{"id":2,"date":"2020-01-09T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T14:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-01-11T23:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T23:59:33","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/sample-page\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Having been brought up in Norfolk I always seemed to have some old boat or another, which are listed somewhere on my Racing Dinghies Blog – www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies<\/a>. I gave up dinghy sailing when I was 17 (after sailing Toppers, OKs, Enterprises, various local keelboats, Mirrors, Fireflys, National 12s) and started to race offshore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An advert in a 1983 copy of Yachts and Yachting along the lines of 17 year old gorilla available for East Coast racing<\/em> gave me my entry into big boat racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent the 1980s racing or working on IOR boats from 1\/4 Tonners to Maxi Raters (though I did end up doing the Firefly Nationals in the late 80s \u2013 a pier head jump off a Swan 57).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also sailed or worked on most of the Ocean Youth Club fleet, raced Swans, was a paid hand on the \u2018J\u2019 Class Velsheda<\/em> and raced on a Formula 40 Cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a few years away from sailing I bought a small racing yacht, Rocket Flare<\/em>, but sold her when we moved next to the largest lake in the South West. On my first visit to the lake I saw a fleet of Flying 15s. I\u2019d always had an interest in the 15 having admired the designs of Uffa Fox when I was student at the Falmouth Maritime College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bought a Flying 15, Encounter<\/em>, on my second visit to the lake and soon realised that I also wanted a single handed dinghy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having looked at available boats I quickly realised I did not want a soulless, grey, standard production boat (couldn\u2019t afford one either!) so I started looking at older sailing books to see what possibilities were out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always wanted an International Canoe (got there in the end though) but thought I\u2019d better find something a little bit more sedate. I found a 1970s ToY for sale \u2018up country\u2019 and bought her for not a lot to see if I would get on with the sliding seat before buying an IC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After surfing the web for information on the ToY dinghy I came across the Classic and Vintage Racing Dinghy Association web site (www.cvrda.org<\/a>). The CVRDA was my introduction to older boats. The down side of getting involved is being part of the grapevine that hears about old boats that are desperate for a new home. It was bizarre to hear about boats that are going for free or for next to nothing \u2013 unfortunately I could not say No and soon ended up with a small collection of \u2018Classics\u2019 and in my search for relevant fittings and spares I kept on coming across more boats the needed a home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was through the CVRDA I came own a number of classic racing dinghies over the last 20 years – some of them are detailed at my (out of date) Racing Dinghies Blog – www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After moving back to Plymouth a few years I downsized the fleet and just kept Zenith<\/em>, the boat you can read about on the blog. I do also have another interesting boat, a Harrier+ and really must update the other blog with the Harrier + details<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having been brought up in Norfolk I always seemed to have some old boat or another, which are listed somewhere on my Racing Dinghies Blog – www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies. I gave up dinghy sailing when I was 17 (after sailing Toppers, OKs, Enterprises, various local keelboats, Mirrors, Fireflys, National 12s) and started to race offshore. An advert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/zenith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}