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 +====== Sticky Weekend ======
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 +The latest of the now-regular Cherub Sticky Weekends was on the 20th and 21st January 2007, in Weston-Super-Mare at the business premises of [[people:Paul_Croote]], keeper of [[boats:2645]], to whom many thanks.
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 +The aforementioned [[boats:2645]] has had a really amazing makeover, combining new speed enhancing modifications, a great-looking restoration, and still being down to weight - an impressive attainment!
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 +The main agenda was to learn and teach garage-engineering tips and tricks, while making some useful Cherub related items. These included a mast repair, a boom, a boom extension, a daggerboard rebuild, some vac-bagging of some carbon fronting plate and some alterations to a bowsprit. 
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 +On Saturday morning each task leadr explained their task to the less experience participants, and got to work. Everybody took their opportunies to spend a few minutes doing some of every jobs under expert supervision. Early on it was sanding and other prep-work, followed by cloth cutting and then, just after lunch it was time to get sticky.
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 +The boom went together in finely choreographed style with Gavin Sims in charge of a rotating team including Stu Hopson and Phil Kirk. Simulatneously to this a beautifully restored (now oak trailing edged!) daggerboard from [[boats:2649|Dangerous Strawberry]] got the carbon treatment from Stu Tinner supervised by Lucy Lee and Tim Unerman.
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 +After this the boom extension was made on the fat end of a pole mandrel by Tim Noyce, a mast was repaired by Tom Kiddle, and a flat sheet of very heavy carbon was wetted out and vac bagged (this is used for making rudder stocks and things).
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 +Saturday was rounded off with a fine curry, and when Sunday morning came (too early for some), the five separate projects that had been going off overnight were inspected and removed from their various moulds/mandrels and vac bags. Some admiration and congratulation was spread around as peelply was peeled off along with heat-shrink, and things came off mandrels with varying amount of ease.
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 +The prize for the weekend goes to Stu Tinner, who most correctly guessed the weight of the finished boom at 1500g. The real weight was 1428g.
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 +So much was learnt and so much accomplished that requests have been made to have another of these valuable opportunities organised. [[news:2007:0310|Sticky Weekend Part Deux]] is the 10th and 11th of March in Hertfordshire. Be there to learn how to do it in your garage.
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 +Paul Croote with his new boom, made by members of the cherub class assocaition under supervision of class experts at the latest class 'sticky weekend'.