YouTube slideshows

[Rod]

Having a great deal of fun making YouTube slideshows. Great way to put some of the sailing images on my computer to some use. Lots of shots of wooden racing dinghies. Two new slideshows; one of my favorite class, the Classic Moth ... their E-City Nationals 2006 and another slideshow of those wild 10 footer Australian Historical skiffs. They remind me a lot of my time in the cold moulded McCutcheon I-14's in the 1970's. (Anybody out in CVRDA land who can tell me what the thickness of the McCutcheon cold molded 14's was ... I'm guessing slightly thicker than 6 mm?)

Classic Moth link;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90I-TSXnhCw

Aussie 10 footer link;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv6blRZujrU

DavidH ... just realized that you sent me a message through the CVRDA forum over a month ago. Sorry for having blinders on. Will see what I can do to email you what Aussie scow (Milne design) information I have

[Rod]

Another YouTube slideshow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ureNnXe1WZQ

I started in the pre-trapeze I14's when I was 13 years old (that should date me).

Still have a soft spot for the classics though most have them have seemed to disappeared in North America.

[Trevor C]

I think they are rather good. I don't suppose you could make one featuring Jollyboats?

[jonathan]

I have just had a look at the Ozzy 10ft slides and wonder why people who sail in my N12 consider it cramped! They don't have a telescopic or folding spinny pole double the length of the hull to wrestle with nor the vast spinny to manhandle. I think they should count themselves lucky and enjoy the sail!

[Rod]

Another YouTube slideshow of the local Log Canoes.

Some of these canoes (if you want to categorize them as canoes) are close to 100 years old.

Racing is fast and furious. It has an air of the America's Cup when you see the canoes towed out to the start line with everyone in the same color kit. Of course just an hour or two earlier, on shore, you ran into the rough and tumble board men (the guys on the boards) loading up their canoes with six packs of beer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sr-IXlk_p4

[roger]

Great pics of the 14s. Love the one about 3 minutes in where the helm is sat on the transom

[jpa_wfsc]

just exactly where does a 10" skiff crew store his spinnaker pole?

[jonathan]

I am not too sure but I have it on good authority that they all speak in falsetto tones!

[Rod]

For the International Canoe sailors that frequent this site; pictures of International Canoes from the 1980's and 1990's. Though these IC's are technically not "Classic" in the CVRDA sense, they are "Classic" within the IC class; now that there is the present day emergence of both the Assymetric and the Development Canoe wings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90iN7TmTLIc