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The worse thing is it happend again the following day, the jib track broke, there are no jib sheets as such as it is a self tacking jib.  I have to be honest it is the hardest thing i have had to do finishing that race!

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Originally posted by Steve Clark The short story of the Vanguard 15 is that Bob Ames designed it and I did the production engineering to be a "postgraduate" college racing boat. Many kids in the USA do their best racing in college ad after they graduate there is no fleet where they can continue to play at that level. The V-15 is a bigger faster dinghy than they sail in college and carries weight better ( all by design) so people can continue to be competitive without a 100 pound  crew or as they gain the 10-15 that come with full time jobs and sitting at desks all day. The boat was adopted early as the US team racing standard, so it gets used for that a whole lot. In terms of speed it's pretty quick as main and jib hikers go, Kind of Taser-like speed, planes upwind and is lots of fun on fast reaches in big waves.  Active fleet throughout US at this time covering a fairly wide range of skills and ages. V-15 web site or Vanguard web site has lots of pictures. SHC

Hi Steve

good to hear about the v-15s! For those of us in the UK that haven't sailed them over here then I guess they've taken a lot of the role that to some extent the firefly fills in the UK, although with a big speed difference..

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from a team racing perspective, then they the speed difference and turning abillity means that V15's tend to sail longer courses and can be more 'strategic' than some of the 'tacking on sixpence' style - however anoye that saw either the Miami or Newport TR worlds in V15s would have enjoyed it!

The short story of the Vanguard 15 is that Bob Ames designed it and I did the production engineering to be a "postgraduate" college racing boat.

Many kids in the USA do their best racing in college ad after they graduate there is no fleet where they can continue to play at that level. The V-15 is a bigger faster dinghy than they sail in college and carries weight better ( all by design) so people can continue to be competitive without a 100 pound  crew or as they gain the 10-15 that come with full time jobs and sitting at desks all day.

The boat was adopted early as the US team racing standard, so it gets used for that a whole lot. In terms of speed it's pretty quick as main and jib hikers go, Kind of Taser-like speed, planes upwind and is lots of fun on fast reaches in big waves.  Active fleet throughout US at this time covering a fairly wide range of skills and ages.

V-15 web site or Vanguard web site has lots of pictures.

SHC

Edited by Steve Clark

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