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[SailBlueH2O]

CASCADE, Jerry Milgram designer I think; bizarre rule beater cat ketch, not terribly attractive in hull shape, color, construction...

could still win races, though, under certain conditions

thing was......fast too
much much faster than it's rating

it kicked ass in SORC conditions when everyone awaited it's weakness

[Mr. Fixit's brother,, Mr. Fixit]

This is excerpted from "The History of Southern Yacht Club" According to this I was incorrect about Swamp winning all the races.

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[Mr. Fixit's brother,, Mr. Fixit]

This poor boat is 'Mouth' the Peterson 1/2 tonner that won 1976 North Americans. She used to have a Flying Tiger aircraft style shark mouth on her bow.

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[SailBlueH2O]

This is excerpted from "The History of Southern Yacht Club" According to this I was incorrect about Swamp winning all the races.

Joe Byars....RIP

Google Joe Byars"Doubloon"
"Sprite"

"Raven"
"Falcon"

"Eagle"

[sledracr]

Stargazer was another Mull 3/4 t here in seattle then, but fractional rig, bit more modern and of fiberglass.

If it's the same one, I raced against Stargazer in SoCal a few eons ago. Was a rocketship in the right conditions...

[saltyokie]

Outlaw:
The small skeg was a way of manipulating the Aft Girth Station measurements so that the GSDA (Girth Station Difference Aft) was minimized and the BSA (Buttock Slope Aft) was maximized. This resulted in a reduction in "L". In short it was a way to let the rule know the boat had little power or added sailing length aft and in fact, if you used that shape you did give up sailing length and stability aft. I cover this in my upcoming article on the IOR in GOOD OLD BOAT.

I crewed on a good old IOR boat, John Linsky's Yankee 38 Independence.Ted Turner also had a Yankee 38 and raced it, alongside Independence in the one Ton Worlds in San Diego. They got hammered because the boat was so heavy. I was aboard Independence for a race from LA around San Nicholas Island Two things about the Yankee 38 stand out in my mind. First, the boat was a submarine. There was no wave it could not go under. Second, it had a flush deck and a shallow cockpit with low seat backs. My back was killing me after 48 hours around San Nick. Life is a series of coincidences. A couple of years later I was sitting in Frank Butler's office discussing some minor warranty items on my new Catalina 30. Frank had purchased the mold for the Yankee 38 from Yankee Yachts and told me the plug was almost finished. I said, "I hope the cockpit will be more comfortable. "Five minutes later Frank and I were sitting in the cockpit on the plug. It had great seat backs. My comment was, "wow this is a big cockpit." Frank told the craftsman, bring the cabin back 6 inches. I will take credit for the last 6 inches of the cabin of my Catalina 38. It is a dry boat which I had nothing to do with. Frank built 366 of them, I have number 365.

[sledracr]

CASCADE, Jerry Milgram designer I think; bizarre rule beater cat ketch, not terribly attractive in hull shape, color, construction...

could still win races, though, under certain conditions

thing was......fast too
much much faster than it's rating

it kicked ass in SORC conditions when everyone awaited it's weakness

Yeah... not so much. The thing was a dog against boats of similar size. The whole point of the exercise, though, was that Milgram found some interesting corners of the IOR rule that resulted in a boat that had much more sailing length than "normal" boats in its rating band, and enough un-rated sail-area to make it work.

[islandplanet]

Yes, FAZISI was in the 1989 Whitbread.
I'm not sure if Vlad's book is still available but it's a damn good read, RACE TO FREEDOM, 7 Seas Publishing.

Vlad has made it available for a free download. I'll try to dig up the link.

Update - found link but it doesn't appear to be offering download, but some info here - http://www.coursefor.../vlad-murnikov/

I'd be happy to email a copy, providing Vlad is okay with it. Since he had it up for free download, I'm sure it's not an issue but want to check.

[hobot]

This poor boat is 'Mouth' the Peterson 1/2 tonner that won 1976 North Americans. She used to have a Flying Tiger aircraft style shark mouth on her bow.

Holy crap, someone please put that old warhorse out of it's misery.

[soling2003]

Here is Swampfire, won the '74 3/4 ton Worlds with bullets in every race. Skipper is Osmond (OJ) Young. The boat is sitting a little over a mile away from me on a trailer dying a slow death. The linked winches have been removed but I could probably find the universal gears and anthill sockets in a boatyard around here somewhere. Incredibly fast upwind in breeze but terrifying DW. Nothing more scary than being trapped in one of the crew wells on a round down. Built by Tom Dreyfus of New Orleans Marine as a one-off using C-flex construction.

Looks exactly like my old Mull 3/4 t. Built about the same time, but out of aluminum. But it had a skeg and rolled downwind easily, but you could steer through them.

New owner took out the crew cockpits, made a bigger aft cockpit and put in a wheel.

[Maxx Baqustae]

This is excerpted from "The History of Southern Yacht Club" According to this I was incorrect about Swamp winning all the races.

I stand corrected mate! It was a long time ago. Maybe Vanpire was '75. Gary's designs were pretty radical those days. Nothing to take anything away from Dougie's Ganbare but Gary's boats were out there. Then things changed - a lot.

[r.finn]

This poor boat is 'Mouth' the Peterson 1/2 tonner that won 1976 North Americans. She used to have a Flying Tiger aircraft style shark mouth on her bow.

This is Mouth today as photographed in Slidell, LA. Jim Bates owns her along with Swampfire. Both boats on trailers. Real sleepers.

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[r.finn]

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[Rasputin22]

Here is Swampfire, won the '74 3/4 ton Worlds with bullets in every race. Skipper is Osmond (OJ) Young. The boat is sitting a little over a mile away from me on a trailer dying a slow death. The linked winches have been removed but I could probably find the universal gears and anthill sockets in a boatyard around here somewhere. Incredibly fast upwind in breeze but terrifying DW. Nothing more scary than being trapped in one of the crew wells on a round down. Built by Tom Dreyfus of New Orleans Marine as a one-off using C-flex construction.

Yeah Tommy and C-Flex too!

[Mr. Fixit's brother,, Mr. Fixit]

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Where is that Ryan? ,, I swear I took that in the water pic just a month ago. HaHa I'll have to stop in Jim's office to see what he's up to. Sounds like he has quite the menagerie of boats these days.

[o69u812]

Here's "Hurrah" today. June 2011 Emerald Bay race (LBYC Catalina Island Series). Can't wait for the peanut gallery to weigh in with comments about our sail trim!

I will weigh in on one thing I can see in the pic, don't stand next to that snatch block on the afterguy on a reach with the pole on the headstay... they will find your balls in Avalon if you're lucky.

