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iGRF 
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 Topic: Boats hardly anyone talks about Pt 2 - JavelinPosted: 09 Aug 13 at 4:19pm |
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Just for you tick, I've no idea what you're talking about other than something you chuck on sports day or a wetsuit brand many years ago owned as I recall by a lady.
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robinft
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Posted: 09 Aug 13 at 4:36pm |
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Very pretty 17'7" 2man single trapeze dinghy with a symmetric kite, designed by Peter Milne when he was editor of Y&Y, I think. At the time it had the most comfortably shaped side tanks for hiking helms.
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Laser number 9
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JimC
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Posted: 09 Aug 13 at 6:40pm |
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In the UK its a sort of a half way house between an FD and a FiveOh. Popular in Holland for some abstruse reason, otherwise only in UK. One of the best of the "all the others" fast boats of the 70s, which is probably why its survived in some sort of state when so many contemporaries are pretty much extinct.
In NZ and Aus a Javelin is a very nice lightweight(ish by current standards) 14ft trapeze development boat, rather less extreme than the 14, and in the US the name is used for some heavy thing... |
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getafix
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Posted: 09 Aug 13 at 7:08pm |
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Good sea boats and very pretty
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iGRF
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Posted: 09 Aug 13 at 7:22pm |
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So is it 17ft or 14 ft and have the convicts made it an assym?
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i tick
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Posted: 09 Aug 13 at 7:38pm |
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Ah, ha! If my photo posting window was not stuck (can no one help me?) I would post photos. I owned half, mainly the front half, of a Javelin for a number of years. It was, and is, 17'.7" and very pretty. Narrower than a 5oh and a bit slower. We lake sailed ours which was good fun with such a powerful boat. PY 946 I believe. It had a very big kite and I rigged up a self launching pole because I struggled to clip an ordinary 2 metre pole on. This is a boat for real men! I used to crawl under the foredeck to sort the chute out and I could disappear up there. Happy memories.
One of the principal clubs for Javs is up the road from here at Glossop where Richard and Kathrine Smith are based. They are multiple national and European Champions. 2 years ago the Reid brothers came back into sailing and joined our club. They had sailed Javs with their father 30 years ago and had some success. They dragged the old boat out of the nettles, sorted it out and managed 3rd in the Nationals this year. The boat was then entered for the Bala long distance but Stuart, the helm, could not find the time. So, the 'boy' took over and they sailed it into third. These boats have a small but enthusiastic following and if you try one you can see why.
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i tick
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Posted: 09 Aug 13 at 7:40pm |
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That Aussie thing is not a Jav. Peter Milne designed good British boats like Fireball not Australian beach toys.
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i tick
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Posted: 09 Aug 13 at 7:41pm |
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and......thank you young Fuller for pulling me in x
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iGRF
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Posted: 09 Aug 13 at 7:46pm |
Think nothing of it tick, I thought you'd dozed off there for a minute, you haven't ruined another keyboard with your dribbling into it have you? 
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Do Different
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Posted: 09 Aug 13 at 9:22pm |
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Javelin has a group on Facebook. Lots of pics on FB and Assoc website, javelinuk.com
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