Jack Holt Centenary event
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Topic: Jack Holt Centenary event
Posted By: Rupert
Subject: Jack Holt Centenary event
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 9:10am
Rogerd's post on the GP14 event reminded me that we are getting closer to the weekend of 7/8 July, when lots of Jack Holt fans will be bringing their boats to Wraysbury Lake SC to celebrate Jack Holt's centennial.
As he was a racing man through and through, the event will have racing both days, but will also have time for people to swap stories, look at each others boats and compare and contrast original examples of his designs with more modern ones.
So, if you own or can borrow a Holt designed boat, please pop along! More details can be found at www.cvrda.org or at www.wlsc.org.uk.
Roger will be taking his sliding seat Hornet, and Jack Holt's own Merlin, number 16, will be there, as will a brand new Rondar GP14. There are also some amazing prizes on offer.
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 9:24am
Will there be a bonfire?
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 9:56am
I was expecting better, Grumph... are you unwell?
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Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 10:40am
He wasn't suggesting that the Holt boats need burning, simply to find out if there was a place to dispose of the V-Twin amongst conciliatory friends.
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 11:05am
Originally posted by Rupert
I was expecting better, Grumph... are you unwell?
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I'm sick.
Not in a good way, graunched my boat yesterday.
Er: I wasn't suggesting all Holt boats should be burned, there must be one or two worth keeping in some sort of Museum.
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Posted By: blaze720
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 11:39am
Not in a good way, graunched my boat yesterday.
.. and the details were ? (.... naturally we expect a gravel to gelcoat interaction at terminal velocity given ... well, all the already known factors, but if there is a better story we do need to know) The V2 is one of the longer running 'soaps' when all is said and done 
Mike L.
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 11:49am
Originally posted by blaze720
Not in a good way, graunched my boat yesterday.
.. and the details were ? (.... naturally we expect a gravel to gelcoat interaction at terminal velocity given ... well, all the already known factors, but if there is a better story we do need to know) The V2 is one of the longer running 'soaps' when all is said and done 
Mike L.
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WE shouldn't take Uncle Jack off topic, there's a bit about what happened in the choosing a boat thread which ironically has thrown up a challenger to the Blaze you might already be aware of.. 
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Posted By: Ruscoe
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 12:05pm
You have bought an eps??? Why
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 12:34pm
Originally posted by Ruscoe
You have bought an eps??? Why |
It had to be done, because it is a thing of beauty at a fair price and I want something to keep down the Lake.
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Posted By: Slippery Jim
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 12:42pm
Originally posted by Ruscoe
You have bought an eps??? Why |
DNF = DO NOT FEED!!!!!!
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 12:53pm
So back on topic, what does the panel think is Jack Holts finest legacy... (and if you want to bash the EPS decision, http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9322&title=think-i-might-have-found-myself-a-boat-4-the-lake - probably best do it here )
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Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 1:03pm
| what does the panel think is Jack Holts finest legacy... |
The fact that so many people think him special for so many reasons and want to celebrate his centenary!
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Posted By: Lukepiewalker
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 1:04pm
Mirror
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Posted By: tickler
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 2:01pm
[QUOTE=G.R.F.]Will there be a bonfire?[/Q
Well Mr Fuller old age and decrepitude bars me from this event but I would happily lend you my Solo. It is however not wood but petro chemical based. e.g inch thick fibreglass.
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Posted By: blaze720
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 3:12pm
Greame
... EPS ... that was getting far too close (again) for comfort for a while. The Blaze world is safe again. 
Mike L.
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 4:03pm
Funny, the bloke who sold it to me said Blaze's were for pussies, what could he mean?
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 5:21pm
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Minor correction to Ruperts original post. There will be a new Rondar Enterprise there. Jacks best legacy has to be that forty fifty and even sixty years after they were first designed many of the classes are still being sailed, raced and enjoyed as major classes with top helms in them. Hannah Mills started in a Mirror, First Merlin built by him, GP14, Solo, Enterprise and Cadet still thriving classes. Close to my heart because I sailed one as a youf is the Hornet, not so popular now but in its day a class with a reputation on the water and off. But the best legacy he has left is because he was not made welcome by the I14s as he was a "tradesman" was to make boats that could be made at home by the average man. Many GPs & Hornets were home builds from kits etc and then of course the Mirror. Stitch and glue gave many of us a chance to build and then sail our own boat. There is so much more.
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 6:33pm
Doh... I was still caught up in the last few postings on the GP14 thread - I was thinking Ent, but typing GP14... Age is a terrible thing!
