According to the text it is Randy Smyths winning boat from the 88' Worrel. Looking at the hull design, it looks like it has the modern shape with less windage and bouyancy far down. Very cool wings!
Looks like a cool boat!
Here is some text from the ad:
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Roake 21 – Randy Smythes Worrel 1000 winner from 1988.
Some assembly required, but all parts are there and when you have it ready you have what is claimed to be the quickest beach cat around. The designer (Richard Roake) says 42 knots, Randy Smythe guesses over 30 knots (was it 34 Randy at the side of a powerboat?). A couple of production boats was built by Reg White as the Hurricane 650.
PS: I am not selling, just tought it was a fun boat.
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Re: Roake 21 – Randy Smythes Worrel winner from 88?
[Re: Rolf_Nilsen]
#76028 05/25/0607:31 AM05/25/0607:31 AM
They were called the Hurricane 6.5. I'm not sure how many people bought them. I remember hearing about people with "more money than sense" buying them. I haven't got around to working out how to upload photos to the forum yet, but here are a few photos from the brochure. http://www.catsailor.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=81
Last edited by Dermot; 05/25/0611:14 AM.
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Re: Roake 21 – Randy Smythes Worrel winner from 88
[Re: Dermot]
#76032 05/25/0612:27 PM05/25/0612:27 PM
Wow, what a monstrosity! If you trapped out like that in the waters I sail in, You'd be hit so hard by a wave that the entire boat would spin-out laterally.
Thanks for posting the cool pictures!
GARY
Santa Monica Bay Mystere 6.0 "Whisk" <--- R.I.P.
Re: Roake 21 – Randy Smythes Worrel winner from 88
[Re: hobiegary]
#76033 05/25/0601:19 PM05/25/0601:19 PM
Gary, look at the wing-sets where the wings extend behind the transom of the boat. Looks workable, and getting your weight so far aft must be good going downwind in a blow.
The mast on that boat must be really long!
Re: Roake 21 – Randy Smythes Worrel winner from 88
[Re: bvining]
#76034 05/25/0601:19 PM05/25/0601:19 PM
Last time I was at white Formula there was one sitting on it's trailer.
I've sailed around with them once ona very light wind East Coast Peirs Race and they ran a 50+ sqm code zero/reacher in lightwinds and sailed upwind quite well with it.
A very scary bit of Kit and Rob White called it a bit of a monster, so that gives you some idea ! He actually called it dangerous after he got hurt in one pitchpole and ended up nearly getting sliced up by all the rigging on the Spi pole.
There is still a G-Force 21 Worrell (the wide boat, they also made a narrow 8'6" version) at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron.
I heard the owner put a taller mast on it. I saw it with a new square-top main at the Labor Day Regatta some years back, patiently waiting at the finish line for everything else in its class.
G-Cat 5.7M #583 (sail # currently 100) in Bradenton, FL
Hobie 14T
Re: Roake 21 – Randy Smythes Worrel winner from 88
[Re: Sycho15]
#76038 05/25/0610:09 PM05/25/0610:09 PM
Yes, but he had the narrow version. The Worrel version I saw on the race course had no trouble snapping through a tack. Also, I've seen Hans Geisler and Ralf Cole pull off surprisingly quick tacks on the G-Cat 6.1M, which is only 1' shorter.
G-Cat 5.7M #583 (sail # currently 100) in Bradenton, FL
Hobie 14T
Re: Roake 21 – Randy Smythes Worrel winner from 88
[Re: Sycho15]
#76040 07/29/0607:34 PM07/29/0607:34 PM
The literature says this boat has an 8' beam. Is this correct? I would have expected a 10-12' beam for something like this. That would allow for a less dramatic trapeze setup, maybe more average style wings....
G-Cat 5.7M #583 (sail # currently 100) in Bradenton, FL
Hobie 14T
Re: Roake 21 – Randy Smythes Worrel winner from 88
[Re: Sycho15]
#76041 07/30/0605:07 PM07/30/0605:07 PM