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kenney
Newbie Joined: 28 Nov 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
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Topic: getting aboard Posted: 11 Dec 04 at 12:17pm |
Put me down for two!!!!
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Phil eltringham
Really should get out more Joined: 16 Mar 04 Location: England/Hitchin Online Status: Offline Posts: 1105 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 Dec 04 at 5:22pm |
http://www.wally.com/jumpCh.asp?idUser=0&idChannel=38&am p;idLang=IT&idProd=17&attivo=1-2-1 105 foot, lifting keel, and very sexy!!!!! |
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kenney
Newbie Joined: 28 Nov 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 Dec 04 at 1:16pm |
Yeah, in hindsight it was abit of a thoughtless comment about the SB as I have been aboard large yachts with lifting keels, and have heard of yachts upwards of 65ft that are fitted with lifting keels. That would be one 'mother of a dinghy!!! I have been told several times that my sailing career has been started arse about face, however, start as you mean to go on, and I think dinghy and one design keel boat racing will keep me busy on a sunny weekend, although my talents aboard the yachts will also provide me my wage! I know first hand that dinghy sailors often make extremely good trimmers and helmsmen due to excellent wind awareness and apreciation for a good sail shape, as I had one aboard a westerly Fulmar 32 i was skippering from Le Havre to Portsmouth. I must say that at about 2am crossing the channel in a good force 6, I had to come up and ask him to ease the sheets just a tad as we were dead close hauled, thrashing to windward at a good 10kts, as the lee cloth of one of our larger crew members had taken acception to the 35 degrees of heel and had sent the ex fireman into the saloon table ripping it from its base and sending apples, oranges and plastic cups all over the show! They certainly like going fast, as indeed I do, however on this occasion the visability was poor and we were crossing busy shipping channels, and whats more we were "cruising" her back to Portsmouth! The repairs to the saloon table were made by the guy upon our safe return to haslar marina!! Lunatic. K. |
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Chris Noble
Really should get out more Joined: 26 Nov 04 Location: Scotland Online Status: Offline Posts: 710 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 Dec 04 at 9:54pm |
you want to find someone with a 505 or 470 first of all if you havn't sailed dinghies before, then try and find a go on an international 14 just to get a feel for the level of performance many new age dinghies are capable of.
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Adam84
Groupie Joined: 02 Dec 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 48 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 Dec 04 at 9:09pm |
Crewing is definatly the way to start. The RS400 is a good idea its a big dinghy but it can get goin pritty quick! The 59er would also be a good boat to have a go in if ya can find someone with one. |
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Matt Lingley
Newbie Joined: 16 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 19 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 07 Dec 04 at 10:00pm |
An SB3 is a keelboat, if a lift keel means a boat is a dingy a Melges 24 must be a dingy too. You dont even hike on an SB3! At 13 stone look for a crewing spot on an Rs400, that will be fast enough for you to start with but not be a million miles from what your used to, everytime i step on a J80 I still think that its a big 400! Interesting to come across somone who is going from big boats to dinghy's, I'm also 19 and have been working the other way...Trying to get some offshore rides now! |
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kenney
Newbie Joined: 28 Nov 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 02 Dec 04 at 2:43pm |
I think moneys the real issue!! A wet suit will be fine i guess. I do have a very good pair of ocean foulies, except i really think they were intended for use aboard a yacht, theyre abit cumbersome at times, even using them working fore deck on a Sigma 38 can be difficult! (although we were being tossed around like a toy in a bath tub by my old friend the Bay of Biscay. - just in case the old girls listening to this: look after me and i promise; No more apple cores!) Anyway, I used to 'dry-sail' (a series of lauch and recoveries including a scrub once a week to keep them out of the water when not racing) SB3's, 1720's, and Hunter 707's, now, correct me if i'm wrong (and you'll probably need to) but the SB's had a lifting keel, which was more a-kin to a daggerboard in my eyes (although they do have the bulbous lead bottom) so to me the SB is a dinghy, and the likes of the Cork 1720 is a keel boat as they have bolted fin keels very similar to alot of cruiser-racing yachts, as do the 70's, any thoughts guys?? K |
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Garry
Really should get out more Joined: 18 Apr 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 536 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 Dec 04 at 11:39am |
Kenny started off by saying he wanted to sail a 'Fast pond Skater' that implies at least a risk of capsize from time to time. I assume the SB3 is just going to be one of many classes he tries and, if you can afford it! A drysuit has just the edge on comfort, especially in the winter.
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Garry
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Coolhand
Newbie Joined: 30 Apr 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 34 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 Dec 04 at 8:26am |
You don't need a wetsuit on an SB3 - they're a keelboat so, unless you fall off, the gear you have for Yachts will be fine.
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Doctor Clifford
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 Dec 04 at 8:23am |
In the South of England? Only if you are a fairy! |
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