I'd say Roger is right - his greatest gift was giving sailing to the masses - our greatest gift to his memory would be to keep it for the masses, not give it back to the elite.
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 7:15pm
Originally posted by Rupert
our greatest gift to his memory would be to keep it for the masses, not give it back to the elite.
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Well there, at that point we can agree.
But that doesn't mean perpetuating the same designs he gave the world 50-60 years ago.
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Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 7:21pm
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Instead you'd recommend what, bethwaite's elite skiffs on sausage courses? Seems like jack had it right to me...
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 7:35pm
Sailing Alto style... User friendly, easy to teach newcomers, grownups with a few bob but no previous experience of RYA in their youf, peeing in the bottom of oppi's, regimented through the 29ers, or lasers, racing back to back miles out to sea for hours on end, doing it for the same reason Jack Holt did it, because it's er fun?
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 7:49pm
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You miss the point. Jack Holt was snubbed by the elite because he was a tradesman so first he built a 14 to beat them with and then he went away built the first Merlin and then Cadets the first boat specifically designed for youngsters. So they could have their own boat not the tender to dads yacht with a sail added. Not sure of the order but many many designs followed that have stood the test of time. We are not knocking the numerous other designers who stood on Uffa Foxes shoulders just celebrating the life of a man who had he gone into building kitchens or sheds most of us would not be sailing now.Grumpf if you come down to Wraysbury I might let you become an honary planker on the Hornet.
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 8:02pm
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I've sailed at Wraysbury believe it or not sailing bends rather than straight lines point to point following the tree line. I shall find a picture taken at Wraysbury in a moment and edit it back.
There, that water is pure Wraysbury lake, circa 79, before centreboards retracted into sailboard hulls and I seem to remember the furniture on that harness was from Holt although it was John Holt running things by then.
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 8:41pm
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you look scarily like my brother in that pic
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Posted By: tickler
Date Posted: 14 May 12 at 10:04pm
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Well i am impressed. All this flaunting the V thingy is brave but to put that picture up beats it all!
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 6:58am
Nice man bag
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 10:56am
I have a feeling that the person getting closest these days to the Jack Holt boats for all idea is Paul Handley. We appear to no longer build boats in our front rooms by the thousand, but instead to buy fairly simply, only a little eyewateringly expensive Rotomoulded boats instead. With the Feva and Tera capturing the imagination of today's 12 year olds, there is hope for the future.
However, I'm not sure why designs have to be shiny and new? If boat design is a compromise, and the boat isn't aiming at absolute top speed, I can't see why it matters when pen was put to paper, if it still meets the need?
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Posted By: Chris 249
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 12:30pm
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Well said Rupert and Roger (although Rupert, have you checked out how "eyewateringly expensive" a Mirror was in 1968 compared to a Feva now?).
Looking back at the contemporary media, Beecher Moore's enthusiasm for the Holt boats and the concept of sailing for everyone is also striking and must surely have been important in Holt's success, as was the backing of Haylock. And at the same time, the Sunfish, Vaurien and Opti were also changing the face of the sport in other areas.... the Kiwis had been into kid's boats and cheap hard chine boats for many years before that, while down here in Oz we were a bit slower to catch on. 
I tend to wonder whether Rupert's point is the key to the reason why older boats still do so well. They were designed with speed as a lower priority and therefore they are less likely to become obsolete when faster craft come out.
While others were fiddling about with half an inch here and there on "thoroughbred" racing craft, people like Holt and Moore were imagining something much more daring - a new form of sailing that would open up the wonders of sailing to those who had always been excluded by those bound by a more limited view. We need some more people like that today, especially now that some corners of ISAF and the sailing media appear to be determined to attack the popular classes that sailors of the world actually want to own.
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 1:00pm
Originally posted by Chris 249
Well said Rupert and Roger (although Rupert, have you checked out how "eyewateringly expensive" a Mirror was in 1968 compared to a Feva now?). |
Yep - couldn't afford a new boat in the 70's, or now! I still work to the same amount of money (£300, usually) that I did in 1985 to buy a boat, though, so I may not be the best person to comment of boat buying costs! Mind, I do now tend to spend money on them - invariably more than the boat cost, but spread over time. I've no idea how a kit then compared to a mass produced boat now, though?
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Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 1:02pm
Originally posted by Chris 249
While others were fiddling about with half an inch here and there on "thoroughbred" racing craft, people like Holt and Moore were imagining something much more daring - a new form of sailing that would open up the wonders of sailing to those who had always been excluded by those bound by a more limited view. We need some more people like that today, especially now that some corners of ISAF and the sailing media appear to be determined to attack the popular classes that sailors of the world actually want to own.
