Time for a hijack!!!
1) Welcome Back Kotter - Travolta at his best
2) Logan's Run - Jessica's skirt just kept getting shorter!
3) UFO - awesome stuff, a base on the moon and everything!
What brands from the 70s/80s would you resurrect?
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1) Welcome Back Kotter - Travolta at his best
2) Logan's Run - Jessica's skirt just kept getting shorter!
3) UFO - awesome stuff, a base on the moon and everything!
Pertinacious Tom
Importunate Member
Training Wheels
Anarchist
Up your nose with a rubber hose!
My sister said that to me once when we were teenagers but got it backwards. Hilarity ensued.
dolphinmaster
Super Anarchist
dolphinmaster
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MauiPunter
Will sail for food
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It was damn sexy though. Look at dat ass, yo!The mention
U must be trolling. The ranger 22 was the fastest looking, slowest boat of the IOR era 1/4 ton, microscopic LWL.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
Except it wasn't a 1/4 Pounder.The mention
U must be trolling
It was a Mini-Ton.
It wasn't particularly slow for its day either - PHRF is around 220, the same as 1/4 Tonners of a couple of years earlier.
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Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
And look at dat stern wave!It was damn sexy though. Look at dat ass, yo!The mention
U must be trolling
Cool looking boat, they were sexy. I suppose whether the sexy was more than skin deep, depends on what you like.
FB- Doug
hobot
Super Anarchist
If the Cook has grease stains on his shirt, then that's the place to eat!
My brain cells are shorting out much more often as I get older but I looked at that drawing and knew exactly what place it was!
And the angle on the water-brake, er, tiller. Maybe a little mainsheet and vang ease, weight on the rail, kids?
That very boat is now named Heidi and sails on Harrison Lake in British Columbia. The PNW Hobie fleet would know it well. It is in absolutely gorgeous condition as the owner did a very good restoration. The money the owner put in to the boat was not large, maybe $500. Why ever buy a new one?
Even back in the good old days it seemed the only sustainable bit of the sailing business was sail making because thinks tended to rust out before they wore out on the hulls and spars and even back then people wanted more and better sails. Custom boatbuilders seemed to hit themselves over the head just to get the job. It was a lowest cost producer environment where the Kiwi Yachts of the world would build a fast boat and then go bankrupt.
As far as the production cost increases from wages and environmental regulation, it is not a big factor. The market, or real lack of, is the problem
sledracr
Super Anarchist
<lol>
Back In The Day (88? 89?), there was a funny little boat in a slip near Evo at Marina del Rey. about the size of a Soling, wide-open cockpit but a very IOR shape.
Turned out it was one of the 1/3rd-scale tank-test models for (what became) Kialoa V, and someone (John Jr?) had fitted it out with rig and sails as a daysail toy.
damn sexy little thing! wonder if it is still around somewhere....
MauiPunter
Will sail for food
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Somebody Else
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The boat was visually a blatant rip-off of the Tuna 20 in an attempt to ride the coattails of popularity of that class in its heyday. But then the execs at Ranger got hold of it and went all IOR up in that shit, ruining the concept. So it was a shitty mini tonner and it wasn't fast or fun enough to break into one-design.
hobot
Super Anarchist
Yep, those thing or the Wilderness 21.
Bring back the IOR shape!
Bring back the IOR shape!
USA2695
New member
not exactly gone, but lets bring back the Grundens!
SPORTSCAR
Super Anarchist
Bring back IOR fleet numbers!
Granted not the best/fastest/most comfortable or best handling boat designs ever created but they delivered the best racing, particularly in Level Rating, Ton classes.
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