The life of N3515 Happy Hour. Design: Paradigm 2, designed by: Gavin Willis, in 2007
Previous boat names: Happy Hour, The Wrong Trousers, prior to reverting to Happy Hour.
Happy Hour, Burton Cup winning boat, Teignmouth 2008, John Meadowcroft & Katy Meadowcroft
Happy hour (John and Katy) leaving the beach at Burton Week 2008 on the final race day
Happy Hour won the 2008 Burton Cup.
The boat was built by Aardvark and is the same waterline as N3485 the original Paradigm. The boat has less freeboard than N3485, has the mast further forward and sports a 2.2m jib / 6.2m main rig on a Superspar carbon mast. Sails from P&B. Paintjob by Paintcraft
The centreboard is a hatchet affair and is very light weight and bendy. The rudder assembly involves a winged rudder. The angle of the wings is adjusted by rotation of the tiller extension which changes the angle of the whole rudder blade.
The boat only has 2kg of lead, reflecting that there is only very localised use of carbon fibre within the hull, and demonstrates that you dont need a carbon boat to win.
I will post a photo from the Burton Cup if I can work out how to shrink it!
Glyn Charles Pursuit Race, Hayling Island, April 2009
T-Foil rudder from Happy Hour
Now being raced by Peter Cook and Janet Exelby at Salcombe Yacht Club and renamed.
The T-foil has temporarily been removed to simplify the learning curve associated with the modern Twelve.
South-West Travellers Trophy winner 2009 (and we haven't left Salcombe once!)
The more you look at this boat the more normal it gets!
Shawn the Sheep
Burton Cup 2008
The latest pictures of 'The Wrong Trousers' fully foiling and breezing through the Salcombe Solo fleet during the SYC Winter Series 2010. Shawn the Sheep got his revenge a few weeks later in the Festive Series by taking a 0.5 point victory in his Solo over N3515 and N3418.
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