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you didn't need to edit, you were spot on before Chris 
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Posted By: Chris 249
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 1:14pm
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Ta, but I decided that I didn't want the psychos from the SA "staff" reading what I said about them and their virulent hate towards the boats that people actually normally sail (and by implication, their contempt for the sailors who choose them).
Oh damn, now I've done it again! 
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Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 1:19pm
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reading this thread I was drawn to the current photos on the left from the Solo Open at Fishers Green... especially this one, good quality racing for average blokes in accessible boats in the middle of nowhere.
It's very easy to take the pi55, but it's very hard replicate:
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 2:27pm
Originally posted by pondmonkey
reading this thread I was drawn to the current photos on the left from the Solo Open at Fishers Green... especially this one, good quality racing for average blokes in accessible boats in the middle of nowhere.
It's very easy to take the pi55, but it's very hard replicate:
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One could almost be forgiven for thinking they look modern, in a one eyed man in the kingdom of the blind sort of fashion, I can see you in one, back there in about the third rank of the start, posting using your new ID Solomonkey, just back from the Golf course on the way to the Garden Centre..
Big old boats then, pokey sails by the look of them, no match for an EPS though and not worth the total humiliation that will be visited upon you with unmerciful vengeance and furious anger by those who attempt to poison and destroy their brothers... (For being lame..)
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Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 2:31pm
there are some lovely golf courses around here... perfect for kiteboarding on. 
and no, I'm not jumping in quite so quickly, but I will be chartering one later this summer for a few races, try before you buy... something I've learned is really important of late, sadly you just can't trust what folks tell you.
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 2:33pm
Just the course of action one would expect from an RRD man...
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Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 2:35pm
hmm, worse, I'm enjoying the *borgs more tbh... Basher was right, you on the other hand, are wrong in so many ways
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 2:37pm
Originally posted by pondmonkey
hmm, worse, I'm enjoying the *borgs more tbh... Basher was right, you on the other hand, are wrong in so many ways  |
Your just like my Mrs, she likes to remind me when we're driving in a multi story car park, that I'm wrong on so many levels...
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Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 2:39pm
Originally posted by G.R.F.
Your just like my Mrs,...
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I know I get on well with the RS workshop guys, but I wouldn't go that far 
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Posted By: tickler
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 3:52pm
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Mmmm. I like that Solo picture.....those shiny silver masts could catch on.....
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Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 3:57pm
bring back gold ones, that what I says
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Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 4:13pm
Originally posted by maxibuddah
bring back gold ones, that what I says |
Like
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Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 4:20pm
I was going to reply bring back wooden ones but I think that is a step too far, even though most of the Holt boats would have started life with them
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 4:23pm
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My Holt boat still has a wooden mast. If fact there is very little metal on her at all.
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Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 4:25pm
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wood has its place, I'd like to see some renewable bamboo based ones.
technology from other sports is already adopting a more eco-friendly attitude.
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Posted By: tickler
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 4:26pm
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A hollow wooden wing mast made with modern glue...........
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Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 4:33pm
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injection filled with Viagra in the bottom section and non-surgical grade French silicon in the 'flextip' top... perfect for the 21st century.
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Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 6:04pm
Originally posted by rogerd
My Holt boat still has a wooden mast. If fact there is very little metal on her at all. |
Tufnal blocks as well? Original. 
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Posted By: tickler
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 6:08pm
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If you spray tuffnal with black gloss it looks like carbon.....why waste the money?
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 9:29pm
Originally posted by maxibuddah
Originally posted by rogerd
My Holt boat still has a wooden mast. If fact there is very little metal on her at all. |
Tufnal blocks as well? Original.  |
yep tufnol blocks and 1956 original Ratsey & Lapthorn early terylene sails. oh and a cotton spinaker with holes sewn in to let the air through like in old parachutes. and a sliding seat which I have offered the chance to grumpf to become an honary planker on but he has gone quiet on that. Of course he will be search for all forms of ignititon before he gets near the wood. Incidentally the original A Rater rig was bamboo
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 10:20pm
Originally posted by rogerd
Incidentally the original A Rater rig was bamboo |
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Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 24 May 12 at 8:38pm
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If you can get grmph on the plank Rog I promise to have the camera ready!
Wraysbury's easy to reach too being near the M25 so no excuses for Holt boat owners!
