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Thanks Alex, my twelve year old son also helped me sort it out (obviously I can build a boat but can't cope with digital technology)! Apparently the sizes of the image files were too large!

A couple of photos of the finished boat. The buoyancy layout isn't quite double bottomed; it's inspired by that used in 3396 with the addition of buoyancy under the thwart. Nevertheless the boat drains very quickly after a capsize and is comfortable to sit in. The rear view shows that like Numinous and Dead Cat Bounce the hull is round at the back and has no flat sections; was Paul Oakey ahead of his time when he designed Wild Front Ear in 1993? The mast is carbon fibre but the boom like the boat is strip planked; it's about two thirds the weight of an alloy one! 
I've been sailing the boat at the Clyde Cruising Club Dinghy Section, Bardowie on Thursday evenings and Loch Lomond Sailing Club at weekends for the past two seasons. However, it's still unmeasured; why does the class no longer have any measurers living north of Cheshire?

One of several photos of 3503 taken during her construction. The main innovation in this boat was the integration of the side decks/gunwales and the hull shell such that together they formed one complete monocoque thus saving considerable time in decking.

Please can someone tell me how to attach an image to a boat database post? I've managed to upload the images to the gallery but can't seem to get one of them to appear on the boat database. I've tried specifying the URL of the image as it appears in the gallery and uploading it directly. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
 
Marcus