when you have cleaned the track with soap and water, go to the grocery store and buy some blocks of parafin wax used for making candles) and rub it thoroughly onto the bolt rope and into the track - it is as good as saikote and a 20th of the price
Im going to sail it Sunday, but all my trapeze handles snapped in half so are their any handles that you can put on without getiting a new wire? also what are the plastic shroud covers far? thanks
O.K.
Those handles get brittle and break. Same thing happened to me. I've used replacement handles with success. You can find them at Murray's (here) or a few other places.
i saw that one and its alittile expensive so im going to just make on.
let us know how your maiden voyage goes
Also I meant to say this earlierm but check your tramp tension - that looks like an awful big gap between the two sides od the tramp in your pics. Lots of docs on how to do it solo
Drummer63 wrote: let us know how your maiden voyage goes
there was to much wind to go in the lake so i went in the river behind my house and had no room to tack and almost flipped
here is a pic from the first day out and first hull flew
optikid wrote: i saw that one and its alittile expensive so im going to just make on.
I've seen them made out of two pieces of PVC pipe. One side had a slot (bigger than wire but smaller than nicopress) that slipped over the wire, then the other side was screwed and/or glued on. Not sure how well they work or how long they last, but it sounds worth a try if funds are tight.
As an aside, those stock plastic handles weren't really meant to hold one's full weight.....just help you balance as you go in and out. Might want to explain that to your future crew.
i was going to post this yesterday but my internet went out
ok the fist real sailing test is tomorrow and to make it better this week is spring break! and i will have my go pro with my and make so nice videos but i have some pics of how i am trailering it and the beach wheels.
not the best but they where free!
the trailer is for a 17 ft vhull that is in the background of some of the other pics
i will get the video of the first real sail up soon
Beautiful bro
here is the first real sailing video, im skippering
Nice vid glad you are having fun with it.
you should consider removing the large picture form your signature and using it in your avatar. IT can be really disrupting to reading through forum posts to have to pop up so when it can be irrelevant tot he post. Either that or make it much smaller. 😉
Nice Vid. SWEET BOAT.. Great crew..
Looks like (to me) that the downhaul for the jib is not tight enough.. It looked like it was curving to the lee side of the center line of the boat. The jib sail has a SS cable to take the stress of the whole rig.. The forestay should be quite loose after the rig is tensioned and not have any tension. On my 16 the forstay hung curved down to a window in the jib with no stress. 8 to 12 inches from the front of the sail. Remember .. that the tension keeps the rig from letting the mast base from unseating in a flip-over.. Mast rake is acheived by the adjustment in the chain plate at the bridals conection to the chain plate where you had the camera... and the adjustment of the side stays.. Not the forestay.. Check out the vid.. See how far toward the lee side the jib is under sail.
Also.. In the pix in your avitar, looks like you are much further aft and the nose of the girl is in the air ( No one like snooty girls).. The hull on the boat is not flat but is Banana shaped. The best lift to hold the boat on track and help point (due to the asmetercial hull shape) is when the dech of the hulls are more level with the water..
West coast guys feel really bad when they see folks sailing in shorts this time of year. Good luck (Keep the crew!!) Cheers Hal
West coast guys feel really bad when they see folks sailing in shorts this time of year. Good luck (Keep the crew!!) Cheers Hal
Ya so us Mountain Folk.
Congrats on your boat. Now that you are "one of us" any chance you remove your solicitousness lifejacket signature? It happens to be really annoying!
lookin good!
just a tip, have your crew put their feet on the tramp frame, not the hull when trapped out.. this will avoid them getting their feet swept off the boat if you sail through or get hit with a wave...
If they get wiped out.... they are gonna fly back and possibly hurt you or take you off the boat..
halliske wrote: Nice Vid. SWEET BOAT.. Great crew..
Looks like (to me) that the downhaul for the jib is not tight enough.. It looked like it was curving to the lee side of the center line of the boat. The jib sail has a SS cable to take the stress of the whole rig.. The forestay should be quite loose after the rig is tensioned and not have any tension. On my 16 the forstay hung curved down to a window in the jib with no stress. 8 to 12 inches from the front of the sail. Hal
i have a bungee on the fore stay so its not flapping around and it had no stress on it.
just a tip, have your crew put their feet on the tramp frame, not the hull when trapped out.. this will avoid them getting their feet swept off the boat if you sail through or get hit with a wave...
he had his feet there because i dont have carpet on the frame yet and the mast is bent so it rotates weird when your on the trapeze.
yesterday there wasent much wind so i tryed single handing it and a puff came and i flipped, it came up fine with the help of a coach.
thanks for all the help
optikid
Edited by optikid on Mar 15, 2012 - 12:21 PM.
yesterday there wasent much wind so i tryed single handing it and a puff came and i flipped, it came up fine with the help of a coach.
Eat more junk food get fatter then that wont happen. Or just let out the traveler some.
Quarath wrote:
yesterday there wasent much wind so i tryed single handing it and a puff came and i flipped, it came up fine with the help of a coach.
Eat more junk food get fatter then that wont happen. Or just let out the traveler some.
the puff came to fast i couldn't get the traveler out in time
Edited by optikid on Mar 15, 2012 - 08:18 PM.
im using this pic as a example, when i flipped i found a soft spot around where i drew it in the pic, how easy would it be to fix since its on the side or should i forget about it and sail harder!
thanks optikid
