Dinghy development: Aero 8

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Aero 8

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Topic: Aero 8

Posted By: Guests
Subject: Aero 8
Date Posted: 10 Mar 15 at 6:53pm

Are the rumours true? Will you need to add this to your quiver when it's sort of, almost, but not quite, windy?

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Posted By: Woodbotherer
Date Posted: 10 Mar 15 at 6:54pm

Would be a better option for folk my weight.

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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 10 Mar 15 at 6:57pm

Rumours where?

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Posted By: Do Different
Date Posted: 10 Mar 15 at 6:58pm

I thought an Aero 8 was a rather expensive and somewhat ugly version of a Morgan Sports Car. Why would anybody want one of those, nowhere to carry your sails and impossible to sleep in for travellers meetings.

Posted By: Null
Date Posted: 10 Mar 15 at 7:14pm

Originally posted by Woodbotherer

Would be a better option for folk my weight.

Would of said you need the 7 Graeme, that would be my choice if I bought one!

Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 10 Mar 15 at 7:30pm

The 7 is about 7.4 isn't it? And the 9 is 8.9? So only 1.5 between them anyway.

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Posted By: RS400atC
Date Posted: 10 Mar 15 at 8:09pm

Originally posted by Do Different

I thought an Aero 8 was a rather expensive and somewhat ugly version of a Morgan Sports Car. Why would anybody want one of those, nowhere to carry your sails and impossible to sleep in for travellers meetings.

I remember someone towing a contender behind a morgan.
Plenty of V8 torque is good for towing....
Just watch for the mast if you stand up.

Posted By: piglet
Date Posted: 10 Mar 15 at 8:38pm

When you say '7' is that a Caterham 7?
Can't sleep in one of them neither.

Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 10 Mar 15 at 8:52pm

Is this the one design racing version that was being touted the other week on Facebook?

Goes upwind like a train and sports a Fully-battened Mylar sail?

Posted By: Do Different
Date Posted: 10 Mar 15 at 8:55pm

"I remember someone towing a contender behind a morgan.
Plenty of V8 torque is good for towing....
Just watch for the mast if you stand up."

With all that crafted ash and beaten alloy, anything but a Bonezzi would have been simply wrong.

Posted By: RS400atC
Date Posted: 10 Mar 15 at 11:25pm

Originally posted by Do Different

"I remember someone towing a contender behind a morgan.
Plenty of V8 torque is good for towing....
Just watch for the mast if you stand up."

With all that crafted ash and beaten alloy, anything but a Bonezzi would have been simply wrong.

Bonezzis made everything else look wrong even if you had a Renault 18 like I did....
There were other wooden 'tenders, Smith IIRc?