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Frank Hopper
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Initially Posted - 02/02/2004 :  11:00:59  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
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Bryan Beamer
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Response Posted - 02/02/2004 :  11:19:06  Show Profile
Now that is in my price range.
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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 02/02/2004 :  12:56:16  Show Profile
<font size="5"><font color="orange">I didn't know Hunter made orange sailboats.</font id="orange"></font id="size5">

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oldsalt
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They don't; it's a Mac.<font color="orange"></font id="orange">
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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 02/03/2004 :  08:14:36  Show Profile
This reminds me of a similar vessel that was built a few years ago by Kenichi Horie. It was about 25' long and made of about 550 (empty) aluminum beer kegs welded together in the shape of a sailboat hull. Mr. Horie proposed to sail this creation from San Francisco across the North Pacific to Japan - a distance of more than 5000 nm. I never heard if he actually went ahead with the voyage, though.
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Bryan Beamer
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Response Posted - 02/03/2004 :  08:33:07  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by lcharlot</i>
<br />This reminds me of a similar vessel that was built a few years ago by Kenichi Horie. It was about 25' long and made of about 550 (empty) aluminum beer kegs welded together in the shape of a sailboat hull. Mr. Horie proposed to sail this creation from San Francisco across the North Pacific to Japan - a distance of more than 5000 nm. I never heard if he actually went ahead with the voyage, though.
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Did he drink all 550 kegs of beer himself?
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MattL
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Response Posted - 02/03/2004 :  09:22:14  Show Profile
My father in law tells the story about his Sea Bee days in Midway where he made a catamaran out of 55 gallon drums. With out any kind of centerboard couldn't get it to turn or go into the wind very well. He also said that he got into a bit of trouble because the officers thought it was an attempt to go awol, they made him take it appart.
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andy
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Response Posted - 02/04/2004 :  21:09:07  Show Profile  Visit andy's Homepage
I like the concept. Back to basics... put a set of 3DL's on it and kick dinghy butt!
Andy Anderson
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Scotd
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Response Posted - 02/05/2004 :  17:33:30  Show Profile  Visit Scotd's Homepage
How many of you know what a thunder bucket is? or some call it a thunder pot? Thunder Mug?
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 02/05/2004 :  19:04:32  Show Profile
I do! As a kid I had a small version under the bed!
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