What in the ?????
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Category: Dinghy classes
Forum Name: Dinghy development
Forum Discription: The latest moves in the dinghy market
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Topic: What in the ?????
Posted By: Merlinboy
Subject: What in the ?????
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 9:24am
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Just seen this on boatsandoutboards.co.uk forsale, i just dont get why anybody would buy one?? |
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Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 9:27am
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Pic wont open for some reason try this link
http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/view/SUL074/ - http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/view/SUL074/ ------------- |
Posted By: radial179102
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 9:35am
sexy.... 
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Villan is my Bitch ;) |
Posted By: owain
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 9:47am
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youve all seen my new boat then!! ------------- Owain H 49er GBR055 Fireball 14291 Plymouth Uni Sailing Club & Chelmarsh Sailing Club |
Posted By: Worthy
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 10:40am
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I am confused, it's not the 1st of April is it????
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Posted By: Philsy
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 10:43am
The hull will catch the wind more than the sail!  ------------- |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 11:28am
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We've seen that beauty already, in one of our most enduring threads.... yep! It's in the "Ugliest Dinghy" (p45) !!
------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 11:33am
| Saw one on Lake Garda in september, after an hour or so of Hobies flying past the bloke looked like he realised he was on a duff boat. |
Posted By: owain
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 11:38am
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why are they smiling? ------------- Owain H 49er GBR055 Fireball 14291 Plymouth Uni Sailing Club & Chelmarsh Sailing Club |
Posted By: Strawberry
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 11:46am
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Matketed by a company called SprintDrift. Says it all really. ------------- Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry |
Posted By: English Dave
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 11:48am
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Perhaps it's the sheer terror of them both sitting to lee on such a high-performance craft at the same time that's causing the nervous smiles. Seriously though, if the thing (unwilling to use the word boat) capsized how would you right it? It's going to invert - no doubt about it. So you stand on the boards or something? (Or abandon it, claim on the insurance and get something else.) ------------- English Dave http://www.ballyholme.com - Ballyholme Yacht Club (You'd think I'd be better at it by now) Hurricane 5.9 SX RS700 |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 12:40pm
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How could it possibly capsize???
I think my 16 mnth old daughter could sail that in a force 10!!! look at the size of the sail!!!
Who on earth would buy one its just rubbish ------------- |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 12:43pm
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Its basically just an inflatable for playing in shallow water by the beach, like all the other ones that get sold, except this one's got a little sail on as well. If you capsize it you just stand up and turn it over. You can jump off it, put a few cans and sandwiches on it, put a towel on it, all the other stuff you'd use a little inflatable on the beach for, plus its got a little sail so you can mess about a bit with that as well.
As long as you think of it as being a play inflatable that's got a little sail to add a little bit extra rather than a proper sailing boat I really don't see why its so terrible... |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 1:20pm
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I take it you own one then Jim ------------- |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 2:43pm
Nope, I can't imagine ever wanting one myself. But I attempt to keep a reasonably open mind about different sorts of boat. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 4:26pm
cos there insane, why else would they buy 1? |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 4:46pm
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Is it just me or does that bloke look like Borat but without the tash ------------- |
Posted By: FireballNeil
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 5:47pm
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A ha ha thats funny now I see that!