[isma]

This poor boat is 'Mouth' the Peterson 1/2 tonner that won 1976 North Americans. She used to have a Flying Tiger aircraft style shark mouth on her bow.

This is Mouth today as photographed in Slidell, LA. Jim Bates owns her along with Swampfire. Both boats on trailers. Real sleepers.

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The two pictures are of two different boats. The one in Slidell is a Peterson 1/2 tonner. The other, something else very different, very, very different.

[12 metre]

This poor boat is 'Mouth' the Peterson 1/2 tonner that won 1976 North Americans. She used to have a Flying Tiger aircraft style shark mouth on her bow.

This is Mouth today as photographed in Slidell, LA. Jim Bates owns her along with Swampfire. Both boats on trailers. Real sleepers.

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The two pictures are of two different boats. The one in Slidell is a Peterson 1/2 tonner. The other, something else very different, very, very different.

My thoughts as well. I doubt the beater at the dock is a Peterson. The bow shape is all wrong for starters, in fact there is not a single detail on that boat that would lead me to believe that is a Peterson. On the other hand, with the one in the yard, that is a classic example of a Peterson design of that era.

Anyone recall America Jane IV (the Scott Kauffman design)? I saw her, or a sistership for sale a while back. I always kind of liked the look of her. She was competitive, but never a real world beater.

[~HHN92~]

1/? tonner

guess.

I remember this in Sail magazine, around 1974?

[timmytwinstay]

Stargazer was another Mull 3/4 t here in seattle then, but fractional rig, bit more modern and of fiberglass.

If it's the same one, I raced against Stargazer in SoCal a few eons ago. Was a rocketship in the right conditions...

Your Stargazer must be the 3/4 tonner that Choate built. Not pretty, but not all that ugly. Hat Trick, a Chance Offshore One, was powerful ugly. Very fast in light air and did alright up wind in a breeze, but submerged downwind in anything over 20 knots. Hat Trick won a Whitney Santa Barbara Island Race by half a day, boat for boat, but then nearly sunk on the way out to San Nicolas Island on the next race when the main bulkhead pulled away from the deck beating into big seas. Almost an ugly end to an ugly boat.

[saltyokie]

Stargazer was another Mull 3/4 t here in seattle then, but fractional rig, bit more modern and of fiberglass.

If it's the same one, I raced against Stargazer in SoCal a few eons ago. Was a rocketship in the right conditions...

Your Stargazer must be the 3/4 tonner that Choate built. Not pretty, but not all that ugly. Hat Trick, a Chance Offshore One, was powerful ugly. Very fast in light air and did alright up wind in a breeze, but submerged downwind in anything over 20 knots. Hat Trick won a Whitney Santa Barbara Island Race by half a day, boat for boat, but then nearly sunk on the way out to San Nicolas Island on the next race when the main bulkhead pulled away from the deck beating into big seas. Almost an ugly end to an ugly boat.

I realized how far out San Nickolas is on one race. On the way back when we neared Santa Barbara Island, I felt I was home. That beat to from Los Angeles to San Nickolas was a test of a boat.

[Icedtea]

Looking back on the 13 page thread I started led me to realise all the painfully crap boats that were around back then.

I offer my apologies to all for bringing some pictures back that should have rightly been consigned to history.

[Mr. Fixit's brother,, Mr. Fixit]

This poor boat is 'Mouth' the Peterson 1/2 tonner that won 1976 North Americans. She used to have a Flying Tiger aircraft style shark mouth on her bow.

This is Mouth today as photographed in Slidell, LA. Jim Bates owns her along with Swampfire. Both boats on trailers. Real sleepers.

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The two pictures are of two different boats. The one in Slidell is a Peterson 1/2 tonner. The other, something else very different, very, very different.

Now that I look at the two, I agree. The beater I took the pic of is also in Slidell right near the slip Mouth used to occupy for the last twenty years. I saw it, saw the slender IOR double spreader rig and jumped to the conclusion. Now I'm curious what boat this is.. Hard to tell anything through the crud.

[Diarmuid]

Just ran across this Gary Mull lawn dart on sailboatlistings.com.



Called a Sudden Yachts 27. Does this qualify as 'disturbed'? Do ya think it lives up to the 'Sudden' part of its name? (Suddenly ... end-swap!!) There's something about the twist in the freeboard that's bad for the eyes -- I keep tilting my head to one side to see if it gets better:



Looks like it would be a rocket in reverse gear. Seller sez: "If you can mount a little 5hp motor on the transome, you would have an awesome boat to cruise the bay."

You'd need one hell of a tiller extension for the OB, eh?

[12 metre]

Pretty typical Mull design from the late 70's. Look at Swampfire in post 298 and you can see the similarities. A much larger version is the Mull 46 "Gonnagitcha" - there is a drawing of her in some of the West System literature. Putting aside some of the Trower designs, I still think Stephen Jones designed some of the most disturbed IOR designs. These were often moderately successful, but not worldbeaters. Here is Super Nova, one of his earlier half ton designs.

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[dash34]

Does anyone in the PNW remember a boat called "Royal Rose"? What ever happened to that POS.

Maxx?

Yep, it was a home built 2ton ior design out of wood iirc. I remember it doing Swiftsure -think it blew up-spat the rig or something -then disappeared.

Greetings from Maui btw

Dash

[Diarmuid]

Pretty typical Mull design from the late 70's. Look at Swampfire in post 298 and you can see the similarities. A much larger version is the Mull 46 "Gonnagitcha" - there is a drawing of her in some of the West System literature. Putting aside some of the Trower designs, I still think Stephen Jones designed some of the most disturbed IOR designs. These were often moderately successful, but not worldbeaters. Here is Super Nova, one of his earlier half ton designs.

Ahhahahaaha. Bow bulb! No. Please. Make it go away. Nuthin like a Lego-colors paint job to accentuate the hull's deformities. Yowza, what a strange-looking boat.

Spinnaker in your third pic looks absurdly undersized: chicken chute, or was that part of the measurement game as well?

[DarthSailor]

Here is Swampfire, won the '74 3/4 ton Worlds with bullets in every race. Skipper is Osmond (OJ) Young. The boat is sitting a little over a mile away from me on a trailer dying a slow death. The linked winches have been removed but I could probably find the universal gears and anthill sockets in a boatyard around here somewhere. Incredibly fast upwind in breeze but terrifying DW. Nothing more scary than being trapped in one of the crew wells on a round down. Built by Tom Dreyfus of New Orleans Marine as a one-off using C-flex construction.

Did this boat get donated to Spring Hill College and renamed Stella Maris? If so I can personally attest to the fear induced by the crew wells going downwind in a breeze. If not the same boat Stella Maris had the same type of crew wells and you would truly fear for your life. One kid that raced with us on it suffered a psychotic break the evening after the race and to my knowledge never sailed again.

