A Firefly to Rebuild- Part 1 Ripping it Apart.
Beginnings I had rebuilt 2 wooden Wayfarers years ago, we raced one number 662 at a world championships in Hayling Island in 1993 and cruised it up the west coast of Scotland. The other came from a shingle beach at Bexhill on Sea, we kept it for a while and then sold it to friends who sailed it at Bala. Eventually that boat turned up at our sailing club Port Dinorwic, bought by John Jones a master craftsman boat builder. Both were sapelee decked and very pretty boats. Adrian Stoggal, sometime Olympic race officer and whose daughter Ella sails a renovated firefly was renovating another old Firefly with Neil Marsden in his workshop in Garstang, near Preston. Stog kept pesterimg me about rebuilding one and kept sending me boats worth renovating. Eventually, through Fiona Tylecote, [ thanks Fiona!], I was pointed towards a boat in Torpoint, about as far from home as I could get from Caernarfon in North Wales. The boat number 2762, built in 1961 measured 7th November and delivered to UCL