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 OZ Towdster
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| posted on February 10th, 2008 at 08:10 AM |
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Yachties how many here ????
Hi all ,
As it says how many here are also sailors .
Myself i currently have a 14' Hobie Cat and have had in the past 2 Cherubs and 1 intertnational moth ( no bloody snail pace sabots for Mrs Westwoods
boy).
I have also helmed and crewed on a Flying Dutchman , Heavy weight sharpie , VJ , 40' Cole and several other cherubs and moths that weren,t mine.
Being the speed freak that i am i am also keen for a sail on my mates Nacra F18 Cat which to the unknown is a bloody quick catamaran
So what have you got , had , and are keen to sail on
Don't let body work get in the way of real suspension travel
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Stanley
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| posted on February 10th, 2008 at 08:16 AM |
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Raced a Nacra 16sq for a few years and then graduated to 18 footers.
and they say sailing boats don't plane......
nothing beats thundering down the Brissy river in 20+ knots under a spinnaker with 3 on the wire......and then nose diving......
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| posted on February 10th, 2008 at 08:26 AM |
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Gday
I am on my second Maricat. The first was an old 14ft and my current boat is the newer 4.3meter, almost the same just some changes to the rear
transom and the trampoline is now one piece. You will love the Nacra, there was one were i used to sail and i went out for a run on it. Mono hulls are
just way too slow.
Cheers Homer
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| posted on February 10th, 2008 at 08:26 AM |
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Corsairs were my boat. Many easters were spent around the state racing in Qld titles
Ive also sailed from yeppoon to townsville on the South Passage and Sydney to Brisbane on the Young Endevour.
Iwant to race the Brisbane to Gladstone and the sydney to hobart
Once you go flat, you never go back!!!!!!
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| posted on February 10th, 2008 at 08:33 AM |
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Yeah im into sailing probably more than VWs!
Currently sailing a Dufour 44 at Lake Macquarie Yacht Club. Ive sailed Pelicans, VJs, Cherubs, 16ft Skiff, Elliot 7, Eureka 34, Elliot 10.5, and
Elliot 11.
Ive also done 3 Sydney to Southports, 4 Pittwater to Coffs harbour, and one Sydney to Hobart.
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| posted on February 10th, 2008 at 10:31 AM |
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I've just got back into sailing after a 10 year absence as the kids were too small.
We had a Hydra 16 before kids. I've just bought a few months ago an old Nacra 5.0 (sail 1871). Not for racing, just mucking about on Moreton Bay.
Good fun sailing across to the islands!
Angus
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OZ Towdster
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| posted on February 10th, 2008 at 11:14 AM |
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Us queenslanders better get together some time for a sail, BBQ , and after drinks to bull shit how fast we are/use'd to be
Don't let body work get in the way of real suspension travel
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| posted on February 10th, 2008 at 05:35 PM |
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My first was a 16ft Fireball which we (mainly my father and brother) built in the garage ,in amongst the VW projects,had a ball learning to sail on
lake Burley Griffin (Canberra) ..bit cold paddling home when the wind dropped out ..nothing like powering along on the trapeze single handed when
your 16 and got no fear..next was a Unicorn cat ..again ply...taught my kids to sail on the mighty Clarence, used to leave it rigged on the bank and
walk 100 metres from home with the boom and main/headsail and go for a spin after work...few scary moments on a big runout tide trying to beat up
river...next was a Compass 30...great coastal cruiser many a memorable holiday spent on the old piles at Southport Yacht Club ...now have a Tophat 25
which is up for sale as ive just bought a Roberts 43 which im hoping to do some serious cruising in
Cheers&Beers
Ray V
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| posted on February 10th, 2008 at 07:30 PM |
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We had a Hutton 24 fitted out for cruising and used to do the islands (Dunk/Hinchinbrook etc) fairly often,but sold it 6 years ago due to offspring
arrival......I'll swap you a 411 for your Tophat Ray... I'll even
deliver!!
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| posted on February 11th, 2008 at 08:23 AM |
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I went through the sabot, 125, mirror and laser scene on the brissy river. Also spent allot of time in a cole 23 trailer sailer. But haven't sailed
since school teams sailing in 99..... 
The GF wants to get into sailing, though it might be time to buy a new boat for something to do over summer when the car racing slows right down. Any
ideas on a resonable boat for a combined crew weight of 180kgs or a little more..... We are both over 6'2" and pretty heavily built.
I have no sympathy for my car, only the wallet that pays for it!
Go hard or go home!!!!
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| posted on February 11th, 2008 at 03:45 PM |
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try the mg14 bix
my mate and i sailed one for years and it was pretty good if you go say one thats a couple of years old they can be pretty forgiving
here is the website
http://www.mg14.com/newlook/index.asp
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| posted on February 11th, 2008 at 05:00 PM |
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We are to heavy, even if we can loose a bit of weight, still looking at 170kgs min...... thinking and old hartley may be the way to go.
I have no sympathy for my car, only the wallet that pays for it!
Go hard or go home!!!!
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| posted on February 11th, 2008 at 05:38 PM |
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I learnt on Kittycats - 12' catamaran - and still have the Tornado (20' Olympic class cat) that I used to race, but haven't sailed it for years -
and there is the odd canoe, fishing boat, windsurfer and dinghy are also scattered around here among the cars and bikes.
