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All in all, how much do you think you know about classic and vintage dinghies: |
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the questions
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general stuff |
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What association looked after dinghy racing before the RYA was formed?
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What class developed and first used the gate start?
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Who first used the trapeze and in what class?
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In 1954,off Cowes in a force 5 wind, Charles Currey sailed a Jollyboat faster than any single hull dinghy had ever gone: What was the novel way in which the speed was recorded? and an extra point for giving the correct speed in knots?
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Give 3 boat classes raced at the 1948 Olympics?
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What was the name of the Duke of Edinburgh's Dragon? |
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What was interesting about the Tango dinghy designed by Peter Milne in 1973: |
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the development classes |
International 14 |
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What year was the 'International 14' class founded? |
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Which designer's boats were first home in half the POWs between the war and 1963? |
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Who has helmed the most POW winners? |
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The 14s often provide prizes for different ages of boat named....'vintage', 'classic' and....? |
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In 1948 Whyche and Coppock made a clinker 14 (Robbin Hood - K531) which met with some limited success, with reduced rig, what class did this boat become better known?: |
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the development classes |
National 12 |
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What year was the National 12 founded? |
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Who designed N12 K1 - Gipsy? |
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What is the name of the premier N12 event of the year? |
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What was the name or design of the first N12 to use glued ply construction rather than clenched pin? |
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For the first few years, the first National 12 rules had a price limit....what was it originally? |
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the development classes |
Merlin Rocket |
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What year was the National Merlin-Rocket class founded? |
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Who was the the most sucsessful Merlin Rocket designer from the class's formation until 1965? |
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What is the name of the Merlin Rocket Travellers Series? |
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Who club is considered the 'home' club for the class? |
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NSM stands for? |
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one designs |
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What one-design class claims to be the oldest with a history going back to 1886?
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What one-design was designed in 1910 and was still an olympic class in 2004? |
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British builders of the Dragon do not pay any Designers Royalties; Why? |
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What National one-design class now has the smallest fleet? |
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What classic one-design class designed in 1947 is one of the largest fleets in the world with an estimated 250,000 boats built?
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dinghy designers |
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Austin Farrar was better know to his mates as?
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Wyche and Coppock's First names? |
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The Tideway was designed and built by? |
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Jack Holt chose a business partner, who was a well known sucsessful sailor of the time? |
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silly Uffa Fox stuff |
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What nationality was Uffa Fox's wife? |
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What boat design did Uffa say he was proudest of having designed? |
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Why did Uffa Fox say he kept his workshop on an old chain-ferry over the Medina River? |
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What class association did Uffa fall out with about their liberal interpretation of the design due to building? |
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What other land-based sport did Uffa take regular part in: |
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boat recognition |
description |
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14ft clenched-pin clinker boat, open decked, nicely made and all varnish. Gunter rig with a 'B' on the sails. |
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This one looks just like an Osprey....but it isn't, it's a foot too long and it's got a big lump of lead on a fin keel. It's got to be associated though....as the sail emblem is almost identical, just using a 'P' instead of an 'O'. |
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This one is all beautiful moulded ply construction, it has an almost circular bow and thwarts also made from moulded ply. I measured it and it's 10ft long and 5ft wide. |
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They say that designers just keep designing the same boat....and if this is the case this boat was designed by Holt; it's 15ft with a beam of 5ft 3in. It looks pretty racy....there is a trapeze and kite and some sails, although these seem to have an 'E' on them, which I thought was for the Enterprise: |
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boat recognition |
photo |
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which of these are real classes:
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Nipper
Oxey Bird
Penguin one design
Sea Snark
Vulcan
Tarpon
Flipper
Sprog
Wood Pussy
Insect
Coot
TV Dinghy
Nipper
Turtle
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was this fun :
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anything else you want to say about this pathetic excuse for a quiz.....don't worry next year Rupert is doing it :
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| Just so the cvrda know,I
heard about the cvrda from: |
I am a member
a Web search
Personal recommendation
a Newsgroup
in the Press
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I know that there is always supposed to be some small print saying the judges opinion is final....well I think that is a total waist of a few great arguments/discussion so please do take any answer as being highly likely wrong and tell me where your evidence is to the contrary....but please keep it on the forum.