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#16
Boats / Re: N1461 Elusive
21 Feb 2025, 02:25
N1461 pictured in the 1958 Dinghy Year Book. Photo caption reads "Elusive (John Oakeley), winner of the Burton and Points Trophy for this year's 12ft National week." Photo credit Eileen Ramsay.
#17
Boats / Re: N1444 Consternation
21 Feb 2025, 02:18
N1444 (with others) pictured in the 1958 Dinghy Year Book. The photo caption reads - "Part of the start on Tuesday, Burton Week, 1957." Photo credit Eileen Ramsay.
#18
Boats / Re: N1285 Spindry
21 Feb 2025, 02:11
N1285 (then named "Phlapp") pictured in the 1958 Dinghy Year Book. The photo caption reads - "Burton Week, 1957, Falmouth. David Mayne's Phlapp (N1285), 2nd in the Points Trophy for the 1957 week." Photo credit to Eileen Ramsay.
#19
Boats / Re: N1042 Ffred
21 Feb 2025, 02:03
N1042 pictured (with N1266, N306 & N912) in the 1961 edition of the book "Sailing Dinghies" (first published 1952) by John Fisher. photo credited to "Eastern daily Press".
#20
Boats / Re: N2523 Spider
20 Feb 2025, 04:46
Photograph of Spider in the 1973 book "Sailing Dinghies of the World" by Percy W. Blandford.
#21
Boats / Re: N1166 Cha Cha Cha
20 Feb 2025, 04:09
N1166 pictured with N1827 in the 1965 Dinghy Year Book. Photo credited to Trevor Davies.
#22
Boats / Re: N1827 Herr Kutt
20 Feb 2025, 04:07
N1827 pictured with N1166 in the 1965 Dinghy Year Book. Photo credited to Trevor Davies.
#23
Boats / Re: N482 Judy
20 Feb 2025, 04:02
N482 (& N1110) pictured on the cover of the 1962 edition of the book "Yacht Racing Rules" by Robert N. Bavier.
#24
Boats / Re: N1355 Reepicheep
20 Feb 2025, 03:55
N1355 pictured (amongst others) in the 1962 edition of the book "Yacht Racing Rules" by Robert N. Bavier.
#25
Boats / Re: N904 Spree
20 Feb 2025, 03:48
N904 pictured in the 1962 edition of the book "Yacht Racing Rules" by Robert N. Bavier.
#26
Boats / Re: N1575 Zeta
20 Feb 2025, 03:44
N1575 pictured in the 1962 edition of the book "The Yacht Racing Rules" by Robert N. Bavier.
#27
Boats / Re: N260 Kingfisher
20 Feb 2025, 03:30
N260 pictured in the 1959 book "Sailing Boats" by Uffa Fox. Photo credited to Beken & Son.
#28
Boats / Re: N419 Red Rebel
20 Feb 2025, 12:36
A photograph of N419 in the 1959 book "The New Small Boat Sailing" by John Fisher. 
The caption reads "In this race for the Henley Challenge Trophy N419 has already rounded the leeward mark to wards which the other boats are converging,"
#29
Boats / Re: N777 Little Lucky
20 Feb 2025, 12:31
N777 pictured in a photograph from the 1959 book "The New Small Boat Sailing" by John Fisher. 

The caption reads "The start of a heat in the Bourne End Trophy for National 12ft Class. Shows only too well the danger of getting too far from the line in light airs."
#30
Boats / Re: N909 Rampant
20 Feb 2025, 11:30
N909 pictured in the 1959 book "The New Small Boat Racing" by John Fisher.
The image caption reads as follows "Close quarters during the Burton Trophy race at Weymouth (1952). Ian Proctor (N1000) in Stimulus had just got an overlap on G. Bull's Rampant."
Geoffrey Bull went on to finish 3rd with Proctor 4th.