N3167 Tsunami

[National 12 Webmaster]

The life of N3167 Tsunami. Design: Baggy Trousers, designed by: Robert Peebles in 1980

[ken goddard]

From Ken Goddard
Somebody ought to write the early history of "Tsunami".
All I can tell you is that the boat was sailed at Trent Valley
for a few years in the late 1990's(?) by James Tilley. He took
her to a number of Open Meetings and generally sailed her
very well. I might be able to find the dates for this spell of
ownership.
Ken Goddard
 

[Mr B Sheppard]

In 1994 I purchased the boat from John Tilley of Whitwick whose son James had taken a job abroad. I was told by Kevan Bloor that the boat was very fast and would be a much better boat for us than the Paper Dart that we had at the time 2710 Origami.
It came from a mould of Bicycle Clips 3162 which was also a quick boat.
Straight away the boat was more stable and to us it was like the QE2 in comparison to the Paper Dart. My son & I sailed it at Ogston Reservoir in Derbyshire for about a year before moving to Notts County Sailing Club where there were other Twelves sailing. Unfortunately our timing was off (around 1995) & Peter Shore who was sailing twelves at NCSC had or was about to sell his twelve & move to the Flying Fifteen fleet. Nevertheless we had a few good seasons sailing her some days the weather really suited her & we did very well, sailing through most of the enterprise fleet before the end of the race.
I moved to North Wales in 2001 & my Wife & I sailed her at Llandudno Bay then Llanfairfechan & then Llyn Brenig before giving up altogether & selling her today 7/6/2009.
We suffered a mishap at Llanfairfechan attempting to launch with too much waves & swell which Brian Herring of Dinghy Craft repaired for us. Since then she has had the hull stripped & refurbished with two pack & varnish. Thats the condition she is in today as we wave goodbye to her.
The new owners are Russ Hopkins & family they sail at Tewkesbury, may we wish them well with her and I hope they have as much fun as we have had over the years.
 

[Derek]

Built in Dobson's yard at Sawley by Nigel for David Lyddington who initially sailed her at Rugby from memory. She was by a very long way the prettiest of cold moulded Bagggies. Other boats that came out of that temporary workshop at the time included "42" =3111 also Bicycle Clips 3162. I think Tsunami was triple planked and not sheathed whereas the other boats were double planked, hand faired and then had a thin layer of glass layed over the outside.
She also was built with cappings all over the place like a Rowsell merlin of the time because David, a Merlin sailor didn't want any visible end-grain.
All the other boats were Obeche - a paler, softer and lighter wood than that used on Tsunami which I think was Khaya.
 
Hope that adds a bit of earlier background.
 

[Russyh]

Current Picture of Tsunami.  She is currently under going some much needed TLC, as well as a full refit/ rerig.  I will post some more pics of her finished in a few weeks.  Hopefully with some new rags!