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Super Turbo Lido 14.

The two other "blades" are plain plywood covered in several layers of epoxy, apparently without fabric reinforcement.  I was told that they will do double duty as pivoting center boards hung on the inside of each hull. They plan to accomplish this without penetrating the hulls and they intend to control them with a system of lines lead to the aft deck area.

Aha!  Leeboards!  Classic time tested seaworthy design concept. He must have read about them somewhere.  But, they will add to the stresses trying to separate his cat into a tri.

Yeah. That.

stop using quo

Thinking about an F25A but a bit unsure about buying a home built boat. Any advice?

Depends on what you mean exactly by home built.

The F25Cs (carbon over balsa) were 'home built' in a group of 8 as I recall.  Sort of an amateur production factory.

The subsequent F25As (glass but I don't recall what the coring was, I think it was also balsa) were built in a factory (Colorado Composites) started by some of those same folks.

But if considering on of these boats, a good inspection is needed. There were/are some delam/wet core issues. Not enough to scrap the boat, but repairs can be difficult or costly, so word to the wise.

The home built versions are designated F82

I agree with the reservation of buying a home built, I can't count how many times I've heard builders do something like "plans called for 8oz 45/45 but I had some 11 oz carbon laying around so I used that, carbon is stronger right?"   or making structural changes at whim, or even basics like not even knowing to be concerned about contamination or amine blush, etc.  Scary to think about. 

BUT -  there are many really great home built Farriers out there.  Time and track record help establish if there were issues, and of course a good expert lookover by someone who knows the boats is important.  If they really followed the plans and exercised diligence in their epoxy work, the homebuilt can be even better built than most factory boats. 

Im so excited, I own a big modern TRI, particualy like the plush interior

Going to enter all the big races, Off shore and around the bouys

Not worried about a few cracks, Not worried about not seeing it before I bought it

Going to get a longer bow sprit and bigger foresails, a taller mast and a badass square top main

Bought it on ebay so my purchase is guarented, should be cheap to ship back overseas

 

Look out, Im going to be f...en great.

 

Some advise on how to fit foils please

So what happened?

The boat is listed on eBay again...

http://cgi.ebay.com/...16205d8&vxp=mtr