I sailed from Cairns to Townsville a couple of years ago on a friend's new Malabar 2 replica schooner.
The mate who helped rebuild the boat in my avatar is a dual world champion in 18' skiffs. The avatar boat is a 70 year old Holmes Bros 50' sundeck
cruiser.
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OZ Towdster
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| posted on February 11th, 2008 at 05:44 PM |
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Always liked the look of your cruiser , how about a few more shots of the old girl
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| posted on February 11th, 2008 at 05:49 PM |
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I had them all on imagestation! - I'll dig some out
Here's a couple:
everything in this shot except the white ceiling and grey hull is new
Could've bought a new car with the cost of doing just this - and that included 50% family labour.
Putting down teak (deck step now has proper curved piece)
Latest addition
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| posted on February 11th, 2008 at 09:23 PM |
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ahoy!
ive just returned to australia after 9 months of travelling..
the begining was sailing from australia to thailand.. all fell through after 2 weeks but, insane captain who didnt believe in life rafts or average
life expectancies (wanted to go down in a blaze of glory type..) ended up working up the torres strait on a trawler for a while,then a little later
trying to sail out of darwin to asia again... bad luck though, the crazy captain was mates with my prospective boat and badmouthed me.. anyhow... im
all ambition with a bit of skill, having sailed in corsairs and cats, a few yachts etc etc... just love the water.. only other water sport i love as
much as sailing is white water kayaking.. now that is awesome..
everything dies baby, thats a fact..
maybe everything that dies one day comes back..
put your make up on and your hair up pretty..
and meet me tonight in Atlantic city..
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| posted on February 11th, 2008 at 09:27 PM |
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Beutifull workmanship mate ,a credit to you.
I gather from photo 2 she had a rotten bum / transom ???
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| posted on February 11th, 2008 at 10:19 PM |
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I sailed as a kid (age 6 - 14) in cats ; Surf cat, Hobie 14, Mini Quest, Tornado, which overlaped my volksey addiction (10 - 35); beetle offroaders
buggies, dc kombi's, drag choptop bug, Volksrestore 15 years, then sailing sounded pretty good to wash out the grease. Bought my first mono, a 32 ft
M&W keel boat, then sold EVERYTHING and lived on our next boat, a '97 34' Catalina, then got really serious and built in 2 years our 36' 3200
kg Rogers sailing catamaran, with 2k paint detail and carbon fibre everywhere !!!!. Sailed about 35 000 nm on the east coast on these and others. Of
course it's obvious the lure of the IDA sucked me back to vee dub addiction, but we do still have a boat, an old Hobie 18 that can run pretty hard so
the Noosa bar is where we play on the water these days!
Yeah!! Lets have a dak dak sailing day??!!
Cheers Matt
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| posted on February 12th, 2008 at 08:06 AM |
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no boat yet, but out on a mate's (self built) Green Island 18 often enough.
I'm looking at at building a Welsford Pathfinder down the track, but in the short getting a little hartley 14 or 16.
My old man has just finished the hull and decks of a steel 40' double-ended sloop in his back yard...built for blue water.
Also, love the idea of outrigger sailing canoes and wharram cats...simple but effective
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| posted on February 12th, 2008 at 08:08 AM |
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"I gather from photo 2 she had a rotten bum / transom ???"
No - the deck and deck beams and cabin had some rot - all since replaced with new - the transom was more a prior damage issue, along with a dodgy beam
that held the struts on.
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| posted on February 12th, 2008 at 07:26 PM |
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...love the timber boats ..but as we say when working on the old trawlers ...cheaper to do it in Port Kembla Pine or plastic!!!....good timber is
soooo hard to find at a reasonable price these days ...also you can frame and roof a house in 2 days with two blokes ...would imagine theres a week or
two in that piece of teak decking ...no straight edges or squares used in boat building
Cheers&Beers
Ray V
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| posted on February 12th, 2008 at 07:42 PM |
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yeah, always a sailor
duck punts,lasers,miracat, hobie 16's, 17, 18's, stingrays, A-class, tornados, 5.0 nacras.....now it's hartley 18's, windsurfing and the
occasional drag by kite power
the "silent power" always gives me chills when i've been away from the water for a time
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| posted on February 12th, 2008 at 07:55 PM |
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Yeah Damo. That was a huge buzz for me. Cruis'n along with a ghostly silence at times with your whole world cacooned in a shell, able to take you
anywhere in the world, as long as there's 2 feet of water! And when the weather pipes up to have a machine that can handle it is something else.
Especially after building her!
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| posted on February 12th, 2008 at 08:23 PM |
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Love your latest mood Mat as it applies to not only the aircooled motors we all spend time with but air with a good push is a sailors friend too
Don't let body work get in the way of real suspension travel
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| posted on February 12th, 2008 at 08:31 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by OZ Towdster
Love your latest mood Mat as it applies to not only the aircooled motors we all spend time with but air with a good push is a sailors friend too
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And lovin it !!!
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OZ Towdster
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| posted on February 12th, 2008 at 08:56 PM |
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Mat drop by and see me at the Custom Veedub stand Sunday , and we can through some ideas around for the AVD sail day.
Andrew 0407373781
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| posted on February 13th, 2008 at 09:29 AM |
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See you Sunday Andrew. The sun has come out today, so hopefully we wont all need schwimmers !!
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