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    Re-read the article.
    Nothing to do with the Olympics - simply the Tornado & Rodney Marsh mentioned.
    It does give (for me) interesting insight into how/why some classes are labelled
    "International" but are fairly rare, while others are not, even though sailed in
    many countries.
    Anyway, in 1976 the Hobie & other boardless beach cats were still a fairly new
    thing, as was the Laser, so the article has some histerical interest on what
    might have been. OMG - that's nearly 40 years ago...

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    One of the great mistakes was the international committee passing over the 10sq metres canoe when it won the trials by miles.

    In that case it was probably political as the canoe was under the auspices of the ICF rather than the IYRU which was making the decision.

    If the canoe had been selected it would have meant a sophistication and performance jump for sailing in general.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boatmik View Post
    One of the great mistakes was the international committee passing over the 10sq metres canoe when it won the trials by miles.

    In that case it was probably political as the canoe was under the auspices of the ICF rather than the IYRU which was making the decision.

    If the canoe had been selected it would have meant a sophistication and performance jump for sailing in general.

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    Hehe, I just pictured Paul Elvstrom sailing the 10sq metres canoe. Not sure why, but I just had to smile...

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodeneye View Post
    Hehe, I just pictured Paul Elvstrom sailing the 10sq metres canoe. Not sure why, but I just had to smile...
    That makes me smile too!

    I wish I could find the photo of him having streeted the Star fleet, maybe in Acapulco where he has finished in a strong breeze and is watching the fleet still a long way down from the finish line.

    He has oversheeted the sails on so the Star is knocked down and he and the crew are standing side by side on the keel leaning forward with their crossed arms on the side of boat.

    There's a story of him sailing the Finn and he came screaming down on a run between two marina arms in a narrow space with heaps of wind from behind. Everyone else was nervous about sailing down there at all and Elvestrom was gybing repeatedly. I think the Australian Carl Ryves said that "after that nobody was game to take him on".

    I might have the name wrong .. but it was an OZ sailor.

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    Hehe, I have read those stories as well. He was a bit of a character.

    There is another where the spreader broke on his Star. He over sheeted to heel the boat over, gave his crew some tape and told him to walk up the mast and "fix it". His crew thought he was joking, but one look at his skipper's expression saw him up the mast quick smart!

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    Default Victorinox Skipper

    Guys, put your orders in for Fathers's Day/Christmas/Birthdays. A salty gift for sure, the Swiss Army "Skipper" knife, complete with shackle key

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    PHEW with corkscrew option thankfully. Very important. (really!)

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    Victorinox too, rather than Wenger.
    In my experience, Wenger uses/used a softer grade of S/S - didn't hold its
    edge nearly as well. I'm guessing, like software, the price is artificially inflated
    for AU buyers...

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    But some of us have heaps of contacts in other countries.

    (that's an Australian attempt at humour ... we ALL have contacts in other countries!



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    The corkscrew is pretty superfluous here in Aus now as our winemakers have converted to screw caps. The best initiative ever for the industry.

    Not sure whether there would be any difference in quality of steel given the brand and that Victorinox owns Wenger, but interestingly, Wenger knives are advertised as the "Genuine Swiss Army Knife" and Victorinox as the "Original Swiss Army Knife"!

    There is also a Helmsman version, with not as many tools but probably a bit lighter to carry around.

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    I've never been a fan of these all in one tools. I do carry a "Leatherman" aboard each boat, but this and the Swiss knifes always seem to leave me wishing for a longer blade, tougher pick, sturdier fid, wider grip range, etc., etc., etc. I suppose if it's all you have, but on the occasions these have been, I've cussed the whole time I had to use it. A hatchet with a hammer face on the other side, a combo screwdriver (4 way) and a ViceGrip aren't much to carry and always seem to get it done, even if crudely. Try and cut a broken rigging wire with a dinky pairs of 12 tools in one pair of pliers. A few blows with a sharp hatchet will get it done. Try to un-freeze a rusted nut with a combo tool, but grasp it with a pair of ViceGrips and see what happens. I've found you usually need some force when resorting to these types of tools and they just can't provide it. Bash it with a 3 pound hatchet head and watch it comply.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAR View Post
    Bash it with a 3 pound hatchet head and watch it comply.
    ...while shouting, "RESPECT MY AUTHORITII!!!" I hope.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PAR View Post
    I've never been a fan of these all in one tools. I do carry a "Leatherman" aboard each boat, but this and the Swiss knifes always seem to leave me wishing for a longer blade, tougher pick, sturdier fid, wider grip range, etc., etc., etc. I suppose if it's all you have, but on the occasions these have been, I've cussed the whole time I had to use it. A hatchet with a hammer face on the other side, a combo screwdriver (4 way) and a ViceGrip aren't much to carry and always seem to get it done, even if crudely. Try and cut a broken rigging wire with a dinky pairs of 12 tools in one pair of pliers. A few blows with a sharp hatchet will get it done. Try to un-freeze a rusted nut with a combo tool, but grasp it with a pair of ViceGrips and see what happens. I've found you usually need some force when resorting to these types of tools and they just can't provide it. Bash it with a 3 pound hatchet head and watch it comply.
    PAR, you've missed the point of these things completely. You're never meant to actually use them, except to peel the odd orange maybe.

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    Default Moth Worlds 2012

    Today, a record-breaking fleet of 125 Moths from 20 countries take to the waters of Lake Garda for the 2012 Zhik Nautica Moth Worlds. It's been 18 months since MIK and I watched the 2011 event on Belmont Bay and the Moth sailors haven't been resting. Reports are that significant development has taken place during this time and these little boats are now 10% faster! Check out the website.

    2012 Moth Worlds | Campione del garda, 19th to 26th august 2012

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    that inside gybe at 45 sec. and the multiple gybes at 3:45. And at 6:40.

    8:30 you can see how slow they can go without dropping off the foils during a fudged gybe.

    But ... I think about when I raced sailboards ... the thing that taught me the most and gave me the biggest advantage was being able to tack and gybe and get around buoys as smoothly as possible.

    My brother used to photograph windsurfer wavejumping competitions. Usually they would have a slalom event too. I saw Kiwi Bruce Kendall doing the gybes. Tight, no loss of speed. Because he practiced those specifically. While others sailed backwards and forwards for fun when sailing at home. Much like what most of what the Moths are doing - sailing backwards and forwards on easy reaches.

    The day that Bruce and I were watching the worlds on Lake Macquarie from the Goat Island Skiff, there was such a huge drop in boat handling from the top five or ten sailors to the rest of the fleet.

    The first thing to get right is tacking and gybing ... then you have options on the race course. I spent lots of years going backwards and forwards on nice reaches too ... but I was always mystified that when club races came along that the reach to the next mark was never at the ideal angle.

    I wonder what the kite boarding guys are thinking about the Moths. They would probably be used to being the fastest things on the lake!

    I love the busyness of some of the sections ... a mass of moths with a mass of kiteboarders a bit further away. So cool!

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