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Gilligan wrote:
A knockdown that lead to a sinking.

Gilligan

Please describe!


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Gilligan wrote:
A knockdown that lead to a sinking.

Cool! Did you spill your beer?

DSK

Boom touched the water once....that's as far down as we've been knocked (Not
counting the Butterfly....)
"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
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Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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Just wondering... the worst I've been in was having the main touch the
water when we got hit with small whirlywind coming from a marsh.
Popped right back up, and it didn't even disturb the beer in my hand.


Was that the bottom of the main or the top of the main? (Or, the good
news was I was only in up to my ankles, the bad news was I was head
first.)

katysails wrote:
Doug,
As much as I hate qualifying anything BB sats, Mr Sails' Flying Dutchman
that he owned in the mid-70's was molded plywood.

Mr. Sails is a man of perspicacity & resource. I bet his also has
Elvstrom bailers.

Anyway there also were molded wood 470s which were quite high-dollar
racing machines in their day... if well taken care of they stay lighter
& stiffer than fiberglass ones.

If Boobsie-Bill has said 'molded plywood' I might have asked for
clarification instead of just busting "him."

Bluejays, Comets, Snipes, Windmills, and a bunch of other hard-chine
boats were built of plywood. Round-bilge boats have to be molded, and
many classes from Rebels to Thistles have been. Oddly enough Lightnings,
which are hard chine but have an arc bottom instead of flat or V'd, were
never built in plywood (at least not mass produced). They were planked a
variety of ways including double-diagonal with glue saturated cloth in
between.

But I digress. Sorry.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

wrote:
Here's where your book learned, Walter Mitty knowledge dumps you on your ass,
Tougboat.

No, it's where the fact that
1- you are a sock puppet
2- you don't know **** from shinola
becomes obvious.

... Cold Molded IS plywood. It's just glued up over a boat shaped mold,
rather than as a flat sheet.

And was your FD cold molded?


... I find it hard to believe that you claim to know
about sailboats and don't even know something that basic. What did you think
cold molded was?

Knowledge of cold molding isn't essential to sailing, however I have
helped build cold molded boats... probably know at least a little about
it. I also know about hot molding, which is what your FD would be if it
was production built before about 1970.



You are correct that they were round bottomed.

I am also correct about the bailers.

"Plywood Flying Dutchman" is almost as good as "classic sunfish without
the sissy footwell."

DSK

"DSK" wrote in message
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If solid water didn't pour into the hatch, or at least over the
coaming,
then it wasn't a REAL knockdown.

Does flipping a beach cat count?

Scotty

Scott Vernon wrote:
Does flipping a beach cat count?

Only if you didn't spill the beer.

DSK

wrote:




My boat was made of cold molded plywood by a company called Madar in
the early 1960's.

Were you in the military? MADAR = Maintenance Analysis, Detection, and Recording.

Cheers
Marty

No, it's where the fact that
1- you are a sock puppet


Poor Doug! He's still certain Jax was also a sockpuppet.

RB

While sailing our Catalina 27 under the Throgsneck Bridge we were blasted by a
gust of air that put Yoda on her side. Water came over the coamings and
partially filled the cockpit. My buddy said the spreader hit water, but I
didn't see it.

RB