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     Deborah Davenport New member Username: Ddavenport Post Number: 21 Registered: 04-2001 Rating: N/A |
The blueprint that S2 provided at my request when I purchased hull #115 shows the I measurement as 41.25', as does the S2 brochure from 1986. S2 designed and built Sailin' Shoes as a follow-on to the success of the 7.9m Little Feat. She had won MORC Internationals two years in a row, the first year with the factory team, and the second with an almost entirely true amateur crew (only one sailmaker). Like Little Feat, Sailin' Shoes was built with a vacuum-bag layup, and had an outboard engine. Little Feat had a slightly taller rig than the tall rig 7.9, so it's highly probable that S2 asked G&S for a similar modification from the stock 9.1. Remember, the 9.1's (and the 7.9's) were designed to race under the MORC rule, which allowed and provided for modifications from stock boats -- you took the boat's measurements and the measurer ran them through the formula to compute the rating. Your best source of answers would be the designers, [Scott] Graham & [Eric] Schlageter, but I don't believe that their firm still exists. FYI, when Joe Heslin owned Sailin' Shoes, I gave him photos of your boat that I took at the S2 factory in February or March of 1986. |
