Hi All |
Where are you sailing it? |
At the moment sailing at sea total weight about 23 /24 stone but what to come up from cornwall to have some fun doing merlin events. |
You should have got your salcombe entry form in months ago! |
I am thinking about upgraging as the minute I have a one off design no spinny chute and trying to teach the fiance to sail with bags are a problem even if you know what you are doing other wise we would have been there. Thinking about 3451. Just trying to work it all out. |
Sorry boat number wrong. Does any one know much about 3251 |
I am now very suspicious of the "needs a little tender loving care" bit in adverts. All too often this means "I was really shocked to see how awful the boat looked after 2 winters outdoors under a leaky cover but I still need to sell to someone who will do more sailing than me". Look very carefully for failed joints especially in structural areas (centrecase, anywhere within 9" of the shrouds, mast gate, king post) or rot and softened wood particularly near the transom or the centrecase on the hog. Bear in mind that replacing half a dozen fittings that don't work because they have corroded and getting hold of a reasonable 2nd hand suit of sails because the ones with it are knackered may well cost you over £400. |
Hi James |
I owned 3247 a Rowsell NSM1 a while back and it was a good boat in most conditions (especially after I did a bit of surgery and moved the jib tracks forward about a foot). Excellent Merlin to build up experience on-less difficult to sail well than some other designs of the time. |
Have a look at the Tamesis winter series results to see how a wide variety of Merlins from 847 to 3656 performed on the Thames over the winter. http://www.tamesisclub.co.uk/MerlinWinterPoints.htm |
For main page http://www.tamesisclub.co.uk/Merlin.htm |
Hi I own 3236 a Rowsell Omega NSM1 there are some photos of her in the photos section on this site to give you an idea of what you should find. What I havent yet done is to scan some old photos of the way she looked prior to this, the good news is spud used Epoxy on the construction of these boats and generally it's held up pretty well. Some of the previous posts mention the places to have a good look at, just about anything can be fixed it's just a matter of time. There dead right about performance common sense suggest the more recent CT etc will be faster in certain conditions you just have to pick your events and try & outfox them. Just because they have got a modern boat doesent mean they can point it in the right direction!(although most are) |