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Hi,
I don't know if links to these videos have been posted already, but I thought that they should be shared as I think they're worth a look.

Three video clips of a couple of kids building a Mini-Cup over their Christmas break in 2008! Very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WDw05hY1R8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBMtIKBijZo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aO5cpNnuHk

I also posted them on the revised ProjectCam page:
http://www.stevproj.com/ProjectCam.html

Many thanks and congrats to the young builders.
Mike

I wasn't sure about the sailing rig changes - a surprising number of people don't seem to like the lateen sail even though it works really well.

The heavy handles at the bow though are something I wish I'd done on my Mini Cup though.

Andrew: It's been probably almost a third of a century since I sailed my Mini-Cup (a bit too long, perhaps?!?), but I recall the lateen being a pretty damned good rig. We had the same rigs on the sailcars and they screamed! We had a hell of a lot of fun with the lateen-rigged stuff and I never sneer at them. However, I'd very likely do what these kids did if I had access to a windsurfer rig easily. I'm really, really curious to try fiddling with both a windsurfer-style rig on a sailcar and also working on a sort of 21st-Cen high-speed gaff rig so people could make high-speed rigs with tarp-and-tape methods and keep things cheap and homemade. (like the comment you posted on another thread: to keep things DIY, one has to be able to make stuff available cheaply and adaptably. Even words!  )

One of the things I do recall about the Min-Cup is that handles were really useful! Liked the circular openings they put in the bulkhead. I don't recall those in the original.

Mike

Nice to see.  These boys have a life long memory.

I love these vid's Mike. I totally enjoyed watching them, I especially like all the smiles when they were sailing the finished product.
What a supportive dad, he did a great thing with those boy's as previously stated, they have a life long memory now.
Very inspiring vid's thank's for sharing mate.

Brian.

Cool - Old Popular Science magazines are now on-line

Links to several articles by Peter Stevenson http://books.google.ca/books?lr=&id=lwAA...0161-7370+

The MiniCup - http://books.google.ca/books?id=qQAAAAAA...on&f=false

Winged Dinghy http://books.google.ca/books?id=yQAAAAAA...on&f=false

Weekender http://books.google.ca/books?id=z7nkfLrL...er&f=false

Ha! How funny...

Thanks very much Andrew, I'll send Peter the links too!

Mike