This Photo was taken in Made Feld in Bedwell. My parents Alec and Maria Ward decided to buy a washing machine around 1962 and somehow arrived back with a sailing dinghy kit. It was squeezed through the back gate and assembled in the garden. My parents then joined the North Herts sailing club at the Blue Lagoon in Arlesey. I wonder if there are any other sailing club members around who can remember my parents. My mother to this day cannot remember when we bought the washing machine. Happy Days.
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My Dad bought a Mirror kit and made it in our front room…. it didn’t seem that odd to me as a child, but looking back it was outrageous. He had to take the window out to get it out of the house. It was a little later than the boat in the picture, 9452 was the sail number. We sailed at Hawker Siddely sailing club up at Tempsford on the A1. Happy Memories….
That’s a Mirror Dinghy, I sailed them at Fairlands lakes while at Barnwell School, it wasn’t long before I was teaching younger kids the art of sailing in the Bosons and Wayfarers they had down there in the early 70’s