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Hi Everyone. 
Desperately looking for a single bottomed glass or composite 12 or a boat with a VERY deep double floor as I can't get on with helming a standard double bottomed boat.
Looking for something on the lines of a Ridge baggy,  Design 8, single bottom Crusader, Freak out or something with a little history to it.
Have Babel Fish 3492 which happy to px if anybody wants a very fast upgrade.
Want to get back into sailing a 12 as single handed sailing is just not as fun. Hoping to do a few events again with the right boat.
Anything hidden in the garage, boat park let me know on here. Really appreciated
Stuart N3492
            Ex 3546, 3246, 3317, 3114, 1826

Why is there no PY number for N12 in the 2025 list just published by the RYA

Stuart N 3492

They were used quite successfully on a number of merlin rockets in the late 80s. Diamond Smiles was fitted with them for adjusting the shrouds, were fitted on tracks like a number of 12s have, and I think John Turners Passion did too. Theory was it took all the load out of the Hull as the master cylinder could be located wherever you wanted it to go.
Think cost was a major issue.  Most yachts use hydraulics as the norm.

My outhaul is connected to a cleat on the boom on 3546. Easy for the crew to adjust but not too bad for the helm to change either.
Kicker worth having continual. Everything else I don't bother.
Stuart

Brooks  Brothers, Heybridge

Ben...  contact Simon Hipkins. He sourced some sycamore from a huge timber yard in Maldon when he built Shades of Grey. I remember him being quite particular in using sycamore rather than maple.  Cant remember why but the grain is very different.
Stuart

Any updates Angus?

Any update on entries?

Thank you to our Chair... George for a fabulous weekend for the 85th Anniversary...shame the wind on Sunday didn't come out to play.
Had a thoroughly enjoyable time.
Thanks also to Lucy for all your hard work
Thanks to the Miatts for their contribution to the event and for the great company on Friday night camping.... if you haven't camped at a twelve event it's your loss.
Hope Graham Miatts ankle is recovering after his perfect dive over a groundsheet. Very elegant 10/10.
More Thanks to Michael Jackson
And thanks to Northampton Sailing Club for making us so welcome once more.Stuart N3546

Who is planning on going. We will be there in N3546. Cant wait. Been too long since we have done a 12 event.

Looks like N3546 will be there even if I'm not in it!!
Stuart

Hi everybody.
I really want to replace my main halyard as the one I have now seems too hard and too shiny and tends to slip in the cleat whenever I pull the Cunningham on.
It also seems too big a diameter.
What do other people use.
Looking for recommendations.
Stuart N3546

Hi everybody...
Looking to purchase some new boots.
I love the aigle style of boots but unfortunately aigle dont produce them any more so I bought the closest thing I could get which were the gill competition...well never again...
So 18 months later it's back on the hunt for comfortable, robust and practical boots for National 12 sailing week in and week out.
Any suggestions and more importantly personal feedback really appreciated.
Stuart
N3546

Unfortunately, having not been sailed for a number of years Grimly Fiendish has been decommissioned.  I spent a morning boat bimbling and stripped all the fittings off her.
Bit of a sad day as she did get me back into sailing twelve again after a ten year break

Yes... must watch the rugby