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    Posted: 05 Nov 06 at 4:06pm

Tack'ho, not blue, but perhaps it would look nice in yellow!

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can you really call boats like the wally yachts? to me they just look like oversized jet skiis.
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Oh yeah??!!

Which one do you mean?
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last time I was there there was that sexy looking plastic boat on the beach, their nicname for it rhymed with "bird" 
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Posts: 3941 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Black no sugar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Nov 06 at 5:46pm

The Skipper 14 has pride of place in this forum - in the "Ugliest dinghy" thread!

If you want catharsis, drop at Aquasports to see Carshalton. Last times I was there, I spotted a couple of racy hulls in their boatpark!

 

(including a yellow one - tempted, Luke?? ) 
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Rupert, I'd almost forgotten about the Skipper 14 - the Morris Marina of the dinghy world. I'm going to have nightmares tonight. Oh well, back into therapy...
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I've not done the maths, but I think it is quite likely that with the money you'd get from selling one of those superyachts, you could buy every dinghy in every dinghy park in Britain. Then just think what fun you could have, sailing all the ones you liked, and burning the rest! And none of the opinions stated on this site as to which to burn would matter at all! All those Cherubs going up in flames, and all the foiler moths and 14's, while Skipper 14s, Laser Funboats and Magnos get pride of place on the slipway! Well, you'd have to have bad taste to own a superyacht like that in the 1st place...
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Iain, didn't realise you were a hardcore Ibiza raver! I'll have to remember to bring my UV jacket and glow sticks for next years Draycote event.
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Originally posted by tack'ho

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That my friend is sublime engineering!!



My lil brother has been doing a huge project on that bloke, so has just been telling me in great detail all about it

also i live pretty close


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Originally posted by Prince Buster

if you read up about the wally118 power you will see for yourself that the construction. the engineering and everything about that boat is top notch and, even though it may not be a completely fair observation, the Top Gear team did a special episode on it a few years ago (in the days before it became silly) and it was very informative of the boat and put emphasis on the fine engineering and lean, mean machine looks with no compromise.

I wasn't saying that the wally is badly built just that by looking at pictures you can't tell if the object is well engineered.
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