{"id":13,"date":"2008-01-03T22:19:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T22:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/2008\/01\/03\/international-canoe-k26\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T22:53:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T22:53:55","slug":"international-canoe-k26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/2008\/01\/03\/international-canoe-k26\/","title":{"rendered":"International Canoe – K26"},"content":{"rendered":"

International Canoe K26 – <\/strong>Zenith<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Zenith<\/em> is very much a winter project. I had been aware of Zenith for a year or so before being able to head up to Loch Lomond to collect both her and Rannoch.<\/em> Andrew Eastwood, responsible for the excellent restoration of Rannoch<\/em>, found Zenith<\/em> in a field,. He recognised her as a sailing canoe and thus saved her from rotting away. She is a ‘B’ Class sailing canoe and was sailed as an International canoe from the mid 1930s.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/em>Zenith’s <\/em>history is starting to come together. I have heard three theories about her origins:
\n(1) she’s a Swedish ‘B’ Class canoe built in about 1926 and registered as an International canoe in the UK in 1935;
\n(2) she was built by Nunn Bros in about 1926;
\n(3) she was built by Uffa Fox as a one-off.<\/p>\n

Thankfully Peter Wells emailed me with the following information:<\/p>\n

Zenith – No: 26
\nDimensions: 17’x43″
\nDesigner: Sven Thorell (Oslo)
\nBuilder: Nunn Bros, Waldringfield
\nDate: 1935
\nFirst Owner: H.L.Paxton<\/p>\n

If anyone out there knows anything about Zenith<\/em> please contact me.<\/p>\n

I have been able to track down some of the previous owners. Zenith<\/em> was owned by Barry Bucknell (the father of the Mirror dinghy) from about 1946 to 1951. She was then sold to Micheal French who had the boat until 1953.<\/p>\n

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Zenith<\/em> in 1953. Photo \u00a9 Ron Head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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