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Just did a google for traditional signwriters and there are still a few about. Maybe you could get a bulk discount, line them up at a vintage event...

Eesh... I was planning to come down and poke some shiny boats but unfortunately I'm at a wedding in Perth that weekend. Harumph.

He's right you know, just about the cheapest petrol on or off the M'way in the area.

I'm not saying it'll definitely work, but it's worth a shot.

It sometimes helps if the rope can't rotate (not necessarily, but worth a try) to stop it from winding itself up as much. Imagine a hose with kinks in it, you get them out rotating the free end of the hose. Take all the twist (kinks) out of your mainseet, fix both ends, it should be a lot less twist prone, and it also shouldn't be able to tie any particularly interesting knots in itself.

Have you tried tieing the other end to something. It sometimes helps if the other end of the mainsheet isn't free to rotate.

Right, who mentioned Gryphon...

Surely the important question is what colour you should paint it.

'The freeboard looks all wrong, lets try it the other way up...'

'John went to extreme lengths to hide the t-foil on his centreboard'

T-Foil... Trolley... It's an easy mistake to make...

I thought Double Bottoms were meant to alleviate the problems of swamping and waterlogging...:X

I'm trying to remember anything the Laser guy said when i went to his talk earlier in the year... Avoid firing ranges, if i remember rightly he got shouted at Chesil beach, and injured by a RIB at one near Milford Haven, even though he had told the Coastguard where he was going. And watch out for Neds. But it sounds like there is a lot more shore support for this endeavour.

Oh there's some good pictures in there... Makes me all jealous...

When I say shin pads I should ave clarified as in football shin pads...