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    Posted: 27 Aug 09 at 10:27am

On another thought - has everyone seen the Satelite coverage?  Looks good to be able to see the race track that clearly.  if you speed up to about 100 times, you can get a really good overview of the races..!

Oh yes, and before anyone starts up about the costs of a new 505, you might like to reflect that 8081 (are they still top 10?) is about 20yrs old.  You could probably buy that boat for about 8k - if they were selling.

Also for about £7,5k there is a great UK boat on the market at the moment 8694.  All the toys, great looking boat, and still being circuit raced.  The late 86's were an exceptional batch from Rondar.  This was defo one of them - anyone looking to get into the fleet could not do better - contact Matt.



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That is a great photo!
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Originally posted by G.R.F.

I did wonder what was going on with all those masts breaking..

It's another example of the "Class System" acting against itself.

 

As was noted elsewhere Grumpfs it's all gone too far all those capsizes and mast breakages ... as with the recent Merlin Nationals where there were a number of broken masts these highly refined bits of kit have all gone too far ... makes the 49er medal race looks safe as houses as there were no lost rigs during that race ... perhaps the newer designs are more robust

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Originally posted by Chas 505

Hi there Oldarn,

Good to see you at the Shotley open.  On spinnakers, we all felt that the asym on your boat was a bit.....well small.  I get the fact that you want to be able to sail with a scratch crew and all, but we thought that it could have been about 25% bigger with no actual major handling issues.

Chas - 35 yrs and feeling old...!

 



Thanks Chas. I appreciated the friendly bunch of five O sailors especially in the circumstances, and fully understood Simon Lakes feeelings. He is such a great 5o5 believer as I am, but I'm too old for the sort of great events like the Worlds in San Francisco.
In fact my delay in replying was due to me travelling to SF were I have sampled the atmosphere of the great event. Wow those video shots must inspire most dinghy sailors to want to sail the greatest big dinghy ever. In the past most good young dinghy sailors had to give the 50 a go and try and win the nationals. I'm thinking of people like Laurie Smith and Ed Owen, but today that does not happen. Why not?
Perhaps the boat is such a complicated machine that they have not time to serve thei apprenticeship.
I have always felt that two person single trapeze sailing offered the best challenge and most fun, and I'd like to believe it is comming back following the decline of the skiffy versions. Look at how popular is the Fireball, and now with ths RS500 as a beginners version, and hopefully the growth of the AltO, all club 'family' boats for the ultimate goal after perhaps an olympic medal, would be to win in five O's.
What an awsome boat viewing it bows on in a big wind and see!

I'm now off to feel and see the buzz of the last day.

Mike
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