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sargesail 
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 Topic: Bloody Mary SailjuicePosted: 15 Jan 15 at 10:51pm |
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[/QUOTE] I sailed a borrowed gen-u-wine navy bosun as my first sail in a dinghy after 5 years of only sailing yachts and keelboats. Tippy in a breeze. [/QUOTE] Must have been tough stepping into a heavier craft!
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RS400atC
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Posted: 15 Jan 15 at 10:01pm |
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I think you are right. I sailed a borrowed gen-u-wine navy bosun as my first sail in a dinghy after 5 years of only sailing yachts and keelboats. Tippy in a breeze. Not helped by the copious champagne the night before, or the rudder held down by ancient bungee. No wonder the navy still go on about Trafalgar, their boats have not improved since then. |
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sargesail
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Posted: 15 Jan 15 at 9:50pm |
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Don't be daft. A boat that heavy would take a lot more sail area to get uphill even in a F6. The FrankenBosun is actually sliding downhill in no breeze. The kite is full because the apparent wind is therefore coming from astern.
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sargesail
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Posted: 15 Jan 15 at 9:48pm |
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It's a 400 kite, an 800 pole. I think that if you overlaid the main and jib on a 'normal' set of Bosun sails you would find that they were comparative in size: ie those sails were made like that!
The 2nd place and subsequent retirement achieved the publicity aim! And that's a Bosun mast. You can tell because the spreaders are too low (level with the top of Navy). When the Small Ships Project Team agreed that Bosuns could have spreaders they sent Proctors the details of the rig. But they omitted to say that although the mast was stepped below deck it was not in anyway constrained at deck level. Which meant it still had too much sideways bend in any decent breeze. The measurement protest was about a gate which was being trialled as a retro-fit to correct that (thousands of Bosun (yes really....)) having had their spreaders added). The irony was that it wasn't much windier than the picture above at that Nationals and the mast never touched the gate over the whole weekend (we kept an eye on it).
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craiggo
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Posted: 15 Jan 15 at 9:13pm |
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Matt, what was the original origin of the rig? It looks like a Fireball/RS400 mashup. |
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Rupert
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Posted: 15 Jan 15 at 9:04pm |
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You have to watch out for the Irishmen coming the other way on their waterskis on that lake.
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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Time Lord
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Posted: 15 Jan 15 at 8:46pm |
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And can sail uphill!!
Should be ideal for iGRF and other woodbotherers! |
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sargesail
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Posted: 15 Jan 15 at 8:45pm |
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It's known as the FrankenBosun! I don't know if it still exists.... But I was once loaned it for a Nationals in one of it's less extreme development versions. It had a dispensation.....until I was second overnight. Then I was subject to a measurement protest. So I asked for the Class Rules. I was told that there were none. A Bosun measured or did not measure if the Chief Measurer said it did. So I asked who that was. It was the bloke in third. Who was the protestee. Protest to be heard after racing. Protest went away when we finished fourth to his third! And the moral of the story is...... Don't sail Bosuns. (even if they are free, had a forty boat fleet and made for useful practice for Services Team Racing).
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smurray264
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Posted: 15 Jan 15 at 8:27pm |
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The experimental Bosun! Rumour has it she still exists.....  |
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fab100
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Posted: 15 Jan 15 at 6:50pm |
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Surely, more likely that an FD would hoist a Topper sail if it was that windy
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