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Posted By: Sheetpuller
Date Posted: 25 May 12 at 1:10pm
Originally posted by Rupert
I'd say Roger is right - his greatest gift was giving sailing to the masses - our greatest gift to his memory would be to keep it for the masses, not give it back to the elite.
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What he said. Right there.
I was commodore of Ranelagh SC when we celebrated Jack's 75th and we held a celebratory cruise down the Thames from Putney to Greenwich with as many Jack Holt boats as wanted to turn up. There was quite a wide selection including some rarities - (who now remembers the Lazy E?) - and Jack, who was on the Official Launch ( a Champ borrowed from the Sea Cadets!) was visibly moved by it all.
I'm not sure he actually set out to 'bring sailing to the masses'. It's just that being a very ordinary, unassuming and humble man he never thought of it any other way. We all owe him and others like him a great debt in my opinion.
Oh, and for those who don't know but want to (both of them!), the 'Lazy E' was a big Enterprise with a trapeze...
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 25 May 12 at 2:25pm
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It would be great to see a Lazy E there and there is a rumour that one has been found but what condition she is in we dont know. Still active in Australia I believe. We do have a register of interest from a Jacksnipe another of his good ideas that unfortunatley didnt make it. Be great to see her out on the water.
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 25 May 12 at 2:27pm
Originally posted by patj
If you can get grmph on the plank Rog I promise to have the camera ready!
Wraysbury's easy to reach too being near the M25 so no excuses for Holt boat owners! |
Rumour has it he is to small to reach the end. 
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 25 May 12 at 2:55pm
http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/163398/Jack-Hodesigner-for-the-sailor-of-today - http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/163398/Jack-Hodesigner-for-the-sailor-of-today
Little piece to set GRF's teeth on edge in the news section... Others may enjoy it!
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Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 29 May 12 at 1:22pm
Posted By: Chris 249
Date Posted: 29 May 12 at 1:58pm
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Yes, the Lazy E (sadly renamed the National E years ago) is still active in Australia in a small way; see http://www.nationale.org.au/ - http://www.nationale.org.au
My recollection is that either Jack or Beecher Moore specifically set out to bring sailing to the masses. I'll check some of Beecher's articles.
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 18 Jun 12 at 7:32pm
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Just a few weeks to go now and it looks like we may have at least one and possibly two Jacksnipes at the event. A class we thought was lost. Great news.
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Posted By: Andymac
Date Posted: 18 Jun 12 at 8:21pm
Originally posted by rogerd
Just a few weeks to go now and it looks like we may have at least one and possibly two Jacksnipes at the event. A class we thought was lost. Great news. |
Ahh Jacksnipes... 
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 19 Jun 12 at 1:50pm
Looking forward to the unusual boats being there, but people who have fun sailing his popular designs are also very welcome, of course, with the added bonus of sailing on the same water as the rare ones.
So, which will be faster, the Hornet or the Jacksnipe?
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 19 Jun 12 at 3:02pm
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The Jacksnipe will be faster than my Hornet but will it be faster than a more modern one?.....who knows.
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 19 Jun 12 at 3:42pm
Originally posted by patj
If you can get grmph on the plank Rog I promise to have the camera ready!
Wraysbury's easy to reach too being near the M25 so no excuses for Holt boat owners! |
I missed this, having kept well clear of this thread out of respect for the old boy which say what I tend to like saying, he did do a lot for y'all back in the day, in fact I did know both him and John the son back then, late seventies, I can't remember what they were up to but they were involved in 'board sailing' as the yotties had re christened windsurfing much to us windsurfers none approval.
So what 'plank' are you talking about and seriously if you think I'm coming up there to be ceremoniously strapped to some ducking stool fabricated out of old wooden boat bits....
This really is the only solution
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Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 19 Jun 12 at 4:40pm
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if there's going to be a burning then there's probably more deserving candidates than you old chap, they could start with the GRP horrors inflicted on Mr Holts designs in the 80's and 90's without too many tears being shed I'm sure!
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Posted By: Medway Maniac
Date Posted: 19 Jun 12 at 10:09pm
Originally posted by Rupert
So, which will be faster, the Hornet or the Jacksnipe?
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Speaking as a former owner of both...
Will depend very much upon who is on the stick, but if it's blowy the Jacksnipe is in with a shout. Sub-trapezing I reckon the Hornet should take it.
Would love to find out how the Jacksnipe strikes me now. But of course we are talking about 40-year old boats here. I doubt that any boat of that age, wear and tear would take our breath away today, whatever the class. Now, a new, light, f.r.p. Jacksnipe with an up-to-date rig - where can I sign the order form?!
