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Thanks, Evan! Now we'll await the almost zero replies that'll be posted to my comment ...
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Hey - I thought being ignored was my specialty
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Spruce, it is a nice instrument. I owned a usa made Elite that was my first acoustic purchased in 92 and sold last year
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I've raced A-Class catamarans since 2001, all carbon in the platform, rig, and foils. We started foiling 5 years ago, scary fun. Here's a pic of my latest boat with me sailing it in Key Largo just before a regatta. The Swift looks like a handful with three sails, good fun! We also have a Weta trimaran. My wife sailed a Sunfish for awhile and hated it, we sold it and got the Weta. We sailed the Columbia River Gorge Regatta a few years ago doublehanding the boat. What a spectacular venue that was, windy as advertised. Sorry for the thread hijack!
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Nice! I haven't tried foiling yet myself.
I used to play with the I-14 folks for sure. I actually sail a Musto Performance Skiff although life has managed to get firmly in the way in the past five years or so. The designer of the Swift lives here in the PNW. I had the privilege of having my boat right beside his on the dock so we sailed together many times and had many shared regattas between the classes. I also have a Corsair 28R trimaran which with kids has been more my focus for the current time. The gorge is an amazing venue for sure. I am at least now set up with travelling carbon guitars that can go with me for the non sailing time. Quote:
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Thanks, I feel better already!
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My boat guitar at that time was an Ovation.
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I have run into a lot of people that seem to have some combination of guitars with new materials, people who sail tris and skiffs and other less mainstream boats motorcycles bicycles and a couple other hobbies that are more about the Journey than the destination.
My boat guitars are now a Furch Little Jane, Klos travel guitar or my Emerald X7 depending on anticipated weather conditions and how much space I have in the boat! The Adamas at least in the earlier versions does indeed seem to use a thin carbon skin over a wood core so it does appear like a reasonable way for a soundboard. I knew those boat repair skills would come in handy for building guitars. Sprint we also have an Edwinson in common brother Llama. |
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I’ve taken my my Rainsongs many places. My former P-12 spent 10 hours in a cargo hold on a flight from Charlotte to Rome and the same coming home. It also did two plane trips to St. Martin and lived on a boat for a couple of weeks each time. The most frequent harsh duty I put them through is being in the car on a hot day.
It’s awesome to have guitars that can travel so well yet tonally have no compromises. Captain Jim, did you cruise your F-27 only or did you participate in any of the Corsair regattas (in Florida)? Corsair had some regattas in the the Florida panhandle from the late’s 90’s to about 7 years ago that at one point were attracting 50-60 boats. We’re going to sell the Sprint next year and hoping to buy either a Cruze 970 or the new 880. I’m going to Pensacola tomorrow to take a sail on a new 880. Sorry again for the thread hijack but one of the reasons I have a carbon guitar is to be able to take it on a boat.
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SprintBob, we did race our Corsair on occasion, but never did the national races in Florida. It was mostly cruising for us (well, faster than "leaner" cruising ). If you ever participated on the old F-boat Forum (via e-mail), I was a moderator there. I did some photography for Corsair when they were in southern California, and wrote a few things for their magazine. One of the toughest situations as a moderator there was having to put Mike Leneman and Ian Farrier on moderation after those two had a flame war. A lot of testosterone there.
Plenty of good memories of our experience with that boat, including anchored out on pleasant nights, playing guitar while sitting on the nets and leaned back against the cabin... and looking at the stars. Carbon Fiber guitars weren't on my radar back then. I recall a sailing buddy telling me (when Composite Acoustics was in Louisiana) that I had to try one of these amazing guitars made from carbon fiber. "Carbon fiber? On a guitar?? I don't think so." Never thought I'd own a powercruiser either. Tastes can change when you have an open mind.
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Back on topic, briefly I have an Emerald X7 (version 2) having spent years looking for a parlour sized guitar that I liked the sound of. I nearly bought a Taylor GS mini but held off then came across the X7. It is my goto guitar for nearly everything these days* and is the first guitar to have supplanted my Brian Eastwood in that role for more than a few weeks since I got the Eastwood in 1981.
Lookswise I wanted, and got, plain black carbon weave which I love. Soundwise it sounds more 'HiFi' than my wooden guitars, different but not inferior. The other parlours I tried always sounded too mid range focused for my taste and there X7 is more balanced. * Except Gypsy Jazz, obviously the Aylward is an entirely different beast, though the X7 does great, if a little clean sounding, gypsy rhythm. WRT Boats, I have sailed since I was 11 and have owned and raced several boats and windsurfers, currently I own two boats, a Spice (a twin wire 'pretend' skiff) and a Blaze which I race most weeks. I love the look of the Swift Solo, gorgeous boat. And I envy the A Class, one of my teenage dreams (behave you lot) was to own and sail a Unicorn. I'm probably past my sell by date WRT foiling A Class at 67, I'm glad to still be sailing competitively.
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That is in comparison to the Rainsong and Emerald method of just adding more material to the outside of their soundboard. Given that Composite Acoustics really nailed the sound of wood on their Legacy line, using bracing instead of changes or additions to the composite lay-up, there are still many areas to be explored in the CF arena. Me personally, a while ago I replaced my Rainsong 12-string with an Adamas. That guitar continues to scratch that particular itch. |
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