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Strangler
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Topic: Eric Twiname - Int Canoe 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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tink
Really should get out more Joined: 23 Jan 16 Location: North Hants Online Status: Offline Posts: 788 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 Feb 21 at 6:54pm |
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.
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Tink
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Riv
Far too distracted from work Joined: 23 Nov 13 Location: South Devon Online Status: Offline Posts: 353 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 Feb 21 at 8:29pm |
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?
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Mistral Div II prototype board, Original Windsurfer, Hornet built'74.
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Riv
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 Feb 21 at 8:32pm |
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?
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Mistral Div II prototype board, Original Windsurfer, Hornet built'74.
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Oatsandbeans
Far too distracted from work Joined: 19 Sep 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 382 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 Feb 21 at 8:36pm |
Riv-so do you have one on the mistral div 2 boards with Al honeycomb in them?
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tink
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 Feb 21 at 8:37pm |
I will try posting the article tomorrow, it is from July that year
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iGRF
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Post Options Quote Reply 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. |
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Oatsandbeans
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Post Options Quote Reply 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.
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Late starter
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Post Options Quote Reply 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.
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iGRF
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Post Options Quote Reply 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. Edited by iGRF - 10 Feb 21 at 10:10am |
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