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Postby Stephen Crewes » Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:00 pm

Well Larry, you skipped the 'Ranting Bit' about what we were doing in OZ and it is like TOSH said , your people don't give a toss.

What we are doing Larry is trying to get all our boats to measure, to one rule. So why would we want to PONY up to WALMART for another one. The reason we are doing this is to RACE. The whole point of our existance is to RACE and to have FUN. We are not into creating "developing" (your words) alike as possible in every way, even down to "Trueing the Arc" and taking the dimple out.

Sure the boat has got one side dissimilar to the other, so what? Are we giving Sheep Stations as prizes? If we have raced for 28 years like this who cares? Just lets get on with the racing. Lighten up and have fun.
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Postby RMDJBD » Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:18 pm

Larry

Thank you for telling our freinds down under the way our association is handling the " 95 standard molds ".

I am fed up with all the b.... s... that is going on on this site.The site was set up for information purposes not country bashing, name bashing and stirring the boiling pot. If the people who keep stirring the pot would take this energy and apply it to their own problems, they might not have any problems.

The owners/builders down under are in the same situation we (UNITED STATES) were in, but we decided to fix the problem once and for all by dueing what we are duing now. If they want to get on the right track, they can order some molds themselfs and do what we are during with non conforming hull, then everybody can be all on the same page. As everybody knows in the U.S. only regestered builders will qualify a legal hull. If the Aussies and New Zelanders want to flip a hull, it still will be a bastard hull and will not be legal in the U.S.

This is all i am going to say on this or any other subject on the site. Untill this site gets back to what it was suppose to be (an information and notice site )i will not reply.



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Postby IanHB » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:01 am

[:D] I have just read a lovely quote which I would like to share with you all.
<font color="red"><font size="3"><b>"You may join a class for the boat, but you stay, for the people"</b></font id="size3"></font id="red"> from Kimball Livingston, Sail magazine.[;)]


DO IT NOW, Before it`s to late
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Postby Nautic12 » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:33 am

i think Treasure Island was a work of fiction,Treasure Tooling,Treasure from down under,an awfull lot of treasure about.
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Postby Stephen Crewes » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:51 am

Thanks Bob , that is another view . A few more other views helps in the scheme of things.

The point about the overseas boats not being legal was okay too. But again we are going to do it a little bit different . We're again going to do it differently, those that come from elsewhere (like USA) they would be grandfathered in for the event. This is not hard to do, really.

I think you will find we will stick with what we've got and there is a move to take EC12 out of the name and just call it the Australian 12. Then everyone will know whats going on.
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Postby Capt. Flak » Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:59 am

Ok guys, I am going to take one last stab at this. There is no effort in America to change the EC12. There is no effort to remove all the old boats from the registrar. Dumas was cut off because they chose not to be a part of the class. They were given 10 years to make up their mind.

This is a one design class, but the hulls have never been true one designs because all the molds were made by different manufacturers and often times they were modified by the various hull makers for what ever reason. It might have been a square end to the keel instead of a fairing for the rudder or a different design in the transom or the width of the keel. And since each maunfacturer had to make his own mold each mold was different meant that there were as many as a dozen different hulls out there. I am sure a class historian will tell me I have my figures wrong, but the point is that they were not a true one design.

The 95 standard was not a redesign. It simply took one of the current hulls and said all new molds will be made from that one and all manufacturers will use the same plug. The problem is that they took all these new daughter plugs and gave them to the makers and said make your mold from that. And so each one of those new 95 standard molds was slightly different because no two guys was going to make his mold exactly the same. The most noticable difference was in the rudder area. Mark Rinehart has three different rudder molds to fit the different manufacturers hulls.

Then you need to look at just how old these molds are now. Skip Hickman has make several hundred hulls from his mold. I don't know enough about it, but from what I have heard, molds can get worn out.

What these guys are doing is simply preserving the class. Dave Brawner took one of the best molds and made a new plug from it. He made it about a 1/2 thick and laid up a plywood box in it so that it could sit up on a table. Then Bob Dudinsky carefully measured the plug and smoothed out a few small imperfections. He needed some pretty sophisticated equipment to measure those imperfection as well since they were so small. Again, NO REDESIGN. After that he made a new master mold. And from that, new identical molds for each of the manufacturers to use are being made.

We are simply maintaining the current hull for the future. Since all the manufactures will be making new hulls form identical molds (not making their own molds), all the hulls will be identical in shape with the only differnces being in the quality of the workmanship and the choice of wove or matt or whatever.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the folks in the southern hemisphere think we are reinventing the wheel.

IanHB hit the nail on the head with the quote from Kimbal Livingston at Sail Magazine. It is the people of this class that make is so special. And it is these very special people who are working their hearts out to preserve and maintain this wonderful class.

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Postby Stephen Crewes » Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:45 am

Thanks Joe , I'll accept that.
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Postby Stephen Crewes » Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:19 am

well guys I will tell you that I'm not into flopping hulls or flopping books. I'm a writer myself and see the need to do it the right way.
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Postby Stephen Crewes » Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:22 am

The book is "The Manual for the EAST COAST 12- Meter". I want to know if you will give me a discount for many copies?
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Postby greerdr » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:11 pm

Bob D.
Get back into the workroom and finish the hulls!!RMD rules.

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