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redback 
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 Topic: best skiffPosted: 17 Apr 05 at 9:23pm |
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Well sereen in a 3 - I've not tried one in a 5 where I can imagine they are a bit of a handful!
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carshalton fc
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Posted: 17 Apr 05 at 7:47pm |
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all the skiffs in this country are cool and anyone can sail them!!
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International 14 1503
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pro wannabe
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Posted: 17 Apr 05 at 7:45pm |
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i think that its not best skiff its skiffs are the best types of dinghie! i like my 29er but 12's look great!
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Your spinni aint as big as your mouth!
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49erGBR735HSC
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Posted: 17 Apr 05 at 3:52pm |
49er serene?????????? (is it my boat that is just psychotic then) |
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5420
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Posted: 16 Apr 05 at 7:42am |
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the shorter the boat the more twichea
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redback
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Posted: 15 Apr 05 at 11:23pm |
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I've sailed lots of dinghies and a cat or two. An observation, the longer a boat is the slower it is at changing direction. When you are going at speed all that weight up there in the rig produces quite a bit of momentum to overcome if you change direction quickly. This is good and bad; 1) it makes it dificult to handle a short boat at speed, but 2) if you can, you can bear away on waves and generally react a bit better with the environment. In other words a short boat is nervous at speed, this is presumably why the 49er seems so serene when blasting along at speeds other boats find hairy. My Laser4000 comes somewhere in between. Cats on the other hand handle like very long boats.
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Granite
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Joined: 12 May 04 Location: Scotland Online Status: Offline Posts: 476 |
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Posted: 15 Apr 05 at 10:54pm |
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If we are talking about the best skiff we have to ask the question what is the point of a skiff? The cat is more efficient hydrodynamicaly, eisily driven hulls and loads of righting moment, The Windsurfer is more efficient in materials one bloke one sail all less than 10Kg they both go faster than just about any skiff and that is without foiling like a moth!
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If it doesn't break it's too heavy; if it does it wasn't built right
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JimC
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Posted: 15 Apr 05 at 9:45pm |
According to the 29er Sailors at my club (as well as my own experience) there are some notable differences... One of the striking ones is that the angle of no return in a 29er is a lot less than in most Cherubs. I found this out whilst casually sailing one singlehanded and putting a bit much roll in the gybe... At an angle which the Cherub would readily come back from there's water flooding over the 29er gunwhale and stability is reducing rapidly! |
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5420
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Posted: 15 Apr 05 at 9:30pm |
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i bet its like my 29er
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GBR176671
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Posted: 15 Apr 05 at 9:24pm |
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no but ive seen them on grafham though
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swim when your winning
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