Rather amusing....
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Topic: Rather amusing....
Posted By: Jon711
Subject: Rather amusing....
Date Posted: 16 Nov 11 at 11:29pm
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In the racing class review in the mag, it list's no current builder for the ISO, BUT, gives a new price of 7 grand... If there is no current builder, how do you get a new one?
------------- Blaze 711 |
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Posted By: RS400atC
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 12:04am
| In the unlikely event of you stumping up £7k, a builder might appear... |
Posted By: Ruscoe
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 12:27am
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Dont Wet and Windy in Bristol still market them??? ------------- |
Posted By: dafox
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 1:01am
| i think white formula are making them to order like they did recently with a topper breeze. |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 8:43am
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last I knew Rondar had the mould- I think there was a single boat built by them? ------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: furtive
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 9:20am
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More amusing, from the Etchells report on the front page:
"Pitt**ter skipper Mark Richards, who is taking a break from his Wild Oats Sydney to Hobart race preparations, was seen dashing off to the Fitness First steam room for a tilt at tossing off 3 quick kilos."
You'd need a sit down after that...
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Posted By: MikeBz
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 9:27am
| Gotta love the way the "decency filter" has failed to see the wood from the trees on that one (or should that be the wood from the bush...). |
Posted By: oldarn
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 2:32pm
White Formula do make AltOs, a modern version of the ISO! ------------- thefastexcitingrunningasymmetric |
Posted By: rogue
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 2:49pm
... you mean the Alto's made by Topper? 
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Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 2:50pm
 why bother with fussy sail track when you can just tie the sail top and bottom!  ------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: oldarn
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 2:56pm
The answer is no, but surely Topper made one or two good boats. Search your dinghy park, I bet you will find at least one! ------------- thefastexcitingrunningasymmetric |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 3:52pm
------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: rogue
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 3:52pm
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They made the Topper... that was a good boat for its design brief.
Blaze- it had potential, but it took someone else to realise it Buzz, Iso, Spice & Boss- all had their various shortcomings, feeble boats Taz- rather have a Tera Xenon- rather have a Vago Topaz Uno- rather have a Feva Cruz- rather not sail okay, okay Byte- fair enough, good boat, even better now it's not got a topper badge! |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 4:10pm
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Not sure of White Formula designed any of those though? ------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 4:48pm
| WF didn't design the Tornado either, but some very nice examples came out of there in the 80's and 90's IRC, Hurricane 5.9 is legendary too |
Posted By: dafox
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 4:50pm
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I know 14 man Ian Howlet Designed the Buss, Iso, Boss, Breeze. |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 4:52pm
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Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 6:36pm
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The White family are still active, RobWhite works for Topper and all sail out of BSC, Essex ------------- |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 17 Nov 11 at 7:10pm
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they also build the Challenger trimaran, which is a great little boat.
------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: Paramedic
Date Posted: 18 Nov 11 at 7:34am
| Jon Turner co designed the boss. Not his finest hour either! |
Posted By: chrisg
Date Posted: 18 Nov 11 at 7:54am
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why - what was wrong with it?
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Posted By: oldarn
Date Posted: 18 Nov 11 at 12:04pm
And, a good boat is not just about design but also build quality. New AltO owners are more than pleased with the excellent build quality from White Formula. ------------- thefastexcitingrunningasymmetric |
Posted By: rogue
Date Posted: 18 Nov 11 at 3:22pm
So does Henry White- left several messages for him when I looked into a Shadow, he never returned calls. I guess business must be good with all those Asbos they're pumping out... |
Posted By: tickel
Date Posted: 19 Nov 11 at 9:40pm
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Well back to the topic. If you wish to buy a new Byte Ovington will give you a price but to buy a new boat they need an order for 5! So unless you buy 5 and throw 4 away you have a price but effectively no builder. ------------- tickel |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 20 Nov 11 at 6:24pm
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Looks like you'd have to get a fleet together all at once... could be a tall order. Do you know why they need to build so many? ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: tickel
Date Posted: 20 Nov 11 at 9:47pm
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Production cost I presume on such a cheap boat but I hear that B14 suffer as well. It will make it depressing at the Dinghy Show trying to sell a boat which cannot be bought. They do produce bulk orders for the Youth Olympics, Worlds etc. (no worlds this year) and then sell them off afterwards. I wonder if John Claridge or Hartley would like to build another boat? I think Nautiva make them in Italy? ------------- tickel |
Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 21 Nov 11 at 8:59am
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Is the Rooster 8.1 not a class? They have open meetings, and a championship I believe? (or did i just miss it in the review). |