AYRS Zoom meeting

For our Zoom meeting on Friday 6th March at 7:30pm AYRS member Reuben Thompson will tell us about the design and construction of his beautiful sailing dinghy.   This will be the final zoom meeting of this winter series, we plan to restart our Zoom meetings in October.

The Zoom link for the meeting is below, we aim to open the connection by 19:15 for a 19:30 start. (the link is also on the AYRS website under ‘events’)  After the talk and any questions we usually leave the connection open for a while so that members can chat.  Our Zoom meetings are open to all so do invite friends who may be interested.

Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2536740617?pwd=VFdMOGxWRDNzK1Z4NkxpTkU1a3ZUZz09&omn=87610598270

The Meeting ID is 253 674 0617 and the passcode is ayrs but I don’t think you need those if you join through the link (if it does not work when you click on it, copy and paste it into your browser)

A bit about Reuben:

Back in June 2021 Reuben gave a talk to the AYRS about the sailing dinghy that he designed and built while still at school,  you see from this picture that it had a lot of sail area on a tiny 7’7″ hull length.

Leaving school, Reuben took a boat building course at the Lyme Regis boat building academy then became resident boat builder/restorer at the Falmouth maritime museum.  He then took a degree in Marine Technology at  the University of Plymouth and following that moved to Ipswich to work as a yacht designer at Spirit Yachts, builders of wooden super yachts.   By now he had designed and built the 18foot sailing boat that will be the subject of this Zoom meeting. It is only 4’6″ beam and is often sailed with the trapeze wires.   With this boat he made an amazing single handed open boat voyage clockwise around the UK from Ipswich to the Shetland Islands and from there to Norway where he and his wife are now living.

In 2021 Reubin sailed his boat at a DCA rally held in Cornwall, this is a picture I took on that occasion.