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The plunger type bailers are the older ones that have been overtaken by the silver colouted triangular shaped ones that drop down from the bottom of the boat. The older plunger type ones can come a cropper if you come ashore and forget to bring them back up which does not tend to happen as much with the newer Anderson type bailers as they will in the worst case been pushed back in towards the hull of the boat. There is nothing saying that you cannot replace one type with another type of bailer, but if you want to keep the boat in its traditional fashion the older type may be hard to get hold of. Ask any of the vintage sailers (Tim Gatti is a good start) if they have any leads.
Good luck with the boat.

That's because you were as high as a kite on the glue from your home made wetsuit and getting out of school Angus. I remember the black coal dust that got absolutely everywhere a bit like the mud at Kings Lynn.

On the subject of sailing on Remembrance Sunday, are there any other folk out there who can remember sailing at Rotherham for their Christmas Pudding Meeting traditionally held on Remembrance Sunday and standing in freezing water for the two minutes silence; and after the racing walking into the club to be greeted by a wall of heat that came out of the coal fire?

Angus, Chadders is like Old Father Time compared to me.

Ha ha nice one Howard and I can remember sailing at Yeadon when there were motorboats there as well, not to mention................. yawn I will not bore everyone with anecdotes!!

Although it not so far to walk from one side of you Uffa King Jonathan, I think it would most possibly be a tad hairier than a Chapter. I remember sailing our Whisper 4 single handed back in the day and that was when I found out that adrenalin could at times be brown and smelly. Good learning curve though.

The number 2208 should be carved into the thwart and that is the number of the boat rather than the number on the sails. Sails are much more easily transportable between boats that the carved numbers, and most probably the previous owner got hold of another suit and was using those.

Looking back at the statement about the boat being a Cheshire Cat and then looking at the pictures I would say this is true. The number is in the right region of numbers that the Cats were built in, the fact that there are strakes that the planks are bonded to, the way the foredeck is built up (one of the signatures of Nick Cox's Cheshire Cats) along with the way the decks have been built. The stern tank would not make a real difference as to whether it is there or not. The plus side for a tank is that they do not tend to deflate in between sails. Many moons ago I sailed Candlelight originally owned by Robin Steavenson both with a rear tank and then without. It was removed in order to get at the planks close to the stern more easily that were suffering with a bit of damp.
Have a word with Bernard Clark at Ripon as he used to have a Cheshire Cat and will be able to tell you plenty about sailing them with small people as Ellie started her 12s career in his Cat.

Reminds me of doing the Birkett Trophy at Ullswater, never really fancied calling Starboard on any of the big boys knowing their quick tacking ability!!

That figures Paul. I bet that came out of the same design workshop that came up with Dave Peacock's land yacht at Llandudno all those years ago.

I seem to remember a picture of John Royce sailing his Tiger with a trapeze and a spinnaker way back when. Time takes its toll so I may well be wrong on this one, and of course I have not got the slightest idea what type of mast he was using.

I would say that looking at the boat it is a Warlock. Get the owner to see if there is a number engraved on the centre thwart which can then be refenced against the database. Having checked the database, 2712 is down as a Cobra and was on e bay with pictures that look radically different from this boat.

You will all be pleased to know that most of the horses and caravans will have gone as the main dates were last weekend (when we were travelling south from Scotland and forgot about it until too late) so if there is any trafic on the A66 it will all be travelling east. ??)

Ha ha Howard The Old Man of the Sea got one of those coming back from Kippford one year, and they bang on about the yoof of today being wreckless drivers!!

Is that foggy memories of Bradford Barrels or memories of foggy Barrels Chris. All I can remember is the long drive over from Bradford passing all those pubs and not being able to stop, oh and the Bobble Hatted Peasant!