Design Failrues....

Originally posted by JimC Originally posted by Thunder Road for me it has to be the Skipper12 or 14, both as bad, should be in a bathroom not on the water. There were very much the equivalent of the rotomoulds of their day, and gathered a similar amount of disdain. Aesthetically they weren't great, but I never sailed one to know whether they were bad boats or not. In those days I wouldn't have wanted to be seen dead in something as uncool as that, but hopefully I've grown up a bit since then.

and designed by the late Peter Milne of Fireball fame..

Edited by The Moo

Back in the days of yore when I started sailing (ok, the early nineties, but it seems like yore now...) virtually all of our club races were run from the race office in the clubhouse. Gradually the creeping spread of the weed during the summer months lead to a move to Committee Boat starts as the usable sailing area moved further away from the clubhouse, and now we don't even have the facility in the clubhouse anymore...
Anyhoo, the point is that back in those days our CB was one of the aforementioned Skipper 14's. Not the most stable of craft with no daggerboard in and an old seagull outboard on the back. Parcel tape over the board slot to stop water fountaning in...
It was yellow and white.

Every now and again some fool buys one on ebay £400+.

Not a dinghy, but damned ugly. A boat designed wihout any contribution from the right hemisphere?

Going back to the Skipper, I was going to photograph it this morning, in the blokes garden(I could do it from the road) and post it here, but its gone along with his camper van, so he's out sailing and I'm in my office looking out on downtown Pudsey, with an evens chance of sailing on Sunday. I might, in my view, have a better boat, but that guy has a better life?