Special Edition Lasers

[LaLi]

Still holding out for any info on the elusive Graffiti version!

As you may remember, I stumbled upon one about a year ago. I could go someday to see if it's still there (it appeared to be very abandoned), this time with a camera

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[Horizon]

There is a Millennium edition (sail number 169092) for sale here:

Laser Laser 1 for sale UK, Laser boats for sale, Laser used boat sales, Laser Sailing Dinghies For Sale Laser Dinghy standard and Radial - Apollo Duck

sailingdinghies.apolloduck.co.uk

It looks more or less like a standard Black Magic with black spars but with "gold?" grab rails in the cockpit and Millennium graphics iby the daggerboard case.

 

[Horizon]

And here are photos of a Laser Gold I saw for sale a few years ago

If the sail number is correct, then it will be from around 1985

 

[Horizon]

But curiously, this version of a Laser Gold is slightly different, with no stripe across the deck - sail number 125792, so a little younger than the one above.

 

[Horizon]

As you can see, I have been going through some old files....

This is a Pure Magic (sail number 129986) - I think like a Black Magic but in gold!

 

[Horizon]

And finally for today, some photos of a Laser Graffiti!

 

[Phillipbennett]

The Graffiti! So happy to have seen a photo. Thank you for that. It still blows my mind I saw one all those years ago still in a box that it came brand new in. Wonder where it is now.

Thanks for all those photos, a few models I had not seen before!

 

[thelmo]

Nice thread!!

Does anyone have pictures with the hull decals or other details of the savannah edition?

I have one (I think!?) number 158149 and the ancients said she´s a savannah edition.

Some decals are gone and I intend to make new ones, recovering the original savannah visual. And the only that I´ve found, so far, is that inside the cockpit in the begening of this post.

Congrats for this post!

I used the image & proportions of a laser savannah and made some "similar" decals.

Some may said It´s not perfetc... missing some shades, and the a vinil is not in the exact color...

But I´m pretty happy with my "new laser"...

...and she´s even faster!

 

[ryanj24]

Artist Marian Bantjes and LP did a special edition in 2010

They made 12. I wonder who has them and where they are...

Changing tack: Laser sailboat, by Marian Bantjes and Laser Performance

Wallpaper* wanted a boat, and if we couldn’t have a gin palace, it had to be a design classic. We called on ocean-loving designer and regular Wallpaper* contributor Marian Bantjes to produce plans for a graphically enhanced Case class dinghy, and she d...

www.wallpaper.com

 

[Horizon]

They made 12. I wonder who has them and where they are...

Personally, I would be surprised if they sold many of them at all.

At £10,000, ten years ago, that is a huge premium on a full race spec Laser now, let alone then. I would imagine, if you wanted one like that, you could have got a vinyl wrap done much more cheaply than that!

And it is unlikely that either hull or sail would be class legal, so I don'tthink that a racer would have bought one. However, there is no accounting for taste and people's wallets, so it is possible that they sold them all.

The article here has a little more detail

Laser Sailboat - Marian Bantjes

Here are some more photos of the wrapping process. In the background, you can see another wrapped hull, so it looks as though at least 2 were made if not the full 12.