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    Posted: 12 Aug 10 at 9:07am
Originally posted by vscott

I was thinking an Illusion is a single hander with a symetric kite but there is no way to hike in one, and definitely not a dinghy...


I didn't plot the Illusion as it's a keelboat really. It didn't turn up as I set the database to list only dinghies.
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Originally posted by NickA

Amazed there are 12 twin (or more) wire asymetrics already:

18ft skiffs
49er
I14
RS800
Laser5000
Boss
Spice
Cherub


The others are: 12ft skiff, 16ft skiff, 23erxx and of course the Ultra 30 (9 trapezes).
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I was thinking an Illusion is a single hander with a symetric kite but there is no way to hike in one, and definitely not a dinghy...
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Has anyone ever tried sticking a symmetric on a Contender or a Streaker?.........if the answer is no then it's because nobody fancies the idea.

Mind you a Streaker with a symmy.....Mmm

There are of course many 2 handed symmy boats that get single handed on a regular basis.
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Originally posted by JimC

Originally posted by NickA

And not a single twin wire symetric.

Why would anyone want one? Talk about tiny niches... There *used* to be quite a number of pole kite multiple string classes in AUS & NZ, but precious few now: just about all allow sprits. Don't forget the reason why Andrew Buckland andJulian Betwaite came up with the idea was because the poles had become pointless.

 

I14's were twin wire before they went to asym kite. 

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Originally posted by NickA

And not a single twin wire symetric.

Why would anyone want one? Talk about tiny niches... There *used* to be quite a number of pole kite multiple string classes in AUS & NZ, but precious few now: just about all allow sprits. Don't forget the reason why Andrew Buckland andJulian Betwaite came up with the idea was because the poles had become pointless.
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Amazed there are 12 twin (or more) wire asymetrics
already:

18ft skiffs
49er
I14
RS800
Laser5000
Boss
Spice
Cherub
?
?

And not a single twin wire symetric. Need to change the
5o5 rules; with two on the wire and the new kite, those
things would be really good fun on a reach. Even the
javelin could use a second wire above F4! Twin wire FD?
Now that would be fun.

PS: "Can't help but feel that this is revelant (fruity
language warning)."

Love it! . But call that "fruity"?   
*&^%*^%£$% me.

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Can't help but feel that this is revelant (fruity language warning).

 

As for the singlehanded trapeze boat with symmetrical spinnaker- bag kite I assume? I'm thinking "old school" end-for-end "simple" spinnaker pole too.

(if you were really going to do it, chute launch and double permanently rigged poles would be the only solution)
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Originally posted by winging it

Where have you placed the Vago in this?  For some it is a doublehanded, single trap assy, for others it is a trapezing single-handed assy.


That's the trouble with these new-fangled boats, they defy categorisation. I suppose for the purposes of this diagram such boats could count as a dot in each section of the diagram, since they exist in both versions...

So, has anyone started designing a singlehanded trapeze boat with symmetrical spinnaker, to fill the empty niche?
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I like the diagram there, obviously too much time on his
hand, I take it that was when the Thunder and rain came to
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