Racing Dinghies

I’ve made the decision to sell my Tideway. Further details can be found on the For Sale page

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After competeing the the International Canoe World Championships in Weymouth in 2005 I met up with Christian Knott from Australia who persuaded me (not that I needed much persuasion) that I really need to buy his IC after the Worlds. I ended up swapping GBR 212 and a significant amount of cash for the orange boat, […]

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Everything on the boat was stripped down and varnished, the soleboards and seats had multiple coats of Schooner varnish and the mast, boom and gaff were treated with Le Tonkinois. All I had to do now was put the boat back together again. As this Tideway is the ‘Super’ version it comes with fore and side decks, stern […]

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After repairing the the hog and keel it was time to replace the broken ribs. As I had the seats out and everything stripped out of the boat I had a good look at all the ribs and found that the rear full width ribs  needed replacing along with a couple on the starboard side. So, after a […]

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The 2004 August Bank Holiday weekend finally saw Rannoch take to the water. The wind picked up over the weekend and I thought it was wise not to risk Rannoch with her old wooden rig. This meant sitting out the racing for the Sunday and Monday and give us time to look at the other […]

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Currently the fleet consist of: Finn GBR 670 Finn K349 – Pandemonium Finn K129 – Sea Mouse II  International Canoe K37 – Rannoch International Canoe K37 – Zenith Flying 15 GBR 2147 Tideway 026 Solo 1922 Hobie 16 International One Metre – K??? International One Metre (unregistered) 2 * Perception Acadia Kayaks. Bugger.

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International Canoe GBR 212 – Waning Planker After having sailed an older IC, SCATT III, I bought a Pyrahna Carbon IC – GBR212 in 2002. This boat needed mainly cosmetic work and was treated to a total strip down of all deck gear, followed by a refit and paint job.

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International Canoe K37 – Rannoch The August Bank Holiday weekend finally saw Rannoch take to the water. I have to say, it’s a different experience sailing a 60 year old boat compared with a new IC. The narrow sliding seat and slippery varnished deck made life very interesting. We sailed on the Saturday in a […]

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International Canoe K37 – Rannoch  Getting an email from Rannoch’s previous owner offering to sell me the boat came as a great surprise and called for a 1000 mile round trip to collect both Rannoch and Zenith (probably the biggest buy-one-get-one-free offer I know of). I think an Uffa Fox boat is the ultimate International […]

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I still get contacted by a few people who have ToYs, mainly to see if I have any spares (which I don’t). But I did recently come across some new ToY sails for £85 on the SeaTeach website – http://www.seateach.com/DinghySails.asp

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