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    Stratosphere Found

    in MarineTalk

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    The guys says that due to trees and colouring you can't see her but she is on christmas island. they are looking at ways to bring her back

     

    make her watertight - tow her to S'pore and the put her on the deck of a ship bound for NZ? MAF would go balistic surely?

     

    And coxy, they ARE sisterhips, they came out of the same mould, same designer, same construction, same rig. The differences David made with sundreamer were minor and mainly weightsaving. The bows were angled back a little to avoid the waterspout, as a result and in fact Sundreamer's waterline entrance is blunter. The hulls were angled in to reduce the length of the beams and the sterns shortened by 3 feet. Stratosphere is thus 60'. But what would I know, I've only owned her for 11 years, spent hours with David and poured over the construction diaries of all three boats for hours

     

    Agreed S'dreamer. Here's another example of a pair of Sisters. They look like sisters - everyone know they're sisters and yet one has much pointier bows than the other - or perhaps the other has fuller bows than the first!

    timberwolf

    in MarineTalk

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    Send it wrote:

    Hey tim

     

    you could have saved yourself a whole lot of bother by building symetrical bulkheads and making a proa. Acorrding to a proa builders you would have had your boat built and be sailing this weekend. Not only that you would take line and handicap in your 400 million knot boat

     

     

    And it would be so light you could just carry it down the ramp yourself & chuck it in the water. Save crane costs.

     

     

    ....and then win AC34 with it

     

    ..... and then cruise the world forever with nothing but a loin cloth, a bottle of water and a rusty fish hook!

    timberwolf

    in MarineTalk

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    In most places the foam goes in , in quite wide strips up to 1200 mm wide.

     

    So actually its still just vertical stripped but the strips are 1200 wide (and presumably a little less at bow/stern if needed to achieve a tighter curvature). Eamon - sounds like your putting in 'whole' sheets - ie. 2400 lengthwise?

    If so I'm thinking wastage is a little worse with Eamon's - though you could use it up in bunks, furniture etc.

    timberwolf

    in MarineTalk

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    wolfy is a brute of a boat in those conditions and that is what I love about him.

     

    watch it Vagabond - TW is a 'he' and might just come back to maul ya all over the race track!

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