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Got me a new toy!
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A bit of work to do to finish her off.... but she's largely done, and comes complete with a gaff rig.....
not bad for £83!
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Ohmigawd!!!!!!
All it needs is a 225hp V8 Yamaha lump on the back with your demonic heir at the wheel!!!! 
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Why ?
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All it needs is a 225hp V8 Yamaha lump on the back with your demonic heir at the wheel!!!!
Oh, I don't know - even on a bad hair day I wouldn't call Neil's hair demonic.
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Sadly its many many years since my hair was demonic.... in fact, its quite a few since it was even enough to cover my forehead!
I do vividly remember a period in the eighties when 'demonic' might have been an apt description..... 
Postscript..... my heir however.....
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Postscript..... my heir however.....
I thought he seemed a rather pleasant young man, with very good hair for the time being.
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Genetically he's stuffed though.....
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Looking good Neil, how big and where will you be sailing her ?
Have a couple of spare booms if you need them, no use to me that I can think of
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I've got all the spars... but thanks anyway!
She's 8'... so quite small.... she'll hang on the davits, and be sailed wherever we are, and whenever we feel like it.... I guess mainly in the Backwaters, but also probably most places we go where there is room, and its safe to do so...
she'll carry the outboard as well so she'll be our main tender.
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For £83 tis but a complete and utter bargain, and surely to be a happy ship. Sorry, wasnt sure what to make of it earlier !!!! 
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Your just trying to upset me by reminding me of that barrow boat I missed on ebay last year. Bah boo 
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There was one on there earlier this week.... went for £265....
There is a nice Nutshell due to finish today, currently at £199......
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I've just about got over it now - by the time I fit a tow hitch and buy a road trailer then the cost and effort of the whole exercise for someone who has never sailed dinghies and wouldn't use it much is losing appeal. Perhaps a lovely summer of idyllic backwaters will rekindled the urge. (so to speak).
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You should just be able to squeeze a nice V6 engine in the back there
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Do you think my Honda 2.3 outboard is a V6?
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Is that horsepower or litres capacity? 2.3L outboard should have enough power to push it along at a decent speed!
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I suspect it'd need a periscope fitting first though....
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I suppose it might generate a bit of spray....
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jhr
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V6 - Just the Job
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Here you go, Neil
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Ta!
Only problem is that youngest son will take it to bits to use the parts for a spaceship!
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East coast sailing dinghy regatta? I have a 9 foot gunter rigged tender which I must get around to sailing more.
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Come along to the pirate weekend in July in the Walton Backwaters.....
We're hoping to be able to sail the tenders around the island...
Of course it wouldn't be a race.....
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