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    Posted: 23 Sep 11 at 11:58am

Has no one read this story and put two and two together:

"At the 2011 ISAF Mid-Year Meeting ISAF Council adopted submission M10-11 which confirmed a Two Person Women’s Skiff and Two Person Mixed Gender Multihull as Olympic Equipment.

ISAF have released the initial request for proposal of equipment for both evaluations with trials likely to take place at a suitable venue in Southern Europe in early spring 2012."


Surely grmph is now reading the small print and plotting how the ultimate sailing machine can satisfy both requirements. Expect an announcement soon. Gets my vote.
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Originally posted by Ruscoe

Also is graeme not using a commercial builder, which at a guess would be developing this for some kind of profit.  Therefore i would hope pushing Graeme along slightly....?

Was not Dan Holman sniffing around here today for a spare carbon mast.. even a broken one.
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Originally posted by fab100

Has no one read this story and put two and two together:

"At the 2011 ISAF Mid-Year Meeting ISAF Council adopted submission M10-11 which confirmed a Two Person Women’s Skiff and Two Person Mixed Gender Multihull as Olympic Equipment.

ISAF have released the initial request for proposal of equipment for both evaluations with trials likely to take place at a suitable venue in Southern Europe in early spring 2012."


Surely grmph is now reading the small print and plotting how the ultimate sailing machine can satisfy both requirements. Expect an announcement soon. Gets my vote.



I hadn't even thought of that, I wonder, could I submit it? And how the hell does one go about doing it, it would be perfick for gals given it's designed for lightweights and wouldn't it be great if an Olympic type boat could be sailed easily by normal folk without it injuring them.
Progress is currently stalled over a temporary disagreement over planned delivery schedules and cost overruns and I've been away again for meetings overseas. The Rolling Stones seem to have stepped in at some point and decided what colour it should be, but it does make it look a whole lot smaller, faster, leaner and meaner..

Getting back to that gal thing, what's needed now is someone independent to sail it to at least agree or disagree with my feeling that is something a little bit special, given I would think that wouldn't I?

Anyway I've now got a tow vehicle at long last since my truck turned up last week after a wait almost as long as this boat, so if we do ever get it finished, on a trailer and final pricing agreed, I can at least collect it.
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Full article has links to pdfs from ISAF

http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=159616

If all else fails, even you might need to read the instructions!
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You should let the highest bidder have a go then give the money to a charity ?
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Charity begins at home my dear old daddy used to say. Wink

But if it meant some series producer got the wherewithal to build it in numbers and a proper class resulted wouldn't that be cool?

Well actually come to think of it again er maybe it wouldn't, it would be locked down like all other boats subject to International regs and I'm sure there are loads more things could be done to improve it, I'm already thinking of stepped or 'pin' tailed hulls and I'm not even started on the rig yet.

Running a bit before we're walking properly, I guess it's see where we are next spring and make our minds up then if that's in the rules..


Edited by G.R.F. - 23 Sep 11 at 1:29pm
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Originally posted by fab100

<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Has no one read this story and put two and two together:</span>


<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">"Two Person Mixed Gender Multihull as Olympic Equipment.</span>



MIXED GENDER? Isn't the same as g.r.f's MIXED UP AGENDA?
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I read it, it calls for two identical boats, there's no way i could get another one built in time, it's taken 9 months to get this one done.

However I'm going to have a word with an old contact i have in Germany, get it costed, between us we could guarantee the worldwide distribution and volume production if we got a favourable decision, it has certain advantages, it will container ship easily, it could be built reasonably cheaply offshore, I dunno, it might be worth taking it a stage further, but I'd kind of like to sail it a bit more and that needs it being finished here first and as I said getting a second boat would be the biggest hurdle..
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delusions of grandeur... you guys were all warned

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Best yet, Jimbo
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