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    Posted: 06 Feb 14 at 7:28pm

As promised Rannoch at Roadford Lake rather frail but still sailing
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Mercury 37 at Baltic Wharf
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Invictus, C Class Worlds, September 2013



Out for an evening test sail.



On the run. Spot the forward hand...



The sort of super tech that could be seen at this event. This is part of the wing engineering, both the camber adjustment and a sort of sliding hinge affair in the wing. AI(didn't altogether)UI the wing pivot slides round the slot in this device so that the second element of the wing is slightly to leeward of the primary one. Its made from 3d printed titanium...

photos © me

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Amazing boats. 3d printing front line technology.
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finished off with high grade blue tape!
 
If it is the sort of tape I think it is, it IS genuinely high spec stuff.
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Lark 40 on her last outing at Shearwater - gaffer tape from a previous coming together with a port tack Albacore who ignored the shouts but at least he was softer than the alternative of hitting Bristol's dock wall!
 


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Late 1960s Canoe racing in the UK. I've not found out why S40 (SWE) was in the UK, but the Swedish boats were highly regarded (and often well in advance of the UK fleet in the 60s and 70s) and Swedish sailors have won plenty of medals at worlds. Looks like a fully battened jib to me: that must have been an early one...

Still transom sheeting in those days. The boats had twin tiller extensions, often curved. Maybe I'll find a good picture later on. I don't know if you crawled under that boom or jumped over!

Another photo from Andrew Eastwood's book.


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Happened to chance on these looking for something different...



(From http://tonyl10.blogspot.co.uk/)
this is The Edge - the first of the C Class LAC winners that eventually ended up with Macquarie Innovation and the first 50knot sailboat.

And for today here's her successor Edge II



Maybe its just my eyes, but the yellow ochre yellow pages branding colour really makes the Aus wings look nasty and cheap compared to the white wing in the upper photo, and that's a real shame because Yellow Pages Australia put a good bit of cash into the LAC and YPE, the former speed record holder and deserve credit for it...

The photos are from 1987 BTW, for those who weren't aware of these boats and how long its taken the rest of the world to wake up to them...

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Such amazing boats I remember when yellow pages took the speed record, or was that a different one?
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