After getting the dinghy home and rigging it I made some good and bad discoveries. My first mishap was when I put my hand through the bow panel which was very rotten- not a good start. however when I unloaded the trailer I found two complete sets of rigging both standing and running and three suits of sails – one a racing suit and one a standard suit. there was also a spinaker abd chute but no chute bag or spinaker pole. there was also a large amount of bits and pieces such as blocks, cleats pintles gudgeons etc. there was also a fair amount of rope but as I would dsicover not enough. later I will prepare an inventory of what rope a completed mirror should have.
The boat had no oars or rowlocks, and I would advise anybody buying a mirror to insist on these as they are hard to find. – if anybody out there has mirror oars and they would like to part with them I would be happy.
By the serial number I reckon that the boat is early 70’s but I will check up on this later.
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