[PCW] Sea Sled

[Malcolm Tennant]

In the 1960's I was a licenced builder of Tornados. I used to buy my fittings
from a family by the name of Wiseman who lived in Kohimarama in  Auckland. The
wisemans were well known in flying 18 circles but what was interesting was
that in the garage along side their house was a beautifully built  double
diagonal timber construction Hickman Sea Sled!

I think that anybody who has had anything to do with the design and building
of sporting sailing cats has, at some time, put a big outboard on the back and
gone for it. . Back in the 60s we did it with Tornados and in the 70's we did
it with Great Barrier Expresses and now Reynolds are doing it with the
Reynolds 33. However making it commercially viable is a totally different
thing.

Regards,

Malcolm Tennant.

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