Mirror 16 Sailing Dingy

[onthebeachalone]

I am wondering if there are any Mirror 16 owners active on this forum. The web has provided a wonderful facility for Mirror 16 enthusiasts around the world to make contact and compare notes. Further information mostly on this thread on the Boat Design Forum http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12064

[Frank Hagan]

I don't know any Mirror owners personally, but it looks like an interesting sailing dinghy!

You guys are always welcome here. We enjoy seeing progress pics of any restoration as well as new builds, and once you join you can store your pics here in the Gallery or resize them and upload them into a message.

If there's enough interest, I can even create a separate forum for the Mirror if you want to host it here; I see there is already a MSN Group at http://groups.msn.com/MirrorDiscussionForum but sometimes people don't like the format there or on the Yahoo Groups (with the ads and pop ups, etc.)

[onthebeachalone]

We had a most enjoyable messabout on Saturday including 2 'Mirror 16's, a 'Heron', a Bolger 'Gypsy', a John Weslford 'Goldern Bay Dinghy', a Murray Isles 'Mudskipper' and Iain Oughtred 'Ness Boat', plus a few others I can't recall right now. As you can see, we are a motley crew. We sailed from Manly Boat Harbour beating dead upwind (NE) for about 8km to St Helena Island (an old colonial prison established in 1867). The day started with a very light breeze which freshened to 10-15 knots. We had lunch on the island and an easy run back in a 15-20 knot afternoon sea breeze.

We could have got some beautiful sailing shots of Larry Loveday Mirror 16 CLII (#152) but forgot to take the camera.

Anyway, summer has come with a vengeance and it has really become too hot to spend much time out on the water exposed to the Queensland sun 8). It's now time for boat building and maintenance in the shade, and we have plenty to do.