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NickA 
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 Topic: contendersPosted: 12 Oct 19 at 9:03am |
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Thanks for all the info folks. I have my eye on one now ... but it's a long way from home.
That bonezzi is ridiculously lovely, but I'd be so scared of damaging it ( trap hook score along the deck etc ). I note that the best Danish sailor sails den 1 ... Presumably not the first ever contender then! |
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Javelin 558
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boatshed
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Posted: 12 Oct 19 at 5:28pm |
You could use a key ball trapeze harness. I do on my Contender and after a while you get used to it and trust it. Far less lightly to damage the deck and foils. Also, safer. I changed because I managed to get the harness' hook stuck through the centre main jammer's rope lead-eye during a gybe. Fortunately, it was about 6 knots of wind at the time but it wasn't easy to free my self. To this day I don't know how I managed it but one does need to crouch down really low tacking and gybing and the centre main jammer is high up on a tower. Anyway, it got my attention and I changed to the key ball. I think using the key ball with 'tack sticks' probably wouldn't work.
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iGRF
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Posted: 13 Oct 19 at 3:32pm |
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OK so who was it that stole that lovely white Somner at £3200? Not like me to hesitate but I thought it was just too good to be true and it obviously was - Gone.
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fleaberto
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Posted: 14 Oct 19 at 2:15pm |
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So, the hull plaque on a contender doesn't need to match the sail number?
I have plaque number 1720 but a sail number of 620 .... From this thread that would seem perfectly normal then? By the way, the learning curve isn't massively steep so don't be disheartened - just get to some yoga classes to figure out the human origami needed to get under the boom
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Lightning368 'All the Gear' (409), Lightning368 'Sprite' (101), Laser (big number) 'Yellow Jack', RS Vareo (432)'The Golden Rays'
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Dougaldog
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Posted: 14 Oct 19 at 2:29pm |
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Fleaberto...absolutely and I can confirm that as 620 is one of my old boats - a late Rondar if I remember correctly.... Dougal
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E.J.
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Posted: 15 Oct 19 at 7:27am |
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There are 2 good boats for sale on the Contender website at the moment, 1 is a All GRP Hoare, and the other is a newer composite.
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robinft
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Posted: 15 Oct 19 at 8:52am |
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What about Tony Smith???
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Laser number 9
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NickA
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Posted: 16 Oct 19 at 7:30pm |
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Re that lovely white Somner .... Not me sadly iGRF .. that was the one I had my eye on in the hope it would still be available when I was working down there in a few weeks. Hey Ho. Need to sell a boat or two first anyway to make space in my boat berths. Edited by NickA - 16 Oct 19 at 7:35pm |
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Javelin 558
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NickA
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Posted: 16 Oct 19 at 7:35pm |
I'm using a waddington flat hook thing at the moment (conventional loop on the boat but a plate with a carefully shaped hole in it). TOTALLY safe, but about to be banned by the RYA who will insist we have trap harnesses designed by someone who has paid them a back-hander (allegedly). I'm not sure the flat hook will work that well on a Contender; if you try to go out on the wire before hooking in you will be short of a hand to push the hook into the plate perhaps. It's not an issue on my V3000 as my hands are so full of jib and kite sheets in addition to a main sheet that has no cleat and the tiller extension, that I have to sit down and re-group to hook in anyway!
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