Kiwi dinghy with spinnaker Oct23

I spent the summer of 2022 building a much modified 12ft Farr 3.7 singlehanded racing dinghy, which I called Kiwi. Then, before I had fully developed it, I unexpectedly bought back my 30ft Sagitta catamaran which I had sold nearly 30 years ago. That needed a lot of work and so my dinghy development took a back seat until this summer. Kiwi is very much a mongrel design. The yellow hull is the wood plug used by the UK builder when he built a grp mould. The decks are my invention - I didn't want to fit a trapeze, as on the original 1971 Bruce Farr design, instead I fitted detachable wings. The foredeck has a recessed trough to allow for the spinnaker chute. The mast, boom and rudder are from a 14ft Phantom (cut down as required). The daggerboard is a cut down Fireball centreboard. The bowsprit a Laser top section. Mainsail is a cut down Laser2000 while the spinnaker came from a RS200. Most of the deck gear I found in my spares box. So this video is the first of the nearly sorted boat. I just need to practice sailing it a lot more, as my general sail handling is still erratic, in part as I have been changing the layout after nearly every sail. Over the winter I will have a new mainsail made - hopefully one without the holes I have now! I will also move the wings further forward. I originally fitted them aft as I was unnecessarily worried about nosediving offwind. Having them further forward will make hiking when sailing to windward more comfortable. You can see more of the original Farr 3.7 here https://www.3-7class.org.nz/the-boat.html