It must be the Ben Ainslie effect but I’m getting loads of enquiries about the Finn I had for sale, and looking at the search engine visits to this site there’s been 500 people this week finding it by searching Google for a Finn for sale.
I now have two Finns, and neither are for sale. If you are looking for a Finn the best places to look are
Ebay (www.ebay.co.uk). Search for Finn Dinghy - they do come up
The Classic and Vintage Racing Dinghy Association (www.cvrda.org). Check out the For sale section on the forum
If you are after a nearly new boat it might be worth contacting Rodney at Suntouched (www.suntouched.co.uk), he has had some very nice used boats in the past, I bought my own Pata from Rodney and can highly recommend him,
OK, this is not one of my boats, but is owned by Classic Dinghy guru Ed Bremner and is worth a mention.
Full details of the boat can be found on the CVRDA forum. If I had the time (and a crew) I’d love to have this boat, but I’m not allowed. So if you are after a Classic International 14 that’s undergone a total restoration have a look at Iolanthe. [Read more →]
When going to collect Finn GBR670 I was talking to Graham Brookes, fellow Finn and Roadford Lake sailor. I persuaded him to sell me a lovely Raudaschl Finn he had recently bought. This boat was built in 1970 for Alistair Currey, the son of Fairey Marine’s Charles Currey.
This boat ex-Sharon, now called Pandemonium was pretty sucessful when raced and was winning in the early 1990s when she was epoxy coated. Somehow she ended up in Devon and was stored in a barn gathering dust for a number of years before being found by Graham
She had had all the varnished removed and had been attacked with a belt sander
So, as the owner of GBR662, a Vanguard Finn, I was looking to upgrade to a Carbon Wing Mast. When speeaking to Rodney Cobb of Suntouched Sailing to enquire about a new mast he told me he had a number of nearly new B4 Finns taken as part exchange for new boats.
After sailing the Fairey Finn for a season, I was hooked on the class and sold the Australian IC (GBR 304) to pay for a well sorted Vanguard Finn. This boat had come from Germany and had been breathed on with a replacement transom and updated fittings, a round carbon rig and film sail.
After a number of years in International canoes I decided to give Finn sailing a go, mainly due to advancing age and being fed up of swimming. In 2006 I noticed a very nice Fairey Finn on eBay and it was down the road at Poole.
