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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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Really? Show me the link where I can buy it then, all the bits I need ready to assemble in a box, with an instructional DvD. What about that single hander Merlin thing Vanquish or whatever it was called how is that supplied? |
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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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The Flyer appears to have rather misunderstood what makes a skiff type boat tick, and with its failure (which was also predictable when you look at what people buying fast boats want, often - to get an adrinaline rush, not to spend weeks in a garage) so went the company.
I think Grumph is looking for something even more simple. Trouble is it also has to be waterproof and to sail well, things which an Ikea wardrobe doesn't have to do. The Snark, sold in supermarkets in the USA in times gone by is probably the only sailing dinghy to have the accessibility GRF is looking for, and I don't think he would be impressed by the performance. |
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zippyRN ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 14 Sep 06 Online Status: Offline Posts: 437 |
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oh do keep up Grumpf , messers Holt, Bucknall and Bell were doing that in the mid C20th with the Mirror ...
mabe soneone could remind us why Bell went to the wall taking their final kit boat design with it (?flyer) ... |
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Chris 249 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 10 May 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2041 |
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I appreciate your point and your enthusiasm, but some of us lightweights find our 17' Canoes, 20' cats and our yachts to be just as much fun as our 7' windsurfers.
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iiitick ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 04 Jun 14 Location: gb Online Status: Offline Posts: 478 |
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I feel that Young Fuller is warming towards a Mirror, stitch and glue anyone?
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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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I thought that is roughly how it can be supplied? It'll take far longer than a weekend to build, though, and take some basic woodworking skills - the end product is rather more complex than a wardrobe.
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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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Rupert ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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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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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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