Adventures getting a old wooden racing dinghy into competitive condition (edition 2)

Nick Lightbody
11 min readMay 14, 2021

A brand new wooden Scorpion №2048 Liquid Spirit built by Duffin/Paintcraft.

This is what we would be up against. But all is not lost, old wooden racing dinghies, dry stored, offer fantastic value and potentially a competitive sail. Here’s why…

Engineering in wood

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Nick Lightbody

A British former lawyer designing sustainable micro responsive web sites because “less is better”.