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Subject: Re: Trapper 700 Author: Brian Henry [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 14/02/04 16:35:42 In reply to: Nick 's message, "Re: Trapper 700" on 14/02/04 11:12:47 I also have a 1979 report on the Trapper 700 from Yachting World - not quite as good as the YM one I have copied to the web page (sans photos, which were already bad from the photo-copied report). If anyone is really, really interested I can add it to the web page but I wanted to get something up quickly for Richard so took the better of the two reports. >>There were only 16 built<< Hmm, maybe you are right, can you cite? Because YW says that 20 were ordered even before production began. >>Some if not all have centre boards<< All were centreboarders. Don't confuse them with the C&C 35 which Trapper also built and on which the 700 was based, by request from Trapper to C&C for the centreboard re-design in Canada in the classic, American, shoal draught cruiser style. This all reminds me of my first small cruiser Merlin back in the 70's, a modified Hilbre Island OD - with the same principle; a long iron keel and a swinging centreplate pivoting on the forward lower section. Shoal draft so that I could keep her on a drying, mud mooring and yet she was quite competitve for racing - we had three of them at Whitby. She couldn't keep up with the fin keelers going to windward, of course, but went like s**t off a stick as soon as the wind came on the beam, I had an especially large, flat spinnaker to take advantage of that. The biggest bugbear with the centreplate principle that I can remember was the slamming of the plate in the housing when becalmed - it did it either up or down - probably there is a way to stop that by lining the casing. I just remember that it drove me crazy at the time. Memories, memories. Best, Brian. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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