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Don't forget the early entry discount ends on Sunday, 24th July!  Get your entry to us before then and include your dinner tickets.

Janet Bloor

Ken Goddard' Funeral will take place on Wednesday 22nd June in Derby.

If you want more information or wish to attend please email Janet at  ntoa@national12.org for a link, to get  the  details.

Janet and I are very sad about the news of Ken's death. We have known Ken from the late 60's.and, when Janet and I were married in the 70's, Ken lived in the village only a mile or two down the road.

On a couple of occasions I remember travelling with Ken to Midland Area Committee meetings. Also over the years we would often bump into each other in town and chat about 12 sailing and sometimes cameras!

As Ken was National Twelve Vintage rep for many years he was always updating me on the location and condition of various vintage boats.

As Certification Officer I thought I would do a list of the Twelves that Ken owned over the years, 7 boats in all.

His first boat was N718 Frolic II a 1949 Alec Stone designed and built boat. He bought it in 1960 from Weston-super-Mare (he was at that time living and sailing in Devon, he re-named the boat "Colyflower" and later brought it up to TVSC, it was sold in 1964.

In 1970 he purchased from Chippendale boats a Proctor Mark 14, N2483, called "Tackspayer ". This was sold around 1973.

In 1974 he built a 4Plank China Doll using a kit from Impact Boats. This boat N2765 was named Kitten (now, some of you will know her as Le Shed). Kitten was sold in the 1980's.

1986 saw Ken acquire N2300 a 1965 built Chippendale Proctor Mark12 originally owned by John Holttum and called "Truffle Hunter".  Ken re-named her "Duodecimal" and kept the boat as his Vintage boat for many years right up to 2014.

Next Ken owned a couple of my old boats firstly in 1989 he acquired N2911 my old 1976 Cheshire Cat "Bandobras Took" and re-named her "Cherished Cat", later sold in 1991.

He then purchased N3250 my Andrew Turner built Crusader "Elendil", which he re-named "Share Enjoyment". She moved on to a new owner in 1993.

Lastly in 1999 he owned N3024 Vanishing Smile, a Richard Lovett built Tiger originally owned by Richard Holttum which Ken re-named "Smile". She was sold to a Blithfield SC member in 2005.

Ken You will be missed.

Kevan Bloor

My Photos from the Vintage Champs at TVSC are on Flikr

I will be posting more as i sort them out.

Kevan

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzQhLi

[Saturday: Vintage ONLY Derwent Handicap]

The Vintage Championships and Open At TVSC  is approaching fast. Below are the programme details.

The timings for the weekend are:
Saturday: Vintage ONLY Derwent Handicap

• First race scratch, 2nd and 3rd handicap/pursuit
• 10:30 briefing
• 11:00 First race
• Lunch
• Second and third races after lunch
• Evening; Skittles Night with food

Sunday: Open meeting all N12s welcome

• 10:30 briefing
• 11:00 first race
• Second race before lunch
• After lunch: third race and prize giving & tea (possibly extra prize for Admirals Cup boats if 3 or more attend)

It would be most helpful for planning and catering if you e-mail Paul Turner Paul@ryehillfarm.com if you would like lunches and/or dinner.

Hope to see you there

The best leech telltales are strips of spinnaker nylon ( silicone coated preferably ) sewn on the leech just below each batten pocket.  The top one is the most indicative of what is happening.

The Falker Flag is the most used as it has a wire frame so it doesn't flap around.

Kevan

Yes the Class rules do require that both the mainsail and jib can be lowered, by the crew from within the boat, without endangering the stability of the mast or its security in the boat.
When the rule came in some people retained the forestay but made sure that it was slack enough so it did not support the mast at all whilst racing.
It was retained as a safety requirement and either sagged six inches from the luff of the jib and caught the telltales from time to time! or it was fitted with a length of shockcord to tidy up the slack ).


In older boats where the mast slot had a pivoting gate, these would need to be fixed to comply with rules. Boats then were usually built with closed mast slot as your boat is.


To keep the mast foot inside the boat a pin is required through the mast step and the heal of the mast  ( normally a split pin or bolt ). This requirement is required particularly when a boat capsizes and there has been a jib halyard or shroud failure.


Some boats like mine have a mast strut rather than a mast ram or chocks, to control mast bend which also serves as a forestay substitute.


Hope all these post are helpful..




Kevan Bloor Certification Officer

Hi Steve


I am sure that if you talk to Tim Hampshire, at Ripon,  he will Go through all the controls with you and give you some tips.


Also if you register the boat in your name and join the Class Association ( use the membership Tab on the website) this will give you access to the Members area of the website , then you will be able to access the Tuning guide and other useful articles on sailing techniques and info etc.


I see Chunky Monkey still has its Alverbank sails, I made way back in 2006 when the boat was first built. She was also exhibited at Falmouth Maritime museum for an special event.
When you register the boat you will get a  Measurement certificate which you will require to compete in open event and Championship races.


By the way do you still have  2708 in your ownership?




Kevan Bloor Hon Certification Officer NTOA

I have edited most of the better images from the 85th maybe some more may work out and be added.


I have re-sorted the Images into three different Albums  The original Link https://flic.kr/s/aHsmWD3BSn goes Saturdays Images.

The Sunday Images all taken from the shore are  at https://flic.kr/s/aHsmWG15dL  Not too many of these.


I have rendered some of the images as black and white Images these are at  https://flic.kr/s/aHsmWLRZL2


All images can be downloaded for your use by downloading directly from Flickr using the down arrow.




Kevan

Any one wanting to download any of my photos from Flickr can do so.
For best reproduction choose the ^original Size"


Go to the Bottom Right of the image ad tick the Down Arrow and choose which the size and the image file will be downloaded to your downloads folder on your computer.


I am also doing some Black and white versions of some of the pics


Kevan Bloor

See Flickr Album of Photos from The Anniversary even this last Weekend at Pitsford


I am uploading more pics over the next few days ( over 400 to go through!)




https://flic.kr/s/aHsmWD3BSn


Kevan

Last day two races sailed in similar conditions with the points very close at the top quarter of the fleet.

Results for Races 6 and 7 attached as well as the overall results.

The Subsidiaries will be published later when the when the have been worked on.

Sundays Races in lighter wind and very shifty, very easy to lose or gain a lot!





Results attached along with overall standings at the end of race 5 ( ties not resolved)

Day 2 Burton Cup Race sailed in a good breeze. Using the new format sailed on a trapezoid course. the 2 hour duration meaning 4 plus rounds were completed.

Race result attached.

First day of Burton Week started with a chill wind, but bright and became sunny and warm with a light breeze. 
There was a short postponement before the boats were allowed afloat followed by a wait while the wind shifts settled.
Both races were sailed in a light to medium shifty breeze. 
See attached the results for races 1 and 2.