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    Posted: 21 Jun 05 at 1:45pm
does that have hydrofoils?
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I don't think they do. In a boat that travels as fast as a 12 footer why would you want them? Just creates more interesting ways of breaking yourself than you had before. 

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Jack Sparrow Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jun 05 at 9:44am
Originally posted by Granite

Originally posted by Jack Sparrow

birdy tells me that Simons
slug ( the UK Cherub with No 2 - 12ft skiff rig) space frame is sqeeking a
little and he is planing on taking the deck off and repairing it. And he can
always sail it as a UK Cherub when he is getting lonely.


I think it may be more difficult to convert a 12ft skiff to UK Cherub
rules than to beef up a cherub to take a 12 rig.


Converting a non retracting pole to retracting wont be easy plus
possably needing to add some chines




Very Ture... but possiable. :-)
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Blobby Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jun 05 at 10:30am

Bit of filler up near the shear line for a chine and an off-centre pole and bob's your uncle...as long as you don't mind still having a bag kite putting a chute or sock in would be rather more drastic surgery I guess.

But the worst thing would be the lack of the false floor and not being self draining...

 

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Jack Sparrow Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jun 05 at 10:32am
Originally posted by Blobby


But the worst thing would be the lack of the false floor and not being
self draining...


 



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Post Options Post Options   Quote Tornado_ALIVE Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Jun 05 at 11:36am

Originally posted by Peter Rhodes

does that have hydrofoils?

No Mate,

Thats just how Aussie Skiffs sail.  Don't need hydrofoils atleast downwind.

 

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by the way that top pic is of a british skiff!!  
International 14 1503
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Tornado_ALIVE Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Jun 05 at 12:15pm

British crewed and maybe built?????  But Aussie 18

The only true Aussie skiffs left are the 12, 16 and 18.

14 footer amalgamated with the International 14s a long time ago and tightened up the restrictions.

16s and 18s are very strick designs now, leaving the 12 as the only true development skiff.

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so what lifts them up?
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Jack Sparrow Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Jun 05 at 12:26pm
Originally posted by Peter Rhodes

so what lifts them up?



The Wind!
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