Yea, seems to be good memories there. Feeling of being young. No Ben Johnson starting position at the doctors...
I've always wondered what happened to "Madcap", the 40-foot Bruce King version of the pintail concept that later led to the moderately-successful production Ericson 3/4-tonner.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/203537404677541
Only found 12 year old info:
We had an E-34 in the old San Diego IOR fleet in the early 80s, owned and raced by one of SDYC's staff commodores. It wasn't a custom Peterson/NM/Wylie 3/4T'er but she was competitive and, for some reason I never figured out, was absolutely amazing in a drifter. The keel was almost a delta planform, wide chord at the base and very short at the tip, which seemed to me to be all wrong, but the boat did well enough.
Yup. I raced a bit with hull #1 (PIzzazz) and later for several years on hull #7 (Seduction), both out of Newport Beach. Pretty good boats, and competitive in the 3/4-ton racing throughout SoCal. Seduction won the Ahmanson Series and the 66 Series, IIRC, as well as class in the IOR midwinters a couple of times. Ed Adams had another E34 called Junkyard Dog that he did very well with, too.
The only time I have ever puked on a boat was on Seduction (tied up at Parker's Lighthouse after being at the bar too long)!
It's all about the specifics of the measurement paradigm. They would be fast if the measurements would have been taken differently. The wider sterns were an extreme waterline lenghtening ploy. Combinded with a bustle, which made the measured waterline very short, they created an actual heeled sailing length much much longer. There are more subtleties to it invlving girths and the other weird measurements added to try to rein this stuff in. USer here named 12metre forgot more than I ever knew about these tricks.
Also worth reading:
Good news!
