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  1. Give Nick at Adhesive Technologies a call. They do west system resins and as far as I remember pricing was better by far
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  2. Nothing new here, its been clear for sometime that the scow hull is the faster shape for foiling barges, the footage is dated showing ist gen foils in brown organic carbon and all the syndicates have square top mains with black sails which have proven faster than white. The double ended concept has been banned for AC 37 because the opposition could not tell which way the winning boat was going when viewed at a distance (Nice try Sir Ben) The leeward paddler concept exploited a rule technicality and has been replaced with cyclors driving multiple hidden paddles via a complex arrangement of gea
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  3. Gondolier. He's a tenor and sings romantic Italian songs at the finish line.
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  4. Hi All I am willing to help out with any of the enquiries for Birdsall designs, Bo was my uncle and my father Johnson built and owned Contour of Cuthill. I do have some copies of the plans discussed on this thread.
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  5. Lee Boards?... I thought they were gen 1 foils?
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  6. Insurance contracts almost universally exclude cover where the insured claimant is grossly negligent or knowingly breaking the law.
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  7. I have read some but not all the novels written on your various posts. I think your budget is way too low for what you want to do. And your ideas still seem very scattered for someone giving themselves 2 months to buy from your position. A boat in your budget will likely have many major systems on the brink. Any one of them could need half of your budget plus to remedy. You say you have more money to fix, I’d tend to be looking at buying the best you can afford, not buying cheap and fixing, which will cost more in the end for certain. Imagine two boats of the same design and age are for
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  8. One Year Later... Saturday November 5, 2022. Ngaroto trailer yacht sprint racing. For over a year, I've been tinkering about, five minutes here, five minutes there, just trying to get the boat into a safer and faster state. The old centreboard has been removed, chopped, welded, and reinstalled. The rudder has finally been finished, and fitted into place, just a few days prior to this day. We have no indication of how it's all going to go, and have the whole family along for the ride. We arrive on time, get rigged, and go to the briefing. 17 races planned, wi
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