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#248313 - 05/14/12 01:34 PM Re: Sloop v uni [Re: pgp]
pgp Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/29/09 Posts: 5054	Sell a couple horses? _________________________ Pete Pollard Blade 702 'When you have a lot of things to do, it's best to get your nap out of the way first.
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#248314 - 05/14/12 01:40 PM Re: Sloop v uni [Re: Timbo]
PTP Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/25/05 Posts: 2878 Loc: Michigan	Timbo, thats kind of silly to suggest. take a 25k boat and cut it apart to get to a falcon? Thats all you would be doing making that many mods and I think the falcon would be better anyway by the time you are jacking up all the hull geometry but cutting off the bows and sterns
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#248318 - 05/14/12 02:01 PM Re: Sloop v uni [Re: pgp]
Timbo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/27/05 Posts: 5279 Loc: Sebring, Florida.	PTP, did you think for a minute I was serious? Have you EVER known me to be... Serious?? _________________________ Blade F16 #777
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#248319 - 05/14/12 02:02 PM Re: Sloop v uni [Re: pgp]
Timbo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/27/05 Posts: 5279 Loc: Sebring, Florida.	Originally Posted By: pgp Sell a couple horses? They will NEVER sell their horses, I've resigned myself to the fact that, as soon as my yongest is off to college, I'm going with her! She's looking into a Marine Biology degree...at the U of Hawaii! _________________________ Blade F16 #777
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#248326 - 05/14/12 02:26 PM Re: Sloop v uni [Re: pgp]
pgp Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/29/09 Posts: 5054	Seriously? _________________________ Pete Pollard Blade 702 'When you have a lot of things to do, it's best to get your nap out of the way first.
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#248327 - 05/14/12 02:31 PM Re: Sloop v uni [Re: Timbo]
PTP Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/25/05 Posts: 2878 Loc: Michigan	Originally Posted By: Timbo PTP, did you think for a minute I was serious? Have you EVER known me to be... Serious?? yeah, you got me there
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#248328 - 05/14/12 02:34 PM Re: Sloop v uni [Re: pgp]
pgp Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/29/09 Posts: 5054	Seriously, why shouldn't a uni rig look more like a windsurfer rig? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS:X_(sailboard) My thinking right now is to buy a windsurfer and leave the Blade on the beach when the wind is over 15. Edited by pgp (05/14/12 02:41 PM) _________________________ Pete Pollard Blade 702 'When you have a lot of things to do, it's best to get your nap out of the way first.
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#248330 - 05/14/12 02:56 PM Re: Sloop v uni [Re: pgp]
Timbo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/27/05 Posts: 5279 Loc: Sebring, Florida.	I used to windsurf quite a bit, in Del Rio, TX, but the wind is usually so light where I live now, a sailboat is much more 'stable'. If I lived in a place with strong, steady wind, (SFO Bay comes to mind) I'd be back on a windsurfer, or learn to Kite surf...or both. _________________________ Blade F16 #777
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#248331 - 05/14/12 03:04 PM Re: Sloop v uni [Re: Timbo]
waynemarlow old hand Registered: 09/24/05 Posts: 877	Originally Posted By: Timbo I've been wondering how 'fast' it would be, if you took the current 'hot' A Cat hulls, chopped a little off the front and back, chop a little off the mast, add a spinnaker and maybe some 'corrector weights' to get it up to F16 min wt. specs, then raced it Uni, ie. zero jib hardware. Bit like this then http://www.catsailor.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=237051&page=1 Not so current shape but the idea is there. But why cut off the nose, thats reserve bouyancy for the spinny.
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#248338 - 05/14/12 03:43 PM Re: Sloop v uni [Re: pgp]
Timbo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/27/05 Posts: 5279 Loc: Sebring, Florida.	Well, you've got to cut something off to make it 16', I don't think all two feet of it should come off the back, maybe a foot off each end? _________________________ Blade F16 #777
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