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Eric Sea Frog
05-15-2003, 12:29 PM
http://www.swallowboats.com/storm-petrel.htm
Ken Hall
05-15-2003, 03:57 PM
Nice-looking design, Eric. Did you buy?
Eric Sea Frog
05-16-2003, 05:50 AM
Just ran into it. But I need a cuddy more than a kit. I consider building a Cap Corse for now

http://membres.lycos.fr/capcorse/

then restoring a Requin (Hajen)

http://requin.levillage.org/
Andrew Craig-Bennett
05-16-2003, 07:04 AM
Ah, le Requin! I did not know that this gorgeous, very French, boat was designed in Finland. Lovely boats; more practical than the rather similar Dragon.
Eric Sea Frog
05-17-2003, 04:58 AM
More practical? This is good news, any more precise info?
I've never piggy-backed a Dragon, but bébé-requin is still a two-ton girl who sits down like a camel on her slant keel when the sea goes home and will try and eat her moorings alive upwind.
John Gearing
05-19-2003, 10:34 AM
Over on Swallowboats I like the Razorbill! A sailing skiff you can camp in!

How does a Requin compare with say a small Square-meter boat in terms of performance/acommodations?
Ian McColgin
05-19-2003, 10:59 AM
I especially like the clubbed leading-tack-balanced jib.

For a friend's boat with one of those and not a good space in the bow to handle it, I set up a two part downhaul that went from the stemhead fitting up through the peak cringle and back down to the stem and the aft. Use as a down haul letting the halliard run with a bit of tension against it as you strike the jib and most of it stays in the boat.
Eric Sea Frog
05-21-2003, 06:10 AM
John,

The rule has it that the Requin must have a small cabin w/ two bunks, minimum dimensions 1.8 meter by 0.3m at the head by 0.45m at the foot, plus a few closed cupboards.
The idea is that the Requin IS & must remain a live-aboard racer, even tho most of owners only use the cabin as another sails' compartment in addition to the cubicle at the fore.
You'll find the cabin wet & cluttered w/ sails most of the time.
And I'll never sleep on a 1' large bunk!
Some owners chose to stress the live-aboard side and keep varnishing their mahogany cabin.
All in all, it's about 6' long.
I guess there are as many variations among the SqMr crowd.

Eric