Evadne
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Reged: 27/02/2003
Posts: 4642
Loc: Hampshire, UK
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I hope Julie (powerkipper) won't mind me doing a "powerskipper" type post but the recent post in PBO on logs got me thinking. We're all proud of our boats (well, nearly all) and that usually includes not being just 'run of the mill' What makes your boat stand out from the herd?
We have:
Hanked on foresails, and no roller thingy.
A trailing log.
A grid compass.
I always maintain that the alternatives are passing fads that will never catch on. 
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Elizabethans.
I'd far rather be happy than right.
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reginaldon
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Reged: 20/02/2004
Posts: 1450
Loc: kent
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I hope Julie (powerkipper) won't mind me doing a "powerskipper" type post but the recent post in PBO on logs got me thinking. We're all proud of our boats (well, nearly all) and that usually includes not being just 'run of the mill' What makes your boat stand out from the herd?
We have:
Hanked on foresails, and no roller thingy.
A trailing log.
A grid compass.
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I have a Caprice IV, a 'gift' on Ebay, the Southhampton Show model of '78, I met the original purchaser - all I wanted, not constrained by money, just a fine little boat as proved by Shane Acton - altho' he could have done it with any number of small boats.
It now has a 'roller thingy' provided by me - I'm a bit long in the tooth for the foredeck jitterbug, a grid compass and a few of my own innovations.
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Morgana
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Reged: 28/08/2003
Posts: 13045
Loc: East Coast
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A beautiful crew and handsome skipper... 
Acshully.... its my inordinately large davits....
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Bored?.... why not read my blog .... its the developing story of the trials and tribulations of boat ownership!
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Evadne
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Reged: 27/02/2003
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Loc: Hampshire, UK
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Acshully.... its my inordinately large davits....
Just as long as it's not your unfeasibly oversize bowsprit. 
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Elizabethans.
I'd far rather be happy than right.
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Dyflin
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Reged: 16/03/2002
Posts: 2395
Loc: Dublin
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What makes you different from the run-of-the-mill yacht?
A small bank account? 
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Killing forum threads since 2002.
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AntarcticPilot
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Reged: 04/05/2007
Posts: 206
Loc: Cambridge, UK
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What makes you different from the run-of-the-mill yacht?
A small bank account?
No, that's the natural consequence of boating! 
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AvastMark
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Reged: 28/11/2006
Posts: 304
Loc: Nottingham
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Mines an Elizabethan-29, need i say more?
OK, I'd better. It has many endearing idosyncracies (reversing being just one), but stopping the engine is my favourite, and normally draws a few comments.
The stop solenoid broke last season (and I still haven't fixed it), so the year was spent using the decompression leaver.
SWMBO has embarrassed and impressed the few skippers we've met with less engine knowledge than her, by confidently and ethusiastically explaining how to decompress the engine.
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Chrusty1
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Reged: 27/02/2008
Posts: 850
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I hope Julie (powerkipper) won't mind me doing a "powerskipper" type post but the recent post in PBO on logs got me thinking. We're all proud of our boats (well, nearly all) and that usually includes not being just 'run of the mill' What makes your boat stand out from the herd?
We have:
Hanked on foresails, and no roller thingy.
A trailing log.
A grid compass.
I always maintain that the alternatives are passing fads that will never catch on.
You don't want to let Ordinary Seaman Slartybartlastly hear you say that, he will be calling you a lier!.....He is convinced that we are all wired to the grid!
More wired to the Moon in my case!
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LadyInBed
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Reged: 02/09/2001
Posts: 4004
Loc: Zumerzet
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Depends a lot on what you call run-of-the-mill.
Are all AWB's run-of-the-mill?
If you customise an AWB is it still run-of-the-mill?
Is run-of-the-mill size dependant?
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Beating is sailing for twice the distance at half the speed and three times the discomfort.
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graham
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Reged: 16/05/2001
Posts: 6383
Loc: South Wales
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With a longish keel and outboard motor manouvering is so much more fun 
Still having a grid compass just proves your a tightwad,like me.
Found a spare bracket for it recently so will fit that on the bulkhead under under the tiller as they usually are unless the rudder post causes deviation there.
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