Mirror Dinghy Building Kit
The mirror dinghy kits drive marine services has decided to discontinue the mirror kit project. it is with regret that we have made this decision but issues with the prototype and commercial reality has forced us to close this project.. The mirror is a popular sailing dinghy with more than 70,000 built.. the mirror was named after the daily mirror, a uk newspaper with a largely working class distribution. the mirror was from the start promoted as an affordable boat, and as a design it has done a great deal to make dinghy sailing accessible to a wide audience. although most popular in the uk, mirrors are also sailed in other. Sequence of owen building his mirror sailing dinghy, summers of 2010 and 2011. he took most of the photos and built all of the boat. i put them together into a slide show and added the music..
Mirror dinghy kit supplier in southern africa we are now the south african supplier of the mirror dinghy class kit sets, they are an international class some fifty years old and 70,000 strong. the mirror dinghy, the little plywood wonder that brought sailing to the masses, is still loved today by some of our best-known sailors.olympic medallist. Purchasing a complete ready to sail boat new from the kit builder is the most expensive option, and few people opt for this route: it is generally much cheaper to find a good second hand boat. building the boat from the kit is cheaper than purchasing it ready built, and is part of the mirror tradition: most mirrors were built from kits by their. To build a good mirror dinghyrequires an investment of approximately 120 hours. each kit is made from high quality materials, the plywood for the hull is 5mm, 5 ply certified marine gaboon plywood. the kit comes complete with everything needed to build the hull to the stage of painting as per the materials list..
