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Medway Maniac 
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 Topic: Sail Number of the DayPosted: 10 Nov 14 at 10:47am |
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Before we leave 309, what is it then?
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Rupert
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Posted: 10 Nov 14 at 12:07pm |
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A Nimbus, designed by Mark Giles as a baby sister to the Lightning. I think it came up against the Topper head to head (and the Pico must have been from a similar time) and lost. Comment from a someone who sailed one at the time was that it was liable to nose dive - and that from a Lightning sailor!
A few mods and a small version of the Lightning rig put on it, and who knows, maybe it could have gone somewhere. |
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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Medway Maniac
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Posted: 10 Nov 14 at 12:11pm |
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Chines were a big break from Mark's usual 505-derived hull shapes, then.
I can't see any obvious clues as to why it should have been prone to nose-diving - at least no more so that any number of other short singlehanders. Any ideas?
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Rupert
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Posted: 10 Nov 14 at 12:13pm |
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As for the other boat, the below is all I know about it. Pat may know more.
http://www.cvrda.org/wp-cvrda/dinghydata/apollo/ |
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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Medway Maniac
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Posted: 10 Nov 14 at 12:34pm |
Given that the grp Minisail Monaco probably already existed, one can only ask "why?".
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JimC
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Posted: 10 Nov 14 at 12:42pm |
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Back in those days there were dozens, if not more classes of which you could ask "why?" and the answer is because there were dozens of little boat builders, each trying to establish their own classes to get an income stream. Just look at the number of little one design classes Holt and Proctor were responsible for, compared to the handful from the Bethwaite school.
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Medway Maniac
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Posted: 10 Nov 14 at 12:50pm |
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And people complain about having too many classes today...
To be fair, though, few of those little classes back then made it into regular club racing. You saw them in an advert in a mag. and that was it. The Bonito was an exception locally, with Chuck Shepherd winning lots of windy races, while Moths cleaned up in the light.
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Rupert
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Posted: 10 Nov 14 at 8:57pm |
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I dunno, some of these classes that no one knows of now sold in numbers that many modern builders would kill to achieve (2000 Puffins at least, for instance). Others were never intended to race (bit like Topper's roto-offerings these days) so were just bought by people to use on holiday or the like, and were never seen on the racing scene at all.
Some were just crap and failed, though... Edited by Rupert - 10 Nov 14 at 8:58pm |
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NickM
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Posted: 13 Nov 14 at 7:34pm |
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Oops this was yesterday's. Open at Graeme's place circa 1982. And before you ask the Streaker stripe was an ultimately futile attempt to the other half interested in what was happening in OM races a mile out at sea. 30+ years on, of course she has better things to do at home.
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Bootscooter
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Posted: 13 Nov 14 at 7:46pm |
I think we owned that particular boat at one point. The kids loved it! 
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