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Jack Sparrow
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Topic: DINGHY SHOW - photosPosted: 06 Mar 14 at 12:58pm |
Ummm... maybe my fault making such a big play about the Farr 3.7 Demo Boats colour! Especially when you have nothing to do with the choice!!!! But you have to talk about something to drive a little interest!
This would be my choice of gantry design. But in reality all the gantry does is make the boat less sensitive so this is a personal choice thing.
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Posted: 06 Mar 14 at 8:19am |
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My Plan for carbon effect vinyl wrap struck a chord with the ensemble, but all agreed building one out of hi tech composite foam panels and using the real thing, combined with that new stern gantry thing would be very interesting.
I even wondered about wrestling Dans off him now he's pre occupied with fairer things and presumably working toward the eventual use of a certain appendage he always found puzzling. |
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Posted: 06 Mar 14 at 7:44am |
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I really like the Farr. Being dole scum I am free to watch such daytime tv gems as 'Wanted Down Under' one episode based in NZ showed a beach with five 3.7s having a great sail. I rewound several times to check! And why wouldn't they be popular, they tick every box for the lightweight trap sailor.
But I thought the one at the Show was disappointing because the colour scheme didn't show off the wood or rig to best advantage. Maybe a darker colour would have been better, who knows.
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the same, but different...
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Posted: 06 Mar 14 at 7:31am |
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so basically buy an old streaker and add a contender rig to it?
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Posted: 06 Mar 14 at 7:02am |
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I know. But honestly, they weren't all that different in proportion, chine line, and general topside appearance. Probably they are different underwater, but I didn't lay on the floor to check. The guy from Butler even told me they used Streaker panels (or was it frames?) when putting together the Farr tooling, so closely did they match.
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JimC
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Posted: 06 Mar 14 at 6:52am |
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Posted: 05 Mar 14 at 11:59pm |
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I was struck by how similar the Farr hull was to the Streaker next to it.
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Posted: 05 Mar 14 at 5:43pm |
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Probably gone the same way as many pics viewed via Android o/s.
Alternatively, have you been using iGRF's modern wooden PC? |
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Posted: 05 Mar 14 at 5:40pm |
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You can get a good raceable one from about £3000!
Check the A Class website. G |
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MerlinMags
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Posted: 05 Mar 14 at 4:33pm |
Yes, where are the pics? Have I missed them somewhere else? |
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