The Gosport Group

John Gale had built a new boat to Chris Dicks' 'Realistic' design of 1970. This one is a bit different being in mahogany rather than GRP.

J Gale Realistic

J Gale Realistic

Realistic restored: Mary Rose Cassa was sailing a Realistic built in the early 1970s. The boat went out to SF a few years ago and has been restored

Spider and E Mortensen

Spider 2

Spider and J Stobbe

Spider replica: A new build to the Spider design, built by John Gale, sailed by Graham Reeves

Spider: A boat from the past restored and now sailed by Paul Drewitt

Spinnaker run

Earl Boebert OD: this was the only really recent design on show. Earl had developed this from his favourite 'Rip Tide' Marblehead.   The four flags on the vane reflect inputs to the design and construction from four nations