It floats (barely)!
Yesterday Rasmus (my younger son) and I premiered the Flipper Scow I’ve been renovating since last autumn. Even in light winds we could tell this is one fast dingy. Most things worked (just some minor equipment failure), but there is a leak in the cockpit portholes (Henrik, a fellow dingy sailor at the club suggested vaseline, which might just do the trick) and some other more obscure leak that slowly fills the outer hull with water - some considerable amount of which we had to drain before being even remotely able to pull the thing up the slipway. I’ll have to look into both those problems, and possibly add some sort of puncture-resistant floatation bags in the dingy so it can’t sink.
Rasmus helping me renovate my Flipper sailing dingy. I’ve spent the last six months on this project…
