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[Twister_Ken]

Admirals Cup 1979

I was hoping to Google up a picture, but text will have to do...

..."For the fourth consecutive time, Jean-Luis Fabry's Finot-designed light-displacement Revolution was back in the French team, making an all time record in the Cup. She had been slightly re-named Revolootion to mark a party in the Groves & Gutteridge Marine when a lilac loo had been unveiled on her after-planing flap! "

"Jean-Louis Fabry, a former Rear Commodore of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, is one of the most popular and respected French owner-skippers, and during the 'Eighties was a mainstay of French teams with his famous alloy Finot design Revolution. Like Australia's Syd Fischer with his yacht Ragamuffin, Fabry preferred to keep just one boat and give her regular make-overs to keep up to date with refinements in design. After one such, Revolution appeared with a then-fashionable 'flour scoop' - a false shelf - attached to the back of the boat, her name changed to 'Revolootion', and an example of the eponymous sanitary ware mounted on the less-than-lovely extension."

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[tcm]

Re: I just noticed

The great thing about biggish boats is that there is almost always two or more of everything. Some think this is for added luxuy, but in fact, it is cos one of the things (whatever they are) breaks, so there another to use AND to have a look at when you have forexample dismantled summink and forgotten how to puttit back together. Like, for example, the bog.

I must confess that I am seen as wildly unconventional on our pontoon, where the norm is to buy a 70+ foot boat and spend most of the time trying to find crew - cos none of the owners seem to have a clue nor even attempt to skipper themselves. Unfortunately, since the owners know sod all about boats, they know sod all about what a crew should know, so have no idea if their skipper is ace or rubbish. Often, skippers then hire deckhands who wash things to a dull sheen with sweeping brushes. Under no circumstances would skippers ever attempt a bogfix, so the pic above caused consternation amongst the skippers, and they are all a bit wary of me that i can fix bogs whilst they can't.

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[Metabarca]

Re: double argh! looking very bad now...

I see Jimi's modelling his chemical suit in his profile. Don't think much of all that pumping he has to do to breathe though. And shouldn't the nozzles be up his nose?

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