SKYFALL- If James Bond sailed dinghies...
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Topic: SKYFALL- If James Bond sailed dinghies...
Posted By: pondmonkey
Subject: SKYFALL- If James Bond sailed dinghies...
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 7:33pm
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What class would it be?
(Anyone posting photos of Thomas Crown fails instantly...) |
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Posted By: blaze720
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 7:40pm
| V2 ... about as likely ! |
Posted By: Andymac
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 7:41pm
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There can only possibly be one answer to that;
A V twin (mark II) of course.
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Posted By: Neptune
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 7:50pm
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Not enough space to fit the machine guns and toys on a dinghy, I would probably be something like that odd stepped hull speed thing. ------------- Musto Skiff and Solo sailor |
Posted By: Telltale
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 8:01pm
Not sure about this one, but I do know that Goldfinger was pretty handy with a Laser   |
Posted By: andy101
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 8:22pm
| It would need to be something with room for a mattress in the bottom, also stable enough the martini isn't spilled - Flying 15 or Solo perhaps?? |
Posted By: Alistair426
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 9:36pm
| A Finn, obviously. Ooooozes class from every pore and still looks good after 50 yrs. |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 9:52pm
------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: NickM
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 11:11pm
| Yep, I'd agree with the boat. Who's the baddie who's nicked it off Bond? |
Posted By: JRW1019
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 11:12pm
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Waiting for someone to find the photo of the guys sailing the 800 at the anniversary regatta in dinner jackets... I'm thinking a 505 though. Enough string to make it more techy than almost anything else, being pretty high performance and still seeming really rather smooth overall. ------------- RS200 1019/1154 Firefly 3082 Ajax 14 |
Posted By: sargesail
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 11:13pm
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Well I agree that the Finn is the Aston Martin equivalent... I'll nominate the RS300 as one of the lighter nippier Bond cars...the underwater one perhaps?
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Posted By: NickM
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 11:22pm
| ... and developing my earlier thought, what class would the baddie's minions be sailing? They would have to be combustible. GRF: stand away now. |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 25 Oct 12 at 11:34pm
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Odd Job would be in the Farr 3.7! ------------- |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 7:04am
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Surely it has to be the rogue? Got all the above abilities but super sexy looking. And so difficult to sail only he could do it.
Bond couldn't be on a two man boat as it would mean relying on someone else. ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: Andymac
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 7:48am
Speaking of which, TopGear are showing a James Bond car special this weekend, part of which was filmed at Carsington a few weeks ago (the club was closed for the day and was strictly off limits)...
Sorry back to the topic...
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Posted By: Owenfackrell
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 8:04am
I can't find it listed on BBC2. do you know which channel and what time?
Oh and the under water car was a lotus esprite.
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Posted By: Owenfackrell
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 8:07am
found it 9pm on BBC2 and BBCHD on monday 29th.
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Posted By: Thunder Road
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 8:33am
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1970s International 14, a McCutcheon built Kirby V, varnished of course, crew, the choice has to be female, choose your own favourite, Bond, it has to be Connery. Venue, Cowes, Royal Yachting Squadron, event POW, postion, not a serious question. ------------- Finn GBR16 Thunder Road. |
Posted By: gordon1277
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 8:36am
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Hi All
went to a charity premier last night, the yacht is almost as sexy as the women. I would have thought a an aircraft carrier alias FD would be best enough room to land a Harrier or helicopter on the foredeck as well as cocktails later. Loads of room for gadgets and smooth as silk upwind sailing. And yes you have room for the mattress. Cheers Gordon ------------- Gordon Lossc |
Posted By: NeilP
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 8:45am
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My thoughts exactly Gordon, it's the only possible option!
------------- No FD? No Comment! |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 8:59am
| No chaps, Bond's car would be whichever manufacturer was offering a appropriate deal to the movie makers. Even the Aston got in that way. ISTR in the books he drives a vintage Bentley. |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 9:00am
| James Bond's boat - a classic, and beautiful choice such as a 6M or Dragon would seem the best fit, either that or a foiling moth, with smoke screen generator and missile launchers in the wing tips of course |
Posted By: 2547
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 9:22am
| Bond would never do anything as un dignified as hiking so it would have to be a trapeze boat |
Posted By: Alistair426
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 9:25am
| Imagine the scene...Bond (in his Finn) has a couple of baddies on his tail at the windward mark because they banged a corner (how very un-British!) so he bears away and the Finn morphs into a foiling Moth. The baddies are in some mass-produced skiff things which go down the mine on the bear-away. That'd do it! |
Posted By: Contender443
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 9:50am
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It has to be an 18 foot skiff with only Bond on board. ------------- Bonnie Lass Contender 1764 |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 10:54am
......surely a couple of Bond-girls in skin-suits would be required as forward-hand and sheet-hand?
