| Curiosity killed the Cat #69265 03/15/06 03:13 PM 03/15/06 03:13 PM |
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Posts: 1,187 38.912, -95.37 | from a mid-westerner living a sheltered (Hobie/Nacra/Solcat/Trac) life...What is this? A Shark?
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#69270 03/15/06 03:40 PM 03/15/06 03:40 PM |
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Posts: 1,187 38.912, -95.37 | Could be the camera angle, but the forward cant of these hulls looks more pronounced than the sideviews of the Prindles. Any pic's of the Dart? And BTW, they say it's an 18 footer.
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#69277 03/15/06 06:02 PM 03/15/06 06:02 PM |
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Posts: 3,528 Looking for a Job, I got credi... | How can you tell the vintage, I tought the Dart 18 was strict one-design? You can have some idea via colour schemes. It's 100% Dart 18. Done some more diffing around. Not a Dart 20
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Posts: 915 Dublin, Ireland | How can you tell the vintage, I tought the Dart 18 was strict one-design? You can have some idea via colour schemes. Yea the inner hull waterline was on Dart 18s from the early 90s. I owned 5 Dart 18s in a row from the late 80s to mid 90s.
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#69280 03/16/06 08:42 AM 03/16/06 08:42 AM |
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Posts: 138 Florida, Pnellas, USA | Dart 18 before 1984? when the stripe on the side changed to a wide slash stripe. I had the one with the wide slash marking on the side before the one I now have with the center double line. Single stripes have been on and off since the early 70's. See 8th photo at http://www.tampabaycatsailors.com/2006_hangover_pics.htm for the double line. The class never changed much except for the gelcoat design on the side. Have fun get it out on the water. The designer Rodney March did a great job along with Kim at Panthercraft. They started the first GPR Olympic Tornado.
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Posts: 915 Dublin, Ireland | Dart 18 before 1984? when the stripe on the side changed to a wide slash stripe. I had the one with the wide slash marking on the side before the one I now have with the center double line. Single stripes have been on and off since the early 70's. See 8th photo at http://www.tampabaycatsailors.com/2006_hangover_pics.htm for the double line. The class never changed much except for the gelcoat design on the side. Have fun get it out on the water. The designer Rodney March did a great job along with Kim at Panthercraft. They started the first GPR Olympic Tornado. The dart in the photo does not look too good, so I would not argue about its age. Anyone know its sail number? Darts stick to their sail numbers - unlike Hobie - so you (almost) always know the year. My first Dart 18 was a '86, with red stripes where you have blue. It was the boat used in Brian Phipps book, "The Catamaran Book". I bought it directly from Kim Stephens - it was our first demo Dart in Ireland. I remember an '83 boat, sail no. 2589 that had a thin stripe similar to the Dart in the photo. The 90s Darts had a black stripe in the gelcoat - but only on the inner side of the hull.
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