Pimp my ride!
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Topic: Pimp my ride!
Posted By: radial179102
Subject: Pimp my ride!
Date Posted: 13 Dec 05 at 5:14pm
anyone got any pics of some awesome modified boats?? i have put GP genoas on toppers before but there has gotta be something a bit more... er... pimping?? (is that even a word? actually, no. dont answer that...  )------------- 
Villan is my Bitch ;) |
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Posted By: damp_freddie
Date Posted: 13 Dec 05 at 5:19pm
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Them swedes chuck tripple traps on X79s and wang up hill and down |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 13 Dec 05 at 5:36pm
Who needs westwood when you can do this? ------------- |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 13 Dec 05 at 5:40pm
...and when westwood does get his grubby mits on you boat... Understand how its goin down baybee...  ------------- |
Posted By: anonsteve1
Date Posted: 13 Dec 05 at 8:29pm
| Where is the sound system? I'm sure they must make waterproof systems to make the water shake. Might interfere with the spinnaker trimming though... |
Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 13 Dec 05 at 9:07pm
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attach up some waterproof speakers into the wings of a 49er would be funny ------------- Jp Indoe Contender 518 Buzz591 Chew Valley Sailing club Bristol |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 13 Dec 05 at 9:20pm
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I was thinking the kite bins on the 12 would make for quite good sub
enclosures but then I hit upon the problem of where to put 50sqm of
cloth on the trip upwind
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Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 15 Dec 05 at 9:08pm
what me and alex have done on our boat is to when rigging up we put a speaker in the spiniker sock and it makes it twice as loud.   ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: Strawberry
Date Posted: 16 Dec 05 at 5:10pm
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I've considered fitting a head unit, amp, sub and speakers to a boat, but concluded it wud be weigh to heavy. ------------- Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry |
Posted By: Guest
Date Posted: 16 Dec 05 at 5:36pm
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Here is the "Pimp my skiff" section on the Musto Site http://www.mustoskiff.com/pimp-my-skiff/intro.htm - http://www.mustoskiff.com/pimp-my-skiff/intro.htm Rick ------------- |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 17 Dec 05 at 2:32pm
Maby not quite the right idea for the thread Rick but im liking that kite sheet tidy idea, might borrow that, cheers 
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Posted By: CapSizer
Date Posted: 29 Dec 05 at 8:07pm
| I seem to remember a long lost magazine photograph of a thoroughly pimped Mirror (of all things), which had been rigged with a bowsprit (old boom, lashed to mast and forestay attachment) as well as a mizzen (another old boom, this time lashed to the transom and that slot in the skeg). It carried an extra jib in front of the normal one, as well as a flying jib (attached halfway up the gaff) and yet another sail attached to the mizzen, although I can't remember what was used for a mizzen boom. So, it had 5 working sails ... Being a Mirror, I think it was unlikely that it now went any faster or slower! |
Posted By: HannahJ
Date Posted: 30 Dec 05 at 2:06pm
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i saw that, was amazing... and cheek, i bet it flew!
