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Laser 140101 Tynemouth |
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Rossiter Pintail Mortagne sur Gironde, near Bordeaux |
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5420 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 16 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 622 |
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iv heard of people thinking about it and i think as they try so hard to get the boats as light as pos they can not make the maast stomg enof to do it
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Pabs ![]() Posting king ![]() Joined: 05 Jan 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 177 |
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Often wondered about trying it on a 505. I think that would make a great twin wire symmetrical boat. |
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Isis ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 Sep 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2753 |
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The pitching 16 pic is immense!
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Tornado_ALIVE ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Nov 04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 611 |
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12 footers were running 2 piece spin poles back then. Had to assemble before hoisting, disassemble after dropping and hope they did not seperate during a gybe. I raced on 16 skiffs some 13 years ago when they ran symetric kites. Also owned a 15 foot skiff (VS) that was very simular to the 16s. 12 foot skiffs 16 foot shiff with 2 crew sort of on the wire 18 skiff as still raced today in the Brisbane River. The 18s also adopted VERY large wings years before the asymetric was added |
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oldgeezer ![]() Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 Jan 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 5 |
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BBSCFaithfull ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 06 Dec 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1251 |
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Yes spinaca poles do sound pretty lethal. Ive heard stories from and ex fireball sailor who said when it was about a force 6 the spinaca pole was under such load that when his wife unclipped it, it went straight into her face. Lucky she had glasses on!!
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JimC ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6662 |
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Think it's fairly inevitable that any boat of that type would drop pole kites. While there's a certain charm in the techniques in gybing with the sort of length of kite pole you need on a high performance boat (the 9ft pole length of Cherubs was short compared to Qs and 12s) even I wouldn't want to play that game regularly with the helmsman scrambling onto a wire.
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Strawberry ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 21 Jun 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1337 |
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So basic answer is nothing that is commonly sailed today.
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Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry
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Scooby_simon ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 02 Apr 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2415 |
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There was a Tomlinson picture of a I14 in one year Neil Macdonald plus A N other. twin string and symetric kite. |
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Granite ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() ![]() Joined: 12 May 04 Location: Scotland Online Status: Offline Posts: 476 |
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The int 14 went twin wire in 1984 and did not get the asymetric till 1989.
I do not know the dates for the other classes but most of them were twin string or more before they were asymetric. |
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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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