[Maxx Baqustae]

Does anyone in the PNW remember a boat called "Royal Rose"? What ever happened to that POS.

Maxx?

Yep, it was a home built 2ton ior design out of wood iirc. I remember it doing Swiftsure -think it blew up-spat the rig or something -then disappeared.

Greetings from Maui btw

Dash

I think Royal Rose was around the 60 mark if I recall. Another fine Grimwood creation that was sorta chiny up in the bow sections and pretty flat (real flat) as static; i think it would pound in 15 knots if any chop at all. I think it was strip planked wood using Elmo's glue, Dollar store duct tape & baling wire if I'm not mistaken. I don't think it was Swiftsure when it was condemned but a Ballenas race when it got up to about 25 knots. The rig started to go slack as the pounding(?) had disintegrated under the mast step below. I think it was taking on water because of a breach of the hull. It was hauled up on the hard and I don't think it sailed again. It sat in Wounded Knee east (Lynnwood Marina yard) for eons. After awhile you could smell the mold as you went past. I thought someone would have given it a Viking funeral but that again it would have been very hard to get it lit as it sat full of rain water. I think someone eventually drilled a hole in the bottom to let the water "out". That said: About 5 years ago I saw someone actually painting it. With a roller and maybe 5 gallons of Sears latex house paint.

The same guy that had the plug for Ariel 48 that sat and sat forever on various yards. And the Soveral 40 "Locura" fiasco that is in these pages somewhere.

I hope you had a good Vic - Maui race Dash. There's a lot of history mate. When El gets back I'm sure I'll get the details.

Cheers

[hobot]

*note to self, go boatyard crawling in Maxx's part of the world*

[Maxx Baqustae]

"Crawling" is the operative word mate.

[Somebody Else]

I still think Stephen Jones designed some of the most disturbed IOR designs. These were often moderately successful, but not worldbeaters.

I agree.

I remember thinking when those designs were being featured in magazines: "If this is the future of yacht design, I'm taking up competitive sewing!" Same goes for Jerry Milgram's crap. Fuck that shit!

Rate Low and Go Slow.

Why? Just why?

[Mr. Fixit's brother,, Mr. Fixit]

Here is Swampfire, won the '74 3/4 ton Worlds with bullets in every race. Skipper is Osmond (OJ) Young. The boat is sitting a little over a mile away from me on a trailer dying a slow death. The linked winches have been removed but I could probably find the universal gears and anthill sockets in a boatyard around here somewhere. Incredibly fast upwind in breeze but terrifying DW. Nothing more scary than being trapped in one of the crew wells on a round down. Built by Tom Dreyfus of New Orleans Marine as a one-off using C-flex construction.

Did this boat get donated to Spring Hill College and renamed Stella Maris? If so I can personally attest to the fear induced by the crew wells going downwind in a breeze. If not the same boat Stella Maris had the same type of crew wells and you would truly fear for your life. One kid that raced with us on it suffered a psychotic break the evening after the race and to my knowledge never sailed again.

No Stella Maris was a C&C 33 or 35. This was "Holy Ghost" that you are thinking of.

[Bob Perry]

I liked Stephen Jones work. It was fun to see an independant thinker at work.
Here is a conventional quarter tonner I did. They built two of these. The first one UNION JACK was unbeatable when it was new in the PNW. It was heavy, with high feeboard and a huge rig. It was a rocket in light air and a total moster downwind in a breeze. It came just at the start of the invasion of Kiwi light, frac rigged planing q tonners. In a year the UNION JACK type was obsolete. UNION JACK had a flush deck and to my eye looked like a mini two tonner. It is still around and lovingly restored by its original owner and sailed by his daughter.

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[Diarmuid]

Query:

(Aside -- not sure why this topic fascinates me, but it does. The deep lore here, plus the idea of willfully farking up a boat's performance for the sake of a number....)

Anyway, query: how many of the really radical IOR custom designs were the owner's second or third boat? Was it generally understood they were short-lived freaks that existed as much for the Sailing Dadaism value as anything? Was it a case of "We only sail that monster at the Quarter Ton Championships; our real boat is a Hinckley"?

[moody frog]

Query:

(Aside -- not sure why this topic fascinates me, but it does. The deep lore here, plus the idea of willfully farking up a boat's performance for the sake of a number....)

Anyway, query: how many of the really radical IOR custom designs were the owner's second or third boat? Was it generally understood they were short-lived freaks that existed as much for the Sailing Dadaism value as anything? Was it a case of "We only sail that monster at the Quarter Ton Championships; our real boat is a Hinckley"?

I can only talk for this side of the world and the answer is no !
Radical (and other) 1/4, 1/2 ton boats were owned by rather young people who wanted to bring more "sport" into yacht racing and/or pursue a designing or building career.
They were affordable to build and run, while bringing in the tenser sailing attitude from dinghy racing opened big gaps in performance compared to the "established" offshore-racing community.
Development became part of the "adventure" as much as going offshore was: 1/4 ton were racing 100+ miles races, 1/2 ton 200+
Short lifes resulted, for a good share, from "hey, we should have done it different or gone further, let's find a way to try it next year".
having the full crew living onboard for a full 1/4 ton or 1/2 ton campaign was quite common.

[r.finn]

The QT we have is a blast. We pile six people for Wednesday nights, no spinnaker and plenty of deck for the drunk people to move around without having to pick up their feet. Super tender, but gives lot's of feedback in even the slightest breeze, which is mainly what we have in NOLA. Definitely my favorite boat for light air sailing. Don't get a QT if you are actually trying to go somewhere though.

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[hobot]

Looks fun!

[longy]

Stargazer was another Mull 3/4 t here in seattle then, but fractional rig, bit more modern and of fiberglass.

If it's the same one, I raced against Stargazer in SoCal a few eons ago. Was a rocketship in the right conditions...

Your Stargazer must be the 3/4 tonner that Choate built. Not pretty, but not all that ugly. Hat Trick, a Chance Offshore One, was powerful ugly. Very fast in light air and did alright up wind in a breeze, but submerged downwind in anything over 20 knots. Hat Trick won a Whitney Santa Barbara Island Race by half a day, boat for boat, but then nearly sunk on the way out to San Nicolas Island on the next race when the main bulkhead pulled away from the deck beating into big seas. Almost an ugly end to an ugly boat.

Might also have been the Davidson maxi MORC boat that McLaurin had built (twice). IIRC first one fell apart rather quickly. 2nd hull was built about a year later, & did OK.
OOPS, no, the boat thought of above was Stardancer.

