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    Posted: 19 Mar 12 at 3:32pm
I keep updating the blog, have been sailing it down our local lake, which is not the biggest piece of water in the world, trailing along behind their morning club race, finding dozens of different snags, rectifying them then going down the following week. We haven't had much wind the past month of Sundays so no real idea what it will do, other than what we knew already that it's incredibly slow in light weather and could probably do with a bigger jib, well it could probably take an entire bigger rig, but for the moment I'm content to finish off all the bits, got a new kite chute, having rack tramps made to colour match, not liking the position of the controls, every time I try something, it goes wrong, the rig is a bit of a mess tbh.

I did get to watch someone else in it this sunday gone, Neal Gibson, helpful chap making me the bits, he got a bit of a puff, maybe 8-10 knots briefly and up it came onto one hull (tightish leg between two sticky out bits) then it seemed to go well enough. I had my iPhone track gatherer it spiked at 11 mph, thrilling..

It needs wind and open water..
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how are thing going with the v- twin development?

am still hoping to see it in all its glory.
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Originally posted by JimC

 
I've been mulling over some similar but much less extreme thoughts to deal with some of the challenges in optimising the layout of my next Canoe. ...

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Originally posted by craiggo

Holly crap that is one ugly boat!

Its funny how much ugly is what you are not used to... Forward mast position and jib on a bowspit is hardly a new feature in sailboat design. I remember a drawing in an Uffa Fox book in the thirties of, IIRC, a cruising boat that had an equally extreme expanse of hull behind the rig.

I've been mulling over some similar but much less extreme thoughts to deal with some of the challenges in optimising the layout of my next Canoe. I wouldn't go as far as saying that I think that boat is right, but I will not say I think its wrong. Like GRFs V Twin, its far enough away from my own experience that it would be unwise for me to make predictions. I'll wait and see.

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what, getting peeved up and then passing out somewhere along the Liffey?
Nah. Getting pis.sed and then passing out somewhere along the Cam. Happy days!
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Originally posted by Medway Maniac

What were they thinking of?!:



Now imagine how that's going to respond as it noses into a nice steep wave.
Some of these things might be quite fast in a narrow range of circumstances, but across the range of conditions everyone reverts to either a cat or a boat-shaped boat.
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what, getting peeved up and then passing out somewhere along the Liffey?

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The hull shape reminds me of this:
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Rupert Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Mar 12 at 8:35am
I can see the point in many of the features of the boat, and it is good to see the scow idea coming back. And beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Mind, my eyes are telling me is is pig ugly...
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Well, there's plenty of room for folk to sit without all that annoying boom coming over and making you duck sh1t going on.

The mast isn't as far forward as that D1, or that Finn thing.

I'm going to move my mast forward immediately. Wink

Got to say though I can't believe they haven't got massive lee helm like we had first time out.


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