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Medway Maniac
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Topic: Unhealthy desires for boat butchery Posted: 22 Aug 14 at 8:49am |
Brilliant - gets the weight right aft as the wind drops off, and gets the bow well in for those hairy reaches
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MerlinMags
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 22 Aug 14 at 9:10am |
Thanks, that really made me laugh!
The answer is simple then - put the pivot point near the transom. Make it out of carbon and what's not to like? |
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Medway Maniac
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 22 Aug 14 at 9:27am |
Then you'd just need one 'device' pivoted on the transom below the tiller. Aft bridle, off-the-boom sheeting and a gnav and away you go. Wire-to-wire tackers eat your hearts out.
Darting around the office on your castored swivel chair would be the ideal training.
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Andymac
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 22 Aug 14 at 9:27am |
If there was a prize for conversions, then my vote would go to the GP14 converted to a scale 3 masted sailing ship.
www.festinalente.org.uk/photos/newbelleisle/album/index.html Edited by MerlinMags - 22 Aug 14 at 2:05pm |
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robinft
Far too distracted from work Joined: 18 Jun 04 Location: Thorpe Bay YC Online Status: Offline Posts: 252 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 22 Aug 14 at 9:36am |
I agree, apart from the red ensign... |
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iGRF
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 22 Aug 14 at 9:50am |
One day I'll come across a 49er rig at the right price and we'll see what the V2 can do in it's current state. That or a B14 rig.
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Oli
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 22 Aug 14 at 3:52pm |
would be great in a post apocalyptic world, with a couple of machine guns mounted to it!
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sargesail
Really should get out more Joined: 14 Jan 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1459 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 22 Aug 14 at 8:23pm |
Now that's an entirely new image GRF as the Mel Gibson character in Waterworld, atop a non-catamaran dinghy as wide as the original boat, complete with his trademark split cheek wetsuit.
Shivers...
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