The scale of the thing part II

[John B]

some may recall this pic of my Holtang parked under Alfa Romeo a month ago or so.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2009/IMG_4203_1.jpg

The 'new ' fastest yacht in NZ was unloaded from a ship on saturday ,run down to our old haulout area at Okahu bay and craned out for rigging etc.

Naturally I had to go park under it, so I put my request in to the Prince of darkness and yesterday ( sunday)dragged out the old jag for a run down there..

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2009/IMG_4579_2.jpg

Going to make a bit of a mess of the local fleet I suspect.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2009/IMG_4583_6.jpg
a quick fingers calculation leads me to ponder the fact that there are many urban plots of land this thing would not fit on.

[The Bigfella]

I wouldn't mind getting my hands on the wheel for a while....

[Hwyl]

It's a testament to Jag that the Etype looks so contemporary next to it.

Having said that, she certainly looks Newick ish

http://www.wingo.com/newick/oceansurfer2-l.jpg

[The Bigfella]

I hope the new owner has a good set of wet weather gear....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ8vd9p8fDU

[Ron Williamson]

From the hind end, it looks like the other kind of flying boat.
R

[John B]

Dick Newick has been here relatively recently Gareth, featured in our local boating magazine and been giving talks .

[JimConlin]

Dick Newick has been here relatively recently Gareth, featured in our local boating magazine and been giving talks .
Dick is always working an idea. God bless him!

Here's a Youtube of Ocean Surfer. Pat's and Juniper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnFniea-vZY&feature=related

That Geant ride didn't look like fun. I've had days like that. And others.

[RFNK]

JB
Ask the owner if the spraypainter dropped acid just before doing the job! Rick

[John B]

Can't speak French Rick.;)

What is Orma anyway( why google when someone here will know.)

[RFNK]

Can't speak French Rick.


No need, use les gestures: Point to the paint job and make chundering motion. Then imitate spraypainter. Then imitate pill swallowing, then make your eyeballs spin in your head and make circular motions with your fingers next to your head and say LSD, non? Duck, in case there's any misunderstanding... ;) Rick



PS Who DOES own that E-type? I used to have a red one (Matchbox)

[ron ll]

a quick fingers calculation leads me to ponder the fact that there are many urban plots of land this thing would not fit on.

Not sure how big Geant is, but Oracle if put on an American major league baseball field would cover all four bases.

[John B]

No need, use les gestures: Point to the paint job and make chundering motion. Then imitate spraypainter. Then imitate pill swallowing, then make your eyeballs spin in your head and make circular motions with your fingers next to your head and say LSD, non? Duck, in case there's any misunderstanding... ;) Rick



PS Who DOES own that E-type? I used to have a red one (Matchbox)

The ' painter' was presumably the first owners or sponsors Rick, this is a kiwi yachty who bought it out of Europe , its just arrived on a ship.
Causing quite a lot of interest too I might add, we don't have anything like it here. The fastest boat in NZ to date is probably a cat called Taiping ex Darwin I think.. but heavily modified since it came here. Before that and going back a few years it was another catamaran called Afterburner, but she never reached her potential here and kept breaking down. I have a mate working for TVNZ who does nearly all the camera work on yachting here... he took a ride a ride on Afterburner on the coastal classic one year when she stuck a bow in and flipped. Poor Bruce ..... I don't know what hurt most.. the 40 foot fall from the tramp high side or letting go the TV camera, or the interview with his boss afterwards. ahahahaha.
Anyway.. (rambling)Afterburner went to Californ eye eh and has become the boat to beat I understand.

The jag? dunno . seems to be around all the time.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2009/IMG_3548_1.jpg

Thats the latest Pendragon, another Laurie Davidson( best designer in the world) boat. Neat boat, it has a lifting keel ( its in shallow mode there on the cradle) and two rudder configuration modes... twin transom rudders in sled mode and a single inboard fitted for inshore. Trouble at' mill though, she had to go back to the yard for some fine tuning to systems and missed the transpac.

[Paul Pless]

The jag? dunno . seems to be around all the time.

What a cool obsession. John's getting to be like those dude's that photograpgh themselves ironing in the most unlikely places. I envision him becoming a globe trotting VOC groupie, with a jagwire and a camera.:D

[John B]

I need to find something to park under today!

[Hwyl]

Wouldn't ENZA still be one of the fastest NZ cats still?

One hears that trimarans have been known to flip.

Did Lyons draw the shape of the Etype?

[Hwyl]

I need to find something to park under today!
Put the stripper on a roof rack. Check the aerodynamics at 140

[John B]

Wouldn't ENZA still be one of the fastest NZ cats still?

One hears that trimarans have been known to flip.

Did Lyons draw the shape of the Etype?


I suppose you're right but she never really sailed in any local events here that I recall. The Steinlager tri too. Both well gone from here anyway.

This baby is going club racing.:D


re the jag, I think Lyons last car was the XK120.
Sayer's the man, him and the factory manager/ development guy ( who's name escapes me.. Bob ?...) who drew out and formed the coupe's shape after Sayer had done all the OTS work. Who actually developed the 2+2 I'm not sure .
Lyons would of course had the last word, he and his shadow lines, add some here , fine that up there......

[The Bigfella]

Geant is a 60'er I believe.

[JimConlin]

Geant is a 60'er I believe.

Won the 60' class in the singlehanded Transat to Boston a few years ago. 8 days and change, IIRC.

[John B]

Orma 60.

[J. Dillon]

Are these the boats that have the "break off keels" :confused:

JD

[John B]

Dunno about that Jack , sometimes they just turn them upside down for a look at their 'keels' though.

[John B]

Most disappointing, I couldn't park under anything.
I did watch Waitangi manouvring back into the tide...

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2009/IMG_4585_1.jpg

came across some old croucher under a tarp

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2009/IMG_4587_2.jpg
and had a walk around the big Col Wild Windhaven, a boat which featured in save a classic a few years ago.
She was saved after that, bought by a friend of mine and a partner, sailed to NZ from California and sold to a man here who embarked on a massive rebuild and ran out of money to complete( so I'm told)

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2009/IMG_4589_4.jpg

a photo I took in 2005 , not long after Windhaven had made passage here...

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/159_5936_1.jpg

[John B]

Oh , and for Chips..

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2009/IMG_4588_3.jpg

They seem to have 2 other units of the same design in build.. you can see a hull being vacuum bagged in the tent beside Windhaven.

they're breeding

[John B]

first time I've seen G3 sailing close up( on friday night).
ummm... yep she's quick all right. There wasn't that much wind.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2010/IMG_6667_1.jpg

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2010/IMG_6668_2.jpg

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2010/IMG_6669_3.jpg

[Paul Pless]

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2010/IMG_6668_2.jpg

if you had one of those amphibious cars i think you could've parked under that ama:D