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 calm Force 2 and Rannoch won the prizes for best looking boat on the water, best looking boat afloat and the boat everyone wanted to take home.
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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 Canoe. The background to the Uffa canoes are well documented in the Uffa books but Tim Gittins’ excellent historical archive has all the relevant information.
Image © Ron Head
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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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International Canoe K26 – Zenith, current state
Zenith needs a major rebuild, there are at least six planks to replace and over 20 new ribs required…..and a new deck…..and a mast….ahhh, some sails would be useful as well.
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International Canoe K26 – Zenith
Zenith is very much a winter project. I had been aware of Zenith for a year or so before being able to head up to Loch Lomond to collect both her and Rannoch. Andrew Eastwood, responsible for the excellent restoration of Rannoch, found Zenith in a field,. He recognised her as a sailing canoe and thus saved her from rotting away. She is a ‘B’ Class sailing canoe and was sailed as an International canoe from the mid 1930s.
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Spearhead 16 – Space Invader
The Spearhead was found on the ukdinghyracing website and was bought sight unseen where a envelope of cash was exchanged for the boat in a Motorway service station on the M4. My boat was number 16. The photos show number 6 – obviously the “1” has fallen off.
Due to having too many boats I needed to make some space so I sold ‘Space Invader’ in early 2004 on eBay.
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International Canoe K119 – SCATT III
I have always wanted an International Canoe since flicking through dinghy books and magazines as a kid. So when I saw one advertised in a Adtrader paper for not alot I had to go and see.
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ToY 117
Having sold our racing boat, Rocket Flare (a Flare 25), we ended up down sizing to a Flying Fifteen. I decided to get back into dinghy sailing after an absence of 15 years.
I looked at the crop of current single handers (and got confused with the choice) and decided I was too old for a trapeze boat such as the Contender, too heavy for a Laser, and to unfit to sail a Finn. Having always fancied an International Canoe (one day I promised myself) the idea of a sliding seat seemed to appeal.
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Flying 15 K2946 – Encounter
I’d always fancied a 15 so when I found a small fleet of them on the doorstep and one of them was for sale I ended up with one.
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Flare 25 GBR 1 – Rocket Flare
After a couple of years of home ownership we decided that it was time to buy a boat. As I had spent most of the 1980s sailing 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1 Tonners and the odd spell grinding on Maxis I spent some time looking at old IOR boats.
The only boats in budget were old 1/4 tonners but old meant old and even though the boats we saw came loaded with sails the lack of interiors meant that an alternative had to be found.
