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Medway Maniac 
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 Topic: V TwinPosted: 11 Apr 12 at 11:44pm |
Is that a pig I hear squealin'?
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ex laser
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Posted: 11 Apr 12 at 11:08pm |
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back to scows again.
i love all scows. BUT the v twin looks better and more modern!  |
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G.R.F.
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Posted: 11 Apr 12 at 11:07pm |
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That's not wide, it's just fat waisted.
One day when it warms up, I'll bring it up there chance my arm in banjo country,you can have a go see what you can make it do, funny I thought of you lot the other night, they were rerunning Deliverance on Sky.
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Medway Maniac
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Posted: 11 Apr 12 at 10:41pm |
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Not the first widestyle dinghy by any means. Even the Yanks have them:
Melges 17. Could be better, but I'd love a go of one.
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G.R.F.
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Posted: 11 Apr 12 at 9:49pm |
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Yes, it's meant to be the first 'widestyle' dinghy with any luck it'll plane upwind off the rudder, just like a formula windsurf board yet with the fall back position of a centreboard, so the sit down equivalent of the RSX Olympic sailboard, which, in a round about way I was responsible for creating, at least the Hybrid concept that gave rise to boards of that genre which begat the RSX and it's predessecor the Mistral Prodigy.
They also are crap in light wind, but more useful than straight up formula boards were, they couldn't even get up wind below 6 knots. It looks better in that video than it actually felt, you can see at the end of the clip it sailed straight into another hole then stopped at which point, that contender who it had been holding kept a degree of momentum and got away, in the Alto or the Blaze or the 100, I'd have been the one doing the getting away. Anyway, not to be, the jib sheeting wasn't working and by then had to be tied off by a very short length of out haul off its boom. A useful bit of film, shame their battery ran out before it fully fired up, I'd like to have seen that, maybe next time I'll get someone else to sail it and film the stuff I need to see myself.
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craiggo
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Posted: 10 Apr 12 at 9:37pm |
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Shes certainly beamy!
I look forward to seeing it in big breeze. Graeme what led you to go so wide, it looks almost square? |
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Xpletive
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Posted: 10 Apr 12 at 9:15pm |
Jeez! You're not kidding! Looks more like something you'd tie up on! Still....plenty of room for a patio set!
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Medway Maniac
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Posted: 10 Apr 12 at 12:29pm |
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Helluva size for a singlehander, though.
That centre mainsheet makes it difficult, but it would have been interesting to see how the wetted area changed if he'd sat to leeward or even tried to heel it to windward. Had just about max as it was.
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tgruitt
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Posted: 10 Apr 12 at 12:16pm |
It might help to ease the main too! |
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Needs to sail more...
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Atrocity
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Posted: 10 Apr 12 at 11:44am |
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I've just checked the V Twin blog and noticed a new video of it on the water. It actually seems to be moving reasonably well! Jib seems massively oversheeted at the foot.
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