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    Posted: 28 Jun 06 at 9:34pm
That would be fine Chris, except I'm not sure you would find anyone in the Cherub fleet with foil bags....


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yeah you would, old carpet stitched together would suit them down to the ground!



although its actualy what i used to have for my topper

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And you call us cheque book sailors??
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For the first time ever in 30+ years of cherub sailing, I've got some foil bags!
( But they came with the 29er )
I think the idea is to protect the boat from the foils, not to protect the foils.

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Here's a skiff !!!

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Does that mean the Scottish Skiff Racing has a load of them rowing round the course??

Probably closer to the truth than a "real" skiff!



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Poor Parkstone, I bet they're wishing they hadnt had posted now.  However in response to the original post, sorry guys but i wont be able to make it, im gonna be in garda!
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Originally posted by Doug.H


edit: just seen strawberrys post above
but Surely now that the cherub with its new rig and newer hull designs coming through are farily similar toa  12ft skiff, are the cherubs still not skiffs?? 
The differences between a brand new (new rules) cherub and a 12ft skiff to a casual onlooker would be extremely hard to define.

Apologies doug, I've only just noticed this edit.

No, i don't consider Cherubs to be skiffs for the following reasons:
They are not directly descended from the Australian open boats
They have limited sail area
They have sail numbers
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Originally posted by Strawberry

[QUOTE=Doug.H]edit: just seen strawberrys post
abovebut Surely now that the cherub with its new rig and newer hull
designs coming through are farily similar toa  12ft skiff, are the cherubs
still not skiffs??  The differences between a brand new (new rules) cherub
and a 12ft skiff to a casual onlooker would be extremely hard to define.[/
QUOTE]


Apologies doug, I've only just noticed this edit.


No, i don't consider Cherubs to be skiffs for the following reasons:They
are not directly descended from the Australian open boatsThey have
limited sail areaThey have sail numbersetc.




Just being devil's advocate, but......


So when you put your new SKIFF RIGS on your UK CHERUB ( as several AU
Cherubs have done ) it magically has all that heritage so can be called a
12ft SKIFF totally legitimately?


• I smell something!


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Being a skiff isn't about the hull, or the rigs. It's about the ethos!

Mate, I think for any Cherub sailor to claim they're boat is a skiff, on a skiff forum, is quite simply laughable! It's lucky the skiffies are a polite(ish) bunch of guys, or that particular sailor might have got a flaming!



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