[face=Souvenir Lt BT]I’m English; Jo(hanna) is German. We live in N. France, close to the border with Belgium, where I have worked for over 30 years,- welcome to Europe! We sail Merlins and OK Dinghies, which latter we campaign on the European club circuit. Neither us nor our boats are the youngest; I worked out that in 2007 the combined age of us and our OK’s went over the two centuries mark![/face]
[face=Souvenir Lt BT]We were attracted to the N12 class since Jo gets osteoporosis in the neck and has trouble keeping her eye on the spinny in the Merlin,- hence a 2 sail boat of ‘standing’. Tim had done an amazing restoration job on Gnasher; the only things we have changed are the tranny flaps & repainted name. Jo’s verdict first time out was, ’what a wonderful little boat!’, with which I concur, though just as challenging,- and rewarding,- to sail as the Merlin. [/face]
[face=Souvenir Lt BT]Gnasher atracts a lot of interest at our club, where the editor of Yachting Sud has asked me to write a piece on the N12 class(in french);- I previously did one for Merlins.[/face]
[face=Souvenir Lt BT]We are very happy to be in the class, and have plans to come over to the UK when work obligations permit;- probably means when retired, but not too far away.[/face]
Rod & Jo Andrew-Becker, 1, Chemin de la Noire Femme, Taisnières s/Hon, F-59570; Tel +33 327 68 81 35.