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    Posted: 03 Feb 11 at 8:09am
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I had wondered if Steve Cockeril's creation will re-appear this year in perfected form. Or has it sunk without trace? I thought that last year showing the boat in development form miss fired a bit.
I popped into Rooster on Monday to buy some replacement hotsocks.  The project X looked very sorry for itself sat in the grass by his car park... Such a shame if nothing comes of it.

As I recall the business model for that was low cost high volume, not something that's likely to be achieved in a recession in a *dwindling sport. A better route would be high cost high value, or get some old minger class, tart it up and appeal to the perfidious side of human nature..








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Originally posted by tickler

I had wondered if Steve Cockeril's creation will re-appear this year in perfected form. Or has it sunk without trace? I thought that last year showing the boat in development form miss fired a bit.
I popped into Rooster on Monday to buy some replacement hotsocks.  The project X looked very sorry for itself sat in the grass by his car park... Such a shame if nothing comes of it.

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It'll need more than warp speed and a telekenetic transporter to beam it down to that dinghy show,
QUOTE; G.R.umF.
Well after much gnawing of my upper lip, a couple of sleepless nights, an alternate construction method that will deliver just the one boat for me to try at not quite such an eye watering price tag:
 
You may find its called marine ply.
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 have decided in the words of Captain Picard, to 'make it so'..

since it reminds me of the Starship Enterprise for some inexplicable reason.

Whether it'll come fitted with warp drive remains to be seen.
You can make your rocket ship outta that stuff too...

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I had wondered if Steve Cockeril's creation will re-appear this year in perfected form. Or has it sunk without trace? I thought that last year showing the boat in development form miss fired a bit.
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Originally posted by tickler

Right.......it'll be at the Dinghy Show then.......
 What year?
 
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Right.......it'll be at the Dinghy Show then.......
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Well after much gnawing of my upper lip, a couple of sleepless nights, an alternate construction method that will deliver just the one boat for me to try at not quite such an eye watering price tag and thanks to a couple of encouraging emails through the various 'back channels' that circumvent forums. 

I have decided in the words of Captain Picard, to 'make it so'..

since it reminds me of the Starship Enterprise for some inexplicable reason.

Wether it'll come fitted with warp drive remains to be seen.


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Originally posted by G.R.F.

Originally posted by Menace

Have you considered the Sailing World boat of the year 2010..... the Weta. 
 

I can honestly say.

Not even for a nanosecond.

I may be 'getting on a bit', I get horrendous stick from my wind and kite surfing pals for even sitting in a dinghy, I'm driving a Mini ffs albeit  a big ish Mini, the countryman, but it's still a Mini. I've taken to selling Kayaks and Bikes with baskets on the front, I have even been spotted recently in a supermarket pushing a trolley, all in all, my hard core street cred has already been lacerated and my world is beset with lameness at every turn.

But I'm clinging on to life, just.

Sailing that thing? I might just as well open up my wrists.

 I'll get away with the V Twin because it'll go under the cover of my general eccentricity (they all think I'm a bit of a nutter because I've done loads of things before they were generally accepted)they still all fall about talking about my 'water pusher' Speed Week attempt, so I'll get away with it, but only if it works which I'm still convinced it will.
 
Oh come on, it was the sailing world boat of the year..... What you need to do is shave all your hair off and start howling at the moon.
 
Lightweight modern contender....... RS600????
 
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Originally posted by G.R.F.

Yes I know I need a Contender, there's five of them at our club now, it's an excellent sea boat, has a retracting plate, a big one, knifes upwind and a few years ago, by now, I'd have capitulated and accepted my limitations.
 I'd do well when it's light, then get beaten when its windy, according to the weight and height of my fellow competitors, just like what happens in every boat I've owned except the Alto, in which we used to do quite well on and off across the wind range, if we did it right.

But it's heavy and the Class luddites want to keep it that way, it's got an old sail plan, can't see that changing any time soon, and it's another boat where a degree of indignity is required bending under that boom, brown nosing the deck as you go through.

And Imagine if this thing of mine works, and 40-45+ year olds can get to sail fast, without practising too much, good sailors of yore, don't have to go scrabbling for parking spots for their zimmer frames in the Solo, OK or Streaker boat parks.

If it provides a really stable platform to harness all the power and rig stability available to us these days from modern rigs, yet remains a close quarter tactical device, happy on the sea or on lakes and res's. 
Hardly ever goes over, yet if it does is easy to get back the right way up and get back into. (That tunnel hull will provide a useful step to get up onto the plate, or once it's back up, it wont fall over again allowing a return over the stern if necessary.)
I'm not as young or agile as I once was and the future isn't going to see much of an improvement in that regard, yet the lust for performance hasn't died yet, so if it is feasible to lay more power through those twin planing surfaces and I get to experience twenty something knots without the dread of what's going to happen rounding the corner, then I want some and I'm fairly sure others might also.


Deep down you know you should be building one of these. They are designed for just what you are asking for...
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this guys even nested the parts for lazer cutting.
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Hmmm, sounds like a blaze to me
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