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Topic: From the show..
Posted By: iGRF
Subject: From the show..
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 12:40pm
As well as being pleased as punch with the way my new boat turned out, there were as usual, lots of other fascinating things to look at this year, boat of the show for me had to be that 14 that I believe Dan Holman built, it's got loads of tech bits, at gybing centreboard cassette, a tilting rudder and foil assembly I'd just love to fix to the back of my Farr one day.

The OK seems to be the flavour of the month amongst the jock boy glitterati, there were a couple scattered about just demanding not to be ignored with bad taste lipstick colour schemes and a bunch more rope than you would need to stay on the same pace as a Laser or get a shoeing from my Solution.

Foils were everywhere, they even had the Bic Open up on sticks, foils for Lasers, foils for Aeros, special foiling boats like the flying mantis, I imagine the F101 was around somewhere but I must have missed it, I wonder who's going to be buying all the foil boats and where on earth they might find a weed free environment or one without a shore dump upon which to sail them.

I've got a few pics I shall try to upload which in itself is a mission these days on this site, and I've bunged some up on flickr which I'll try and post a link to.

I met a lot of folk some of whom didn't actually want to take me outside for a good kicking and all in all stayed a bit longer than normal before I got bored, so how was your show?




My beauty.


Bad lipstick day.


The adjustable gantry on the 14.

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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 1:05pm
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Cock and ball harness looks interesting but can't see how to adjust the height.



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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 1:07pm
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Slightly more muted, another OK

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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 1:12pm
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So you've bought an Aero, you know of course you need to foil it now don't you? Everyone needs to foil, it's now the law. Or so you would be forgiving for thinking.

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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 1:16pm
The other boat I quite liked was the new lightning, but the colour of the one they decided to display didn't exactly send me into photo mode, they should have displayed the picture that had been doing the rounds on social me ja earlier.

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This lot didn't care much either way and were not so desperate to foil

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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 1:18pm
This is what I should have spent the show doing with all the kids, but it probably wouldn't have been regarded as appropriate for a man of my years..
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Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 1:45pm
Excellent GRF, thanks for that.
Your FARR looks very grown up and neat.
How long is that going to last?... furry dice....go faster stripe.... stabilisers... ;-)
Nice one chap.


Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 1:59pm
Not forgetting the rear spoiler with traveller for aft sheeting ;-)


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Posted By: H2
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 2:35pm
Being slightly cheeky.....but if I had just bought an Aero I think I would probably need something - anything in fact - to spice it up just a little. So perhaps a set of foils would be a good way to make a drab grey piece of plastic a little more exciting to live with?


Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 3:03pm
Did you go H2? I couldn't get near the H2 stand it was that busy, the couple of times I passed by.



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Posted By: zeon
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 3:23pm
Really enjoyed the show this year. Grf should be really pleased , I spent a long time chatting at the solution stand. Was very impressed , once I have sold one of my boats, I am going to look for a nice second hand one. 


Posted By: fleaberto
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 3:23pm
Your boat looked pretty good to me Graeme and I recall zipping past the H2 and doing a double-take:"Wow, that isn't as big as I'd imagined" - so should have gone back to investigate more.
I spent a long time on our 600 stand fielding lots of questions so that was good but it meant that I didn't really get around the show very much at all.
I should definitely have spent some proper time over with your Farr and checked it out more deeply.
I was really impressed with how busy it was on Saturday...didn't expect that, but I assume it was busier still on Sunday?
Mind you, that Main Hall was bloody Baltic!!!
Post-Show 'Exhibitors Beers' was a nice touch Smile


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Posted By: H2
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 4:06pm
Originally posted by iGRF

Did you go H2? I couldn't get near the H2 stand it was that busy, the couple of times I passed by.


No I did not make it - I was supposed to be out in Pembroke last week doing a couple days pre-season coaching but it got called off due to the 40 knot winds and -10 windchill and my family had booked up stuff for me to ferry them too all weekend. I spoke to a couple of the guys that did go to help at the H2 stand and they were really excited by the response which seemed significant. I guess we will find out when orders start coming in, we are already at 40 boats sold I believe.

The RYA also gave us an EN of 1037 which is very nice and should help anyone worried about being in a HC fleet. 

I must make it to the boat show one of these days - if only it was at the NEC I would be there is a flash!


Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 4:31pm
Originally posted by zeon

Really enjoyed the show this year. Grf should be really pleased , I spent a long time chatting at the solution stand. Was very impressed , once I have sold one of my boats, I am going to look for a nice second hand one. 
I am really pleased, with any luck my sea problems are over and my love affair with the Solution goes from strength to strength I came back and actually won the Sunday mornings frostbite race against the quick Solo and the Boatyards @ beer Streaker over the water and on corrected which is a very rare occurrence down there, so all I've now got to do is break the news to you know who and hope she doesn't enforce the one boat out first rule...



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Posted By: boatshed
Date Posted: 05 Mar 18 at 5:35pm
The Int14 rudder gantry looks to be swept up and the bottom of the stock is sitting well above the underside of the hull bottom at the transom.   Is this because the water flow coming off the back of the hull flows upwards and will foul the stock if there is insufficient distance?   If so, looking at iGRF's Farr gantry, it looks to not have this swept up gantry and I think the water flow  could foul the rudder stock.   Could well be wrong as the photos are not clear.




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