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winging it 
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 Topic: If you could, which boat would you buy .....Posted: 06 Mar 14 at 4:48pm |
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well next time you're anywhere near my boat I'll get you out in mine.
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the same, but different...
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ALAN WILLIAMS
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Posted: 06 Mar 14 at 4:50pm |
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Thanks Nessa.
Cheers Alan
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SAil Fast and Often
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Chris 249
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Posted: 06 Mar 14 at 8:35pm |
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Re earlier post - thanks for posting that, Mr Sparrow. YW, at 10'6" the Ant isn't in the 420 class here; it's used between the basic training prams (Opti/Sabot/Manly Junior) and the Cherub/420 Youth boats. Great boat, but suffering in its market segment these days because kids are so much larger than they used to be that the Ant is a bit small in the hull for many of them. I still reckon it would be a great basic trainer as well; start off with just the main and add the extra kit as kids get better at sailing. I got one for our kids to use like that and now it's been passed on to do the same with friends.
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Thunder Road
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Posted: 07 Mar 14 at 8:14am |
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A Finn would be my choice, which is fairly obvious, but if I could go back to my rugby playing, younger, fitter, more agile days it would have to be the D1, I even polished its deck such was its beauty
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Finn GBR16 Thunder Road.
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yellowwelly
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Posted: 07 Mar 14 at 8:41am |
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I'd have thought the Finn was harder work than a D1???
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Rupert
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Posted: 07 Mar 14 at 8:47am |
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A different kind of work, I'd have thought - to go back to the rugby analogy from another thread, the D1 looks more wing forward to the Finn's second row - both hard work, but the wing forward needs quicker reactions, the second row more static grunt. I was going to use prop in this comparison, but I thought Finn sailors might come and sit on me.
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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rodney
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Posted: 07 Mar 14 at 8:47am |
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Not to us finely honed athletes
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Rodney Cobb
Suntouched Sailboats Limited http://www.suntouched.co.uk [EMAIL=rodney@suntouched.co.uk">rodney@suntouched.co.uk |
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Thunder Road
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Posted: 07 Mar 14 at 8:55am |
Very good, I set off as a wing forward, grew, turned into a second row and played my best rugby, happy days 
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Finn GBR16 Thunder Road.
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iGRF
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Posted: 07 Mar 14 at 8:59am |
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It struck me, I can buy both the Aero and the D Zero and get change for what a FatFinn would cost and they'd probably weigh less combined...
You Finn boys should consider this and maybe fit one to each foot..  Edited by iGRF - 07 Mar 14 at 9:01am |
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Thunder Road
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Posted: 07 Mar 14 at 12:28pm |
As previously discussed, I think it would be a good idea to increase the Finn hull weight so we would appear more manly (if that is possible?) when pulling our boats up the slipway
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Finn GBR16 Thunder Road.
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