Mini Transat

[StephenSails]

As some of you know, I like taking photos of fast yachts, my friend Tobias is hopeing to race his 21ft mini boat across the Atlantic this September, he asked me to take some photos of his boat a while back and I have just loaded the pictures of his Mini 6.50 sailing off Lymington here

Hope you like!

Cheers

Stephen

 

[FullCircle]

Fab,
your shutter finger must be blistered. Limbos have come on a long way since 78 then? /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[mirabriani]

Good pics.
Nice racer too.
I was trying to see how the bowsprit is stayed.....
I can see a bobstay but the bowsprit appears to stop at the bow? If so I guess there are fore and aft stays to port and starboard. Any one ?

Regards Briani

 

[StephenSails]

It has two jockey poles about midships which help hold it on position with guys that feed back to the cockpit so you can cant the pole left or right. Very neat! He has also got a forward canard which which I havent seen on minis before.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

If there's a cock-up with the running backstays, does the mast end up in the sea, or are the spreaders swept back far enough to hold the mast up without the runners on?

 

[Jeremy_W]

Do 6.5's compete in other events or are they just built for Bob Salmon's mad transatlantic adventure?

 

[StellaGirl]

Is this a Pogo? Great boats

 

[StephenSails]

No, they do all sorts of other racing. Up and until recently there only used to be organised racing from the French organisers with the Mini Fastnet and various other races. Some of the UK mini sailors have got their act toghther in the last few months are trying to put a series toghether on this side of the channel, they recently had 4 boats racing in the Southhampton yacht club round the island double hander and I think they are going to enter various other races. Its a great class of boat and its shame not more is organised here for them

 

[StephenSails]

It can happen!

 

[StephenSails]

Its not a pogo, its a proto. Buy your right the Pogos do rock, quite tempted to buy one.

 

[Jeremy_W]

>>>It's a great class of boat and its shame not more is organised here for them.

Sadly it was ever thus. They ran the first couple of Mini-Transats from Plymouth till the sponsor pulled the plug. Then the class crossed the Channel and now it is so associated with Franc that nobody can even recall the British roots of the event.

 

[graham]

Re: Blast from the Past

For the full article look herehttp://www.anderson22class.co.uk/articles.htm

Just a reminder of how it all started.

 

[danera]

canard

If he's got a canting keel than a forward daggerboard would be normal to provide leeway resistance. Nice photo's - there are some more good ones of a rival at http://www.nickbubb.com/ !