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    Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 3:13pm
Originally posted by Rupert

At 15 feet (plus 6"?) it sounds like a Snipe to me.If so, it pre-dates the Finn by almost 20 years.



And the prize goes to the wooden topper sailor...

It is indeed a Snipe as ugly and unnecessary a contrivance ever to wear out my already wasted eyes..

And to make your poor daughter and an ageing boat design genius lift from it's trailer..

Don't ever buy one, I always said young Andy (the owner) isn't all there.

EDit, doh don't re -read my own threads the winner was OBC who I shall now go and investigate for further wood bothering crimes against sailing humanity..

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Originally posted by iGRF


About 15 foot long, twin hander conventional three sail


Snipe; 3 sails?
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snipe is two sails surely!  and its a weird looking thing at that.
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Originally posted by Neptune

12sqm sharpies all over Holland too and isn't there a concentration on the east anglian coast somehere

North Norfolk to be precise. Wells SC has a good number. They are a thing of beauty, jolly expensive, wooden masts, gaff rig. They sail them in all winds - I think there is not much room for the crew though! Definitely a gentlemen's boat to helm.
Like some other things - sailing is more enjoyable when you do it with someone else
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Originally posted by Neptune

snipe is two sails surely!  and its a weird looking thing at that.


So, correct me if I'm wrong then, that big balooney thing, don't you call that a sail? Well when it's not being a spinnaker that is, and the expression 'three sail reach' what does that mean then? Am I being thick here?

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The Snipe doesn't have a big balooney thing, only a main and a jib. The stick thing alongside the boom is a jib stick.


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A jib stick? Don't, I don't even want to know, so no balooney thing either and those Sharpie things how wrong are they, on a multitude of levels... Being designed in the fatherland in the thirties for a start..
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The Aussies took the 12m² Sharpie, and made it a 'Lightweight Sharpie' Tongue


http://www.sharpies.com.au/


Edited by I luv Wight - 18 Dec 12 at 5:08pm

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The Aussies always appear to be haing more fun in a boat than the rest of us, don't they? Warmer water, I guess!
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I have a sneaking suspicion that OBC might have snuck across here from the cvrda website, Grumph, so certainly another wood botherer!
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