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#31314 03/21/04 08:25 PM 03/21/04 08:25 PM |
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Posts: 591 Bradenton, FL | Scale it down to 14' and change to dagger-boards, toss 300 sq. ft. of sail on it and race in the F14 class Just one question...why daggerboards? Ever tried to lift up two daggerboards when coming towards the beach on a nice beam reach? I'll keep the centerboard layout thank you very much. If it's for home-building, a dagger-board case would be much easier to do. Also, if you're coming in to shore on a beam reach you should let the main out to take pressure off the boards and slow the boat before slamming into the beach. Centerboards don't rotate all that well on a beam reach either. I've crewed on my friends P18-2 and we were double-trapped and flying through waves and hit a sandbar with the leeward board. It didn't rotate up at all, just lost a small chunck off the tip.
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#31317 03/22/04 05:18 PM 03/22/04 05:18 PM |
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Posts: 591 Bradenton, FL | As far as flying into shore, I did mean that as a joke. That's really quite funny, as I tend to fly my G-Cat into shore when there's a nice crowd nearby. Those deep-V hulls dig right in and send my flying on the trapeze. I've got a neat little dismount that sends me right up to the bow so I can start dragging the bow into the wind. However, my G-Cat doesn't have 'boards Earlier in the same day as I mentioned in my previous post, we had both boards up on a broad reach coming into shore. We surfed the P18-2 on a nice little 3' wave into the shore and slid so far up the beach that we were out of the wet sand. A couple guys surfing a kayak gave us a little cheer I do recall (going to give my age away a bit) seeing a Sizzler coming in and neither rudder kicked up then the boat came to a screeching halt on the beach with one guy in the trap. Let's just say it was breezy that day and the guy in the trap got to go flying when the boat tipped on it's side. For those of you too young to know what a Sizzler was it was an all aluminum cat that to me had to be about as ugly as an Aqua Cat. Hans Geissler was talking to me about Sizzlers. He said that is where some of the inspiration for the G-Cat design came from (he used to sell Sizzlers). I remember the red one from Jaws, but that's about it....
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#31319 03/22/04 09:03 PM 03/22/04 09:03 PM |
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Posts: 139 Daytona Beach FL | I thought condor's were all but extinct. Beautiful birds though... If you are having trouble with your's, I think you'ld be better off taking it to see a vet, instead of posting here. These guys will tell you everything will be ok after a bottle of rum. In fact, they might try and convince you to feed the bird rum as well. In any case, YRMV.
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#31325 07/02/04 08:06 PM 07/02/04 08:06 PM |
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Posts: 915 Dublin, Ireland | Sorry to hear that Brian. Sailspar are the people who originally made the spars for the Condor, so they are the ones to contact. They told me that they would deal with you. Sailspar Ltd Phone 01206 302679 Fax 01206 303796 www.sailspar.co.ukAs Simon says, Andy Webb (contact me via this forum and I can possibly get you his contact info) certainly knows the Condor and also deals with David Beech in Sailspar. Andy is currently building new Shearwaters (a design older than the Condor), maybe he might take on the Condor as well.
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#31326 07/05/04 02:20 AM 07/05/04 02:20 AM |
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Posts: 3,528 Looking for a Job, I got credi... | Dermott, I would not put e-mail addresses into public forum posts, the web crawler software WILL Pick it up and snow the account with Junk. I'd suggest you ask Rick to edit it out.
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#31327 07/05/04 08:42 AM 07/05/04 08:42 AM |
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Posts: 915 Dublin, Ireland | Thanks Simon, I have done that. I wasn't thinking, I hadn't been on the forum for a week, saw Brian's message and just sent off a quick reply. Dermot.
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