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Update from Trevor Reed. N1845 is at present, located in Cheshire, and has been for many years. Used as a school tuition boat, then transferred into private ownership.

The Commodore of Trent Valley SC has been in touch to let us know that Ken Goddard passed away peacefully on Wednesday 25th May.  Ken was in in his mid eighties, and has been a NTOA and Trent Valley SC member for many many years. Ken was a keen vintage 12 sailor and led the vintage wing of the class for many years. During his time at the Trent Valley he held many committee posts all of which he conducted with the utmost diligence. He was reaffirmed as an honorary member at the last AGM in recognition of his service.

Ken introduced me to 12 sailing back in the mid 80s and the first open meeting I sailed was with him in N2300 at TVSC which is where I got the bug for 12 sailing. So I am personnally sad to see him pass away.

Graham

Might be worth posting a Wanted advert on our adverts page https://www.national12.org/for_sale.shtml

I'm liking the look of the refurb - having seen the photo on the boat database https://www.national12.org/boats/?objecttype=boat&action=viewdetails&id=3247

Nice work

Graham

A Smuggler project has also just been posted on the National 12 For Sale list (free to a good home) https://www.national12.org/adverts/index.php?page=item&id=1813
Happy restoring
Graham

Hi Dave

The mast ram and lowers do slightly different jobs and many boats have both. The mast ram is good for controlling the fore-aft bend so good for controlling the amount of mast bend when sailing upwind. The lowers do control the fore-aft bend a bit for also control the sideways bend. Generally when you're going downwind sideways bend is bad because you lose power. So you can use the mast ram upwing and lowers downwind. Does that make sense?

Do you need both? Well on our 12 we just have lowers and use them for both upwind and downwind but the lowers pulley system has to be very powerful with little give in the rope for that to work. It is also a bit more fiddly to set up correctly. If both are already there then I'd suggest trying to use them both and see if you get on with them

There are some good guides on the website on how the controls work. Have a look at:
https://www.national12.org/hints/basic_techniques/
https://www.national12.org/hints/tuning_guide/

Happy sailing
Graham

[Helm]

Entries into double figures already 

Helm	Crew	Sail No	Boat Name	Design	Club	Notes
George Finch	Lucy Finch	3551	Over The Rainbow	Dead Cat Bounce	Royal Harwich YC
Tom Stewart	Isobel Stewart	3544	Whitebait	Dead Cat Bounce	Royal Harwich YC
Robbie Stewart	Charlotte Stewart	3501	Silverfin	Feeling Foolish	Waldringfield SC	U21 Helm
Graham Camm	Felix Camm	3530	The Very Hungry Catepilar	Dead Cat Bounce	Burghfield SC
Bernard Clark	Ellie Clark	3406	Agent Orange	Freakout	Ripon SC	Admirals Cup, No T-Foil
Phillip David	Emma Hampshire	3499	Out of the Blue	Feeling Foolish	Yorkshire Ouse SC	No T-Foil
Stuart Walsh	Theo Covi-Walsh	3546	Shades of Grey	Dead Cat Bounce	Ardleigh SC
John Meadowcroft	Anya Camm	3543	D.B. Cooper	Hijack	Upper Thames SC
Dan Meadowcroft	Zoe Ballantyne	3471	Lars Porsena of Clusium	Final Chapter	Upper Thames SC	U21 Helm
Ollie Meadowcroft	Sophie Edwards	3431	Zippy	Feeling Foolish	Upper Thames SC	U21 Helm

The N12 Open meeting at Henley is on Sunday 26th September, first race not before 11:00 for the Henley Challenge Cup.

The clubhouse, bar and refurbished changing rooms will be open. There is a marquee outside for those not wanting to go in the building.

Please bring your own lunch as the kitchen is not fully open yet, tea will be available after racing though as usual.

Come along for some lovel River Thames sailing

It was great to see so many N12 sailors at the championships this weekend  and thank you to those who purchased the new 85th Anniversary clothing. We have a few medium ladies' T-shirts left which we will bring to the 85th, but all other clothing is now only available online at www.waveclothing.co.uk


If you would like to order some clothing in time for the N12 85th Anniversary event at Northampton, please place your orders by 12.00 p.m on Friday 3rd September.


We have the following range available:

Gents T Shirt

   
•     Graphite
•     Heather
•     Midnight (teal green)
•     Navy
•     Cardinal Red

Ladies Crew Neck T Shirt

   
•     Heather Grey
•     Royal Blue

Ladies V neck T shirt

   
•     Sports Grey
•     Light Blue

Unisex Two Tone Hoodie

   
•     Heather Grey/French Navy
•     French Navy/ Heather Grey
•     Sapphire Blue/Heather
•     GreyHeather Grey/Sapphire Blue

Unisex Crew Neck Sweatshirt

   
•     Turquoise Surf
•     Navy
•     Charcoal
•     Heather Grey

So don't delay, please support the N12 Association and head over to www.waveclothing.co.uk and select N12 under Association Kit to order. (For every item of clothing that is bought, the N12 association receives a small percentage.)


If you have any queries regarding the clothing please don't hesitate to contact Alex on 07771697755.



See you at the 85th!

Alex and Jen

Warwick Pics were taking photos over the weekend. The are some cracking photos available to browse and purchase at https://www.warwickpics.com/national-12---august-2021.html

Long range weather forecast looking good for the weekend, fingers crossed....

The entry list so far is here - updated 24/08/2021

Philip
The mast foot position needs to be set to work with the jib-mainsail ratio and also the centre board position and yes it does therefore tend to be design specific. If the mast foot is in the wrong place then you'll either feel weather or lee helm on the tiller. If you let us know the design you have then we (or other N12 owners) can probably provided some guidance. Typically the mast foot is measured from the transom as that is an eaier measurement point
Happy tuning
Graham

Stephen
The principles in the guide should work for old and new boats alike. There are two good newsletter article which describes the settings for a Design 8 and the Crusader will be similar

https://www.national12.org/scripts/newsletter/index.php?p=5&year=1990-2&image-folder=images
https://www.national12.org/scripts/newsletter/index.php?p=11&year=1992-2&image-folder=images
Worth checking these out for inspiration
Graham

Stephen

The tuning guide on the website has lots of good instructions and tips on how to set up yoru rig, it's available to National 12 Owner's Association Members at https://www.national12.org/hints/tuning_guide/ can you access it?

Happy tuning

Graham

Phil
The foil rudder has been quite an innovation. It works with some designs better than other though and I'm not sure if anyone has tried a foiling rudder on a Big Issue. Designs with more rocker and less wetted surface area seem to suit foils so I'm not sure it will work on a Big Issue which has quite a flat planing area. In theory the winged rudder should help the boat carry more weight but I sail at the lighter end of the weight range so can't really comment.

If you are sailing at in the region of 25 Stone all up then I'd strongly recommend a Final Chapter as they are proven to carry weight well thought there have been some heavy weight crews in Big Issues who have done well I think the Final Chapter would be a safer bet. There is one for sail on the website at the moment https://www.national12.org/adverts/index.php?page=item&id=1788

Happy choosing
Graham