Tony Merritt

@stevevw Thanks for posting Steve. I'll point any H&DMBC members here if others want a 6M. We now have 2 'new' 6Ms added to our fleet, I'm hoping others might be interested in adding more - we'll see. Do come for a sail one Wednesday Steve, we're usually there from around 10am until about 2, sometimes 3pm. We aim to get 16 races in (we use AFleet for scoring and at 16 your worst 3 scores get dropped - I think!). We don't rush about, even doing 16 races we take breaks for coffee and a quick lunch. For anyone that hasn't been to the Dovercourt pond, it has to be one of the best ponds for easy access - park 40 feet from pond, rig boat on greensward between car and pond, drop boat in pond and away 🙂 There are toilets about 300 yards away, a couple of cafes about 100 yards, and a small co-op less than a mile from the pond.

To answer my own question 'how many 6Ms are registered with the MYA?' This excerpt from 2022 says 1140 6M register The Registrar has: Class registers in both paper and electronic (Excel) formats information from numbers 850 to 1140. The register for the 6M up to number 850 was disposed of before it could be recovered from the Registrar’s widow. However the Scottish MYA Register for the class is complete. My thanks go to the MYA Class Registrars, Nick Cowern, Roy Stevens, Richard Uttley, Bill Green and Martin Dovey, and members of the VMYG, Martin Bandey, Charles Smith, and David Mathers, in preparing this resume of the information. Graham Bantock MYA Technical Officer 10th October 2022 Full document here - https://www.mya-uk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Registrar-Records-of-MYA-Class-Boats.pdf

Thanks tiggy_cat, I'll suggest any H&D club members look here if they're in need of a 6M and get in contact with you.

Nice! @tiggy_cat What are they? Rococo? Ravenna? Renaissance? Something else? Are you willing to part with one or two? Tony aka The Cat Whisperer 🐱

The Harwich & Dovercourt MBC would like to add a couple more 6Ms to our current fleet. I don't know how many 6Ms are registered with the MYA - @martin dovey ? But there must be dozens and dozens (hundreds?), where are they all? Distance might be an issue but I'm willing to travel 100+ miles for the right boat(s). WHY?* Tony ------- *What Have You?

Thanks Olly There's no hurry (he says! ). As there was no notice on the PS website of a possible delay, nor a note re. a possible delay in the order confirmation email I began to wonder. We've got so used to an almost immediate reply when we buy stuff that no response within a day or two gets us wondering if there's a problem. Should have checked my emails first! David has replied - computer issues. My PC died on Wednesday but it was only(!) the graphics card, popped an old one in and it's OK again.

Hopefully David is OK. Is there a sailing competition he's gone to that slows any response down? I placed an order on the 21st May for a PS stand to be sent to me and expected an invoice to be sent back with the carriage charge added. So far I've only had confirmation of the order. I took the opportunity to add some patch material on the Bank Holiday Friday to come with the stand and got that order confirmation too. I sent an email to ask to put the two orders together. I've also sent a message via the contact form on the PS website, mind you that was only earlier today (Thurs. 30/5). Phoning went to the message service, just tried again and left a message that hopefully someone will respond to.

It does have nice lines Jef. I suppose the best wind for the Dovercourt pond is somewhere between south and south west (our prevailing wind direction ) for end to end sailing. The top pond of these is the yachting pond, the other has pedalos on it these days, used to be rowing boats. Parking can be right beside the pond - if there's space. Public loos a short walk up Lower Marine Parade, cafes up there too. Take walking boots or something - there's a lot of swan poop around the pond.

Very nice Jef. Here's a yacht my dad made, probably in the early 60's. I can remember us taking it down to the yacht pond at Dovercourt in the mid to late 60's. The reason I think it was built in the early 60's is that it's named after me, my pet name was 'Jim' - no one calls me Jim any more. A girl friend did a double take when my mother called me Jim and I responded. Sunny Jim was my baby name, I had a sunny disposition then, the Force breakfast cereal character was Sunny Jim, I can remember that being a breakfast favourite at times. Dimensions are: 36" LOA (ex. bow sprit), 7" beam, 8" deck to bottom of keel. Looking a bit sorry for itself, hasn't sailed since late 60's or early 70's.

+1 for exponential on rudder - I also have a 'curve' on my sail (section 6.3.3). A curve allows for the sail to go out and in a little at close hauled and then progressively more to fully out - I think that's right. I haven't tried it but it could be possible to have an 'S' shaped curve so full in and full out are smaller movements in relation to stick movement with the 'middle' faster. Is anything in this YouTube video review of the FS-ST8? This YouTube video also goes in to radio settings, whole video worth watching but here's the radio part (doesn't matter the yacht class 🙂) I usually find someone has done what I'm trying to achieve on YouTube, hope one of these might help.

Possibly too late? Could the mast be repaired? Bucks Composites have a lot of carbon - rod, tube, tow, sleeve, etc. Make a new one if the tube and rod from Bucks is the right size? https://www.bucks-composites.com/products