A couple of weeks ago my son found an
old dinghy in the bushes of a marina here near by.
He didn´t know what kind of boat it was. Neither did he see much of it under all the dirt. But he liked it.
He made some phone calls, and the
owner, a sailing club, promised that he can fix it. They also promised to pay for the equipments needed. And because "navigare neseccere est", my son started a project named Boat.
The Boat is a Scout 430 dinghy designed by a finnish boat designer Eivind Still in the 1980s. It looked like this in the beginning of my son´s project:
After some hours of washing and scrubbing, it looked like this:
But as you can see in the picture, there is still a way to go ...
As a mom of a sailing child I´ll follow my son´s project also in this blog. If you want to know more about these Scout boats, there is more information available on Euronaut, issue 17, may 2006, page 3.
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