One for Tomahawk perhaps?

Black Diamond

Black Diamond

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I had my first ride on Andrew Fennel's amazing Morpheus on Monday this week, from Mersea up to Titchmarsh. It was frankly terrifying hitting 21 knots upwind, middle hull flying and mental images of America's Cup capsizes ....

Andrew had her built in the Philippines in carbon fibre, but did everything else after the hulls came out of the 40' container, and launched in 2018.

Here's the header from his Facebook group, The Morpheus Project - Morpheus is a new trimaran design from John and Orion Shuttleworth. Launch date: 2018 in the UK. Morpheus is 40' long, 32' wide and built out of carbonfibre. She weighs about 2.5t without all the racing crap

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10223899177088666
 
To be honest, it wasn't the sort of thing where one measures time, it just seemed to happen inordinately quickly. We motored down to the No1 buoy before we got properly rigged, and bore away, and then it seemed a bit like Star Trek and warp factor nine out of the Blackwater, trying not to bump into the Gunfleet windmills, gybing wildly down (or is it up?) the Wallet.
 
Black Diamond said:
To be honest, it wasn't the sort of thing where one measures time, it just seemed to happen inordinately quickly. We motored down to the No1 buoy before we got properly rigged, and bore away, and then it seemed a bit like Star Trek and warp factor nine out of the Blackwater, trying not to bump into the Gunfleet windmills, gybing wildly down (or is it up?) the Wallet.
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Looks like a real blast. He'll have to do Mersea Week, just to upset some of the old afterguard!

South to north is going down the Wallet (referenced from the estuary tide, i.e. we always go 'up' to London).
 
That sounds like fun!

Howzabout a couple of RORC races.... 'just to upset some of the old afterguard!'

I'll come, if asked, and i know where the Fastnet Rock is! :ROFLMAO:
 
As I was on the stick, and carbon daggers are £many000, and there was no need to go deeper on the starb'd gybe, I opted to fly by the North Eagle.

Actually, daggerboards are a bit of a totem aboard Morpheus, as they busted an overextended one, early on in the 2019 Fastnet, when they were lying about tenth place. Great things expected in the future.....
 
I have been looking at her for the last few months from my balcony. Interesting to hear who it belongs to.

I thought on Pete Two Dogs would be mad enough to have something like that in Mersea.
 
davidej said:
I have been looking at her for the last few months from my balcony. Interesting to hear who it belongs to.

I thought on Pete Two Dogs would be mad enough to have something like that in Mersea.
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Hi David, apropos of Pete, I was recalling when he tore up the Friday Night race in his F28 with Peter Fitt last evening, down at Dabs (outside, of course). I also witnessed him disintegrate that thing that looked like a Sinclair C5 with surfboard outriggers, back in 2008, when it went submarine at terminal velocity and buried in the Nass

Tomahawk said:
So where is she berthed?
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She's currently on the unconnected pontoon at Titchmarsh, but will soon be moved to her winter berth up at Mistley (there wasn't enough water on the neaps last Monday)
 
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