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Title: N2020 Starfish
Post by: National 12 Webmaster on 22 Mar 2007, 11:02
The life of N2020 Starfish. Design: Starfish, designed by: Mike Nokes in 1961
Title: Re: N2020 Starfish
Post by: paul turner on 10 Mar 2010, 08:48
Whilst clearing my deleted emails I found this from Anne & Mike Nokes:
Sent: 31 October 2009 23:04
To: Paul Turner
Subject: RE: Starfish

Hi Paul, Regarding queries about wood used for NAT 12s.Wyche& Coppock used so-called West African mahogany as opposed to genuine Honduras mahogany. The same wood was used throughout, except for ash or rock elm ribs & tillers and sycamore or spruce for deck trim. It varied in colour, and was purchased as logs which were then sawn to their requirements. W & C sometimes used woodstains on repairs where the original wood had bleached  or darkened through weather.

Mike is working on W & C history!  sincerely Mike & Anne
Title: Re: N2020 Starfish
Post by: grazz on 10 Mar 2010, 07:18
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