Chuck:
This particular K25 was a fast boat.....as I mentioned in an earlier
post, it was stripped out and made race ready at the Bruckmann factory
in Mississauga.....even after all of the work Mark Bruckmann did to the
K25, it was class legal. For example, he had the bottom 'long sanded'
and the foils were made 'perfect'. The sails were made by Hugh Beaton
of the North Sails loft in Toronto.....if anyone could make sails for a
K25, it is Hugh Beaton.
When I was in the process of buying the K25 from Mark Bruckmann, I asked
him to install a 'marine head' in the vee berth before he shipped the
boat to me.....he had the ways and means to do it a lot better that me.
I though at that moment he would not sell the boat to me because he said
it would slow it down.
Well, the J24 fleet around here called us 'the annoying red Kirby'....we
were beating them boat for boat most days. One day in early August, we
hauled the K25 on the club's crane to clean the bottom and a few of the
J24 racers took the opportunity to come over to inspect her.....they
asked what modifications had been done to the boat to make it so
fast.....I told them I had had a 'marine 'head' install in the vee berth
complete with thru hulls. Needless to say, they went away totally perplexed.
The downwind run against the 37R, Dwight leaves the cockpit and has a
dump in the head.....the first to use it for that purpose.....too funny!
On another race, we were dueling boat for boat with a J24 to the finish
line....long story but he came up and bumped us and cried foul.....I
accepted the foul and did a 360 or 720, can't remember exactly, and we
still beat the J24 across the line. There was no way the J24's could
deal with this K25 downwind. Dwight might remember that race and
finish....I am pretty sure he was on board.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2014/03/08 7:42 PM, dwight wrote:
Chuck
I was on Bob and Glen's K25 as rail meat I guess because at that time
in my life I could add a lot to rail meat and we were not planing,
just holding our own downwind with a C&C 37R...good wind but not
planing for us as I recall...maybe Bob will remember better, cause I
was in the head for some of it, think I may have been the first to use
that head and that left he a Glen in control...but it was downwind so
they did not really need me and maybe my weight forward was
advantageous, who knows...think I might have been the first to use the
new head that Bob installed on that slippery little K25, *40 Yard^3
Bin* that was her name and she was swift that's for sure and we had a
lot of fun with that boat...I would recommend a K25 to anyone with
racing aspirations
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*Chuck S
*Sent:* March 8, 2014 11:50 AM
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*Subject:* Stus-List Kirby 25 verses C&C 37R
Hi Dwight,
I imagine the Kirby 25 was planing and surfing while you guys were not
able to?
I hate when they put planing boats in with our division, but that's
PHRF. Melges 20, Melges 24, but the most impressive thing was an all
carbon Viper 640 that even led the fleet to the windward mark in 4
knot wind and gained a little on each leg, especially downwind.
Chuck
*/Resolute/*
1990 C&C 34R
Atlantic City, NJ
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*From: *"dwight" <[email protected]>
*To: *[email protected], [email protected]
*Sent: *Saturday, March 8, 2014 10:04:05 AM
*Subject: *Re: Stus-List Boat Names
K25, which was a really slippery little boat, raced side by side with
a C&C 37R in goods winds under spinnaker on a long run in from
Chebucto Head and we held our own easy...only 3 of us onboard that
day...very memorable day...First in Class I seem to recall...Bob may
have a say on that day too
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