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Posted By: tgruitt
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 11:19am
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It's got to be an Aura I reckon...
------------- Needs to sail more... |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 12:53pm
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James Bond wouldn't sail dinghies full stop.
Not cool enough....... ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: fleaberto
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 1:08pm
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Pretty sure he'd single-hand an AC72, despatch chasing baddies with torpedoes shot from the rear of the hulls before calmy cruising into the harbour at Monte-Carlo, stepping off casually and taking the hand of a suitably underdressed supermodel with a suitable "Quite an entrance" related pun ------------- Lightning368 'All the Gear' (409), Lightning368 'Sprite' (101), Laser (big number) 'Yellow Jack', RS Vareo (432)'The Golden Rays' |
Posted By: Thunder Road
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 1:15pm
 ------------- Finn GBR16 Thunder Road. |
Posted By: Telltale
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 1:21pm
If he wouldn't sail dinghies, perhaps something a bit bigger might be appropriate ! |
Posted By: Contender 541
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 5:51pm
The names Boss. Hugo Boss. Sorry i'll get me coat ------------- When you find a big kettle of crazy it's probably best not to stir it - Pointy Haired Boss Crew on 505 8780 |
Posted By: laser193713
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 6:33pm
| He would need something he could take single handed but also take a light weight supermodel crew with him. I know it is possibly the worst boat I have ever sailed but the only thing I can think of right this minute is the Vago! There must be other boats out there which aren't made of "bulletproof plastic"! |
Posted By: x1testpilot
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 7:28pm
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Foiling Int 14. Need the speed and the female crew. Plenty of room for missiles in wings etc. Spinnaker could double as bed / tent if and when required. ------------- I like to take pictures of sailing, but I'd rather be sailing! http://www.LCSC.org.uk" rel="nofollow - LCSC.org.uk http://xdinghies.com/" rel="nofollow - Xdinghies.com/ X0 & X1 |
Posted By: Jack Sparrow
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 9:36pm
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I'm pretty sure it would be a Flying Dutchman... ------------- http://www.uk3-7class.org/index.html" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Class Website https://www.facebook.com/groups/1092602470772759/" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Building - Facebook Group |
Posted By: Jack Sparrow
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 9:42pm
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[TUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFlIK5thOqA&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/TUBE] ------------- http://www.uk3-7class.org/index.html" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Class Website https://www.facebook.com/groups/1092602470772759/" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Building - Facebook Group |
Posted By: Jack Sparrow
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 9:44pm
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With his naval background it would be the only choice. ------------- http://www.uk3-7class.org/index.html" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Class Website https://www.facebook.com/groups/1092602470772759/" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Building - Facebook Group |
Posted By: Jeepers
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 10:47pm
| ...so its a bosun then |
Posted By: I luv Wight
Date Posted: 26 Oct 12 at 10:53pm
OOh just check that nice rudder  ------------- " rel="nofollow - http://www.bloodaxeboats.co.uk" rel="nofollow - http://www.bloodaxeboats.co.uk Andy P foiling Int Moth GBR3467 Freedom 21 Codling |
Posted By: sargesail
Date Posted: 27 Oct 12 at 8:20am
| That is a proper boat! |
Posted By: Glitcher7
Date Posted: 27 Oct 12 at 9:55pm
Surely it has to be a Morrison design Norfolk Punt for the combination of refinement and pace. ------------- Farr 3.7 398 in build Laser 137012 Norfolk Punt 100 |
Posted By: sargesail
Date Posted: 27 Oct 12 at 11:04pm
| Amused by the fact that the yacht in the film would have been in the high street if they had waited that late to get the rags off! |
Posted By: Iain C
Date Posted: 27 Oct 12 at 11:51pm
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You are all wrong. He'd be on a foiling moth. Outrunning baddies in RIBS. And the music would of course go da-da-da-daaaaaaa-da-da-da just as he popped up on the foils. And he'd foil up to a beachside bar, stepping off calmly onto a jetty, snap bikini elastic at 200 yards and go "well, I think I foiled their plans" before ordering a vodka martini, shaken not stirred. Oh wait, all that b**locks stopped with Roger Moore didn't it... ------------- RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed" Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
Posted By: sargesail
Date Posted: 28 Oct 12 at 12:32am
| Or he'd sail past the jetty to collect his VM - and crash his mast into a post...wait that's on You-tube somewhere... |