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by PapaSierra
Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:26 pm
Forum: Otter Dinghy
Topic: New Otter owner - looking for a bermudan rig
Replies: 5
Views: 12778

Re: New Otter owner - looking for a bermudan rig

Hello Gents, Thanks for your comments/advice/insights, they do help us to edge up the gentle learning curve. Am interested to see your respective locations as I am from the Portsmouth area originally & so familiar with Langstone etc. & once we get settled, we might plan a trip over in the ho...
by PapaSierra
Fri Aug 12, 2022 9:40 am
Forum: Otter Dinghy
Topic: New Otter owner - looking for a bermudan rig
Replies: 5
Views: 12778

Re: New Otter owner - looking for a bermudan rig

Hello cweed, Thanks for your contact. Overall we are keen on a bermudan (b) rig, principally for the following reasons: • we are much more familiar with bermudan rigs & a little wary of the relative slackness of a gunter (g) rig(?). This is because my adult daughter (a dinghy instructor), who wi...
by PapaSierra
Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:49 pm
Forum: Otter Dinghy
Topic: New Otter owner - looking for a bermudan rig
Replies: 5
Views: 12778

New Otter owner - looking for a bermudan rig

Hello All, Am pleased to say that we have just acquired Otter no. 1130 (Chris Clarance Marine) & are very pleased with it. She has a gunter rig, but we are interested in converting her in to a bermudan rig. She has a fordeck step & we wonder whetherf there any downsides to doung the conversi...