I'm sure that Tom or Brian of Windsport will advise in this chat if you wait a day or 2

I would imagine that stainless steel pop rivets are likely to be too powerful for the fibreglass of the hull (but I would like to hear from others if this is correct). Why not buy the proper rivets from Windsport? See under Suppliers on this website.

Very Sad. Another of the Class's characters who put a lot into the Class over the years.
Regards
Bob
PS Jenny - a nice tribute.

Many moons ago we were sailing at a TT Event at Swanage and a pod of Dolphins where cruising around us as we were racing. On the downwind leg one swam directly between my hulls moving me forward in a surge of speed and passing Erling Holmberg. I still remember the complaints from Erling that I had ...

Liam wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 8:35 am Lots of pictures uploaded here: https://dart15.co.uk/picture-gallery-17 ... -day-1.php

What a fantastic array of pictures. Nice job to the photographers.

Yes, sounds familiar. More embarrassingly I think that was the Nationals where I tried to mount one of the large buoys and got it stuck between the 2 hulls and I was stuck for some time....

That was quite an event. Three days of quite strong breeze with some very close racing all the way through. Day 1 was type 2 fun but day 2 was just champagne sailing. I was very lucky to be able to cruise round on the third day and just enjoy the racing. Thank you to everybody including Pauline and...

Looks like Liam has wrapped it up on day 2....

It is good to see the results of the first day at the Nationals are on this website.

https://dart15.co.uk/events/EMS/event.php?id=250

Well done, Liam for leading the charge.

Superb attendance of the Shanklin members.
Can a few more of them be tempted to enter the Nationals?

My word what a lot of Dart 15s....
So it sounds like the Clarkes have 3 Dart 15 sailors in one family with lots of boats. I reckon that puts them ahead of the Price/ Maddison family who had 3 sailors and 3 boats.
Regards
Bob

I observe that there are 3 Clarkes who took part in the Marconi TT. Are they all in the same family and living under 1 roof? If so this equals the 3 that were in the Price/Maddison family in the early 1990s. Does anyone know of others with 3 or more Dart 15s (and sailors) in one family? I discount c...

Well done, Mark. It is a good place to win with the challenging tides.
The only places with more challenging tides that are or have been on the Dart 15 circuit are Gurnard and Instow in my opinion.

MGF Head gasket?

Well done to Jenny Ball. Our first lady National Champion for 34 years. Linda Moss won in 1989 as a 2-up boat with Stuart Snell as crew. Jenny is our first ever single handed Lady Champion - a fantastic achievement, especially as she was the event organiser. It is really tough to organise the event ...