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...
Category: The Mayfly Sailing Dinghy
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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...