The Seafly SD
In January 2013 John Claridge Boats, based in Lymington, bought the moulds for the “Modern Seafly” and the demonstration boat from Tony Longworth. Famed for designing the Magnum series of...
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The Mayfly – 1950’s
A photo of Mayfly Number 1 features on the front cover of what was presumably the first South Devon Boatbuilders sales brochure for the Mayfly which must have been produced...
The Mayfly – 1960’s
Although J.V.Kelley appears to have been the original Mayfly builder it is Stan Herbert who is remembered as owning South Devon Boatbuilders and building the Mayfly and Seafly....
Mayfly Clubs and Class Associations
During the last years of the 1950’s and start of the 1960’s, dinghy sailing became a very popular pastime with a proliferation of new dinghy designs, and the...
Mayfly Sailing at Clacton and Gunfleet
Clacton on Sea Sailing Club adopted the Mayfly as a fleet racing class in 1959 when the Club was based at Hazlemere Road, Holland on Sea. Both the Club...
St Margarets Mayfly
George Mees has written the following from St Margarets in Kent… “I’ve been meaning to do this since the London Olympics! We have a Mayfly as our village...
Seafly 430 – Pandora
Pandora sailed for a couple of years at Roadford lake in Devon. She then moved to Old Hunstanton where she underwent an extensive overhaul and repaint (see photo). She...
Seafly 654 – Expletive Deleted
September 2015: I enjoyed chatting with [John Claridge at the boat show] yesterday about new and old Seafly dinghies. My restoration of Seafly 654 is almost done and...
Seafly 481 – Skye
Matt Boreham, who sails with Steve Soanes at Blakeney rescued this Seafly from Rollesby were it had been abandoned after a rather bad meeting with a rescue boat!...
Seafly 508
Seafly 508 is Zygal built and in need of some minor repair but sails very nicely. She may be the only one still sailing judging from the few...
Seafly 101
These photos of Seafly 101 were taken at the 1989 Seafly National Championships at Worthing Yacht Club when she was being sailed by M. Melanaphy and finished 10th....
Seafly 369
Thanks so much for the Seafly memories website which I found last week. I have owned 3 different Seaflys: 361 which I owned from new (1970). This...