Saving Old Seagulls

After Lunch it was the main race to the falls and back , and with a crew on board we punched out to a good start . Disappointed Adrian didn't make the start with ignition failure. It was Tinker and Holy verse us chasing the flying dinghys of Graham and Mark with Michael's Cat along side . As the wat...

Local Micheal in a 12 foot cat of his own design won with myself and Ian not too far away . Fun , but hardly seagull stuff .

As all comers 2hp race was run and I'd borrowed a motor which ran well

a get together at the pier on friday night by most attending was pleasant and after a briefing ,racing got underway about 10am saturday morning . An all class in one affair and the most notable was a good standard by a couple of new local converts . the race was run down breeze past a couple of isla...

Saturday dawned fine , but the breeze was forecast to rise

Yesterday was the second running of the Bay of Islands Seagull Race , well it more of a number of races and get together really .
Hosted by Darryl Honey and his team at the Pier , assisted by Seagull racer Mark McMurtry and his wife Miranda.

turned her over and smoothed out the bottom some what this week .
was a rushed rough job first up !

I tested with a 2hp yamaha today , not as fast as my silver century . but smooth , quiet and smoke free and light , did I say easy to start . hah , who would have one ?

Tinker and I
Thanks to Nina at working edge pictures for the photo

well done michael you seem to have grasped the ratio aspect , and if you read my post I don't explain why the rule is because I don't know . but i guess it to avoid canoes and making older style clicker types obsolete. at the widest point is my guess as to point they are measured .mine is 1800 mm Yo...

I used tri axil cloth on the inside of the joins . weak they are not . I get your point Michael , but this boat was also made in a very sort space of time in order to make the race start , every time saver cut I could take helped. even joining the ply . i did using boat cloth to tape the deck to the...

the decks are 6mm boat ply as is transom . (not bendy ply) and I used 20 X 20 for the deck to hull join to save time

the ply I used is 6mm , and thank you for kind words though I point out Adrian Pawson deserves a fair amount of the credit too for his input .

this boat took me a couple of week ends and ten nights after work to complete , it's pretty rough , and here it is at scrutineering yet to be launched

deck rails and seat