Racing Dinghies

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. […]

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Finn K129, my rather lovely Fairey Finn is for sale. More details on the For Sale page.

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After a few weeks in the workshop being varnished, painted and refitted K349 was ready to go.

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Currently the fleet consist of:

Finn GBR 670
Finn K349 - Pandemonium
Finn K129 - Sea Mouse IIÂ
International Canoe K37 - Rannoch
International Canoe K37 - Zenith
Flying 15 GBR 2147
Tideway 026
Solo 1922
Hobie 16
International One Metre - K???
International One Metre (unregistered)
2 * Perception Acadia Kayaks.

Bugger.

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