Dinghy Identification ??

so page 20 closes the age old "does a spinnaker lift debate...." 

Originally posted by Rupert Looks like the photos on the cvrda page have made the same error. There were 2 boats called Daring, but very, very different. I'm not sure whether any apart from this one still exist - certainly I thought they might have been gone for ever.

Sorry but the cvrda photos do know the difference - one's named daring, the other daring-keel - but the pattern matching software fetches both for "daring". Back to the drawing board on that one.

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Originally posted by piglet And LP claimed the Vortex to be revolutionary?

Everything comes round again if you wait long enough...

Edited by JimC - 04 Jul 15 at 10:35am

There is little in the way of co-incidence that the two Bill O'Brian boats mapped on to two of the existing classes in the area. The big brother to the Daring, the Challenge, was little more than a hard chine home build 505. With the prevailing wind in Southampton Water being South Westerly, the courses tend to be fairly shallow - short beats and runs, long reaches; with the flat aft sections the Challenge and Daring were far from slow coaches. But the arrival of the Fireball, and 470 - with the Hornet loosing it's plank in favour of a trapeze limited the opportunities and the two boats struggled. But in the end it would be 'club politics' that would do for the boats. Weston Sailing Club was moving to a new site with an all new clubhouse and the decision was taken to only allow certain classes. It was no great surprise when the 505 and Hornet got the nod, if you didn't want to sail one of the adopted classes you were left heading further into Woolston were you could form your own sailing club and race whatever you liked. And the rest - as they say, is history!
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