bitbaltic
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Cracking boat on this month’s YM cover!
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bitbaltic
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Impossible to rotate the image but that’s a Hanse 301.
Tranona
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The reviewer likes that kind of boat as is obvious from his review. What is surprising however is his review of the other boat in that issue which is a bit of a dog, but he did not say so!
Minerva
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Have magazine reviews, ever given a bad review? Presumably doing so would kill their revenue stream?
bitbaltic
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I should actually read the magazine, then I’d see it’s a 292. Same difference, essentially.
(I assumed it was a stock photo and didn’t open the mag!)
(I assumed it was a stock photo and didn’t open the mag!)
KompetentKrew
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doug748
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Further to post 3, you can certainly see why it did not make the cover:
Tranona
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Yes, this particular reviewer is well known for being critical about the sort of boat in question, usually though as examples of "bad" when reviewing boats he does like. If you read the review he does identify some of the negatives but makes light of them and the conclusions are generally favourable.
Tranona
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Agree - not very photogenic apart from the chute. Not too different though from its contemporaries in looks, but you really need to go on board to appreciate how awful it is. Sailing performance not helped by the test boat (only one in the UK I understand) having the combination of shallow draft and the big "performance" rig.
Praxinoscope
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Hope the ‘curl’ at the bows in thé image is not part of the design but a result of the magazine cover being slightly bent.
Kelpie
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What is that?
doug748
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Sandy
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Is that a bend in the page or does the hull have an extremely strange shape?
Resolution
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Anyone here done the 3 Peaks Yacht Race recently? Or even the 4 Peaks Race in Hong Kong?
