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    Posted: 14 Aug 11 at 5:55pm
Originally posted by Mark Jardine


Please keep this thread on-topic. I've got better things to do with my time on a Sunday.Edit: I've now gone back a few pages and deleted the personal spat - here's not the place, go on Jeremy Kyle. I for one am damn interested in watching the development of this. I think it takes one hell of a lot of guts to go out and create your own boat, and no small investment of time and money. Graeme's being very generous in doing this in the public eye and I would take my hat off to him if I wore one, but I look like an American trucker in a cap.Design-wise I think the V Twin is much like the A-Class Scows in the states - take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Scow . Nothing wrong in that.

Sorry if I offended, but I will not be abused, by persons that know nothing....



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Please keep this thread on-topic. I've got better things to do with my time on a Sunday.

Edit: I've now gone back a few pages and deleted the personal spat - here's not the place, go on Jeremy Kyle. I for one am damn interested in watching the development of this. I think it takes one hell of a lot of guts to go out and create your own boat, and no small investment of time and money. Graeme's being very generous in doing this in the public eye and I would take my hat off to him if I wore one, but I look like an American trucker in a cap.

Design-wise I think the V Twin is much like the A-Class Scows in the states - take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Scow . Nothing wrong in that.


Edited by Mark Jardine - 14 Aug 11 at 11:43am
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So, anyway,....
Personally speaking, I think with the right rig on it
it should meet GRF's design brief more or less.
The main one being that he can sail from Hythe comfortably in
a more or less upright position, at a reasonable pace.
Seems to me it is well on it's way to achieving that aim.

After all, which lunatic decided it was a good idea to have a 30 foot sailing boat
with a 44ft mast as an ideal boat for the Thames at Surbiton?
He would have got a right pasting on this forum. :-)

Keep on keeping on GRF... you are leading the way.
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Originally posted by Atrocity

So looking back at the design targets, how successful is it looking to you

Having done a little bit of boat building and development I hope I'm not dumb enough to make any comments at this stage. Come back in 3 or 6 months time when there's enough development and enough sailing time to have a clue.
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Atrocity - but why is it up to you to judge or criticise?

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Jim,

Originally posted by G.R.F.

As to the whys and wherefores. I want it to be potentially as fast as at least a Contender, with eyes on an MPS/700, yet it be a doddle to sail. I dont want it to fall over if I let it go, I want to be able to get back in or on it easily if I fall off and I don't really want to fall off it ever really.


So looking back at the design targets, how successful is it looking to you?

Atrocity.
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Well done for doing all this in the VERY public eye.
 
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Could have done with your offer of a rescue boat dickwad, where were you? 

You can't comment on forums like this unless you can back your play dude, no-one listens, no-one cares, had you been around I could have gotten out to film it on the water, we could have gotten a gps reading of the moment he let it go a bit off wind, we could have checked how close the racks came to the water when he flew one of the hulls, I'd have been out on the water when the kite went up rather than entertaining Rangers, cat sailors and fish murderers, you on the other hand have nothing credible to say cos you weren't there, a simple dick, do you like it that everyone thinks you're just a prick in front of a screen?
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