====== Phil Alderson ======





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Phil Alderson is the Technical Officer and runs the website and forums, builder of [[boats:2686]] and [[boats:2681]]. He now owns [[boats:2659]] and [[boats:2683]], lives in Largs and can't wait for the 2010 Cherub Nationals to be held at Largo Bay!



I first got into Cherub sailing when [[people:Will Lee]] asked me to crew for him at the 1995 Plymouth nationals in [[boats:2522]] a beautiful looking Hot Dog design that had just finished being repainted and re varnished. The first time out in the boat a week before the nationals we put too much rig tension on and split the boat, realised that the rudder was far too small, and that none of the systems worked. A frantic week of rebuilding and redesigning the systems and we thought we were ready for anything, except possibly Plymouth. A stunning week of blasting at un-feasable speeds, breaking every part of the boat possible and I was hooked. I borrowed [[boats:2522]] again in 1997 for a light wind nationals in Babbacombe and after helping Will to convert 2642 [[boats:2642]] to 97 rules went to New Quay for the 1998 nationals.



At this point I realised that I had to get my own boat but not wanting a conversion project I dived in at the deep end and decided to build one. I started by buying the shell for [[boats:2681]] from Andy Patterson as it would save on building a jig and I knew that at least part of the boat would be properly built. I then spent a few years putting it together before taking it on a 500 mile journey to finish building it at the side of the road in Weymouth, I got sailing for the last race of the 2001 Nationals and realised quite what a beast I had built especialy when using a rather heavy ex int 14 aluminium mast.

After several years sailing and modifying AquaMarina it was time to trade up to a new boat and got together with Dave Low from DL Boats to design and build [[boats:2686]]. After sailing Primal Scream, with my wife for a couple of years, we decided on a change and bought [[boats:2659]] for some high wind fun, we then sold Primal and added [[boats:2683]] to our fleet.


Phone Phil on: 0794 3869739

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