We have improved our popular Oppi trolley, solid but soft wheels, welded components, and very easy to dismantle, price (collect) £165.00 inc vat.

It has been a very sad month we have lost two very important members of the Welsh Harp team.

Jean Saunders sadly passed away earlier this month. She started working with us in 1968, she  was  loyal and  hard working, and a very important member of the team. It is true to say she enjoyed her job and  spent the rest of her working life with us. After retiring  she  moved south to be with her relatives and settled in Swanage. Our thoughts are with her daughter Karen and her family.

Ken Lawton was part of our team, a successful business man who retired young and worked with us as a friend. Always happy, always busy, and we valued his advice. An excellent Merlin sailor who became commodore at Wembley and ran the club like a business, which was one of its most  successful   periods,  certainly in terms of members.  He passed away on the 21^st June our thoughts are with his wife Margaret.

Jean Saunder Ian Garwood (also sadly no longer with us) Geoff O’Neill Ken Lawton and Rob O’Neill.

Hisc today.

Today I went to the seaside  managed to get the rib out and on  the water then took some photos.

Happy days!!!!!!!

For the first time in months the galvanizers arrived this morning, ordinarily a mundane  once a week occurrence, but there was almost something symbolic about their arrival this morning.

Joseph Ash Medway Galvanizing  are only running two shifts a day, which means this load will not be returned until the middle of next week, it is however the the first  tentative steps back to some sort of normality.

Today it is really good to talk about what we are doing, and not what we have done.

Subsequent to Boris’s  easing of lock down conditions on Sunday evening we are now out of Furlough.  Today a Mirror combi left the premises, and we finished  3 Flying Fifteen axles ready for final assemble.

We are still being very careful!

The shop is still closed but we can be contacted by email, our address is sales@welshharp.co.uk

Salcombe 1974.

This was a time when we had no auto focus, auto aperture, motor drive, and max speed 500.

Roger Taylor (very sadly no longer with us) and Debby Henderson.

They do say if you are a real petrol head you have to own an Alfa Romeo once in your life, well if you are a proper dinghy sailor you must do a Salcombe  Merlin week for the same reason.

It is a truly magical place, that can be kind and cruel in equal measure.  We were lucky enough to have competed in 12 of them from 1974 to 1986.

For someone whose life revolved around sailing and photography  it was heaven on earth. I could do both at the same event and get that close to the action I could virtually touch it. If it was a good week we were in the chocolates (best result 3^rd),  and there was  always the possibility of a front cover!

Happy Days.