As it happens, we have two boats in our fleet with a shortened tiller - the most recent of which is Steve Bell's new boat, 3827. I was talking about this with Howard Shawyer, who as you will know has been Flying Fifteen racing for longer than he would admit. Anyway, Howard came up with this story about a chap with one leg at Grafham who used to sail fifteens years ago. For mobility reasons, he also shortened his tiller. Howard says though that he used to hang up his artificial leg up in the mens' changing room while out sailing. The key question of course, is "how did he tack?".
Howard has a very dry sense of humour and he may be pulling my leg (sic). Did you know that we had been racing together for about 5 years, when we were chatting between races in 3644 one day, and we discovered that we went to the same school in Cardiff....
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