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Jack Sparrow ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2965 |
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iGRF if you look here http://www.uk3-7class.org/index.html you will see a very large Banner Ad that you can click. And this will take you to a page where you can buy your plans. You can even pay via PayPal. You can choose to have the CNC files which you can use to cut your wood which you purchase from Robbins. All of this information is available on the same website. The plans contain everything you need to make your dinghy. Plus we have provided Blog's of all the people that have built there's so far so you can avoid there mistakes. Or understand more easily the build process.
Or if you wish a nice New Zealand company can partially make up the CNC cut wooden parts for you and post them all the way around the world. In fact he will even sell you a hull that is finished and waiting for paint. But it wood. Sorry. You can see our simpleton website below where you can find the big button to press: ![]() |
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kneewrecker ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Apr 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1586 |
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I'd challenge that last part- it would still go well in light winds (perching) and th wire would be there for when hiking looks like too much effort. And you could whack a bigger sail on it- it's not a Phantom anymore after all. |
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Rupert ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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You'd need to change the rig anyway as the trap would change the bend characteristics of the mast (or snap it), so you may as well bung on a 12 or 13 SqM sail and be done with it.
Or design a new boat, long and slim, specially for lightweights who find waterline length and speed fun, rather than shouty FUN!!!!!!!!! with far too many exclamation marks. Something less extreme than the IC, without racks but with a trapeze and a smallish sail coupled with an easily driven hull with decent non trap performance. Maybe RS should produce it, call it the Twix or something. Or have Hobie had than name already? |
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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Nope, it needs to be sold Ikea Style... Boat in a Box, easy assembly everything you need to make this exciting new boat, £999.99.
It's a dumbed down world we live in, we want it and we want it now, don't mind spending a weekend putting it together, nothing more I'm afraid. That Butler Boats should prefabricate it then pack it all up in a box, you might sell a few more. Edited by iGRF - 17 Nov 14 at 7:15pm |
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Do Different ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 26 Jan 12 Location: North Online Status: Offline Posts: 1312 |
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Jim C. You tried to help me get my head around the geometry of this before.
We are talking hard on the wind of course. What is the difference in loads on the mast between say a 100kg 2 metre bloke hiking hard all the way out and say a 50 kg twiglet wiring flat off the gunwales? Wiring off a combined shroud attachment point as in my Contender. Forgive the inexactitude of my numbers, just trying to represent a similar righting moment. (edited for typos) Edited by Do Different - 17 Nov 14 at 7:19pm |
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maxibuddah ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 06 Mar 09 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1760 |
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I think that it's probably easier to get a boat sorted for lightweights than heavyweights. After all to get something that's genuinely exciting for a bigger person means that it's going to have to be very windy and therefore difficult to sail. Lightweights have it much easier, bung abut more sail up and a force two is good
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Rupert ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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So are all the parts pre-painted in your scenario, GRF? I don't think the 3.7 would work for this (too complex a shape) but I'm sure it would be possible to make a very simple boat to be put together in a weekend (with primed panels to reduce the amount of painting) but the compromises in design for the construction over the performance would be pretty big. The method of slotting the panels together has been around for 40 years or more, but normally there are a lot of parts, so it takes time. Best bet would probably be a scow shape boat - could even be totally rectangular, vertical sided - all the shape in the flat bottom panel, built upside down off a flat deck. Would go great on a reach. |
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maxibuddah ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 06 Mar 09 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1760 |
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Yeah rupert but you damn well that the critical screw would be missing and you'd have wait 4 weeks for the replacement turned up
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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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. Edited by iGRF - 17 Nov 14 at 9:07pm |
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