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rogerd 
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Joined: 25 May 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1076 |
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 Topic: Boat of the Show?Posted: 10 Mar 10 at 12:47pm |
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May be they should change the rules and give everyone who buys an entrance ticket the chance to vote. I put money on it(not much mind) the woodies would come out on top. |
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Cherub Guy
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Joined: 07 Jan 10 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
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Posted: 10 Mar 10 at 12:51pm |
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I agree that the hobbies of sailing and DIY can be brought together with a wooden boat but so can composite. In fact home building in modern composites is much easier. We recieved a lot of admiration for the presentation of the Cherub on our stand which was home built and fitted and fully rigged weighed less than a laser hull. Sorry to be biased but the Cherubs stopped using wood about 30 years ago and 'Flat Stanley' was the first dinghy to be built from kevlar foam composite. She's still going today. Don't get me wrong I think a well finished wooden boat is pretty but if you want a light and strong hull, modern composities are the way forward. Eventually people will realise that light and strong is the way forward and so much easier on the back. |
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rs405
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Posted: 10 Mar 10 at 1:00pm |
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Having owned Flat Stanley I can tell you that, whist it was known for being insanely quick, it was also known for being darn ugly. It also had wooden decks so don't knock wood too much. As a spectacle I would have to say the A-Rater did it for me. Not sure I would want to own one but it was a great bit of craftsmanship. Other woodies also caught my eye. As I have said though, if it was a case of take one home, it would be the 14s or the Cherub. |
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G.R.F.
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Posted: 10 Mar 10 at 2:30pm |
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Is there anyone on this forum who didn't own 'flat stanley' at one time or
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Rupert
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Posted: 10 Mar 10 at 2:54pm |
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Me, though I did co-own 2 boats with a previous owner of Flat Stanley, so there is a link. Maybe we should see how long it takes each forum member to find a link (apart from this forum) with an owner of Stanley? |
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alstorer
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Posted: 10 Mar 10 at 3:00pm |
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I've helped an owner do work on it.
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rogerd
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Posted: 10 Mar 10 at 4:32pm |
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I would give her a home so I could be a future owner. |
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JimC
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I really don't think so: ISTR early Tasars were kevlar/foam some years before, and the first foam Cherubs were built in the late 1960s, although I have no especial memory of when kevlar came on the scene. A contemporary write up doesn't seem to regard the construction as being especially radical. |
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G.R.F.
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Posted: 10 Mar 10 at 4:44pm |
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I was the probably first person to make a boat out of Kevlar, or so those
those buggers at Dupont told us at the time. 1976, 1st wave we hit, it fell in half, we were sea trialling it in our suits, barely got it back to the slip where it totally sank. The weave was so fine it didn't wet out, we went through dozens of diamond cutters just preparing the laminate. Back to the drawing board for them, and future preparations featured glass kevlar weaves to assist the process.. Edited by G.R.F. |
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Slippery Jim
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Posted: 10 Mar 10 at 4:44pm |
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Wot! No pics??!?!? |
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Pass the skiff, man!
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