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Matt Jackson ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 21 Sep 04 Location: Darlington Online Status: Offline Posts: 962 |
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There is something marvelously perverse about making a container for lead weights using one of the worlds lightest construction methods.
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Laser 203001, Harrier (H+) 36
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Chris 249 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 10 May 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2041 |
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Yep, that's the idea. For about 15 years I've been using old diver's weights tied on with old string and clanking around in the bottom of the cockpit (among a fair bit of chook poo when the boat was pulled out of a farm shed and taken straight to a race) and now the boat is going to be shiny, it's obtusetotheubermax time. I think I've just worked out a practical AND obtuse way of using a 10 gramme carbon/ti bicycle seat post clamp to hold it all together and allow easy adjustment. Sadly the 747 was just being renovated, so I can't use Jim's idea of depleted uranium. My wife's lab is in the physics building but she seems to be strangely reluctant to try to find some full-strength uranium. Can't get dedicated crew these days.
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winging it ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 22 Mar 07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3958 |
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Had a new member come along yesterday who had just done L2 plus been on a sailing holiday and wanted to join in this Saturday's race training. They then moved off to study the For Sale board because they are fully enthused and want to buy a boat. Their dream boat? Strangely not a foiling moth but rather ....... a pico! I am trying to persuade them (an adult) to go for the slightly racier topper.
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yellowwelly ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 24 May 13 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2003 |
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you are doing yourself a disservice- shouldn't you find one of the lesser spotted from the Nessa flotilla and sell it to them at a greatly inflated price, with some cock n' ball story about how it's the best boat for them?
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winging it ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 22 Mar 07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3958 |
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oooh, like the ToY which I am bored of now? Good call!
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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Why break the habit of a lifetime, sell them something made of wood, tell them it's what you have to sail if you want to join <look down nose> 'our' club.
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winging it ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 22 Mar 07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3958 |
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Because it wood n't be true! More plastic than wood here at Hunts, even the ToY is plastic! |
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rodney ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 Feb 09 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 915 |
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Sorry but been a bit pre-occupied for a few days. We don't do Pimp at Devoti we just do style ![]() Of course we can do most things on all of our boats including the Icon. The Finn class has, for some time, been very adventurous when it comes to colours, design and style. My view, FWIW, is that sailing should be fun and that for me means having a boat that makes you feel good. That, for me and most of the Finn fleet, isn't a white all over boat. My latest creation has the Finn insignia in transparent blue on a white deck as pictured below. If you really want just white that's fine with me also as I am more than happy to deliver all white boats along with the sunglasses ![]() If the boat's not sold before the FOM I will be sailing it there otherwise I will sort out another creation (any ideas?. ![]() ![]() |
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Rodney Cobb
Suntouched Sailboats Limited http://www.suntouched.co.uk [EMAIL=rodney@suntouched.co.uk">rodney@suntouched.co.uk |
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craiggo ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 Apr 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1810 |
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Rodney, how about a tribute to Bart, with a Bart Simpson on the foredeck in semi-transparent coloured gel?
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