Ex Machina 390 Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 Top one looks like would handle a jandal load of rig tension and maintain its maximum beam under load Quote Link to post Share on other sites
splat 57 Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 Hard to believe Dan leech would get target weight wrong. He has a bit of experience designing and building skiffs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fish 0 Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 I thought $8,500 was a lot for a plywood kit, but I see that includes full carbon rig, posh sails, deck fittings... A new laser is $10 or $12k isn't it? a Waszp $20k, one of those Olympic skiff things more than an old keel boat. So $8,500 actually sounds very attractive, and has got me thinking... Nothing as rewarding as building your own boat. Where are these being raced? Fleet numbers etc? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
splat 57 Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 41 minutes ago, KM... said: The designer/builder of the other boat has considerably more experiance. "Should be interesting to see the 2 theories line up against each other." No doubt Mr. Roper has plenty of experience. Will be interesting to see. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
El Toro 115 Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 They all arrived in Vivian Bay, had a beer then shot off. Dean beat Moose and Brad Marsh to the beach With 2 of the 3 people I saw racing in to the bay, an arms races is inevitable, they just cant help themselves those boys Quote Link to post Share on other sites
armchairadmiral 411 Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Auckland yachties at it again ?. Mutually Assured Destruction..MAD. Just like they've done to almost every locally grown class plus having a go at some international classes.Not just centreboarders either .Think it's the air from the Tasman mixing with the Pacific Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deep Purple 530 Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Always the way. Used to have a good fleet of similar big multis racing for honours then someone bought an Orma, everyone else may as well stay home and they did. Had a small but useful fleet of foilers, then someone bought a GC32, everyone else left along with the medium sized multis. Watched a video of the Cherubs at Algies and full credit to them. But a quick look showed most of the fleet waaaaaay behind and you wonder how long they will bother. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ex Machina 390 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 5 hours ago, Deep Purple said: Always the way. Used to have a good fleet of similar big multis racing for honours then someone bought an Orma, everyone else may as well stay home and they did. Had a small but useful fleet of foilers, then someone bought a GC32, everyone else left along with the medium sized multis. Watched a video of the Cherubs at Algies and full credit to them. But a quick look showed most of the fleet waaaaaay behind and you wonder how long they will bother. Did the same someone buy a Ross 930 recently ? Would be interesting to see an open chequebook campaign unfold with one of those . You bought deep purple and I’m staying home now ! We don’t like coming 2nd all the time , dunno why we bother Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gappy 9 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 11 hours ago, 44forty said: There should a class rule that if you run a business that supples bleeding edge gear to big boat campaigns you can’t put your brand of gear on the boat unless you supply the rest of the class with your gear at wholesale prices And said sailmaker is supplying sails to the class at his cost price so he is doing his bit to help grow the class. The sails that are on all the old boats are at least 22 to 25yrs old so upgrading them is needed to keep the boats going. Rigs and foils also need to update as most foils were wooden cored and absolutely rooted as are the old alloy rigs and the carbon ones on offer if you assembled it yourself your up for about 20% the cost of buying off a mast builder so all the right things are been done to keep costs down.Any old usable gear is handed to other guys for no cost to them to get boats out there. At the end of the day there's limited supply of older boats out there in the 90s 10 boat nationals were common so only way to build a fleet with limited stock is build new boats or bring boats in from aussie for example. Still cheap yachting look at the cost of a new laser or starling for example or the cost of a new beiker moth at 40K plus this is a drop in the bucket. Should be 20 boats sailing by mid year so not bad for something that kicked off as a dream mid last year. 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ex Machina 390 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 That’s excellent to hear gappy . I will retract my comment Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deep Purple 530 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 4 hours ago, 44forty said: Did the same someone buy a Ross 930 recently ? Would be interesting to see an open chequebook campaign unfold with one of those . You bought deep purple and I’m staying home now ! We don’t like coming 2nd all the time , dunno why we bother I know of a Ross 930 that has cost the owner well north of $200k. Actually must be getting near $300k since it been a few years since I last saw it. And no, not our bondage king DP just hides our shitty sailing. As my son keeps telling me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cantab 341 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 $300k isn't enough to fix a 930 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
armchairadmiral 411 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Really ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skiff12 6 Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 The 2 new Boats In action 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skiff12 6 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 The yellow boat above has failed on several times and at one stage apparently started pushing the mast out the bottom of the Hull Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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