Fountain thing?
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Topic: Fountain thing?
Posted By: tack'ho
Subject: Fountain thing?
Date Posted: 30 Jun 06 at 9:05am
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Ok, I keep hearing the whippersnappers muttering glibbly about something to do with fountains. Either this is a oblique reference to sailing round Trafalgar Square or some latest fancy way of explaining something. Answers on a post card, including your age catergory, the best answer wins a Blue Peter Badge.
ps. Legal disclaimer: No Blue Peter Badges are actually on offer! ------------- I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e! |
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Posted By: Ellie
Date Posted: 30 Jun 06 at 1:10pm
| damn it i want a BP badge, i never got one as a kid even tho we made the best ever tracy island...hum anyway i dot know he ans either so.... |
Posted By: Bruce Starbuck
Date Posted: 30 Jun 06 at 4:01pm
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My mate won a Blue Peter badge. It was in a competition about otters or something. Aparently you CAN use them to get into museums and stately homes for free. (The badges, not an otter) |
Posted By: MRJP BUZZ 585
Date Posted: 30 Jun 06 at 4:08pm
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yea, can u remeber a couple of months ago there was all that who ha about people selling badges on ebay IMHO i couldn't see a problem, if they win it it is theirs to sell ------------- Josh Preater http://www.bu22.co.uk">  BUZZING IS FUN
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Posted By: laser47
Date Posted: 30 Jun 06 at 9:11pm
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the fountian thing is usually the cause of a downwind capsize and is basicly what comes after a lot of serious deathrolling. it's basicly where you catch your boom on the water burrying it in then move to the side up in the air too quickly causing your boat to capsize on to of you which sends a fountian of spray up into the air ------------- |
Posted By: Strawberry
Date Posted: 30 Jun 06 at 9:56pm
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I thought it was when your going really fast and water squirts up the leading edge of your rudder. ------------- Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 30 Jun 06 at 10:17pm
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Could also be when the slot gasket's dead and lets in half of the sea into your boat when you try to power up! ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: Lukepiewalker
Date Posted: 01 Jul 06 at 9:29am
That's never happened to me.... definitely not when I've been sitting on the centreboard capping.... Although it does look impressive when the speed comes on and you get the full effect....
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Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 01 Jul 06 at 10:42am
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Yup, I've seen it happen from a distance... a very long distance... to the guy who lapped me the other day ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: Matt Jackson
Date Posted: 01 Jul 06 at 10:45am
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My advice would be to not take drugs then sail. ------------- Laser 203001, Harrier (H+) 36 |
Posted By: m_liddell
Date Posted: 02 Jul 06 at 9:47am
| Towing a topaz at high speed (without the daggerboard in obviously!) produces a pretty impressive fountain. |
Posted By: tack'ho
Date Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 10:33am
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For those of you old enough to have read it the description of Intrium Justitia passing NZ Edeavour in the Whitbread describes quite a fountain!! ------------- I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e! |
Posted By: feva_sailor
Date Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 10:36am
and an even bigger one wen u push the throttle that little bit more and in pitchpoles  and probably snaps in half ------------- |
Posted By: MRJP BUZZ 585
Date Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 11:59am
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------------- Josh Preater http://www.bu22.co.uk"> BUZZING IS FUN
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Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 5:02pm
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in a feva you can get a fountain off the daggerboard and the rudder but the rudder one is best. its because of the way the stock is made, it is a bit too deep to protect the bottom of the blade when the boat is being trolleyed around the dinghy park and so it scoops up water and throws it up the front of the rudder, quite impressive on a reach if the daggerboard and rudder are both in just the right place. ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Iain C
Date Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 6:28pm
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Here's my fountain... Bit of heel + divvy on the stick + high speed + racks = FOUNTAIN!!!!  ------------- RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed" Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 7:07pm
Awesome pic Iain... It'll be an honour to have her in my company for the drive to Scotland!! ------------- http://www.facebook.com/bearfootdesign - BEARFOOT DESIGN Cherub 2648 - Comfortably Numb |
Posted By: Lukepiewalker
Date Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 7:20pm
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Now you mention it the rudder on my first national twelve used to redirect water into the back of the boat at speed.... It was quite a big square fronted wooden rudder stock, and me being a fat knacker the bottom end of the stock was... ahem... closer to the water than it might have been otherwise....
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Posted By: Iain C
Date Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 10:00pm
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My fountain is a bit of a design fault...The "bistro" was always quite a wet boat I'm led to believe, and now the bow wave hits the front of the racks and makes a mess. To make things worse, I angled the racks inwards and downwards a bit at the back to help you stay on in the lairy stuff...it feels really nice on your back leg but the very end does tend to catch the wake again and produce this big roostertail which makes everyone think you are going faster than you are! At some point the angle grinder is coming out and the racks and top of the tanks are coming off, to be replaced with P7 style wings...should clean the wake up, speed the boat up, save a lot of weight (the racks are 800 masts and well lardy) and make it a bit easier to sail. ------------- RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed" Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 03 Jul 06 at 11:02pm
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that souds good iain cant wait to see the mods, nice pic btw ------------- |