Eric Twiname - Int Canoe
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Topic: Eric Twiname - Int Canoe
Posted By: Strangler
Subject: Eric Twiname - Int Canoe
Date Posted: 07 Feb 21 at 11:33pm
Not sure which thread it was a few months ago, but IIRR someone was after this picture.
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Posted By: tink
Date Posted: 08 Feb 21 at 6:54pm
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Wasn’t me but kept the Magazine for years because of that picture, I still have an article from July of that year on the ultimate dinghy. ------------- Tink https://tinkboats.com http://proasail.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Riv
Date Posted: 09 Feb 21 at 8:29pm
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Thanks, I wanted this as well. If anyone has the Y&Y front cover and article that would be great. Is there an article in the dinghy mag as well? ------------- Mistral Div II prototype board, Original Windsurfer, Hornet built'74. |
Posted By: Riv
Date Posted: 09 Feb 21 at 8:32pm
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Thanks, I wanted this as well. If anyone has the Y&Y front cover and article that would be gravy. Is there an article in the dinghy mag as well? ------------- Mistral Div II prototype board, Original Windsurfer, Hornet built'74. |
Posted By: Oatsandbeans
Date Posted: 09 Feb 21 at 8:36pm
| Riv-so do you have one on the mistral div 2 boards with Al honeycomb in them? |
Posted By: tink
Date Posted: 09 Feb 21 at 8:37pm
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I will try posting the article tomorrow, it is from July that year ------------- Tink https://tinkboats.com http://proasail.blogspot.com |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 09 Feb 21 at 9:21pm
What do you want to know? I was involved with the first prototypes in the honeycomb, they were made by SP systems on the IOW, had to take Karl (Charlie)Messmer over there, at the time I was making Turbo boards that I'd designed up at Parkers and we were negotiating to take Mistral on here in the UK it was 80-81 thereabouts, they were hollow. Eventually the M1 got made with a low density solid foam core they were the best, fastest, lightest, I've still got mine. I also found two or three Dinghy mags just recently, I used to write for them, it was how I met Eric Twiname, it's funny I was just thinking of mentioning how much I miss having mags like that, there are interesting articles that I read in one of them about trimming masts using spreaders, fascinating, don't see anything like that nowadays. ------------- 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: Oatsandbeans
Date Posted: 10 Feb 21 at 7:22am
| I was just asking because I built the honeycomb ones in 1981 and wondered if they were still in one piece or had self destructed into a “crunchy” mess of glass and Al. |
Posted By: Late starter
Date Posted: 10 Feb 21 at 8:58am
| Love the sailing apparel of that era. all the guy in the photo needs is a beer towel on the rear of his boiler suit and he'd look just like the dinghy sailors from my youth. |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 10 Feb 21 at 10:09am
Did you work for SP then? Or the other lot (whoever they were, I only knew the IOW connection)those first hollow boards leaked as did most hollow div 2 boards, difficult to stop as much came in through the bungs and cb case, but the full foam version did the job, but by then other Div 2 boards with more volume were faster. There are still some around, you hear about them from time to time on fb. They were not cheap, costing a grand, board only, when £750 still bought a complete Laser. ------------- 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: Oatsandbeans
Date Posted: 10 Feb 21 at 2:26pm
| Good to hear that they are still around. Yes I worked at SP -I was hired as a chemist-so I first had to develop the resins for it then laminate the boards in the workshop. It did teach me a lot, about composites! |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 10 Feb 21 at 3:50pm
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You lot were way ahead of the game I recall, we were buggering about with Polyester up at Parkers, you were epoxies and aluminium honeycomb and stuff like the forunner to nomex, I'd been messing about with Dupont resins that were failing to do the job with their kevlar a few years earlier, they were great times, lots of groundbreaking stuff. ------------- 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: Nipper
Date Posted: 11 Feb 21 at 7:41pm
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Going back to the Eric Twiname photo reminds me when he had first bought that IC, he came to sail at Lee on Solent SC in 1976/77, because we had another IC sailor, Chris Doughty, who built his own boats and in a breeze he was one of the fastest in the UK, and Eric wanted to practise with him.
It was a light wind and at the start Eric ran out of room, and ran into the stern of a brand new Cherub punching a hole in the transom. To say sorry to the Cherub owner, Eric presented him with a signed copy of his “ The rules book”! ------------- 39 years of dinghy racing and still waiting to peak. |
Posted By: Oatsandbeans
Date Posted: 13 Feb 21 at 7:29am
| Yes that was the beginning of the marine composites business. Sad to see the likes of Parkers gone. They were the best at making 505s at the time in polyester.They never really took on board the new technology. SP (now called Gurit),on the other hand has grown into a massive worldwide composite materials business with thousands of employees and plants around the world. A far cry from the old school in Cowes with a couple of us out the back laminating up some windsurfers. |