420 winged rudder

Rupert is not all there either he sails a wooden sled I saw it and he makes his son do it as well, quite shocking.

As to all that drivel that could be likened to a Readimix lorry full of lipstick emptied over a giant sow, in a similar gesture, to me, it just perfectly illustrates the insanity of anyone sailing those things, or, that thanks to a legion of old buffers, our TV screens and Oympic competition continues to be polluted by a boat that came to pass the year after I diid.

It is an anachronism I think the correct term is, the fact it was fun to watch was nothing to do with the dated hull, the heavy metal, or the pseudo hi tech attempts at cheating in a One Design, another total hypocrisy, 'oh it,s a one design' but only us rich nations can afford to build a one design thats faster and more expensive than anything the third world can muster.

It is so typical of everything that is wrong about the sport, in a bad way, I actually feel sorry for those of you suckered in by it, but you are no better than the Bandit brigade, the Epoxy streaker in a wooden boat race.

It's a one design, so bad, nothing technology can do will make it anythng other than an irritating few boat lengths faster than the next one, but even that's enough to make it unfair.

What was it that young Sir Ben said about his body not standing another trial by it? Meanwhile two modern sports with more in keeping with the 21st century have to battle each other and one must lose to satisfy ancient egos and the last of the old school tie bunch of blazered buffers.

Edited by iGRF - 01 Feb 13 at 8:41pm

Cost of two cardboard to cut two fake fins from - £1.50p
Cost of sellotape to stick them on rudder while launching - 75p

Value of watching ensuing thread from hell develop...

Originally posted by Finntastic Graeme I think you will find that a modern Finn is has far more modern tech than the boat you sail.

Hmm let me think.

1) Modern Hi aspect full batten sail er no
2) Naca Section main foil er no
3) Carbon fully rotating mast er no
4) Aerofoiled extra comfort extending wings er no
5) Performance planing hull capable of 20 knots er no
6) Charismatic helm with added charm and down to weight er definitely not.

Sorry, not a chance.

Now you just have to nip out to the garage, find where your boy hid the T foil after the race, then come back and be nice to poor Radixon, oh and have the piss taken for the rest of all time..

Hi Tick

I stiil think they did it, the more noise the 420 camp make, the more it points to some of the kids doing stuff behind daddies back so now they could be accused of calling poor radixon a 'liar' after what was a perfectly innocent request, it's not as if he said 'ooh I saw those 420 kids cheating', he just asked about what the 'thing' they were using did.

And anyway, anyone who signs himself Finntastic clearly isn't totally all there, there's nothing 'tastic' about that old tub or any of those other Arks, 420's N12's whatever, making kids sail in them is tantamount to child abuse imv.

If this thread were on a bike forum I sometimes frequent, it would have been closed by now as the forum lynch mob mentality prevails. Folk who come on to ask questions, comment positively, or even josh about, are fine, new one posters moaning aint imv and like my early three bans, should not be made to feel necessarily that comfortable about acting that way, an introduction might at least be polite..

Edited by iGRF - 01 Feb 13 at 1:11pm