[chorus1]

The QT we have is a blast. We pile six people for Wednesday nights, no spinnaker and plenty of deck for the drunk people to move around without having to pick up their feet. Super tender, but gives lot's of feedback in even the slightest breeze, which is mainly what we have in NOLA. Definitely my favorite boat for light air sailing. Don't get a QT if you are actually trying to go somewhere though.

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Care mate, ure engine's chair (Seal ?) is not at the right middle of the hull to compenstae the torque of the propeller ?

[Icedtea]

Jesus that flush-decked quarter looks interesting to say the least....maybe a tad too responsive if you get me?

[Hannes]

Pretty typical Mull design from the late 70's. Look at Swampfire in post 298 and you can see the similarities. A much larger version is the Mull 46 "Gonnagitcha" - there is a drawing of her in some of the West System literature. Putting aside some of the Trower designs, I still think Stephen Jones designed some of the most disturbed IOR designs. These were often moderately successful, but not worldbeaters. Here is Super Nova, one of his earlier half ton designs.

Did he get that stern from a 12mR?

[DarthSailor]

Here is Swampfire, won the '74 3/4 ton Worlds with bullets in every race. Skipper is Osmond (OJ) Young. The boat is sitting a little over a mile away from me on a trailer dying a slow death. The linked winches have been removed but I could probably find the universal gears and anthill sockets in a boatyard around here somewhere. Incredibly fast upwind in breeze but terrifying DW. Nothing more scary than being trapped in one of the crew wells on a round down. Built by Tom Dreyfus of New Orleans Marine as a one-off using C-flex construction.

Did this boat get donated to Spring Hill College and renamed Stella Maris? If so I can personally attest to the fear induced by the crew wells going downwind in a breeze. If not the same boat Stella Maris had the same type of crew wells and you would truly fear for your life. One kid that raced with us on it suffered a psychotic break the evening after the race and to my knowledge never sailed again.

No Stella Maris was a C&C 33 or 35. This was "Holy Ghost" that you are thinking of.

You are correct sir she was Light grey/blue. Not sure how I could forget Holy Smoke, she was also blue is probably the reason (discounting age and booze related brain cell death).

[USA 236]

The QT we have is a blast. We pile six people for Wednesday nights, no spinnaker and plenty of deck for the drunk people to move around without having to pick up their feet. Super tender, but gives lot's of feedback in even the slightest breeze, which is mainly what we have in NOLA. Definitely my favorite boat for light air sailing. Don't get a QT if you are actually trying to go somewhere though.

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What is it? Cool looking ride!

[winipad]

Sorry friend I don't . please tell me about this.

Thanks

[r.finn]

The QT we have is a blast. We pile six people for Wednesday nights, no spinnaker and plenty of deck for the drunk people to move around without having to pick up their feet. Super tender, but gives lot's of feedback in even the slightest breeze, which is mainly what we have in NOLA. Definitely my favorite boat for light air sailing. Don't get a QT if you are actually trying to go somewhere though.

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What is it? Cool looking ride!

Here's the story as I have pieced it together.
It's a Stoner 25 one off, built for NOLA based Jim Bates in 75', it never left the lake. Sat at the dock for a solid decade before Katrina came and moved it over one slip. That's as much sailing as the boat did until we got the boat sailing last month. From every porson who knew the boat from back in the day I was told this boat was a waste of time because it was so slow compared to even production Quarter Tonners of the day. She raced locally against a Kiwi 24 "Good Groceries", Kirby QT "Halloweeny", and the Mull Espresso. Apparently this boat was never fast and very expensive. Mind you I never asked a lot about the boat, but guys from back in the day would come up to me while working on the boat in dry storage and offer vague memories about how much of a pos this thing was. For me it was free (I have like $300 in it now) and I wanted to get my non sailing friends out for Wednesdays, so I didn't give a shit. The hearsay goes that they experimented a lot trying to make the boat compete. The keel has been moved a couple times, the rig too, and the rudder messed with extensively until it looks like the brick wall it is now.

All I did was fair in some damage on the port side, rebuild the keel structure a bit which was rotting, removed all unnecessary deck hardware for sailing, and painted the deck. Also sanded off the bottom paint with 80 grit. The plan was dry sail the boat, don't bother with waterproofing (we have no companion way hatch) and drill a big hole behind the keel for rain to drain from. We just jam a rubber motorboat plug in the bottom before we launch. No instruments except for a compass, although we do plan on installing a windex this winter. So far everything has worked, and the boat is really fast, and most importantly all my non-sailing friends are loving getting into the sport.

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photo credits: neworleanssailing.com/

So the moral of the story is, if you can get your hands on one of these boats, do it. It's some of the most fun I've had sailing in a long time. Clean it up a bit, dumb down the deck layout, and enjoy sailing.

Like this: http://forums.sailin...howtopic=134843

[hobot]

Dig it!!

[Mr. Fixit's brother,, Mr. Fixit]

The QT we have is a blast. We pile six people for Wednesday nights, no spinnaker and plenty of deck for the drunk people to move around without having to pick up their feet. Super tender, but gives lot's of feedback in even the slightest breeze, which is mainly what we have in NOLA. Definitely my favorite boat for light air sailing. Don't get a QT if you are actually trying to go somewhere though.

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What is it? Cool looking ride!

Here's the story as I have pieced it together.
It's a Stoner 25 one off, built for NOLA based Jim Bates in 75', it never left the lake. Sat at the dock for a solid decade before Katrina came and moved it over one slip. That's as much sailing as the boat did until we got the boat sailing last month. From every porson who knew the boat from back in the day I was told this boat was a waste of time because it was so slow compared to even production Quarter Tonners of the day. She raced locally against a Kiwi 24 "Good Groceries", Kirby QT "Halloweeny", and the Mull Espresso. Apparently this boat was never fast and very expensive. Mind you I never asked a lot about the boat, but guys from back in the day would come up to me while working on the boat in dry storage and offer vague memories about how much of a pos this thing was. For me it was free (I have like $300 in it now) and I wanted to get my non sailing friends out for Wednesdays, so I didn't give a shit. The hearsay goes that they experimented a lot trying to make the boat compete. The keel has been moved a couple times, the rig too, and the rudder messed with extensively until it looks like the brick wall it is now.

All I did was fair in some damage on the port side, rebuild the keel structure a bit which was rotting, removed all unnecessary deck hardware for sailing, and painted the deck. Also sanded off the bottom paint with 80 grit. The plan was dry sail the boat, don't bother with waterproofing (we have no companion way hatch) and drill a big hole behind the keel for rain to drain from. We just jam a rubber motorboat plug in the bottom before we launch. No instruments except for a compass, although we do plan on installing a windex this winter. So far everything has worked, and the boat is really fast, and most importantly all my non-sailing friends are loving getting into the sport.

