of the Sallis family had her for years before leaving her in a barn for some time.  Nigel Playford rescued her and put her back on the water in the late-80s before selling her to me.

This was my first 12, bought for me by my Father in 1989 and then given to me for my 18th birthday.  It is one of a great generation of lightly but very well-built Bob Hoare boats to the Tigress design.   We took it to Burton Wk at Harwich in 1989 and had a great time learning how to sail on the sea and in a big fleet (although we did also manage to break the mast).

I sold it in 1990 when I got a bit better and wanted a Crusader to be a bit faster downwind.  
Antony Gifford, 01/07

Fatso was one of two boats built by Nigel Waller in 2003, to a new Bim Daser design now called the 'Paradox'.  They have distinctive full width decks from the shroud base back to the transom.

We just about managed to get them afloat in time for Looe Burton Week in 2003, and have since sailed her at Abersoch in '05 and Porthpean in '06.  The boat was lent to Steve Dunn for Weymouth in 2004.

Antony Gifford, 01/07