Our FIRST SAILBOAT | Sailing Mysealium the Mirror Dinghy in Scotland. 

Beautiful!

Fantastic from Melbourne 🇦🇺👍🍺🍺

Last year I bought a Mirror for my granddaughters. I had one back in the 1990s and it is excellent becoming re-acquainted with the boat. You may find you will graduate to other, bigger boats but you will look back on the Mirror and realize just what a beautiful little boat they are.

What a great little boat and she looks to be in wonderfully good condition too - and all original. Even the little turning block on the luff downhaul is an original from the early 70s (it was an optional extra, my Father bought one for our Mirror). I loved sailing our Mirror and happily still have her - cocooned away in a dry shed and waiting for me to be able to sail her again one day I hope. Keeping Mirrors in the dry is essential because although they are technically 'waterproof' the plywood is the least durable type imaginable and even a few weeks of constant wetting will get under the varnish and ruin the wood for ever or more particularly start rot forming. A friend of mine got his out of the shed where she had been stored only to find that a little water had sat in the cockpit and that the floor around the plate case had rotted out - in just a few months. He was very sad. Anyway enjoy your Mirror and try to get a copy of Mirrormania (from the early 1970s - lots of tails of mirror things including a circumnavigation of Fife by three single handed Mirrors...which looks as if it might be interesting to you as they set off from I think North Queensferry just near where your video is shot...

I loved my mirror. I put a lot of love and work into. Unfortunately I sold when other projects took up all my time. I still thing about the times I had sailing it. I am glad there still are people that sail them.

My mirror was 39793. Never took it on open seas but loved cutting my teeth with dinghy sailing. Fantastic video. Nice to know that they are still being sailed. Expat from uk now in Sydney 🇦🇺🫶🏻🇬🇧

This little video was great guys

Nicely done. You may have worked this out already but yachting self inflating lifejackets are not a good idea with dinghy sailing. When you go over and it inflates it will be difficult to get back onboard. A decent PFD is the best option for dinghy sailing.

My Dad built his one in our Front room sailed it on lakes and Rivers till moving up to a Drascombe, Myself and Dad were a crew for a few years off North Woolwich slip, Great days, You learn a lot sailing a Tidal river like the Thames, Stood me in good stead on many adventures around British shores

The mirror dingy is a great starting yacht, I brought a blocky the boat builder kit in 1972 when I was 12 yo in Victoria Australia, built it with my Dad and sailed it all over port Phillip Bay, fair wind, brought a old rough and got my kids into sailing

Awesome video my man can’t wait to see more 🤙🏻

Found this through your post on FB, Liked the video very much

Hell yeah troops 👍🏼

Much love bro! hope your doing well!

Ya lucky hairy bastard. Orange sails and three ginger chicks...

Much love my bro from back home in Pakuranga. Excited af to see the rest of your journey bro! (Just in case you don't recognize my Xbox live name from highschool, it's Aaron lmao)

...I've been meaning to go under the bridges, and go to that island....we've been to the rest, but not that one!

Is the mirror a good boat for a total novice cheers

Love your video we met yesterday in callendar