Summertime Blues

 

Homeward bound Click on sail
Visiting Falmouth Sunbeams awaiting transfer from road trailers to yard trolleys and then launched to the water, to compete in the Sunbeam Championship races

 

Homeward bound Click on sail

 

 

Broken Sunbeam Boom being repaired
Apart from the routine maintenance and servicing the racing keelboat fleets, Haines are kept busy during the summer with accident repairs. Below are a few that have occurred the last few weeks
Bow of this XOD has been manufactured and replaced by our skilled shipwright
Three Broken sunbeam masts. One of them returned to sailing by the end of the week, the second by the weekend, the third returned to Falmouth for repairs.
 
Damaged Bow and Toe rail of a Swallow
Repaired transom of an XOD

 

Nasty T-Boned XOD. Haines rescued her before she sank.
Damaged covering Board and coamings on another Sunbeam.

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