As sponsor of the 2000 class Millenium Series, West Country Boat Repairs have been repairing, buying and selling 2000s for many years, including acting as a broker for sailors looking to buy or sell their boats. We know what the common issues are, which are...
Owner of West Country Boat Repairs, Pete Vincent, has a lifelong passion for Dinghy Racing and likes nothing better than coaching keen young sailors. He was at Restronguet Sailing Club this weekend and writes "So yesterday this was my place of work! 19 sailors under 25....
Imagine Kimberley’s delight (and a touch of apprehension) when Pete told her that she would be refurbishing a rudder, not just any rudder, but the rudder from the RS500 owned by dinghy sailing icon Steve Cockerill, of Rooster Sailing! Steve won a professional dinghy refurbishment...
As sponsor of the 2000 class Millenium Series, West Country Boat Repairs have been repairing, buying and selling 2000s for many years, including acting as a broker for sailors looking to buy or sell their boats. We know what the common issues are, which are...
We are very pleased to say that we will be exhibiting at the RYA Dinghy & Watersports Show, over the weekend of 26th and 27th February. The show is moving to a new venue which we're very excited about, the Farnborough Exhibition Centre, just off...
You might have seen from our previous post that one of our big jobs this Winter is the large scale repair to this 20ft Orkney fishing boat. We're pleased to report that we've now completed the strengthening of the floor base and fitting of the new...
When Pete's step daughter Kimberley asked Pete "What's a bosun?" he explained that it's a classic 14-ft GRP sailing dinghy created for the Royal Navy in the 1960's, not the fastest or lightest by any means, but possibly the toughest dinghy around, designed to carry...
We were pleased to welcome Sian Reynolds to a GRP Dinghy Repair Workshop recently. Sian won her place as a prize in the West Country Boat Repairs 2000 Millenium Series, sailing with Kev O'Brien. By the end of the course she had learnt how to use...
A real sign that normal dinghy racing had fully recovered in second half of 2021 is that we have our first University Firefly in for repair since March 2019! We have always looked after the boats for a number of universities, but never thought we would...
One of our big jobs for this winter is quite a large scale repair to a 20ft Orkney fishing boat. The boat came in with a small rotten/soft section to the wooden cockpit floor in the rear of cockpit. Once we started removing the cockpit...