FFs at the Next Dinghy Show - and the Mk IX again....

The Flying Fifteen will again have a good stand at the Alexandra Palace Show in March. In 2011 there will again be two boats on display - a brand new Ovington Mk X and also an example of the FF bargain of all time, a 15 year old Mk IX Smoothie. As we have written before in Datchet Man, these boats offer just terrific value and our fleet seems to be focussing on them these days. The example on display will be World Championship winner 3521 dating to 1995. This was Steve's Goacher's boat in which he started his World Championship hat-trick. I had 3644 put together by Phil Evans as a replica of it, and I must say I thought it was super boat to race in. I still have the write-up of the boat itself from Y&Y which inspired me to get myself up to Windermere in 1998. The show is on March 5th-6th.