~~NOTOC~~ ====== Sticky Weekend ====== Last year's Weston-Super-Mare sticky weekend was a complete smash hit, with newbies getting sticky with class experts. By the end of a weekend at the Paul Croote's extraordinary Cherub Tinkerer's Heaven, there was a new trailing edge on Strawberry's board, a SMOD mast repaired and ready for a new life on a Comfortably Numb, a new boom and spinnaker pole made on the class' own mandrels (expertly made by Paul Croote) with heat-shrink technology, some mega-plate made with vac-bag technology as well as many more odd jobs that members brought along to do under supervision. The next sticky weekend will be: Date: 17/18 November 2007 Venue: Weston-Super-Mare Be there! Free to members. (join [[*:shop|here]] for only £10) Kippability status: Floor: Plentiful Beds: Scarce Curry status: Plentiful. ====== From Argentina with love ====== This is the most bizarre tale of people being brought together by Cherubs yet: Andres is a Naval Architecture student in Argentina. He was reading some august text on the subject by a guy named Baader, and the author happened to mention that his favourite dinghy was the Cherub. A Google related chain reaction followed, and he is now the proud owner of a set of plans to build Argentina's first Cherub. Don't believe me about the Naval Architecture textbook might digress into a Cherubby discussion? Well here's the scanned page Andres sent: {{ *:news:baader-20071014a.jpg }}