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Posted By: sargesail
Date Posted: 19 Jun 12 at 10:15pm
Originally posted by G.R.F.
Originally posted by patj
If you can get grmph on the plank Rog I promise to have the camera ready!
Wraysbury's easy to reach too being near the M25 so no excuses for Holt boat owners! |
I missed this, having kept well clear of this thread out of respect for the old boy which say what I tend to like saying, he did do a lot for y'all back in the day, in fact I did know both him and John the son back then, late seventies, I can't remember what they were up to but they were involved in 'board sailing' as the yotties had re christened windsurfing much to us windsurfers none approval.
So what 'plank' are you talking about and seriously if you think I'm coming up there to be ceremoniously strapped to some ducking stool fabricated out of old wooden boat bits....
This really is the only solution
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I now have an image in my mind of grmph the nautical Wickerman, strapped to the plank of aholt design funeral pyre. Should keep me chuckling for days...
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Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 28 Jun 12 at 12:37pm
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So who's going - we're borrowing a GP and need to learn to sail facing backwards (rear sheeted) rather rapidly!
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 28 Jun 12 at 12:53pm
Hope the photographer captures some of Sandy's finer moments of getting tangled up, Pat!
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 28 Jun 12 at 12:57pm
Representing the Classic side of things, Vagabond 61 has recently been restored and will be coming along. Pictures here of the maiden sail following the 6 months of work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81390670@N06/ - http://www.flickr.com/photos/81390670@N06/
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 28 Jun 12 at 1:50pm
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Pat you can convert to centre on the goddess, laser style with main coming forward along the boom. (hmm maybe I shouldnt have told you that ),
There are two vintage N12s without anyone to sail them at the moment. If anyone fancies a potter round the lake in a clinker built N12 please contact me.
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 04 Jul 12 at 4:07pm
Just a couple of days to go now - weather looking a little showery, but warmer than of late, with a nice little breeze to push you all along!
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Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 04 Jul 12 at 5:09pm
Originally posted by Medway Maniac
. Now, a new, light, f.r.p. Jacksnipe with an up-to-date rig - where can I sign the order form?!
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Cor!!!!!
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 04 Jul 12 at 5:47pm
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I can confirm we will have one jacksnipe at the event. I gather the boat hasnt been sailed much lately but should be there to admire. One of the Holt boats that through no fault of its own failed to become as popular as it should. I can also announce that Jack Holts own Merlin number 16 "Gently", the most successful championship winning Merlin ever is to be relaunched on Sunday after a full restoration and return to her original spec. She has spent many years in storage and in the capable hands of Chris Barlow and Mervyn Allen has been carefully put back together and will be sailing on Sunday. Please if you are nearby come and see this famous boat relaunched. There is still space for any Holt designed boat whatever condition or age to enter. We currently have unusual, and commonplace, new hi spec versions and old, tired and could do with a bit of tlc boats. It doesnt matter what they are like its all about enjoying and celebrating the boats of this great man. We also have some great prizes from Rondar, Pelican Racing, Holt (they had to really didnt they),Harken, The Boat yard at Beer and Trident all of which we would like to thank for their support. The first thirty entries will get an authenticated souvenir made from mahogany recovered during the restoration of Gently.
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Posted By: Medway Maniac
Date Posted: 10 Jul 12 at 10:50am
So, what happened then? Did the Jacksnipe beat the Hornet?
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 10 Jul 12 at 12:32pm
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Sadly the Jacksnipe didnt make it. Her owner did though. He has had some health problems and came to the event to introduce hinmself and apologise for not getting the boat there.
The event was a success and those that attended went away happy. Sadly the weather had put off quite a few but we celebrated Jacks life and boats in the spirit I think he would have approved of and raised a glass or three to him on Saturday. Free beer or Pims courtesy of Rondar Raceboats.
The sun shone on us on both days and only three heavy showers on Saturday.
I will get round to a proper report soon. With pics.
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 10 Jul 12 at 1:23pm
Glad it went well, Roger. We had a Saturday of un-remitting foulness in Somerset - think I'd rather have been there!
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 10 Jul 12 at 2:03pm
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dont like to say but I told you Katherine would have enjoyed her birthday to the dulcet tones of 747s landing and taking off.
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 13 Jul 12 at 1:01pm
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event report here
http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/164468/Jack-Holt-Centennial-at-Warysbury-Lake - http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/164468/Jack-Holt-Centennial-at-Warysbury-Lake
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