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So the moral of the story is, if you can get your hands on one of these boats, do it. It's some of the most fun I've had sailing in a long time. Clean it up a bit, dumb down the deck layout, and enjoy sailing.

Like this: http://forums.sailin...howtopic=134843

You need to ask Dovie or Skipper Sheldon to look around for that DW photo sequence. Pretty fun

[Santana20AE]

cool:D





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[Icedtea]

Reading back over this thread it amazes me that half those boats were ever able to float. After a week racing against sone old IOR sleds I'd tend to agree with all said above!

[kpie]

this boat probably belongs in this thread. 1974 one tonner terrorist rebuild as of 9/15/2012.

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[SailBlueH2O]

Blending the rule~~~~pure~~~


and a year before in the SORC....Sweet Okole

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[Bus Driver]

Pretty typical Mull design from the late 70's. Look at Swampfire in post 298 and you can see the similarities. A much larger version is the Mull 46 "Gonnagitcha" - there is a drawing of her in some of the West System literature. Putting aside some of the Trower designs, I still think Stephen Jones designed some of the most disturbed IOR designs. These were often moderately successful, but not worldbeaters. Here is Super Nova, one of his earlier half ton designs.

This is the old "Gonnagitcha".



Not sure if she is still being campaigned. The owner, Ed, and the "designated adult/navigator", Dick, were terrific guys and we had a ball sailing her in the Northern Chesapeake. In fact, when Dick wasn't aboard, we prided ourselves when we won a race sailing "Dick-less". Prior to him and one other owner, the boat had been at the Naval Academy and named "Reprisal".

[sledracr]

this boat probably belongs in this thread. 1974 one tonner terrorist rebuild as of 9/15/2012.

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That's awesome. Had some great (if blurry) times on that boat with the UCI sailing team, way back when. Where is it now?

[sledracr]

and a year before in the SORC....Sweet Okole

You *do* know the boat in that picture isn't Sweet Okole.... right?

[fastyacht]

CASCADE, Jerry Milgram designer I think; bizarre rule beater cat ketch, not terribly attractive in hull shape, color, construction...

could still win races, though, under certain conditions

+1
She's a bald-headed cat-ketch. See page 497 of Tony Marchaj's epic tome Aero-Hydrodynamics of Sailing

And of course J. Milgram is an MIT professor extraordinaire, inventor (if I remember correctly) of MHS which led to IMS -- actually developed the "VPP" n its original formulation. He bubbles over with intellectual energy. I like to think that Cascade was in some small way vindicated in the '93 Whitbread when MERIT and the other IOR maxis were all ketches.

[SailBlueH2O]

and a year before in the SORC....Sweet Okole

You *do* know the boat in that picture isn't Sweet Okole.... right?

I built the boat in the picture......

[SailBlueH2O]

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[fastyacht]

I have a book written by the designer Vladislav Murnikov, my pal Vlad, called RACE TO FREEDOM. It's a great book.
FAZISI had sort of a pronounced sheer and a flush deck. It was very interesting looking and not ugly. The project was plagued by lack of funds and I would say FAZISI was not a typical IOR boat.

I went aboard FAZISI in Philadelphia in the early 90s and either Vlad, or a member of the crew (I think the latter was the case) explained that her low freeboard was the solution to how to build an aluminum boat that could be competitive with a carbon-kevlar boat. She did not have standing headroom for me. She was rather submarine-like down below. And she drew 14 feet and dug a furrow in the mud at Penn's Landing.

[DRIFTW00D]

The boat is still sailing and lives at the NYC in Toronto. The current owner knows the builder personally and has sailed on many of his designs and boats. Can't say a whole lot about the boats performance but the owner loves it.

A little boat called Spad ? comes to mind it was varnished wood about 27 feet . In '85 the big blow year it was in the Black River before the BYC Mac. It had a pair of outboard pipe steering platforms in the aft end over and outside a cigar shaped hull. She never made it to the finish neather did 75% of the flee that year I'm not sure of its design rule IOR or MORC. It looked ugly and wet, nice combo .

aH?? Photos or u aint seen it.

[chorus1]

this boat probably belongs in this thread. 1974 one tonner terrorist rebuild as of 9/15/2012.

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Very pleased to hear about her !
Any more pics about Terrorist ?

[kpie]

this boat probably belongs in this thread. 1974 one tonner terrorist rebuild as of 9/15/2012.

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That's awesome. Had some great (if blurry) times on that boat with the UCI sailing team, way back when. Where is it now?

the boat came from port townsend. i hauled the boat to my shop in okc & rebuilt it there. the boat is now being painted in texas where it will shuttle between corpus & lake texoma. i built a trailer for it, so i'm gonna make some road trips, including possibly california next year(i have a daughter in los angeles).

i've talked to bob steele several times about the boat. he apparently ran the boat with/for al cassel. did you know him?

[kpie]

this boat probably belongs in this thread. 1974 one tonner terrorist rebuild as of 9/15/2012.

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Very pleased to hear about her !
Any more pics about Terrorist ?

i have hundreds of pics of the rebuild which included new boards, trunks, framing, supports, deck plating repair, rudder, engine & shaft log. here's a few.

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[jhc]

Blending the rule~~~~pure~~~


and a year before in the SORC....Sweet Okole

Imp...'76. With the structural aluminum 'space frame' in foreground.

[SailBlueH2O]

Imp...

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[Mr. Fixit's brother,, Mr. Fixit]

Pretty typical Mull design from the late 70's. Look at Swampfire in post 298 and you can see the similarities. A much larger version is the Mull 46 "Gonnagitcha" - there is a drawing of her in some of the West System literature. Putting aside some of the Trower designs, I still think Stephen Jones designed some of the most disturbed IOR designs. These were often moderately successful, but not worldbeaters. Here is Super Nova, one of his earlier half ton designs.

This is the old "Gonnagitcha".



Not sure if she is still being campaigned. The owner, Ed, and the "designated adult/navigator", Dick, were terrific guys and we had a ball sailing her in the Northern Chesapeake. In fact, when Dick wasn't aboard, we prided ourselves when we won a race sailing "Dick-less". Prior to him and one other owner, the boat had been at the Naval Academy and named "Reprisal".

So is Gonnagitcha the ex "Wimoweh" from New Orleans that sank in the '75 SORC after hitting Great Isaacs?

[chorus1]

this boat probably belongs in this thread. 1974 one tonner terrorist rebuild as of 9/15/2012.

