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 […]

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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 […]

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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 II  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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