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For those interested in the Fireball - which sports highly unusual variations to the norm around the thwart area: I have spoken to Mike Turk who built the boat along with one of his employees, Chris Straun (spelling of surname presumed). Mike confirmed the hull was successfully measured at the time ...

I vaguely remember a traveller (possibly a curved one at that) but all that metalwork just doesn't look in keeping with the nice lines of the Hit and the careful manner in which control lines have been hidden away etc. I suspect there may have been some re-engineering over the years! The Hit article...

Hi again, Nick is now MD of RS Sailing. Suggest you contact him through the Company (although his details can be found by a quick Google search; I'm not sure whether I should post them on the Forum!). Yes, you may well have the only surviving Hit. I quite liked them at the time but they disappeared ...

I'm a little late to this thread having checked out the CVRDA site for the first time in a few years (apologies!). My memory has faded a little but I recollect Peter Milne asked a young Nick Peters (who had already made a name for himself sailing Lasers and subsequently a Fireball in Chichester Harb...