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That's awesome. Had some great (if blurry) times on that boat with the UCI sailing team, way back when. Where is it now?

the boat came from port townsend. i hauled the boat to my shop in okc & rebuilt it there. the boat is now being painted in texas where it will shuttle between corpus & lake texoma. i built a trailer for it, so i'm gonna make some road trips, including possibly california next year(i have a daughter in los angeles).

i've talked to bob steele several times about the boat. he apparently ran the boat with/for al cassel. did you know him?

No i dont know him do you think he would have some good pics of Terrorist under sail ?
Good job Anyway kpie !

[cruizin31]

the boat came from port townsend. i hauled the boat to my shop in okc & rebuilt it there. the boat is now being painted in texas where it will shuttle between corpus & lake texoma. i built a trailer for it, so i'm gonna make some road trips, including possibly california next year(i have a daughter in los angeles)

Wow, I never thought I would live to see this. Thank you for saving her! I'll pass this along to my dad, who happens to be the designer.

[sledracr]

^^^ kewl!

Say hi for me... I did a pseudo internship under him when I was in engineering school and he maintained an office at the Ericson shop in SoCal.

[kpie]

the boat came from port townsend. i hauled the boat to my shop in okc & rebuilt it there. the boat is now being painted in texas where it will shuttle between corpus & lake texoma. i built a trailer for it, so i'm gonna make some road trips, including possibly california next year(i have a daughter in los angeles)

Wow, I never thought I would live to see this. Thank you for saving her! I'll pass this along to my dad, who happens to be the designer.

i've traded a few emails w/ your dad. actually, i think we have also communicated once or twice a few years ago. i believe you were the one who got me in contact w/ your dad. you're martin, i presume.

[cruizin31]

the boat came from port townsend. i hauled the boat to my shop in okc & rebuilt it there. the boat is now being painted in texas where it will shuttle between corpus & lake texoma. i built a trailer for it, so i'm gonna make some road trips, including possibly california next year(i have a daughter in los angeles)

Wow, I never thought I would live to see this. Thank you for saving her! I'll pass this along to my dad, who happens to be the designer.

i've traded a few emails w/ your dad. actually, i think we have also communicated once or twice a few years ago. i believe you were the one who got me in contact w/ your dad. you're martin, i presume.

Correct on all counts.

[Somebody Else]

i've talked to bob steele several times about the boat. he apparently ran the boat with/for al cassel. did you know him?

Bob is one of the principals (if not "The" principal) of buoyweather.com
Southern California resident and sailor.

[kpie]

i've talked to bob steele several times about the boat. he apparently ran the boat with/for al cassel. did you know him?

Bob is one of the principals (if not "The" principal) of buoyweather.com
Southern California resident and sailor.

yes. bob is a lot of fun to talk to & remembers alot about the boat & al cassel. he's seems to have a sincere fondness for both.

[Somebody Else]

I remember as a young 20-something seeing those Stephen Jones designs and thinking, "Why does this guy hate boats so much?"

By that time I had some books like Skene's and a few others, along with a copy of IOR Mk IIIa of which I had programmed a significant amount into my TI 55 calculator. I knew Jones was trying to fake out L and I appreciated his intentions, but I was just, "No!"

It seemed to me that he (and a few other designers) were on a mission to prove that hull shape simply didn't matter for racing sailboats. Or more specifically that sail area was much more significant than hull shape. And of course there would always be some outlier conditions where that was indeed the case. But the question remains: "Why?"

Same goes for Milgram and Cascade. Can you imaging what would have happened if Cascade was actually successful? God bless Wylie and his good-looking and well-mannered Wyliecats, but Cascade was neither.

[moody frog]

I remember as a young 20-something seeing those Stephen Jones designs and thinking, "Why does this guy hate boats so much?"

By that time I had some books like Skene's and a few others, along with a copy of IOR Mk IIIa of which I had programmed a significant amount into my TI 55 calculator. I knew Jones was trying to fake out L and I appreciated his intentions, but I was just, "No!"

It seemed to me that he (and a few other designers) were on a mission to prove that hull shape simply didn't matter for racing sailboats. Or more specifically that sail area was much more significant than hull shape. And of course there would always be some outlier conditions where that was indeed the case. But the question remains: "Why?"

Same goes for Milgram and Cascade. Can you imaging what would have happened if Cascade was actually successful? God bless Wylie and his good-looking and well-mannered Wyliecats, but Cascade was neither.

The TI 55 quote is, I believe, excellent.

Design was driven by the Ton cups where the standard of sailing was excellent, therefore a faster boat for a given rating was a key to a buffer over the opposition.

Many designers in the smaller classes, and for sure the young innovating ones, had limited access to computing power, TI 55 was a common tool.
One key rationale was to increase sailing-length to improve beam-reach and downwind speed while ensuring the lowest % of measured sail-area (RSAP) compared to the actual sail area (see catboats and cascade).
Quite simple: pile-up unmeasured sailing-length and unmeasured sail-area. Less was to be lost in disruptions than what was gained in raw-power

At least this is what I remember from those days and it proves your point.

The light brigade came in (45° South QTC '75) and a totally different sailing and handling behaviour allowed smaller boats to win: a 7.3 m boat beam reaching faster than a 7.8 m one.

Soon the "calculators" thought that it should be possible to use the same tricks as on medium dspl yachts to draw a larger "light brigade" for a given rating, and it was back to square one.

So: Why ? many youngsters figured that a ton-cup success was a guaranteed entry into a nice job, they had to use any potential weapon be it ugliness.

[jhiller]

I recall a two tonner called Hawkeye that had some success but looked as you put it so wrong.I recall it having extremely reversed tumblehome and bilgeboards.

Hawkeye and Swampfire were a pair of Bruce King designed bilge-boarders. Both were 2 tonners and both did win races. I crewed on Swamp Fire a few times. It sailed well and was quite fast. Many of the IOR boats weren't either. As racing began to grow in popularity there were dozens of IOR rule beaters designed that just plain couldn't sail down wind in a breze. Sails like Bloopers were invented to keep them from rolling from rail to rail in a breeze.

[Forza]

Anyone know where the Mull designed Hot Flash (half ton) currently resides ?

[kpie]

I recall a two tonner called Hawkeye that had some success but looked as you put it so wrong.I recall it having extremely reversed tumblehome and bilgeboards.

Hawkeye and Swampfire were a pair of Bruce King designed bilge-boarders. Both were 2 tonners and both did win races. I crewed on Swamp Fire a few times. It sailed well and was quite fast. Many of the IOR boats weren't either. As racing began to grow in popularity there were dozens of IOR rule beaters designed that just plain couldn't sail down wind in a breze. Sails like Bloopers were invented to keep them from rolling from rail to rail in a breeze.

swampfire was a mull designed 3/4 tonner out of new orleans.

