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    Posted: 30 May 08 at 2:56pm
Originally posted by Merlinboy

Christ the sails are expensive enough at the moment
let alone the price they would charge for a fully battend laminate
sail!!!!!!!!


Hmm maybe not, as dacron sails and having been around a while, their sails
would have attracted the high duty rate that woven fabrics attract, whereas
that sail is monofilm and attracts no duty, it's why windsurf sails have been
made that way for so long, the duty on the landed cost before mark up
seriously affects the RRP and from memory it was 12-14%.
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Lol, dont mean to be too pedantic, but don't skiffs need a trapeze to qualify as a skiff?

Still amusing tho...is there a confirmed "release" date for this "skiff"?


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funniest thing ever!
T-SHIRTS
PRINTS
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I hate the term skiff, its a word developed by people with complex's about the size of the genitals, who think that owning something with loads of sail area makes them more attractive to the oposite sex! (unless its in reference to Musto etc which have the word in its name)
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So why do people think that there loads of laser wanna-be hiking single handers out there with very few notable exceptions, but only one with a kite!

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Laser wannabes!!!  Dude I think you need to check the design date on a lot of these wannabes and compare it to the design date for the laser!  And while you at it try to work out why they are still nicer boats to sail even though they are older
I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e!
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Originally posted by Black no sugar

It's not because you're slacking, Rick. Only because it's self-evident.

In answer to the question "What makes a good single-hander?", people might feel enclined to extoll the virtues of Lasers and other Streakers (bad image in my club, unless you're the other side of 70, wearing a beard and smoking a pipe between races ). But, when it comes to the MPS or the Contender, no one feels they need to say something.

As I said, it's self-evident



exactly right - 127 boats in Italy for the contender Europeans can't be wrong!

(so why am I still here? )
the same, but different...

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Do you have to have special mirrors on them to see the front?
I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e!
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Originally posted by turnturtle

Also check out this 'experiment' from Laser,

I'm 98% sure that isn't a Laser production. Same thing as the Rooster rig AIUI.

Originally posted by Merlinboy

I hate the term skiff, its a word developed by people with complex's about the size of the genitals,

Oh nonsense... its a term used for a specific style and ancestry of boat (well actually several - the Australian open dinghies, the skiff moths and rowing boats all spring to mind). What irritates me is when classes that have absolutely nothing of the skiff heritage about them call themselves skiffs - like, err, the Musto Skiff, % Tonner etc.

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Originally posted by JimC

Oh nonsense... its a term used for a specific style and ancestry of boat (well actually several - the Australian open dinghies, the skiff moths and rowing boats all spring to mind). What irritates me is when classes that have absolutely nothing of the skiff heritage about them call themselves skiffs - like, err, the Musto Skiff, % Tonner etc.

Oh come on Jim don't start that old bandwagon again ..

http://www.answers.com/topic/skiff

n.

A flatbottom open boat of shallow draft, having a pointed bow and a square stern and propelled by oars, sail, or motor.

[Middle English skif, from Old French esquif, from Old Italian schifo, of Germanic origin.]

A Musto Skiff is just as much a skiff as an 18fter ...

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