wacky races

Haggis' last note on the olympic forum suggeting a 420/470 hybrid reminded me of a story from my old club.  It involved two oppy hulls and an international 14 rig, single-handed!  Aparently it was the brainchild of the man that went on to design the RS700, Alex Southern.  I have never been able to meet the guy to find out for sure but it sounded like fun. 

Anyone else been out modifying boats, trapezing lasers?, asymetric toppers?, (wasn't there an oppy with an asymetric in Y&Y a couple of years ago?) piccys would be cool, would make a good feature in the mag.

Had an idea a while back to race Hurricane 5.9's against Dart 18's with no handicap thus :

Start a race at Grafham with hurricanes and D18's and the hurricane(s) sails for 100 minutes around a square course and then a chase boat drops a bouy. Hurricane then sails to the shore, de-riggs and loads the boat onto the trailer and checks out at time 'X' at the gate at GWSC.  D18 does the same distance and heads in (approx 17 minutes behind in SCHRS) de-rigs and does the same. 

Drive to Rutland and re-start the race with no handicap so the dart needs to sail for 118 mins and the hurricane for 101.   

The Slower Dart 18 should be quicker to rig and unrig and so gain time of the 5.9.

Would need someone to ensure that the trailers were road-worthy and secure before leaving Grafham......

No change there then.....