[kpie]

I recall a two tonner called Hawkeye that had some success but looked as you put it so wrong.I recall it having extremely reversed tumblehome and bilgeboards.

Hawkeye and Swampfire were a pair of Bruce King designed bilge-boarders. Both were 2 tonners and both did win races. I crewed on Swamp Fire a few times. It sailed well and was quite fast. Many of the IOR boats weren't either. As racing began to grow in popularity there were dozens of IOR rule beaters designed that just plain couldn't sail down wind in a breze. Sails like Bloopers were invented to keep them from rolling from rail to rail in a breeze.

& swampfire didn't have bilgeboards.

[halfton]

Stephen Jones designing ugly boats? His SJ35 and SJ41 are amongst the prettiest designs ever... Remarkably good racing pedigree as well.

[Somebody Else]

One key rationale was to increase sailing-length to improve beam-reach and downwind speed while ensuring the lowest % of measured sail-area (RSAP) compared to the actual sail area (see catboats and cascade).

Historically speaking, that is a no-win scenario. Unless you are building specifically for a downwind race (Transpac comes to mind...) the odds of getting an off-wind flier to the podium are stacked against you.

In windward/leeward races, 2/3 of the time is spent going upwind. If you optimize a boat for anything other than that 2/3 condition you are simply bucking the odds. This is why EVERY SINGLE box rule eventually ends up producing upwind weapons. There are the odd designs with better off-wind speed but the comment is always, "Well, we never really got our conditions." Hey! You knew that would be the case before you ever started.

[JimC]

Historically speaking, that is a no-win scenario. Unless you are building specifically for a downwind race

'tain't necessarilly so. No point in eking out a 50 yard lead on a beat if you're going to half a mile downhill.Laws of physics say differentials in speed upwind must be far less than are achieveable downwind. What you might call a 45 degrees South lesson.

[moody frog]

One key rationale was to increase sailing-length to improve beam-reach and downwind speed while ensuring the lowest % of measured sail-area (RSAP) compared to the actual sail area (see catboats and cascade).

Historically speaking, that is a no-win scenario. Unless you are building specifically for a downwind race (Transpac comes to mind...) the odds of getting an off-wind flier to the podium are stacked against you.

In windward/leeward races, 2/3 of the time is spent going upwind. If you optimize a boat for anything other than that 2/3 condition you are simply bucking the odds. This is why EVERY SINGLE box rule eventually ends up producing upwind weapons. There are the odd designs with better off-wind speed but the comment is always, "Well, we never really got our conditions." Hey! You knew that would be the case before you ever started.

You r right when speaking in 2012.
At the time, the Ton Cup format was totally different from W/L !! and local races were also around existing buoys.
.
The program was made of coastal races (sometime in the latest editions an olympic triangle amongst them) kind of 30-40 miles and a long offshore on a pre-determined course. (from 120 miles for 1/4 ton to over 250 and with double points)
Downwind and beam-wind legs were therefore of paramount importance, I can remember one or two races with significant eased-sheets legs, and that's where the light brigade (+ fractional rig) took the up, passing the mast-head medium-dspl boats, who had earlier led upwind, on those legs.

Different sports !

[fastyacht]

One key rationale was to increase sailing-length to improve beam-reach and downwind speed while ensuring the lowest % of measured sail-area (RSAP) compared to the actual sail area (see catboats and cascade).

Historically speaking, that is a no-win scenario. Unless you are building specifically for a downwind race (Transpac comes to mind...) the odds of getting an off-wind flier to the podium are stacked against you.

In windward/leeward races, 2/3 of the time is spent going upwind. If you optimize a boat for anything other than that 2/3 condition you are simply bucking the odds. This is why EVERY SINGLE box rule eventually ends up producing upwind weapons. There are the odd designs with better off-wind speed but the comment is always, "Well, we never really got our conditions." Hey! You knew that would be the case before you ever started.

You r right when speaking in 2012.
At the time, the Ton Cup format was totally different from W/L !! and local races were also around existing buoys.
.
The program was made of coastal races (sometime in the latest editions an olympic triangle amongst them) kind of 30-40 miles and a long offshore on a pre-determined course. (from 120 miles for 1/4 ton to over 250 and with double points)
Downwind and beam-wind legs were therefore of paramount importance, I can remember one or two races with significant eased-sheets legs, and that's where the light brigade (+ fractional rig) took the up, passing the mast-head medium-dspl boats, who had earlier led upwind, on those legs.

Different sports !

Yes. It used to be *ocean racing*. Now it is stupid.

[Icedtea]

120 miles in a quarter tonner?

Jesus were thse lads brave or really stupid?

Cause that sounds awesome....

[moody frog]

One key rationale was to increase sailing-length to improve beam-reach and downwind speed while ensuring the lowest % of measured sail-area (RSAP) compared to the actual sail area (see catboats and cascade).

Historically speaking, that is a no-win scenario. Unless you are building specifically for a downwind race (Transpac comes to mind...) the odds of getting an off-wind flier to the podium are stacked against you.

In windward/leeward races, 2/3 of the time is spent going upwind. If you optimize a boat for anything other than that 2/3 condition you are simply bucking the odds. This is why EVERY SINGLE box rule eventually ends up producing upwind weapons. There are the odd designs with better off-wind speed but the comment is always, "Well, we never really got our conditions." Hey! You knew that would be the case before you ever started.

You r right when speaking in 2012.
At the time, the Ton Cup format was totally different from W/L !! and local races were also around existing buoys.
.
The program was made of coastal races (sometime in the latest editions an olympic triangle amongst them) kind of 30-40 miles and a long offshore on a pre-determined course. (from 120 miles for 1/4 ton to over 250 and with double points)
Downwind and beam-wind legs were therefore of paramount importance, I can remember one or two races with significant eased-sheets legs, and that's where the light brigade (+ fractional rig) took the up, passing the mast-head medium-dspl boats, who had earlier led upwind, on those legs.

Different sports !

Yes. It used to be *ocean racing*. Now it is stupid.

Time and things change ! who could spare the time for what we did, nowadays, + no navi-guessing anymore, hence in the time of GPS one competitive factor would be lost, length of race do not necessarily create differences.

[moody frog]

120 miles in a quarter tonner?

Jesus were thse lads brave or really stupid?

Cause that sounds awesome....

Why ? being allowed to cross to Cork from France on the 1/4 ton borrowed from the owner was a common (if rare) end of season "gift" for crews

On the other hand, the rationale of this Ton cup format was to make sure that boats were not built too light !

[fastyacht]

120 miles in a quarter tonner?

Jesus were thse lads brave or really stupid?

Cause that sounds awesome....

Why ? being allowed to cross to Cork from France on the 1/4 ton borrowed from the owner was a common (if rare) end of season "gift" for crews

On the other hand, the rationale of this Ton cup format was to make sure that boats were not built too light !

