1) What's it all about, then?

This will, I hope, be an account of the rebuilding of a Norfolk Broads ex-hire fleet GRP lugsail dinghy.

I haven't owned a boat for four years and was beginning to get withdrawal symptoms, having had various dinghies and other sailing boats for the previous 24 years.


He needs quite a lot of work - the top of the stem has been bashed away to nothing over the years as a hire-cruiser tender, and there are cracks and scrapes at various places on the hull. The deck is knackered and will need some thought.