------------- MIRROR 64799 "Dolphin" The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist hopes it will change; the realist adjusts the sail |
Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 06 Jan 06 at 8:58pm
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at a sailing center that i worked at. they got a taz and put a topper rig on it with another topper mast for a bowsprit with three jibs on it. they got it so that all of the jibs taked together but there was so much force on the pole that you had to let the jib off to stop it breaking with every gust. good speed tho ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |
Posted By: f7 pichpole
Date Posted: 08 Jan 06 at 8:47pm
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my 3k me and my crew modded 4 a laugh by putting a 400 spin on it and another wire goes like hell lol if only it was class leagle hehehe ------------- a lot of wind big waves and a skiff means a lot of fun and flying lessons |
Posted By: sam knight
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 7:30pm
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At my scouts we see how much sail we can fit on our boats using oars to extend the mast, as a bowsprit, and then sometimes we fit it with a trapeze. ------------- Topper 43749 |
Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 8:19pm
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Can a 3k mast actually support a second wire? Suprised it didnt snap, with another wire and a 400 kite on it ------------- Jp Indoe Contender 518 Buzz591 Chew Valley Sailing club Bristol |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 8:24pm
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yer that sounds abit on the dodgy side. i wouldnt of trusted the mast. but it sounds like a laugh. ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 11 Jan 06 at 5:01pm
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Luke Ur Mum pimps my ride hee hee
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Posted By: f7 pichpole
Date Posted: 11 Jan 06 at 5:03pm
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yer it holds it was like a f3 when we used it and the kite dont always wanner pack away but was kl ------------- a lot of wind big waves and a skiff means a lot of fun and flying lessons |
Posted By: Calum_Reid
Date Posted: 11 Jan 06 at 5:18pm
That takes the tone of the forum down a bit! ------------- 
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Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 11 Jan 06 at 5:20pm
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Luke knows what i mean lol Was a private joke between two immature teenage forumites ------------- Greatfully Sponsored By www.allgoodfun.com Int 14 GBR 1503!! |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 11 Jan 06 at 6:52pm
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ahh i thought that the thing between we and ur mum was a private thing???? i think your the only immature one. ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: HannahJ
Date Posted: 14 Jan 06 at 8:16pm
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thats a bit hypocritical, luke... (fathead)
------------- MIRROR 64799 "Dolphin" The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist hopes it will change; the realist adjusts the sail |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 14 Jan 06 at 10:21pm
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what are you on about HANNY??? ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 14 Jan 06 at 11:50pm
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Hey watch out, I've got photos! What's fatter eh? Your head or your tummy?? ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: radial179102
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 11:37am
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low blow... see this is the great thing about being welsh, i can insult ppl in welsh and they have no idea what i said! i mean... they look at me as though im insane and try to avoid me... but its fun nevertheless -------------
Villan is my Bitch ;) |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 5:51pm
ouch that hurt.
------------- International 14 1503 |
i am not talking to you anymore. u bullie
Posted By: HannahJ
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 5:53pm
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wooohooo BnS 2 nil to the girls. (ha LUCINDA)
------------- MIRROR 64799 "Dolphin" The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist hopes it will change; the realist adjusts the sail |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 8:27pm
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ahh i am not talking to u to anymore. well if you to want to play dirty i can aswell. bring it on ------------- International 14 1503 |
or can we
and make up??
Posted By: Sumo
Date Posted: 17 Jan 06 at 1:40pm
| I think this thread should be transfered to the Dinghy Magazine Technical section at once! |
Posted By: HannahJ
Date Posted: 18 Jan 06 at 8:22pm
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yer shall we call a truce luke? oh yer, what happened lastt ime i said that? oi...
------------- MIRROR 64799 "Dolphin" The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist hopes it will change; the realist adjusts the sail |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 18 Jan 06 at 11:41pm
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Trying to steer back towards the original topic, have you got your kite back, carshalton? I wonder if the guy did some creative stitching in the repairs... A friend of mine kept doing that on her favourite sweatshirt: each time there was a hole, she's repair it with a little embroidered flower. Cute results That treatment could give a whole new effect to your kite... Or was the rip so big you'd need the embroidery of a giant redwood ? ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 19 Jan 06 at 4:36pm
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Love the way you play the forum mediator bns! Always the one to stop arguaments and return to the origional subject! Has anyone actually ever "pimped up" an oppi?? Sounds like it would be fun! ------------- international moth - "what what?" |
Posted By: Guest
Date Posted: 20 Jan 06 at 4:22pm
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Works very well and is really simple and cheap to do. Rick ------------- |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 20 Jan 06 at 4:37pm
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yer well bns is my forum mum yes the kite has been sent off and hopefully we will have our pimped kite back on sunday. well i was thinking about putting alloys on the road trailer or maybe spinners now that is p.i.m.p ------------- International 14 1503 |