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Firefly-in-build
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Mk.II Construction Neville Cole 2
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Mk.II-Construction-Neville-Cole-6
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Atalanta-and-Airborne-Lifeboat-Mk-II-lines-comparison
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Mark-I-Lifeboat-fitted-to-a-Warwick-ASR-Stage-A-aircraft.
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Atalanta-on-Warwick
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Atalanta in the air
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‘The War that never was’ by Duff Hart-Davis
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Trailing an Atalanta with a Land Rover in the 1960s
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Cradle lift set up
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Manoeuvring
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Neighbours
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Elle loaded – heading for Apuldram
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Bosham
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Fairey Duckling
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RRS Discovery
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A15 Artemis II with her raised aft deck
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A15 Artemis II main cabin
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A15 Artemis II in slings – note the aft deck and rudder
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A15 Artemis II Aft Cabin
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2021 Southampton Boat Show – Core Contacts
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T8 1966 The World Cup – not as good as sailing
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A5 A5 Cockpit Seats
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A5 A5 Cockpit Seats
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A5 A5 Cockpit Seats
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A5 A5 Cockpit Seats
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“Wake up skipper, the dinghy’s awash”
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Alistair Currey visited. His father was Charles, olympic sailor and lynch pin of Fairey Marine
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Well, apart from Joile Brise
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The AOA were positioned alongside the OGA (Association for Gaff Rig Sailing). The OGA boat was the marvellous Golant Gaffer, ‘Satellite’.
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Old friends – Jeremy, nephew of Alan whose ‘Sujanwiz’ was much of the inspiration for the Atalantas
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Old friends – Jeremy, nephew of Alan whose ‘Sujanwiz’ was much of the inspiration for the Atalantas
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The bleak view forward…
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66 years after her build just down the river A1 on show
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The launch site at high tide.
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Slalom through the withies and Atalanta is away
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And she’s away!
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Open to the sea
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.. for which the bridge may be withdrawn
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The Sussex Coastal Path crosses the launching creek…
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The water doesn’t take long to arrive
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Mike walks the plank
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Waiting for the tide ..
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The three wise men look on while the skilled do the job
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…going down
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Clearing the slipway before the descent
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At the top of the slip
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En route
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Leaving the yard for the slipway
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Paynes Boatyard – an orderly haven
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Flying high!
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Chain hoists in operation
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Threading the hoist past trailer
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A chain hoist at each end of the strops
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The tractor and manual hoist
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Ready for lifting
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Paynes Boatyard – an orderly haven
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The slipway and creek
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A1 Atalanta and her towing chum
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2021 SBS Information Boards
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2021 SBS Information Boards
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2021 SBS Information Boards
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2021 SBS Information Boards
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2021 SBS Information Boards
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A102 Raising the mast (singlehanded – it is simple with the raised chainplates)
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A102 Back to the water
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AOA Brochure – Why we and the boats are so great!
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AOA Brochure – Why we and the boats are so great!
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A183 Preparing to scarf new wood into the stringer where the rusted chain plate bolts passed through it.
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A183 Water had entered via the chain plate bolts and partially rotted the stringer behind the hull-deck join.
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A183 The rotten deck and hull laminates around the rubbing strake have now all been replaced.
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A183 These had rotted from the bottom and let water into the plywood bulkhead.
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A183 The new bulkhead glued and screwed in place. The forward board is in two parts.
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A183 The replacement piece for the bulkhead, the backing board, covering strip and part of the forward board.
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A183 The rotten parts of the aft bulkhead were cut away down to the level of the lower section.
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Note the complete replacement of the laminated backrest.
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A183 The block continues under the stringer to provide more rigidity.
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A183 A solid block of Sapele inserted in the cockpit corner for stanchion mounting.
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A183 Looking forward.
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A146 1996 Dave & Michelle
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A146 1996 Le Bateau Ivre, Dave and Michelle honeymoon. Note the bowsprit
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A146 1996 Le Bateau Ivre, Dave and Michelle honeymoon. Note the bowsprit
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A146 Bermuda-2-67d5bf3d
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The Walton Backwaters, July 2021
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Southampton Boatshow 2021
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Dinghies Pixie for sale – garage stored for 40 years
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Dinghies Pixie for sale – garage stored for 40 years
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Dinghies Pixie for sale – garage stored for 40 years
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Dinghies Pixie for sale – garage stored for 40 years
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A183 Still plenty more to do on the starboard side!
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A183 The deck and hull laminates, apart from those covering the cockpit corner, back in place and awaiting fairing.
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A183 The laminates over the curved cockpit corner have been left off for the moment, awaiting some solid wood to be fitted to bolt the stanchion base to.
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A183 The first laminate layer back on the deck and hull.
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A183 The stringers meeting at the aft cabin bulkhead were both loose; the voids were filled with epoxy. The dowels are filling holes where a stanchion base had been bolted through.
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A183 The three deck laminates have been cut back and part of the first layer replaced.
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A183 The aft deck has come away from the cockpit side deck.
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A89 Same factory, different concepts. Both remarkable!
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A89 Colchide is visited by a cousin
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A89 New keel slot boards deliver 7.5 knots! They work.
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A89 All ready for the action in the Suffolk Yacht Harbour Classic Regatta
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A183 Where the aft deck shell meets the cockpit deck shell the joint had come apart.
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A183 Repairs to the hull and deck around the rubbing strake on the starboard quarter.
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A183 Port Side Repairs
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A184 Note “V” slots and lines of rollers for Aquilo’s keels to ensure correct positioning of Aquilo when recovered.
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A184 Note triangular main shroud support allowing easy mast raising and lowering.
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A184 View from Galley/Navigation area showing comfortable helming position with vertical tiller.
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A184 Aquilo correctly on trailer. Note aerofoil rudder blade in fully raised position.
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At top of slip being washed off.
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Aquilo winched onto her correct position on trailer
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A184 Aquilo nestled onto the back of the trailer. Collecting winch line from the trailer.
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A184 Lining up Aquilo ready to run onto the trailer
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A184 Aquilo in Portland Marina – Preparing to recover Aquilo onto her trailer
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2021 May Beer an Natter at The Two Keels
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A102 A102 keel bolt covers
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A5 Cockpit forward bulkhead replacement
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A183 A decent boat tent enables work to continue.
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A183 The hull laminations peeled back on the port quarter ready to be replaced.
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A183 Repairs to the bottom laminates under the rudder skeg and the slot in the keel ready for new wood to be scarfed in.
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A183 The upper rudder pintle on the transom was backed by an aluminium plate that had corroded and dissolved the wood behind it. A new piece of Sapelle was scarfed in.
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A183 The splits above the lower pintle position have been broken open and re-glued, and new wood inserted to replace missing sections. The skeg may be replaced completely.
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A183 Engine bearer supports removed, and also the boards sandwiching the lower part of the aft cabin bulkhead.
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A183 The keel stops removed, with the one remaining (partial) bolt.
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A5 Starboard water tank
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A5 Port water tank
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A124 New Cover Design – Mk.1 with top-hat style bolts
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A124 New Cover Design – Mk.2 with thread adjuster to extend thread through new plate
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A124 New starboard plates fitted over the old ones with the holes in.
