Dear Merlin Rocket Community,
I have recently bought 2135 for a snip as an incomplete restoration project. I've put in the dirty and dusty but simple yards sanding and prepping and varnishing remaking internal wooden thwarts, centreboard housing top... now to the re assembly of the bag of bits that came with it. Some things are missing, some are aged and need replacing. The rudder stock was missing so I have sourced and adapted one that now works for the rudder blade, however the old rotten seat/thwart has the shadowy tell tales of a traveller track but I didn't inherit one that would have been removed There is no centre hoop/frame of any type nor mountings/location on the hull so it can't have been replaced by one of those.
so my questions are as follows:
1. type of traveller required ?
2. the car and block that might be needed to complete the main sheet rigging?
3. I'm just outside Newton Abbot so Exmouth, Star Cross, Teignmouth, Kingsbridge and Salcombe are all near enough. Are there any hoopless vintage boats of a similar age near by to chat and seek advice from their owners?
4. Does anyone know any of the boat's history? I believe it was stored in Dartington before I got it so there must be some local register of it. There is an MROA 2005(?) registration tag on the transom so maybe there is some on the club data base?
Yours
Excitedly