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- Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:08 pm
- Forum: Boats and bits for sale
- Topic: Merlin Rocket 1185 1961 99p
- Replies: 9
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Re: Merlin Rocket 1185 1961 99p
Mike Burrows, bike designer said that the way bike wheels are suspended is old fashioned and inefficient use of mass. Check out this link. http://bikefix.co.uk/standing-one-leg No other modern type of road transport has forks; except most bikes, wheel barrows and many motor bikes, wheels are mostly ...
- Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:19 pm
- Forum: Boats and bits for sale
- Topic: Merlin Rocket 1185 1961 99p
- Replies: 9
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Re: Merlin Rocket 1185 1961 99p
Interesting rudder, anyone seen a side hung one like this before?
- Tue Jan 13, 2015 6:18 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: weighted dagger board.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19505
Re: weighted dagger board.
Yes the sequences of getting the trimaran underway or wonderful.
Probably the only way forward for the F2 mast will be a newer plastic one. Are the mast extensions for alloy masts the same diameter as for plastic ones? This is all well before my time, I've never even seen an alloy sailboard mast!
Probably the only way forward for the F2 mast will be a newer plastic one. Are the mast extensions for alloy masts the same diameter as for plastic ones? This is all well before my time, I've never even seen an alloy sailboard mast!
- Tue Jan 13, 2015 3:39 pm
- Forum: Boats and bits for sale
- Topic: Bullet
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2788
Bullet
Havn't seen one for ages...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BULLET-RACING ... 3cf0641cd7
I'd forgotten the side tanks flooded.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BULLET-RACING ... 3cf0641cd7
I'd forgotten the side tanks flooded.
- Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:16 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Wayfarer advice needed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8253
Re: Wayfarer advice needed
Thanks Ian,
Good info'
Good info'
- Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:07 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Wayfarer advice needed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8253
Re: Wayfarer advice needed
Thanks for the comments on the Alpha, it came from the Newton Abbot recycling area, like my other board an F2 Lightning (unfortunately not the race version). The Alpha has no centerboard so as I want it on the water in June that will give me enough time to make one up. If I go back to transom sheeti...
- Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:59 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Wayfarer advice needed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8253
Wayfarer advice needed
My club has just been given a Mark 2, all Grp Wayferer. The boat will just be used for recreational and training purposes, not racing. Firstly, it has a hybrid mainsheet system where the main runs from the end of the boom Laser style, along the boom to a block in the center, down to a double block w...
- Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:43 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: weighted dagger board.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19505
Re: weighted dagger board.
Just for accuracy, the Mirror, Gull and Heron don't have sliding gunter rigs. The Sliding gunter has a throat halyard as well and the peak halyard terminates on a track or wire on the front of the gaff to allow the sliding when throat halyard is eased. I used a sliding gunter when sailing those big ...
- Sun Jan 11, 2015 7:16 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: weighted dagger board.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19505
Re: weighted dagger board.
Just for fun then........... I like the previous idea of putting on a lightweight rig and also reefing it as above. So.... I like reefing but don't like having all that mast up there swinging around. Early 14s had sliding gunter rigs so the top mast came down as well. How about updating it? Use carb...
- Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:29 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: weighted dagger board.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19505
Re: weighted dagger board.
Hopefully the dagger/centerplate would be locked down with a pin. If you had an old Mirror you could easily replace the dagger board case with a wider one and use an Access type keel, you could even go as far as a central Access style seat. Borrow an Access keel from your local Sailability group and...
- Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:06 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: weighted dagger board.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19505
Re: weighted dagger board.
Uffa Fox thought that when Int 14 was not as good for sea conditons after the heavy bronze center plates went out. I think he had ones in the 60lbs range. So a weighted dagger board would certainly help. Access dinghys have a hollow weighted dagger board it's about 50mm thick. (30kg?) that extends a...
- Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:19 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: More Moffs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14089
Re: More Moffs
That scow plan reminded me of the South African Dabchicks scows. I found them while looking at Sprogs as one came up locally recently.
http://sayachts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/dabchick.html
They look like a lot of fun.
Riv
http://sayachts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/dabchick.html
They look like a lot of fun.
Riv
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:10 pm
- Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
- Topic: Python
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8806
Python
Anyone seen one of these, does not seem to be on the database
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ENTERPRISE-YA ... 43d24dc7d7
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ENTERPRISE-YA ... 43d24dc7d7
- Wed Oct 29, 2014 6:51 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: International Canoe K102 "Torment"
- Replies: 75
- Views: 66802
Re: International Canoe K102 "Torment"
Never seen a centre board like this one......where is the bolt hole?
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:41 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Strange Mirroe dagger boards
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5345
Strange Mirroe dagger boards
Does anyone know why one of the dagger boards in this listing on ebay has the cutouts?
It's the second lot that have appeared like this
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/sailing-dingh ... 3397626a8f
It's the second lot that have appeared like this
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/sailing-dingh ... 3397626a8f