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Michael4
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Three cats...

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-x-catamaran ... Swwo1XcsaJ

I know nothing about catamarans but am curious...what are these?
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I saw those and wondered what they were too. They look nice.
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The B class sail. Didn't John Montgomery do a Flying range of boats? C class was Flying Rocket. B class Flying Squirrel? Doesn't tie in with 18 foot length, though, for any B class barring grandfathered in classes.
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What are they like to sail ? Never sailed or crewed a Cat.
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Hi
The sails don't match the hulls the one with a lighting bolt is from a very rare MacAlpine-Downey Phoenix, B class maybe a Flying Streak, But the hulls look wrong the Phoenix had a Knuckle in the bow. John Montgomery's boats have a very distinctive hull shape and none of these hulls seem to be that shape. One of the boats maybe a Mystaire?. On re examining the photographs the boat named Flare does have the right shaped bow for a Phoenix but not enough of the hull is shown to see the knuckle. These cats are very rare the only other examples I know of are in Canada. The price differential between the Shark and the Phoenix was pretty close with most people opting for the larger Shark.
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