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PeterV ![]() Posting king ![]() Joined: 24 Feb 07 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 131 |
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I weighed my 1963 wooden Finn last year, it's 0.5kg over the original minimum weight. Unfortunately the minimum weight has been lowered several times since. I still thought it a very good result though.
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PeterV
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maxibuddah ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 06 Mar 09 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1760 |
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We had a polyester phantom that was 14kgs overweight based on a designed weight of 61kgs. Definitely worth selling that one on, and no I can't remember the sail number
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Everything I say is my opinion, honest
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jeffers ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048 |
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I think that might have been 1064 Maxi, it was at Hunts for a while. Looked nice but didn't go very well.....
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Paul
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pondmonkey ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 12 Aug 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2202 |
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it's really nice to have a certificate from the RYA showing my hull to be 3kg under weight without lead correctors.
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maxibuddah ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 06 Mar 09 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1760 |
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If that's the orange one then that may have been that weight in the end following repairs that were done to it but it wasn't the one I was thinking of. The one in question was white but that's all I can remember. Both were at our club at one time or another
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2547 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 Aug 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1151 |
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I think what this thread tells us is dont believe the hype, if you don't get a certificate weigh what you buy ... I have calibrated a number of sets of bathroom scales over the years and as long as they are loaded square and static then they are typically very accurate; within 1kg. This seems to be very much a case of buyer beware ... It would be useful if people shared their own measurement here ... |
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jeffers ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048 |
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This one was white with a green vinyl waterline on it. Had a nice looking white painted carbon mast too.
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Paul
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pondmonkey ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 12 Aug 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2202 |
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hmm, I think you'd find its discouraged to weigh before your hitch up and drive off from most SMOD manufacturers.... of course, if you really, really insisted that you are absolutely going to weigh your boat before leaving in the pre-sales chat, (thus being a very difficult minority customer ![]() ![]() |
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johnreekie1980 ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 11 Jun 07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 91 |
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Having sailed various classes that insist that you strip some quite fixed equipment from boats for weighing I felt that the musto method of weighing the whole boat rigged was a excellent idea. There is a bit more error in this method as you have all the tolerances of equipment. Stripping the spliced control lines off a 49er was a right pain in the arse.
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jeffers ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048 |
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Always check your boat very carefully when buying new.
I know of someone who went to collect their new Laser from our friends at Long Buckby. They examined the hull (as I did when I collected mine many moons ago) and found a number of unacceptable flaws in the hull including several stress cracks in the gelcoat. Naturally they rejected the boat on the spot and then had a 2 hour row with LPE who eventually went and got another hull from the warehouse and made the pack up again. Their reason for not wanting to replace it was because that was the hull that was assigned to him and it was a lot of work to assign him a different one....naturally he refused to the point of demanding a refund. They came round to his way of thinking.
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