Flat Stanley in Y and Y

[MK]

The Jan 2011 issue features a 2 page spread on flat stanley which i believe we have Jim C to thank for, its worth a look

[Will_Lee]

Cool!

W

[Tim Noyce]

Ah brilliant. I spoke with Tom Gruitt regarding photos for this feature so glad to hear it has been printed.

[JimC]

Shame about the photos. Those are all post Guy and with a despereately poor set of sails which really seemed to stuff up her performance. I pointed David at Champion Marine, who have a superb Flat Stanley shot from the glory days, but maybe they couldn't clear copyright. I do have a large print of that one which I expect will be loaned to the Cherub stand at Sailboat this year, but no rights to put it on the net.

[Graham Bridle]

Its a brilliant piece all the same Jim, thanks for whatever it is you did !

[JimC]

Apart from a few emails all I really did was point him at some stuff - the NZ/North sails thing on the web site and a piece I wrote for YY back in about 1988 just before the Bistro came out. I fear I didn't really do as much as I probably ought to have done, but I was busy and I had no idea he was working to a deadline for this month.

It occurs to me that for the history bit of the show maybe you might want to nominate boats of the decade and maybe try and sort out pics and things...

UK...

1960s - 921. That image was used all over the place
1970s - Peanuts, or maybe a Forman 8, but hard to pick which one
1980s - Flat Stanley without a shadow of doubt
1990s - Between Norwegian Blue and Pasta Frenzy I'd say. NBlue was the game changer, won the big open events but overlaps the decade change. Pasta won all those Championships
2000s - hard, between Atum Bom, Shiney Beast and Ronin

World
1950s - Cherub
1960s - tricky. I'd love to say Jennifer Julian, but she was really 1970. Maybe the Spencer 7 design. Hard to pick a specific boat with no International events.
1970s. I think I'd say Nicky Bethwaite's Slithy Tove. Amanda Wilmot's Jet as being the first female helmed boat to win a worlds has to be there, but Slithy Tove was more influential - a direct design ancestor of Foreign Affair/Wop.
1980s - Wop
thereafter with the Aus and UK fleets in completely different boats, and no Kiwi fleet left its hard to say a boat of the world existed...

[tgruitt]

Shame about the photos.  Those are all post Guy and with a despereately poor set of sails which really seemed to stuff up her performance.  I pointed David at Champion Marine, who have a superb Flat Stanley shot from the glory days, but maybe they couldn't clear copyright.  I do have a large print of that one which I expect will be loaned to the Cherub stand at Sailboat this year, but no rights to put it on the net.

Jim,

Dougal didn't tell me about the pics from Champion, which is why they were not used.  If I had known I would have used them for sure, sorry about that.

Cheers

Tom