| what about this tornado? #130116 01/30/08 12:07 AM 01/30/08 12:07 AM |
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 757 japan erice OP
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Posts: 757 japan | looks like someone here in japan is selling a tornado what can you tornado experts tell from the pics the japanese text babelfished is 20 feet catamarans (England make) sale has not been taken to the photograph, but 2? 3 it turns and you think that it is not to use and is the same as the new item. Present condition delivery http://www.asian-navi.net/HC-14/Tornado-08.html
eric e 1982 nacra 5.2 - 2158 2009 weta tri - 294
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#130117 01/30/08 12:12 AM 01/30/08 12:12 AM |
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Posts: 902 Norman,OK | Well ,I am not T expert but I bet you could have fun on it!
Once you go cat you never go back!
Nacra 5.2 (Elsies)#1499, running an inter17 spin!
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#130118 01/30/08 12:32 AM 01/30/08 12:32 AM |
Joined: May 2006 Posts: 1,383 Kingston SE South Australia JeffS
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Posts: 1,383 Kingston SE South Australia | I bet you could have fun towing it through Tokyo. regards
Jeff Southall Current boats Nacra 5.8 1703 Animal Scanning Services Nacra 5.8 1667 Ram Raider Nacra 18 Square Arrow 1576
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#130120 01/30/08 01:40 AM 01/30/08 01:40 AM |
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Posts: 757 japan | thought it might be early 80's as the boom hardware looks very similar to the stuff on my 1982 nacra 5.2
yes, not really a boat for me as i sail 99% solo and can't even right the 17foot nacra by myself let alone a 10foot wide 20foot boat
plus our lake is generally considered to be too small for a hobie 16
may get the wife to call though....
eric e 1982 nacra 5.2 - 2158 2009 weta tri - 294
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#130121 01/30/08 02:37 AM 01/30/08 02:37 AM |
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Posts: 1,200 Vancouver, BC | Looks like a nice boat. I'd guess an early to mid '80's sailcraft or reg white. Reg's later boats had an unusual way to mount the frontbeam...there were flanges down the outside of the inner gunwales. Bolts went horizontally through the flanges into the hulls. Idea was to improve platform stiffness.
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#130123 01/30/08 03:25 AM 01/30/08 03:25 AM |
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Posts: 757 japan | notice it has raked spreaders on the mast, something that the nacra 5.2 didn't get until about 1984...
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#130124 01/30/08 11:51 AM 01/30/08 11:51 AM |
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Posts: 902 Norman,OK | Wish it was near me, I would be all over it!
Once you go cat you never go back!
Nacra 5.2 (Elsies)#1499, running an inter17 spin!
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#130127 01/30/08 02:21 PM 01/30/08 02:21 PM |
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Posts: 1,382 Essex, UK | Definitely 80's Reg White with Sailspar mast and beams. With the three tone waterline it's a Reg White 'Special'. This means extra local reinforcing, stiffer decks etc.
Rolf, you're right. It was only the rear beam that had the inner gunwhale plate. Main beam was normal bolt through. The mast doesn't look as though it's been set up with sufficient pre-bend and, of course, the sails will just be the 'classic' rig.
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#130128 01/30/08 08:29 PM 01/30/08 08:29 PM |
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Posts: 757 japan | got an email reply from the contact guy saying
"1986's UK Reg White "Special"The world champion boat
Sailspar mast and beams Sale Smith(One race use)"
eric e 1982 nacra 5.2 - 2158 2009 weta tri - 294
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#130129 01/31/08 12:45 AM 01/31/08 12:45 AM |
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Posts: 757 japan | and now a price
half a million yen, or near enough to 500,000cents =$5000
japan is a funny market
an old hobie14 can sell for more than a nacra 5.2 because it's a hobie and most people have heard of hobies. no one here has heard of a nacra
so an old tornado was either going to go 1 of 2 ways
either an over priced "collectors" boat playing on it's olympic heritage or an under priced bargain
looks like it's the former
eric e 1982 nacra 5.2 - 2158 2009 weta tri - 294
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#130131 02/01/08 04:04 PM 02/01/08 04:04 PM |
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Posts: 1,382 Essex, UK | It doesn't actually look like a Tornado. It looks like an ARC-22 with a Tornado sail. The hull design looks more like something from Aquarius.
"looks like an ARC-22" as in "it's got two hulls"? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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#130132 02/02/08 07:34 AM 02/02/08 07:34 AM |
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Posts: 1,383 Kingston SE South Australia | Ive had a big day flogged by the wind broken my blocks off the traveller boom off the yoke, drank too much booze aw forgot bent my boom but fair dinkum that looks like a Tornado
Jeff Southall Current boats Nacra 5.8 1703 Animal Scanning Services Nacra 5.8 1667 Ram Raider Nacra 18 Square Arrow 1576
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#130133 02/02/08 08:56 AM 02/02/08 08:56 AM |
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Posts: 757 japan | except for the dagger boards...
eric e 1982 nacra 5.2 - 2158 2009 weta tri - 294
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#130134 02/02/08 12:16 PM 02/02/08 12:16 PM |
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Posts: 1,200 Vancouver, BC | This picture is not a tornado. Raised beam seats are one give away. Also, the bow is much more curvacious on the T...while the gunwales are smaller radiused. It doesn't actually look like a Tornado. It looks like an ARC-22 with a Tornado sail. The hull design looks more like something from Aquarius.
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#130135 02/02/08 04:31 PM 02/02/08 04:31 PM |
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Posts: 1,253 Columbia South Carolina, USA | My question is how many characters are in the Japanese alphabet? How big is the laptop key board that typed that stuff? sorry, bored...
The men were amazed, and said, "What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?" Matthew 8:27
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