Fireball Questions

I'd worry about weight carrying capacity on a Contender hull...

> foreman 4g cherub hull here, waiting for a false floor and assy conversion.

I wouldn't do that!

Nice Fireball, cheap, know what I mean.....in the nettles for a few years but all there. £50 ish.....There are loads of them about. Presumably you are not looking for wood. Old grp's or compos are no good. Late Winders are nice but expensive, too expensive to cut about. Late ones always have these little adjustable posts for jib sheeting.....complicated.  I always thought that a Fireball could carry a bigger symetric kite with a longer pole. In fact I have an old kite somewhere. I have crewed them and they feel very stable for a narrow boat.

Scorpion.. Now there's a blast from the past. Hythe was a big Scorpion club back in the day, held Nationals and everything they were probably one of the first casualties of the inital Assym storm I remember a couple of key guys buying Iso's then quickly losing interest but the damage was done, folk rarely go back.

Interesting anecdote, I once spent an afternoon and evening sanding an up turned Scorpion trying to double concave the hull, no idea if it ever worked for the guy but it seemed like a good idea at the time since double con caves were all the rage on sailboards, encouraging early planing as per flying boat floats helped release with the concaves.

Edited by iGRF - 22 May 13 at 12:01pm

I reckon a contender would be pretty rubbish as a single string two man boat.  The cockpit floor is surely too high to make it comfortable for the helm, muct be even shallower than an laser 2 or 3000 thingy

i guess he only has little legs!