35 foot boat hitting 27 knots...

[flaming]

So this looks fun, a lot of fun.

 

[Spyro]

It's the future, if you like it wet.

 

[dom]

Wow, what a blast - so much power

 

[doug748]

Looks a nifty bit of kit.

Marketed as affordable - £300,000 :nonchalance:

Excluding sails.

 

[Triassic]

Only 27 knots with 45 knots of wind at 145 true (which I think works out about 28 knots at 110 apparent). What was holding them up....?

 

[Twister_Ken]

So what? I've done 25.something kts in a 1740. Scared sh*tless.

 

[Resolution]

Wonderful underwater shots at the beginning, especially with the dolphins / porpoises.

 

[flaming]

So what? I've done 25.something kts in a 1740. Scared sh*tless.

That's the point - they look like they're just out for an afternoon sail, so relaxed!

 

[roblpm]

Er, am i being thick? What type of boat is it??

 

[Twister_Ken]

Er, am i being thick? What type of boat is it??

Says an Elliott 35SS on the intro slide.

 

[doris]

Seriously wild

Reminds me of Hot Doris, the Mount Gay ne. Whitbread 30, we had 12 years ago. Heavy small asym kite on a normal pole and full water ballast, August BH Jog Guernesy Race. V dark and a NEly gusting 30 kts. Touched 22 kts throught the water, effing awesome, terrifying, although at the time didn't seem so. We'd had her a week and didn't have a clue. Cowes to Yarmouth in minutes, huge wipe out and enuf damage for Yarmouth to be good. I think Hooligan came in an hour later with no rig!

She's still around on the East Coast, and I believe up for sale for not a lot. Uncompetitive under IRC but a huge blast to sail.

 

[awol]

If only someone had a video of a powered up Anderson 22 to show those septics what real speed is.

 

[dom]

I actually think there's a great future for boats like this. A few of us are thinking of pooling a bit of dosh to buy a McConaghy 38. It has the big advantage of being one design so as to keep costs and land based time-wasting to a minimum, or at least to a non-stupid level. It is also perfect for dry sailing.

 

[flaming]

I actually think there's a great future for boats like this. A few of us are thinking of pooling a bit of dosh to buy a McConaghy 38. It has the big advantage of being one design so as to keep costs and land based time-wasting to a minimum, or at least to a non-stupid level. It is also perfect for dry sailing.

There's a few people looking at the MC38. Will be very interesting to see if they actually get a fleet.

 

[doris]

If only someone had a video of a powered up Anderson 22 to show those septics what real speed is.

Ha ha. Thought there was a forum rule against winding up Jetters

 

[Twister_Ken]

A tale from Hooligan...

Poole Bay race. Blasting along downwind with the speed in double figures. Suddenly, no speed showing. Roger the ship's boy sent below to hoick out the speed impeller and clear it. Surprised when water doesn't flood in, as usual, when he pulls the imp. "Oi, Skip, there's no speed coz the effin' impellor's out of the water."

 

[Spyro]

Canting Keel on a 35 foot production boat. I like it!

 

[dom]

There's a few people looking at the MC38. Will be very interesting to see if they actually get a fleet.

That's right and if the fleet doesn't reach a critical mass the boats will turn out to be a complete waste of money. That said boats like this seem like a no brainer compared to the eye wateringly expensive and painfully fiddly TP52s.

 

[flaming]

That's right and if the fleet doesn't reach a critical mass the boats will turn out to be a complete waste of money. That said boats like this seem like a no brainer compared to the eye wateringly expensive and painfully fiddly TP52s.

Have you seen the c&c 30? Looks like a smaller, cheaper MC38. And Mark Mills designed...

 

[dom]

Have you seen the c&c 30? Looks like a smaller, cheaper MC38. And Mark Mills designed...

Another fab boat and even "cheaper" as you say; it would be great to see something like this or the MC38 take off in the UK. I reckon heaps of corporates would come out of the woodwork at the chance of getting involved in something interesting, affordable and with plug and play equipment. I mean for a TP52 one needs a committee, Friday night meetings ...groan!