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Offline Torchy

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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #15 on: May 08, 2014, 04:29:48 PM »
I can join in by Skype if the club has wifi...can Roland sort out some way that an iPad can control a tiller?

Enjoy yourselves guys...I'm getting withdrawal symptoms.

If we ever need a venue for a Worlds...Miami Beach. Huge area to rig and reliable sea breezes.

I can recommend the Miami Beach Travellers Hostel. I pre-booked into an all-male dorm but realised as I bedded down after arriving from the UK in the wee small hours that either the local youths had interesting taste in underwear or there'd been an administrative error. The owners of the bikinis etc arrived back about 3am and (and this is not a lie) they were 4 Swedish hotties, blonde hair, blue eyes and skin the colour of Dairy Milk chocolate after several weeks at the Beach.

I had an enjoyable, if slightly strange couple of days...you don't get that in a hotel.

Oh, and there was a beach volleyball tournament going on.

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« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2014, 08:26:35 PM »
Sounds like the perfect venue for a worlds, can we pre book the hotties?
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #17 on: May 08, 2014, 09:25:33 PM »
Hotties not in short supply in Miami Beach :)

PS But I was a good boy
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #18 on: May 08, 2014, 10:55:38 PM »
Well I got people we can stay with so I vote cherub worlds to go ahead!!
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2014, 08:32:38 AM »
Sorry JP, (crash test dummy) Sat not looking good for Draycote and the rig is no-where near sorted for tempestuous conditions, (let alone me) so I will resort to sewing the kite sock, et al, instead of breaking loads of brand new kit!
Hopefully Wear Wood (near Miami) maybe the launch. I hope Paul has arranged them Swedish shore crew... if not... I not coming!
Hi Torchy, we even have green leaves on the trees back here, you dont know what you're missin 'limey boy'.
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2014, 11:13:27 AM »
update; 2 pictures of fuzzy
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #21 on: May 09, 2014, 11:35:51 AM »
WOW
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #22 on: May 09, 2014, 02:49:14 PM »
Great work Ade she's looking good.
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #23 on: May 09, 2014, 04:18:51 PM »
Quite stunned, terrific quality in amazing time. Thats the restoration prize sorted for 2014. Well done Ade and Joe.
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #24 on: May 09, 2014, 06:29:22 PM »
Great work on Fuzzy Ade, I'm never gonna catch you now...
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #25 on: May 09, 2014, 07:07:22 PM »
IIRC Fuzzy is fundamentally a very fast boat. It was designed as a development of Dave Roe's already extremely rapid Pasta Frenzy design. It was built by Smilie who was working for Ovingtons at the time (in fact I think Dave Ovington let him use a corner of the factory for a while), and then finished off in the workshop at Tynemouth SC. The original yellow and blue paint job was a bit iffy on account of the dulux paint that Smilie had got his hands on, but otherwise the hull was very fair. It was certainly very fast in the hands of Dave "Carbonology"  Chisholm and Princey at the Largo nationals in 2006? until they broke something and had to sit out the last couple of days. I seem to recall Dave cheered himself up by staying up all night drinking with a wild crowd of Irish golfers at the Crusoe Inn.
Could be on to a winner there Ade.
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #26 on: May 09, 2014, 08:52:05 PM »
Ah Ha, that explains why the surface blistered after the first rub down when I wet it down and then left it out overnight in the rain!
Its just a 'quicky' cosmetic hand job makeover on the hull and all nonslip deck, we have no kick bars for semi trapezing yet and I guess a high center of gravity to overcome with a bit of practice. We also have the biggest heart shape in the fleet as the deck is a massive blue one! ;D
cant wait to get wet...
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #27 on: May 10, 2014, 09:29:57 PM »
More pics, its better than eurotrash!!!
Ref photos:
An unusual photo of Joe, as he is not on skateboard. 
I told you it is the biggest heart in the fleet.
Just a bit of rake!!! Do you think 3 inch extensions will be long enough as the shrouds are too short and that is the best I could get it today!
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #28 on: May 11, 2014, 06:23:38 PM »
wow awesome work ade, looks as good as new  :).

A bit of history is Fuzzy was started off a college as me end of year project (will scan and post photos when I get chance), then moved home with the shell, deck and bulkheads ready to be put in. I then got a job at Ov'ies were she was moved to pretty much as a complete boat just needing a few bit's adding, fairing and painting. Fuzzy was finally painted in Tynemouth SC boat shed with yes house hold paint which pretty common for Cherubs at the time. Used it because I was short on cash, International back then didn't do the colours I wouldn't (I'm really not a fan of their paints anyway) and wanted to get sailing. Plus I pretty much planned to give her a re-fair and re-paint during the winter.

Just in case anyone is interested the hull jig and deck jig are still in the barn back on my Mum's farm in Cambridgeshire. 

Will try and make it down to one of the events sometime to see her sailing.
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Re: FUZZY LOGIC
« Reply #29 on: May 11, 2014, 07:18:59 PM »
Here's a photo of fuzzy probably in her second year sailing at Bass week.
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