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N3431


Name: Zippy

Design: Feeling Foolish

Designer: Bim Daser

Year built: 1998

Build type: Professional

Builder: Winder Boats/Pinnell & Bax

Construction: Foam sandwich

Hull type: Double Bottom

Special achievements:
ntoa
15-Mar-2007

The life of N3431 Zippy. Design: Feeling Foolish, designed by: Bim Daser in 1995

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YW Silver National Points Trophy winning boat, Weymouth?1998, Antony Gifford & Richard Bailey

Antony
13-Apr-2007

Zippy was one of the first batch of Winder/P&B boats from their Feeling Foolish mould. Zippy is probably my best ever boat purchase. She was delivered, fully measured and calibrated, to the Easter Egg at Waldringfield in 1998. With new crew for the year (Rich Bailey) we were 2nd that weekend and spent the whole season sharing out the prizes with Tom Stewart and Liz Ross in their sister ship (3426), cumulating in winning the Silver National at Weymouth that summer.

There is no doubt that these DB boats were a speed breakthough and so our ability to get out of trouble and back to the front of the fleet was very helpful, but equally Rich is a great crew and Zippy was quick even for her generation from day one.

I sold her at the end of 1999 to my sister, Frances, as I was off to New York for an indefinite period.

Antony

Jeremy C
26-Aug-2008

doing their stuff at Harwich 2008- gill series event

Jeremy C
26-Aug-2008

2nd pic- was a little windy!

Jane Wade
09-Jan-2009

I crewed Zippy with Frances as the helm for a couple of years - we did the champs at Torquay in 2000 and Porthpean 2001.? We had a blast!

simon ballantine
22-Jun-2009

I bought Zippy from Fran at the end of the?October 2008 open meeting in Salcombe.? Although we'll never be up to Anthony or Fran's standard the boat has transformed our club racing results?and felt quick from day one.?
Zippy by name, zippy by nature.




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