Newcastle Yacht Club, Northern Ireland
Notes by Marc Miskelly, Hon. Sec. of Newcastle Yacht Club and owner of C243, April 2010 & Feb 2013: Newcastle Yacht Club is situated at the foot of...
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Worthing Yacht Club
Worthing Yacht Club / Sailing Club sailed a fleet of Seaflys from the 1960’s through to the 1980’s. They hosted the Seafly National Championships in 1968 and regularly thereafter...
Publicising the Seafly and the SDCA
Boat Shows: London Boat Show: In the 1960’s both South Devon Boatbuilders and Moores of Wroxham exhibited the Seafly at the “National Boat Show” held annually in January at...
Other Seafly Clubs
Other clubs with Seafly Fleets were: Seasalter Sailing Club Seasalter is situated a few miles west of Whitstable on the north Kent coast. The National Championships were hosted there...
SDCA Publications Archive
The SDCA published a Class Association Handbook containing the Association Constitution, Seafly Measurement rules, and also tips on tuning the Seafly, Branch Reports, etc. There was also an...
Seafly Design History – Introduction
The Seafly was designed by John Kelley and initially developed and built by John Kelley and Stan Herbert at South Devon Boatbuilders; eventually other boat builders were licensed, but the...
The Mayfly Sailing Dinghy
The fore-runner of the Seafly, the Mayfly was originally built by South Devon Boat Builders in Dawlish, Devon, UK. Other builders included Elders of Troon and Moores of...
South Devon Boatbuilders (1960’s)
The first Seafly builders, and owners of the design rights, were South Devon Boatbuilders (SDBB) situated at Iddesleigh Terrace, Dawlish, Devon. By the start of the 1960’s SDBB seems to...
Original Seafly Design
As originally developed by South Devon Boatbuiders, the Seafly was designed for construction in wood. As an example, these photographs from about 1963 show C59 which was constructed...
Moore’s of Wroxham
Moore’s of Wroxham (Norfolk) built several batches of Seaflys under licence to South Devon Boatbuilders. In the mid 1960’s both firms exhibited Seaflys on separate stands at the...
Plans for building a Seafly
The original South Devon Boatbuilders plans used in building Seafly 59 (“The Dong”) in the early 1960’s are reproduced here. Many of the parts are shown on the...
Builders Elsewhere
Australia In 1963 South Devon BoatBuilders granted boat builder Harold Lang, of Sorrento, Victoria, a licence to build the Seafly in Australia. A second builder, Brian Lay in Queanbeyan, New South...