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    Posted: 19 Nov 14 at 3:20pm
Can you imagine if the bottles were filled with coke? You poison the neighbourhood pouring it all down the drain. Unless you could find the giant bottle of rum to go with it, I suppose.
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Originally posted by maxibuddah

You probably could, but imagine the size of the bottles....possibly would be filled with beer, so either have a couple of weeks on the lash before building or find your local drunk to help you out

This needs a 60s style Giles cartoon, pie-eyed blokes in a shed being accosted by angry wife in curlers brandishing a rolling-pin, "but we're only half way thru stage-one, dearest"
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Originally posted by iGRF

Originally posted by zippyRN


Originally posted by iGRF

I usually get screws left over.

I'm serious, that Farr thing could be supplied as a box of bits, you'd get the plans, all the bits cut out, the ply necessary to build it all in a box the size of the biggest bit of ply, why not? Then there might have to be a separate box with the rig bits in it, two part mast obviously. Nice Instructional DvD on how to put it all together.

 oh  do keep up Grumpf , messers Holt, Bucknall and Bell were doing  that in the mid C20th  with the Mirror ...mabe soneone  could remind us why Bell  went to the wall taking their  final kit boat design  with it (?flyer) ...


Really? Show me the link where I can buy it then, all the bits I need ready to assemble in a box, with an instructional DvD.

Love to iGRF, and I actually here you. What the Farr 3.7 has is as close as I could get it. 
My issue is funding.
Care to add into the pot to create such a product with associated collateral and marketing? I'll take you up on the offer.
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Not just Mirrors, there were kits for building a Miracle (which we all know is iGRFs true sailing-object-of-desire) Phantoms and many others. Or with some more skills, build a GP14, Ent, Solo or many more

Not sure most have the tools and skills even for building a Mirror these days. Probably some 'elf-n' safety nonsense about using resin too.

And of course the proven performance variances within a class enabled by the relatively large building tolerances necessitated by all this home building are proof as to why a polars-based dinghy rating system will not work
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You probably could, but imagine the size of the bottles....possibly would be filled with beer, so either have a couple of weeks on the lash before building or find your local drunk to help you out
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Why self build hull for a DIY boat? The easy thing is to bash out laminate hulls and supply them with all the other gubbins in kit form. There is a model boat class called the 'bottle boat'. I believe the hull is made of two coke bottles stuck together.....could there be a full sized equivalent?
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The Mirror came with everything supplied, paint, glue, tape, instruction book. No DVD, as they hadn't been invented yet. There are still companies who do this, but not much for racing boats, as the market has shifted.
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Can't see the box with the pictures but this is the result

http://www.littlejoesolutions.co.uk/hadron/

Comes out of iGRF's favourite class - the Merlin Rocket but cut down for Billy No Mates - otherwise known as singlehanders.
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That's it, Hadron, that should come in a box as well. With Pictures on the front.
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