Posted by Robert Howes on September 09, 1999 at 20:56:11 from 62.136.125.148 via proxy webcacheW07a.cache.pol.co.uk:
In Reply to: Greetings, Grasshopper! posted by Johnny Broadhead on September 09, 1999 at 11:33:00:
I presume you mean Seahopper. It took me more than a few seconds to realise that this wasn't a mistake and is in fact a Missee Lee pun. I am very pleased with the Sea/Grasshopper. 30 seconds is obviously a time performed by a expert, and of course, it takes a lot longer to rig it for sailing. It could probably all be done in five minutes by someone who knows what they are doing and is in a hurry. There is a bit more lateral drift than with other boats as the daggerboard is tiny, apart from that it is OK. The boat needs two people to lift it off the roof of a car, and of course needs a roofrack.