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John I have a book not on your list, but perhaps this is as it's only edited by MG. Called "Cruising Yarns from the "YM" " Griffiths. pub 1938. Introduction written by MG , finishes "MG Yacht Lone Gull RHYC". 15 short yarns by such as E B Tredwen, Erskine Childers (titled "A Drift to the Baltic in a...

I'm about half way through reading the "Lone Gull Files" book and was taken by the suggestion that MG put a lot of his boat "Storm" into the hull design of Lone Gull. Looking at the drawings in the book I can see it to some extent. I think (but don't know) Storm had a fixed keel with no CB - is this...

I'll look out for the burgee, am off on Friday from Harefield on a narrowboat, to Brentford, out at 6am on Saturday on the Thames down to Erith, and then up the Dartford and Crayfordness navigations.

ianC

John

I'll scan in and e mail them over.

regards

IanC

Apologies if this comes out twice, as I tried posting earlier.... After another wasted day off, not painting because of the rain, I went looking for some photographs in the loft of early MG designs, which I knew I had but hadn't dug out in recent years. The three photographs were of the MG 7 ton "Ol...

John Good to see a new edition out of this book. Mine is a very dog eared version but with great quality photographs. Does the Shellback Library have good repoductions of the photo's? I ordered three Shellback books recently, I think I mentioned one was "Swin, Swale & Swatchway", 1892, by H Lewis Jo...