{"id":68,"date":"2008-06-22T15:53:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/2008\/06\/22\/finn-k349\/"},"modified":"2008-06-23T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T10:23:41","slug":"finn-k349","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/2008\/06\/22\/finn-k349\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn &#8211; K349"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0going 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\u00a0 Finn he had recently bought. This boat was built in 1970 for Alistair Currey, the son of Fairey Marine&#8217;s Charles Currey.<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>She had had all the varnished removed and had been attacked with a belt sander<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/09.jpg\" alt=\"09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The major job was to get the decks as smooth as possible and to insert some new vaneer where excessive sanding had taken place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/15.jpg\" alt=\"15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mast\u00a0gate was worn out so it seemed the right time to fit a Devoti mast gate<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/14.jpg\" alt=\"14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There then followed several weeks of varnishing with muliple coats of Schooner varnish to get a decent finish<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/13.jpg\" alt=\"13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/12.jpg\" alt=\"12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/11.jpg\" alt=\"11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see there&#8217;s some damage to the paint work&#8230;..so the boat was turned over, stripped back to bare wood and repainted.<\/p>\n<p>And now we needed to add water see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/2008\/06\/22\/finn-k349-finished-and-floating\/\">K349 afloat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0going 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\u00a0 Finn he had recently bought. This boat was built in 1970 for Alistair Currey, the son of Fairey Marine&#8217;s Charles Currey. This boat ex-Sharon, now called Pandemonium was pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,38,3],"tags":[25,39],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-boats","category-finn-k349","category-finns","tag-finn","tag-raudaschl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}