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JohnJack 
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 Topic: My ScorpionPosted: 02 Apr 15 at 12:05pm |
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No more like idiots who buy old boats on ebay.
Noticed the video's on Hyths facebook page. Most Scorpions are relatively well kept. There aren't many classes where a 25 year old boat can still keep pace with new boats, if not still capable of winning a Nationals?
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fish n ships
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Posted: 02 Apr 15 at 12:11pm |
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i dont think there is much danger of that one winning a nationals
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PeterG
Really should get out more 
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Posted: 02 Apr 15 at 12:32pm |
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It'll make a nice bonfire when you've dried it out.
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Peter
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Woodburner
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Joined: 13 Mar 15 Location: Folkestone Kent Online Status: Offline Posts: 332 |
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Posted: 02 Apr 15 at 1:40pm |
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No idea what happened to it, the irony, Hythe is/was a big Scorpion stronghold back in the day and we still have a couple of die hard scorpion aficionado's.
I once wasted a weekend double concaving the hull of one in the days when double concave made faster boards so my business partner, fancied trying it on his Scorpion, no idea what happened, the class in our area fell victim to the Iso revolution that failed, and effectively killed dinghy sailing at our club until recently when the Dover lot joined us, but the renaissance was Scorpion free. |
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JohnJack
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Posted: 02 Apr 15 at 4:22pm |
Not sure what happened through out the nineties. The class seemed to have reached critical mass and was doing really well. There are quite a few clubs like Hythe which used to be Scorpion strong holds. In my view, cheaper and more competative than the MR's and definitely more rewarding than a GP14. The design is pretty good and whilst being lightweight they are very solidly put together (they were designed to take a battering in surf so.........) |
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Woodburner
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Posted: 02 Apr 15 at 4:41pm |
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They got very pricey at one point, I remember back a long time ago talking to Barry Dodds who had just paid fourteen grand for these bits of wood stuck together, I was speechless at the time, didn't know what to say short of questioning his sanity. That was back when ten grand bought a lot of car and you could hire two or three folk to work for a year and they'd not be unhappy..
Silly Money. But they are a super sea boat, ideal for our club, a tad on the narrow side for a modern day hiker and whenever I've seen them at shows, they are as complex as any Merlin, without the nearby bar to go and ask Stella for the answer to any question you might have about them. Edited by Woodburner - 02 Apr 15 at 4:42pm |
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JohnJack
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Posted: 02 Apr 15 at 5:11pm |
£14k on a boat these days feels a bit daft. But then I have never outrigt owned a boat that was worth more than a few hundred, if that (ie not one i bought in a club abandoned auction, fixed up and sailed) There were a few 'customs' I have heard rumours of where the builder tried to get a little clever with the tolerances. I am under the impression that perceived value is whatever someone is willing to pay for it (or in the case of this thread, how much time/money someone is willing to spend on rebuilding it). NB. As a crew, a narrower beam is slightly better as it means you dont spend most of your time huddled under the boom getting tangled up in the kicker and getting cut up by anything in the crew area in the boat. Except for in the super light, hardly worth going out stuff I tend to be sitting on the deck, and that with two fully grown adults in the boat
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JohnJack
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Posted: 01 May 15 at 4:35pm |
Barry Dodds Scorpion, Basavari (or similar) was expensive because he insisted that John Turner to built it, when he had finished building Scorpions.
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