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[quote=MN3][quote]the boat in front, G-Cat 17?
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Hi Lars, that is one of 3 G-cats that were built to the f16 box rule
Brett Moss (pro sailor) was hired to race one of these gcats in the f16 Races several years ago (racing against all modern f16 cats with boards). IF it went well, GCAT was going to try and go back into production. It went very bad. Brett had no experience on this boat (that sails very differently than a modern design) and ended up crashing and destroying the gcat and damaging a competitors boat

Hans (G) sold the remaining ones.

That is not me in the pic- that is Ron

he was / is an engineer and later redesigned the front beam and removed the entire dolphin striker (hit a lot of waves and slowed the boat down), made his own carbon fiber rudders, and then,...

it ended poorly for this gcat too 
[img]https://www.thebeachcats.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=131574&g2_serialNumber=3[/img]

[url]https://www.thebeachcats.com/index.php?module=forums&func=viewtopic&topic=17768[/url]<em>Edited by MN3 on Nov 20, 2021 - 04:06 PM.</em> [/quote]

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