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Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 5:51pm
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And the selling pitch is http://www.seaeagle.com/videos/15sc_wm8_384k.wmv - HERE ... Sleek, fast, easy for kids to learn sailing... even takes the dogs (of the canine type)... hmm OpenBic, eat your heart out! ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 6:02pm
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With that sails pitch i'm sold! whats the py number? i recon i could buy one win the national championships in it and call my self a NATIONAL CHAMPION wooohooo now thats pot hunting for you. ------------- |
Posted By: Quagers
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 6:30pm
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"a seven foot wide beam without sacrifincing spped" thats because there never was any speed in the first place sleek!....................... just no under $3000 so that means just under about $2900 then, i got my laser for about the same as that. |
Posted By: fizzicist
Date Posted: 18 Dec 06 at 10:21pm
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A seven foot wide beam without sacrificing speed? Should be quicker than a 505 then.... ------------- Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 19 Dec 06 at 8:56am
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i'll let you know im sailing a 5o5 in the bloody mary ------------- |
Posted By: Iain C
Date Posted: 19 Dec 06 at 9:03am
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REPOST!!!!!! See ugliest boats thread... ------------- RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed" Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
Posted By: Chas 505
Date Posted: 19 Dec 06 at 3:36pm
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We also hope to sail in the bloody mary. Who are you sailing with? See you there. Charlie W
------------- Life is too short. Work Hard; Play Hard; Sail a 505 |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 19 Dec 06 at 4:01pm
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Funnily enough with a chap called charlie as well Charles Chandler to be precise. Just completly re-rigging the 505 trying to get it ready now ------------- |
Posted By: Chas 505
Date Posted: 19 Dec 06 at 7:34pm
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you can email me if you have any queries - or post something on the 505 site for the whole class's opinion..!! www.Sail505.org Cheers,
Chas ------------- Life is too short. Work Hard; Play Hard; Sail a 505 |
Posted By: combat wombat
Date Posted: 19 Dec 06 at 8:23pm
Fairly sure I know him... did he used to have a B14, rs300 and a moth? ------------- B14 GBR 772 |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 21 Dec 06 at 11:50am
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I'm with Jim C on this one...it is better than the blow up boats you can buy in ASDA in the summer...mind, they cost £9.99, so I'd probebly be willing to spend £29.99 on this one! I would imagine there are many people out there who would far rather own a sea eagle than a racing dinghy. Can't say I'm one of them...And I doubt they come on the Y&Y site. Camping and caravanning, maybe! ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 21 Dec 06 at 12:08pm
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Yeah combat wombat it is the very same charles Chandler, he is a good sailor. ------------- |
Posted By: owain
Date Posted: 21 Dec 06 at 5:45pm
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Oh dear, your not letting yourself loose in that death trap are you russ? Make sure your legs are covered and that your up to date with your tetnus jab lol!! ------------- Owain H 49er GBR055 Fireball 14291 Plymouth Uni Sailing Club & Chelmarsh Sailing Club |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 22 Dec 06 at 8:46am
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Owain, its all coming together now, Charlie has re rigged it (with loads of bailing twine) and when the boat was measured he realised that the mast is 4" to low (after speed repaired it) Hence why it sailed so badly and was hard to crew in, and we all know how much 4"'s is dont we, my misses says its the differance to a ood or bad night???1!!! dont get it though... answers on a postcard ------------- |
Posted By: owain
Date Posted: 24 Dec 06 at 7:18pm
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Ah rite, that would make sence, as i nearly lost my head on severeal of captain chandlers unprompted tacks. Il have to have a look at this beast when i come down on boxing day. ------------- Owain H 49er GBR055 Fireball 14291 Plymouth Uni Sailing Club & Chelmarsh Sailing Club |
Posted By: damp_freddie
Date Posted: 28 Dec 06 at 2:28pm
pushing the envelope.......to boldly go where people should be going boldly
a 4 knts beast! |
Posted By: jamesint505
Date Posted: 02 Jan 07 at 9:32am
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When you back down at leigh chas could do with a bit of competition for the traumatiser.Does that thing your sailing still have lowers on it? ------------- 505 7567 |
Posted By: jamesint505
Date Posted: 02 Jan 07 at 9:37am
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Posted By: jamesint505
Date Posted: 02 Jan 07 at 9:38am
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the traumatiser in all its glory ------------- 505 7567 |
Posted By: tack'ho
Date Posted: 08 Jan 07 at 11:47am
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Apparently 'its like no other sailboat on the market' Jeez ya think Jim may have a point tho. For all you southern dwelling types, when your beaches get packed out in summer sail that little baby round anchor just off the beach and laugh at the slowly reddening crowds from Birmingham who have popped to the sea for the Bank Hol weekend. Mind you you'll have to head off from your launch pint with a couple of weeks to spare...but hey!!
edit: think there may be a freudian slip in there somewhere! ------------- I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e! |
Posted By: Porteous
Date Posted: 25 Jan 07 at 6:31pm
| Isn't that a Neil Pryde sail Makers logo i can see at the... eeer... tack. They should be ashamed !!! |