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stuarthop 
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 Topic: Fountain thing?Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 11:02pm |
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that souds good iain cant wait to see the mods, nice pic btw
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Iain C
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Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 10:00pm |
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My fountain is a bit of a design fault...The "bistro" was always quite a wet boat I'm led to believe, and now the bow wave hits the front of the racks and makes a mess. To make things worse, I angled the racks inwards and downwards a bit at the back to help you stay on in the lairy stuff...it feels really nice on your back leg but the very end does tend to catch the wake again and produce this big roostertail which makes everyone think you are going faster than you are! At some point the angle grinder is coming out and the racks and top of the tanks are coming off, to be replaced with P7 style wings...should clean the wake up, speed the boat up, save a lot of weight (the racks are 800 masts and well lardy) and make it a bit easier to sail. |
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RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed"
Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
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Lukepiewalker
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Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 7:20pm |
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Now you mention it the rudder on my first national twelve used to redirect water into the back of the boat at speed.... It was quite a big square fronted wooden rudder stock, and me being a fat knacker the bottom end of the stock was... ahem... closer to the water than it might have been otherwise....
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timnoyce
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Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 7:07pm |
Awesome pic Iain... It'll be an honour to have her in my company for the drive to Scotland!! |
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BEARFOOT DESIGN
Cherub 2648 - Comfortably Numb |
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Iain C
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Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 6:28pm |
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Here's my fountain...
Bit of heel + divvy on the stick + high speed + racks = FOUNTAIN!!!!  |
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RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed"
Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
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mike ellis
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Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 5:02pm |
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in a feva you can get a fountain off the daggerboard and the rudder but the rudder one is best. its because of the way the stock is made, it is a bit too deep to protect the bottom of the blade when the boat is being trolleyed around the dinghy park and so it scoops up water and throws it up the front of the rudder, quite impressive on a reach if the daggerboard and rudder are both in just the right place.
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600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it.
Also International 14, 1318 |
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MRJP BUZZ 585
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Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 11:59am |
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feva_sailor
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Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 10:36am |
and an even bigger one wen u push the throttle that little bit more and in pitchpoles and probably snaps in half
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tack'ho
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Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 10:33am |
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For those of you old enough to have read it the description of Intrium Justitia passing NZ Edeavour in the Whitbread describes quite a fountain!! |
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I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e!
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m_liddell
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Posted: 02 Jul 06 at 9:47am |
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Towing a topaz at high speed (without the daggerboard in obviously!) produces a pretty impressive fountain.
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