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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Boats, Pond Yachts => Topic started by: Tony Bird on February 08, 2024, 03:52:12 am

Title: Re: Pocket Yacht.
Post by: txlabman on February 09, 2024, 08:10:21 am

Quote from: Tony Bird on February 09, 2024, 02:04:04 am

Hi Charlie,

Yes, with its original sails, when it sailed quite well. Not had a chance since changing them.

Take care Tony.

Enjoy the warm weather.

Title: Re: Pocket Yacht.
Post by: Tony Bird on February 09, 2024, 02:04:04 am

Hi Charlie,

Yes, with its original sails, when it sailed quite well. Not had a chance since changing them.

Take care Tony.

Title: Re: Pocket Yacht.
Post by: txlabman on February 08, 2024, 01:10:17 pm

Interesting Tony.

Have you tried it out?

Title: Re: Pocket Yacht.
Post by: Stoker on February 08, 2024, 09:04:22 am

First class recycling Tony, thus the sails are actually free, so long as you didn't just pour out the contents of the cans. Hopefully, you poured them down your throat!   ;c)

Title: Pocket Yacht.
Post by: Tony Bird on February 08, 2024, 03:52:12 am

Hi,
I took my pocket yacht on holiday with me. Known as a Cornish ‘Cokyn-Baba’ it was designed by Alistair Roach who I meet many years when he gave me a set of his drawings. The hull is made from a cork sanding block and the sails from anything light and rigid.  They sail really well and great fun for kids to play with in any water deeper than 3” 75mm. When our children were young I used to make them for visiting children to play with in the pond. Some of the races got quite competitive.
As yet I haven’t had the opportunity to sail it here, however to support the local economy I thought I might fit new sails, this tuned out to be quite costly as it required two cans and if you got the cut wrong you needed at least another one, and another………….
Take care Tony..

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