OK what do you think?
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Category: Dinghy classes
Forum Name: Dinghy development
Forum Discription: The latest moves in the dinghy market
URL: http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12655
Printed Date: 07 Jun 25 at 11:34pm
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Topic: OK what do you think?
Posted By: iGRF
Subject: OK what do you think?
Date Posted: 08 Feb 17 at 6:25pm
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Posted By: KazRob
Date Posted: 08 Feb 17 at 6:45pm
| I think it suits you |
Posted By: Cirrus
Date Posted: 08 Feb 17 at 7:32pm
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Not so much as trolling - more like full blown trawling. It is a bit like seeing a dog rushing back, dropping the stick and panting that it wants you to throw it for them again... and again. What's up now - those bango lessons got to you at last. ... ?  |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 08 Feb 17 at 8:13pm
I thought everyone knew.
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Posted By: KazRob
Date Posted: 08 Feb 17 at 8:25pm
| It's lovely isn't it. You could always try and put a wall up and get those pesky Danes coming over here with their boats to pay for it. Or perhaps Ovi's have been given some alternative facts and building them because nobody wants them? Who knows, but lovelier in every way to an EPS |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 08 Feb 17 at 8:32pm
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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 08 Feb 17 at 8:34pm
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I think it's just a tragedy that all that effort should have to be put into a seventy year old design because the market is populated by the ignorant lead by luddites.
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Posted By: KazRob
Date Posted: 08 Feb 17 at 8:43pm
| Oh give it a break will you. You're a well known troll on here who's opinion matters not a jot to many of us who read these forums and increasingly with less and less of a comedy factor. The OK is a lovely boat and so are many other older designs who's age has let them develop as they got older and become more refined. I guessing you've never sailed one, or many of the other boats you rubbish on here. You go ahead and get worked up about it, and the rest of us will get on with sailing boats WE like along with hundreds of others world wide. The OK is my favourite boat of all time (and only had one a year and a bit) and nothing a wee troll from under a bridge can say will change that. |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 08 Feb 17 at 8:48pm
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Hooked you though didn't I? ;-)
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Posted By: Sam.Spoons
Date Posted: 08 Feb 17 at 9:31pm
| I think I'm going to have to go for a lie down...... that may be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen....... |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 08 Feb 17 at 9:32pm
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I like the OK, and that one is very shiny and I'm sure fast but personally, I don't think the 1970's Ford reboot stripe works. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Do Different
Date Posted: 09 Feb 17 at 12:38am
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207511917467140&set=pcb.10154791524099101&type=3&theater
XX miss piggy.
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 09 Feb 17 at 8:40am
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Now, that looks good. Though the asymmetric stripe might kick off my latent OCD! ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 09 Feb 17 at 10:10am
Now that's more like it, I hope it's right down to weight, all carbon and 35 kilos.. Wouldn't that be a treat with a nice new carbon rig? ------------- https://www.corekite.co.uk/snow-accessories-11-c.asp" rel="nofollow - Snow Equipment Deals https://www.corekite.co.uk" rel="nofollow - New Core Kite website |
Posted By: pompeysailor
Date Posted: 09 Feb 17 at 10:23am
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That is one beautiful boat! - another reason to goto the Dinghy show this year! ------------- Formerly - OK 2145 Phantom 1437, Blaze 819, Fireball 14668, Mirror 54145 |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 09 Feb 17 at 10:59am
V.nice, if a bit pro-grip-tastic, like the nod to the Bonnezzi name and it does look very shiny but I'm not sure I would walk past a 2nd hand Bonnezzi to buy that one - personal taste and all that |
Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 09 Feb 17 at 12:56pm
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Both the contender and I the OK are lovely ... shame there's no local
class racing for either around here. |
Posted By: transient
Date Posted: 09 Feb 17 at 4:20pm
| Sailed at a National event that was shared with OK's. Lovely little boat and a good crowd. Granted, it was a few years ago now. Nick Craig won the OK event and I reckon he's a better judge of whats good to sail. |
Posted By: pompeysailor
Date Posted: 07 Mar 17 at 4:26pm
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thoughts after seeing it at the show? ------------- Formerly - OK 2145 Phantom 1437, Blaze 819, Fireball 14668, Mirror 54145 |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 07 Mar 17 at 5:30pm
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Liked the old one more! ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 09 Mar 17 at 8:58pm
Like this one, missed it at the show, love that carbon arrowhead gizmo on the deck. Such a shame all this effort isn't being put into some nice new boat. ------------- https://www.corekite.co.uk/snow-accessories-11-c.asp" rel="nofollow - Snow Equipment Deals https://www.corekite.co.uk" rel="nofollow - New Core Kite website |
Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 09 Mar 17 at 9:43pm
Hammers have been about for thousands of years, "quietly" (haha) doing their job, no one campaigning to have new designs, OK and other old designs been about for a while quietly doing their job 
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Posted By: Neptune
Date Posted: 09 Mar 17 at 10:57pm
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What's the blue line? Looks like it pulls the mast forward, but so close to the deck I'd presume it has almost no effect on mast shape ------------- Musto Skiff and Solo sailor |
Posted By: rich96
Date Posted: 10 Mar 17 at 6:17am
| Inhaul |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 10 Mar 17 at 10:03am
I think the Hammer is a fine Analogy, maybe I should draw your attention to the nail gun. Noisily revolutionising nail insertion 
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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 10 Mar 17 at 10:09am
Oh dear, now I'm less impressed and there was I thinking it was about mast rake. ------------- https://www.corekite.co.uk/snow-accessories-11-c.asp" rel="nofollow - Snow Equipment Deals https://www.corekite.co.uk" rel="nofollow - New Core Kite website |
Posted By: Fatboi
Date Posted: 10 Mar 17 at 10:40am
| You will set the leech tension and mast position with the chocks and foot position. You can do that before a race and it will be all good for the race, unless there are some dramatic wind condition changes you will be all good. |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 10 Mar 17 at 10:48am
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In a proper boat you adjust it on the fly, back for upwind, upright for offwind, doesn't every boat do that? Boards have been doing it for years. That's what makes the Solution a great little boat. ------------- https://www.corekite.co.uk/snow-accessories-11-c.asp" rel="nofollow - Snow Equipment Deals https://www.corekite.co.uk" rel="nofollow - New Core Kite website |
Posted By: iiiiticki
Date Posted: 10 Mar 17 at 8:38pm
| Eh up.....I just woke up after winter sleep. Bytes shared a couple of events with those OK thingies and although they look strange the owners (mostly with beards) like them in modern sophisticated colours.....a bit like painting a vintage car orange. They go like stink in a blow. Night night.x |