5-0-5 nostalgia trip
A website for 505 fans who remember "the good old days"

In order for you to get back to 505-sailing at its best, please have a look at the selection of photos from the fifties to the nineties listed below.

1. 1970 World Championship at Plymouth 
2. Marcel Buffet´s 80th birthday party at the CVP in Paris september 2002
3. 505 No.8, Marcel going sailing, F8 Still Sailing
4. 505 Archive
5. 505 Europeans 1971 in Copenhagen
6. Christer Bath – technical wizard before his time. At last, read about the new "Chris TR-Compass"!
7. 5-0-5 reunion party at Royal Corinthian Y.C. April 15th 2000
8. "505 Europeans 1969" in Dun Laoghaire
9. Mastering the 505 'single handed'
10. Balanced rudder by Christer Bath
11. The embryo of an adjustable jib sheeting system
12. The webmaster 'High & Dry' with friends after a race at the Plymouth World´s -70
13. Report from the 505 World´s 1968 at Kiel.
14. Parker 505s – the choice of the champions in the sixties.
15. 505s from the 50´s – when it all began.
16. The notorius swedish vikings showing off at the Plymouth Worlds in 1970.
17. The founder of the 'Int. Trapeze Workers Union', Lars Heuman, professor of law, demonstrating the apalling working conditions for crews in the 1960´s.
18. A photo of KALABALIK of the Bath brothers reaching outside Långedrag (Gothenburg) in a Force 5-6 "breeze".
19. Another photo of KALABALIK from the same day.
20. Two brothers destined for the 505
21. Getting "two birds with one stone.... – two 505 stars with great magnitude"
22. Old fashion spinnaker hoisting can be a hazzle
23. "Mad Danes & Englishmen..." – from Plymouth 1970
24. Marcel Buffet with friends – from Plymouth 1970
25. Derek Farrant partying at Plymouth 1970
26. Christer Båth – from Plymouth 1970
27. Dennis & Dick – from Plymouth 1970
28. "The Bath Loop" – analyzing transom sheeting
29. Another example of flagrant abuse by the helmsman in the old days
30. Madame Buffet, toute simplement!
31. Ebbe and Olle relaxing in the dinghy park at Marazion
32. Krister Bergström & Co. teaming up for the camera in Cornwall
33. 3 top vikings in the dinghy park of Mount´s Bay Sailing Club in 1995
34. webmaster enjoying the World´s in -95
35. St Michael´s Mount under siege from a fleet of 505s
36. Jim Hardy´s 505 Black Bottle being carried ashore after final race in the World´s -66
37. Jim Hardy & Max Whitnall looking pleased with their world title
38. A few wellknown faces from the Adelaide World´s in -66
39. A big smile from Dennis in -66
40. A rare sequence of true boat speed – under construction!
41. If you have a disastrous first leg; never give up! – two stories with moral!
42. Larry Marks – need we say more?
43. Swedish 505 in trouble in mid 60´s
44. F21 Still Sailing