Graham Hunter

Your plan must be a bit better than mine, that is brilliant as you say 56 +26 + 0.5 + 2.5 = 85 including the 0.5 inch mast joiner 5 inches longer than a 2m length of 22g 0.5 inch aluminium tube. Now to measure 6 times before I cut, and the tube for the boom and jib has arrived so I can progress. Thanks fore the info, it is now written on the plans Graham

I will be at Burley classic car show tomorrow and the car park at Weecher may be a bit crowded. Eventually I will get sails from Nylet in Dacron to be in keeping with the age of the design. I want to build it to the original plans as closely as possible, fit RC gear, which is another topic to be addressed once I have got the dimensions for the mast sorted out and the rigging and fittings sorted. Already you both have given me clues and helped in narrowing down the mast height as per the plans, it look like the total height will be in the region of 107 to 109 inches the removable top section length is between 23 and 28 inches the reproduction on the plans is flaky in way of mast and sail dimensions. The dimensions you have give, again helps greatly. I have a big roll of pattern making paper so I can make some rough cut outs with the mainsail luff dimensions and see how it all sits Many thanks both of you.

Thanks for that, email sent to Mavis on her new email address, so now I shall see what happens

Yes I am already trying that avenue but the search facility on their website does not work and l have sent an email but it has been rejected because the address is no longer valid, not much use there at the moment.

I have recently taken up radio sailing. I did a 4 week course at Weecher radio sailing club learning to sail DF95s, I have since joined the club and MYA. I mentioned that I had the hull of a Marblehead yacht hanging in my garage and I was told to finish it and sail it. I bought it at a Car boot sail 15 years ago, spent a year on and off trying to identify it. Eventually I found out it is Genie by Vic Smeed. I got hold of the plans but work kept me away from home alone so nothing happened. In the last 2 weeks I have got the hull out, found the plans and I am now acquiring fittings and materials to complete it. I have hit a bit of a brickwall regarding mast heights and sail sizes. The plans are not the best reproduction especially in way of the mast and sail dimensions. Have any of you built one. I am hoping Frank Parsons at Nylet can give me luff dimensions for the 3 suits which will narrow down the mast height. Due to the bad quality reproduction I can only guesstimate the mast lengths to be 53 to 58 inches and the top section to be 23 to 28 inches. I intent to fit RC equipment rather than Vane gear. This is another area I will be asking questions about once I reach that point. Sorry to ramble on, hopefully there will be information from the vast collective tome of knowledge on this site Thanks in anticipation Graham Hunter