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Anyone know the #'s for an FX-One and the 17...both single with no spin? Maybe we can compare the two at the Frayed Knot regatta if KB decides to show.

Check this web site for the PN

http://www.ussailing.org/portsmouth/tab ... es06mh.asp

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Mike Hensel
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Wind in your sails, water in your shoes, great day!

69.97 w/o the chute...still faster than an 18.

Karl is transporting the Clear Lake contingent of six Waves, and racing one.

Pre-registration is now available on our website.

http://fleet297.org/frayed_knot.html

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If there ain't gonna be no 17's, then I might have to bring either a 14 or 16, dammit. How about a boat count, Eaton?

Hobie 17

Peggy Coe
John Mork
Bruce Fields
Paul Eaton

are signed up here http://www.fleet297.org/frayed_knot.html

possible

Gerald Umstead (defending '08 champion)

and there never were any 17's coming from up North, unless John Volkman drives one hell of a long way!

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Now you got me thinking of bringing my 17 . . . .

Just to kick Mork's ass for being late with the Hotline postage payment.

It's only 890 miles.

Bring it...beeyotch! Maybe we can convince Phil Collins to join us.

302 pounds-uni
327 pounds-uni + spi
363 pounds-uni + spi + wings

But as John pointed out, I'm rockin a Wave that weekend. I tried to get out of sailing the Wave earlier today, but CW would have none of it.

Honestly with out the chute I think a H17 would beat the pants off of an FXone. Downwind I think you guys would probably be faster. It's a fricken pooch running just the main down wind.

You've never sailed a 17, have you?

This is a 17 upwind:


This is a 17 downwind:


Class dismissed.

You guys round the mark and go dead downwind. If I do that it just bobs, in anything short of a hurricane I'd be in a world of trouble. Gybing downwind under just the main is painfully slow too. LONG LIVE THE SPINNAKER!

Last year Wrinklie beat me up pretty good, and I had the chute. In my defense I was uber green on the boat, and the wind was at best frustrating.

I swear to the wind gods that when Wrinklie sails downwind, he sails backwards. What I mean by that is that instead of the wind flowing from the mast to the leech, it flows from the leech of the sail to the mast. I tried following him downwind once and could not believe how deep he sails.

Matt,

Gawd, that was just too funny.... Made me spew all over the screen AND the keyboard.

I'll be sending you the bill for a new keyboard.

Stephen

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If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, maybe it is time to water your own lawn.

Hey, a couple more 17s and we can outnumber the Waves...John...Gerald...Phil.

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Paul Eaton
H17 #747
Fort Collins, CO