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JimC 
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 Topic: Favourite PhotosPosted: 21 Nov 06 at 10:27pm |
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I remember Icarus well, but they never held the outright speed record.
http://www.speedsailing.com/Background_records.htm |
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Tornado_ALIVE
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Thanks for the link....... I stand corrected. It looks liek the D Class cat Crossbow and Crossbow II held the record before the boards moved in. |
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JimC
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Yes, but neither Crossbow nor Crossbow 2 were catamarans. Crossbow was a proa, and Crossbow 2 was a kind of asymmettric cross between a catamaran and a proa.
I don't think its any criticism of the catamaran format, which gives us the fastest course racing boats in the world, the Cs, and the fastest ocean racing boats, the big multis, to note that its not optimal for one direction flat out speed. [later] Its maybe not obvious from the photos, but the Crossbow 2 hulls were offset, with one forward of the other. I don't know if they were symettrical or not. Edited by JimC |
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Tornado_ALIVE
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You have any better pics of the Crossbow boats other than what is on that link. The pic on that link is quiet small but Crossbow II looks like it is a twin mast cat. A larger pic may tell a different story Edited by Tornado_ALIVE |
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Tornado_ALIVE
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Posted: 22 Nov 06 at 10:53am |
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Found some more pics Despite the caption, below looks like the original Crossbow |
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The hulls were identical (barring the fact that the windward one was fitted with a "planing shoe"), but they were staggered - the leeward one was forward of the windward one. For Tornado's interest, as I type I'm looking out of the window at your 'spiritual home' ( Mike |
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Prince Buster
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But why? |
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international moth - "what what?"
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JimC
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A completely undeucated guess would be that it was intended to reduce the bow burying. |
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Jack Sparrow
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Def fav pics this week...
      That must of been a bit strange sailing through a new island being formed, I can only pressume it is a load of pumis that has been ejected from the volcano. Shamelessly nicked from SA. |
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Or maybe to improve the inter-action between the two rigs. The upper wing of bi-planes is often set forward of the lower one.
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) - the housing development which was recently built on the old site of Reg White's factory (Sailcraft) where so much Tornado development was done.|
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