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When first built, Mumble was open-decked, sported a centre mainsheet and had a mind of her own (subsequently cured by Roger Cherrill using a much larger rudder). But it made for some interesting sailing - in a blow at sea, you had to sit back to stop her swamping upwind and you had to sit forward to stop her corkscrewing downwind. What's more, tacking was a bit iffy - I remember sitting luffed and stationary with no control on the start line at Brancaster, and only managing to get away once she started moving backwards. Mind you, we won the race - everyone else  must have fallen in.

David is kind enough to indicate that she was my deliberate adaption of Phil's Whisper design. Regrettably, I can't claim this honour - when Dick H and I lifted her off the mould we didn't put stretchers across her for a few days and she "setlled". On measuring her it was obvious that she wasn't a Whisper so she acquired the name Mumble. Did OK at times - Roger Cherrill won the Secretary's Cup at QMSC in the late seventies.

I built Wid Goose Chase in 1977 and enjoyed a few years of competition before leaving the country. As far as I know, the moulded hull shape was spot on when built, so if it's wrong now, it's maybe an age problem.
She wasn't a sea boat, although we did get a 9th at Tynemouth in the year of the storm (last boat to finish without capsizing, but this was probably down to the abject terror of her helmsman) and 3rd in one of the Burton Week races at Whitstable the following year. Inland she produced a number of results.
I last met her at Ringwood a few years back when she appeared sound but was showing her age a bit.
Hope you have as much fun out of her as I did.