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single-handed keelboat based on the lines of a 12 metre yacht
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The Illusion is a one-design, single-handed keelboat based on the lines of a 12-metre yacht. Its features include foot pedal steering, genoa roller reefing, full trimming facilities and large buoyancy tanks. It was designed by Jo Richards and Neil Graham in 1981.
The Illusion is a one-design, single-handed keelboat based on the lines of a 12-metre yacht. Its features include foot pedal steering, genoa roller reefing, full trimming facilities and large buoyancy tanks. It was designed by Jo Richards and Neil Graham in 1981.
Clubs racing Illusions in the UK are:
Broxbourne SC, Broxbourne (Herts)
Bembridge SC (IoW)
Middle Nene SC, Thrapston (Northants.)
West Kirby SC, Wirral (Merseyside)
“It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
“The shedding of easy solutions, of comforting illusions may be painful, but it leaves behind it a feeling of freedom and … the absurd which do not seem in any normal sense of the words, to be noteworthy...”
“Commonly, the word "myth" is now used to mean an illusion or a lie, as when we speak of the rumors and myths of the engines that were supposed to run on water instead of gasoline.”
“We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.”
“No matter how frequently you visit the realm of dreams, you will inevitably confront the unvarnished truth. However, our truth is so much bitter that not even the entirety of the world's sugar can sweeten it.”
“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”
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