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    Posted: 17 May 06 at 2:33pm

That's Phill Brander's Blade F18 video from about a year ago.

The Blade F18 is the F16 version's newer, bigger sister and is proving to be very interesting to F18 sailors. If it goes as well as the F16 Blade does in F16 (and it should) it'll do very well in F18. Not many of them around yet though. I think one of the prototype's got wrecked around Xmas time.

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look at this blade f18 vidio(not f16 sorry).heres the link                                    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1604449 732602847201&q=sailing    (copy and paste hyperlink wont work)
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Originally posted by scottish_tornad

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Thanks GM I stand corrected

going senile in my old age forgetting its 2006 not been sailing yet

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Originally posted by Isis

Blade F16 is very sweet.


If thats the one im thinking off I want one, badly..... I think there were pics of a red one a while back on here? beaut.


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Originally posted by scottish_tornad

I know of one stealth up here but i think it is an older boat and it was vastly different to the one John raced at Dalgety bay SC two years ago

John hasn't been up for the Four Inches since 2003 - and he had the F18HT up then which would explain why it didn't look the same as our little boats!  The three 16ft Stealths that I know of in Scotland are all older "R" models although one has had the hulls canted by the owner (and it has an F16 main now too).

I'd second what people have already said - the F16s are lovely boats to sail.  The option of sailing one-up or two-up makes it a perfect choice for me - although I do have to look for lightish crews!  Ignore the nonsense in the YandY boat list - they're definately not just for experts.
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Blade F16 is very sweet.


If thats the one im thinking off I want one, badly..... I think there were pics of a red one a while back on here? beaut.
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Blade F16 is very sweet.

Email Scott McCook at Pro-sail asia - he is allegedly exporting a few of the malaysian made ply & epoxy boats over to europe this summer.  Comes complete with a great big square top main too and you get to do Cherub style fiddling if you like.

The guy in Singapore with the Blade has virtually nil sailing experience and copes just fine.  Key thing is to get the righting technique learnt after a capsize.

(I still bought a 29er but that is another story)
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I have never sailed either a stealth so I can't really comment about the boat.  But one thing is for sure - it is one of the few cats in the UK that you can put up the mast single handed.  This is ideal if you are thinking about sailing single handed lots.
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