{"id":4880,"date":"2017-05-26T17:09:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T17:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2017-06-07T19:16:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T19:16:26","slug":"dave-lucas-on-scamp-hauling-ass-easy-as-you-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?p=4880","title":{"rendered":"Dave Lucas on SCAMP: Hauling Ass, Easy as You Please"},"content":{"rendered":"

We received this fun report from Small-Boat-Guru, Dave Lucas about his experience at the Cedar Key rendezvous and his thoughts on SCAMP specifically. \u2014Eds<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all seen the videos of the SCAMP dancing and flipping around and have even sailed with some, but this weekend at Cedar Key really showed me the true nature of these little boats. It was blowing a solid 12 to 15 with higher gusts and us hot-rodders were having a ball showing off and speeding around the slower boats when what do I see ahead of me but a SCAMP.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll just zip up, sail circles around him and be on our way<\/em>. He was only a hundred yards or so ahead of us and we figured to catch him in about two minutes; It didn\u2019t work out that way. It took us about two miles to finally get to him and I was beginning to have my doubts.<\/p>\n

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Many of you have experienced these 16 foot Melenseeds that Roger Allen designed and know that they\u2019re real rockets<\/em><\/p>\n

These guys on SCAMP were just sitting drinking beer and hauling ass, easy as you please. They could tack and jibe and mess around like it was dead calm where we were having to be really careful. You know that\u2019s impossible, this kind of performance cannot come from a clunky little 12-foot boat. This thing somehow ignored everything I thought I know about hull speed. I would strongly recommend this boat to anyone who wants a simple, lightweight, safe, dry, fast boat.
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That\u2019s probably why two of them are going together here at the Happy Hour boatshop; and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see a couple more take shape in the near future. <\/p>\n

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Dave<\/p>\n

Dave Lucas
\nLucas Boatworks and Happy Hour Club
\nskipjack@tampabay.rr.com<\/p>\n

Learn more about SCAMP here:
\nhttp:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/message-board2\/viewforum.php?f=3&sid=b3db01ed14712d8e8547ab3ebdbf3c06<\/a><\/p>\n

SCAMP Facebook Page:
\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmallCraftAdvisorMagazineProject?ref=hl<\/a><\/p>\n

SCAMP YouTube Videos:
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wRZNWAkdkXM<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yD0Si4aKleM<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yCRY0lH7OAc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We received this fun report from Small-Boat-Guru, Dave Lucas about his experience at the Cedar Key rendezvous and his thoughts on SCAMP specifically. \u2014Eds We\u2019ve all seen the videos of the SCAMP dancing and flipping around and have even sailed with some, but this weekend at Cedar Key really showed me the true nature of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4886,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions\/4886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}