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Old 04-28-2006, 09:20 AM   #1
ScottC
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Fall River Mass
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Originally Posted by likwid
The alerion is a total sleeper too.
Old school above water layout with a high performance bottom.

Bristol did a good job fixing their own work too. (When x-Titan XI was t-boned at Antigua). You'd never know they stuffed a wide body sheet winch all the way past the pedastle.

I'm glad I only work on sleds these days. No crawling in bilges. All the carbon panels just pop out and everything is routed cleanly.
God bless empty boats.

Been helping my father put B&G Network on his Cape Dory 36... thankfully using the old wires as messengers but some spots have been at the very least... "interesting".

But back to the topic, yes, it takes alot of wind for those blades to start humming.
Probably a vast majority of the days, unless you looked up at them, you'd never know they were there.

B&B huh, probably the highest quality electronics on the market. They sold out to Simrad a few years back. VERY high priced though, the masthead unit is three time the cost of a raymarine
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