Uffa Fox used to cross the channel in a sailing canoe ("To Brittany In Brynhild") or even in an international 14. 1/4 tonners aren't "that" small--arguably they aren't any smaller than Adlard Cole's original COHOE and he raced the snot out of that one all the way to Santander and back in gales...

[moody frog]

120 miles in a quarter tonner?

Jesus were thse lads brave or really stupid?

Cause that sounds awesome....

Why ? being allowed to cross to Cork from France on the 1/4 ton borrowed from the owner was a common (if rare) end of season "gift" for crews

On the other hand, the rationale of this Ton cup format was to make sure that boats were not built too light !

Uffa Fox used to cross the channel in a sailing canoe ("To Brittany In Brynhild") or even in an international 14. 1/4 tonners aren't "that" small--arguably they aren't any smaller than Adlard Cole's original COHOE and he raced the snot out of that one all the way to Santander and back in gales...

Fully correct on all points, the funny aspect of your post is that Uffa's Brynhild voyage ended in my village !! the last beacon he passed is my avatar !
Of course I was not there but he is well remembered in the village, for his appreciation of the hotel cellar !
Brynhild was shipped back from here by train.

[sledracr]

One key rationale was to increase sailing-length to improve beam-reach and downwind speed while ensuring the lowest % of measured sail-area (RSAP) compared to the actual sail area (see catboats and cascade).

Historically speaking, that is a no-win scenario. Unless you are building specifically for a downwind race (Transpac comes to mind...) the odds of getting an off-wind flier to the podium are stacked against you.

Yeah, although (and this is a very minor nit), back in the IOR daze the typical closed-course race was a triangle - typically Windward-Reach-Reach-Windward-Leeward-Windward, so... having a boat that [at the very least] wasn't horrid on the reaches and runs was important.

[some dude]

One key rationale was to increase sailing-length to improve beam-reach and downwind speed while ensuring the lowest % of measured sail-area (RSAP) compared to the actual sail area (see catboats and cascade).

Historically speaking, that is a no-win scenario. Unless you are building specifically for a downwind race (Transpac comes to mind...) the odds of getting an off-wind flier to the podium are stacked against you.

Yeah, although (and this is a very minor nit), back in the IOR daze the typical closed-course race was a triangle - typically Windward-Reach-Reach-Windward-Leeward-Windward, so... having a boat that [at the very least] wasn't horrid on the reaches and runs was important.

ahhh yes. The "bouy race" would be S-Pt Fermin Bouy-3TL-LB Entrance-F. then, next weekend, the Tri Island. nothing like beating the crap out of yourself and coming into Fish Harbor at 4am

[Presuming Ed]

120 miles in a quarter tonner?

Jesus were thse lads brave or really stupid?

Cause that sounds awesome....

Why ? being allowed to cross to Cork from France on the 1/4 ton borrowed from the owner was a common (if rare) end of season "gift" for crews

On the other hand, the rationale of this Ton cup format was to make sure that boats were not built too light !

This crossed the Atlantic:

[sledracr]

ahhh yes. The "bouy race" would be S-Pt Fermin Bouy-3TL-LB Entrance-F. then, next weekend, the Tri Island. nothing like beating the crap out of yourself and coming into Fish Harbor at 4am

...and then coming to the LAYC dock, past newsboy on the finger, and learning that Deaver had been in for hours. Again.

[davidweil]

OK I posted a photo of our boat earlier in this thread but the discussion about offwind performance reminded me about this photo. Hurrah is one of the earlier Choate 40's - built in 1979 - and I think the lines of this boat - from the side - are among the prettiest of any boat ever drawn. A stern shot is another story. This photo of us motoring gives you a pretty good idea of why these boats are such a handful downwind. I can't imagine driving this boat to Hawaii. I know several of these boats did Transpac back in the day - but it must have been a wild ride.

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[some dude]

ahhh yes. The "bouy race" would be S-Pt Fermin Bouy-3TL-LB Entrance-F. then, next weekend, the Tri Island. nothing like beating the crap out of yourself and coming into Fish Harbor at 4am

...and then coming to the LAYC dock, past newsboy on the finger, and learning that Deaver had been in for hours. Again.

...or Hurrah. all that wood down below, you give them half a foot, and there there's the boat, all buttoned up, crew's been home in bed for hours.

OK I posted a photo of our boat earlier in this thread but the discussion about offwind performance reminded me about this photo. Hurrah is one of the earlier Choate 40's - built in 1979 - and I think the lines of this boat - from the side - are among the prettiest of any boat ever drawn. A stern shot is another story. This photo of us motoring gives you a pretty good idea of why these boats are such a handful downwind. I can't imagine driving this boat to Hawaii. I know several of these boats did Transpac back in the day - but it must have been a wild ride.

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wasn't so bad. there were scarier ones (the CF41 for starters)

[Sol]

Well, although they were not much fun to sail downwind to Hawaii, boats like Peterson 46's, Serendipity 43's, Choate 40's routinely placed very well overall-they had very good VMG DDW and won on corrected often. For sure, much more fun on a modern boat, and faster, but these boats did the job back then.

[sledracr]

it must have been a wild ride.

wasn't so bad. there were scarier ones (the CF41 for starters)

CF41s?!? those were pussycats compared to the choate-40s. Fiver was a dream off the wind, but the 40s would dig in and spin out on their own quarter-wake with pretty predictable regularity.

[davidweil]

Well, although they were not much fun to sail downwind to Hawaii, boats like Peterson 46's, Serendipity 43's, Choate 40's routinely placed very well overall-they had very good VMG DDW and won on corrected often. For sure, much more fun on a modern boat, and faster, but these boats did the job back then.

+1 on the DDW. We're not very successful in light air or in races with long reaching legs, particularly when the race includes a few sprit boats racing PHRF. But when we get up over around 12-14, we can turn DDW and cruise past all those guys with their big gybe angles.

[davidweil]

CF41s?!? those were pussycats compared to the choate-40s. Fiver was a dream off the wind, but the 40s would dig in and spin out on their own quarter-wake with pretty predictable regularity.

Ha! X100!

[moody frog]

120 miles in a quarter tonner?

Jesus were thse lads brave or really stupid?

Cause that sounds awesome....

Why ? being allowed to cross to Cork from France on the 1/4 ton borrowed from the owner was a common (if rare) end of season "gift" for crews

On the other hand, the rationale of this Ton cup format was to make sure that boats were not built too light !

This crossed the Atlantic:

As did Jean Lacombe in the '60 OSTAR on a cold-moulded 21 footer and again in the '64 OSTAR on a GRP 21 footer.

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