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Garry,
I know of a 'late model' steel centreboard weighing about 35lbs, which I think is still available. I also have a sketch of the type of hoisting arrangement which several respondents have described.

Ken Goddard
N.2300, which definitely has a wooden plate!

From Ken Goddard
I bought this boat in about 1964 from a gentleman called Durbec or something like that. In the hands of the Misses Radford and named "Goofy" she had won the Money Cup (the ladies trophy) at the 1958 Burton Week. I renamed her "Melan-Coly" after my then home town of Colyton in Devon.

I sold "Melan-Coly" in around 1967 when I was living in Barrow-in-Furness and sailing at South Windermere Sailing Club. She was delivered to somewhere near Edinburgh/Lothian, maybe Linlithgow. I never heard of her again.

Ken Goddard

From Ken Goddard:
Colyflower, N.718, was designed by Jack or Alec Stone (father and son) of Salcombe, and built in 1949. She was bought by me in around 1961 from David Poole of Weston Super Mare. The boat was berthed on the promenade at Weston along with all the other boats of Weston Bay Sailing Club. She was then called "Frolic II", but I renamed her "Colyflower", after the town in Devon in which I was then living. I took her back to Trent Valley S.C. and subsequently sailed her at a number of South Coast Regattas such as Teign Corinthian and Falmouth Week.

I sold Colyflower in about 1964 to an old chap in Chaddesden, Derby, who was a member of a small sailing club belonging to the then industrial company International Combustion. I though I caught a sight of her in the dinghy park of that club, in a rather sorry condition and I guess she deteriorated and subsequently written off.

Ken Goddard
(tel. 01332 521168)

The correspondence started by the owner of N.693 includes a query by John Murrell about the failure of joints glued with Aerolite, or similar type glues.
It seemed to me timely to dig out the article I wrote on this subject in Newsletter No.72 of 2001 (page 39). This followed an open letter which I wrote to the magazine "Classic Boat". Experts replying to that letter claimed that it was well established that Aerolite joints failed after about 30 years. I have now seen 4 separate joint failures at that sort of age.
If anyone can't get hold of that Newsletter, please contact me and I can send them a photocopy of the article.

Regards
Ken Goddard
N.2300, Duodecimal
Tel. 01332 521168

Congratulations to Michael! The award is thoroughly deserved.
Ken Goddard
N.2300