just in passing,are there any female skips in USA ?
and who brought the barn door rudder into the world ?

Well tosh, we had the big matchup between NZ and Aus and the Kiwi lost. But we looked after him and we all drowned our sorrows to gether with a few( well it was more than a few) sherberts(beer). And we gave him a good time to remember. It doesn't take much to organize . Part of this forum have been talking about it for Ages and here it happened in three weeks!

i think it was alladin who strolled the streets calling
<font color="blue">new lamps for old</font id="blue">and from one of these "old lamps"
let the genie out of the lamp,this topic is a bit like that,
perhaps we can all agree we sail a dam fine boat(s)
on reflection from the info learned on this site our local builder
in NZ must have shoulders to match his determination to turn out such a fine boat in the face of so many diffrent views,but thelove of the class wins thru every time.

I can see the padlock coming

with the wealth of info re the history of the ec12 in USA/NZ
and AUs any chance of a potted time scale all these changes happened ?and do we all agree the latest changes are for the better ?
it would be interesting to see a side by side pic of the main contenders for THE EC12,i am sure some wiz kid could arrange that.
is it to simple to say some of us like blonde women/some redheads
while ignoring the fact they are just that Women,i can see some hot reply from a few wmen skips (by the way do we have any)[:I][:o)][;)][;)]