This is my first post, although I have been spent plenty of time lurking on the website learning about 12s over the last month! I have to say I am impressed with how useful the website and particularly the boat database is.
My wife and I now have some time to dedicate to dinghy sailing and a 12 fits the bill I think. We weigh 19 stone together; I have some experience whilst she is an energetic and enthusiastic novice.
I love the lines of the 1980s to late 1990s era National 12s, and hopefully it will help me scratch my wooden boat itch! A boat with built in buoyancy tanks would be great. That said I could also be tempted by a later foam sandwich boat with a wood deck.
We live in Wiltshire so local sailing will be on lakes, but we also plan to sail estuaries and protected coastal waters from time to time. An all rounder like a Crusader 88 or similar would be great.
Does anyone know of a suitable boat in good condition that might be available?
Were there many GRP boats built with wood decks?
My wife and I now have some time to dedicate to dinghy sailing and a 12 fits the bill I think. We weigh 19 stone together; I have some experience whilst she is an energetic and enthusiastic novice.
I love the lines of the 1980s to late 1990s era National 12s, and hopefully it will help me scratch my wooden boat itch! A boat with built in buoyancy tanks would be great. That said I could also be tempted by a later foam sandwich boat with a wood deck.
We live in Wiltshire so local sailing will be on lakes, but we also plan to sail estuaries and protected coastal waters from time to time. An all rounder like a Crusader 88 or similar would be great.
Does anyone know of a suitable boat in good condition that might be available?
Were there many GRP boats built with wood decks?
