Matty 0 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 We've had some good A sailing down in chch this last week. 15 knots on the harbour, 3 of us out. I'm still getting used to my old/new boat as well, but murray and john are being great helps. I did break my dolphin stirker on saturday though, so I've gota pull it all apart agian a construct a new one. I tell you what, the rig goes loss when theres not dolphin striker Awesome about the sailing, are there any pictures? The striker situation is difficult, I don't want one so I am going to get a carbon beam made up because I find it a hassle when it comes to putting the boat on the trailer. Foils are the other thing I am thinking about doing. I have a short board with a very big cord that really sucks once the boat speed gets to 12 knots, I can feel the boat struggling. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Don't have any pictures of the sailing unfortunately, but heaps of pictures of the boat on NZADC. Yeh I would like carbon beams, but they are down the list a fair way on things I would like. I'm currently running old paper tiger boards which are quite narrow, but I have molds for new ones when I get round to finishing them Link to post Share on other sites
Matty 0 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 what are your molds like? I have all the carbon and resin I need, just need some molds to plug some out. I need to make 2 sets. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 details ar in the KZ149 blog on NZADC website. Mold is milled MDF at mo, needs a sand and fibre glass and prep, then should be good to pop out boards, think it will be a winter project once I finish insulating the house. The foils are assy shape, 200mm chord and up to 1.5m long. Not sure if they'll be any good or not, but I spent so much time getting them made that I may as well finish them and make some boards. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Nice photos! These boats look awsome, whats the height of the rigs? look pretty high Link to post Share on other sites
Matty 0 Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 I have 3 rigs, my carbon one and one of the ally ones is 9 meters and the other alloy rig has a weird base on it thats 200mm high. not sure if anyone has different heights... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 9m is pretty standard. Some of the older rigs were about 400mm longer I think, but they seem to have settled around 9m now. There's not limit of rig height, just on sail area (which takes into account wingmast area). Means you have a rig about the same size as a ross780 I think Link to post Share on other sites
Matty 0 Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 I want to go for a sail this sunday anyone else going for a sail? also Who is going Kai iwi lakes next weekend? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 hi matty come say hi to the wakatere Opti fleet if you off Narrowneck in the morning Link to post Share on other sites
Matty 0 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 awesone, see you there. hope someone gets an a class out there, bit interesting trying to line up against an opti. Link to post Share on other sites
leroi 0 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Hi Matty 5 boats from kerikeri going to be there we camp at the doc camp at the end fo the lake see you there. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Went out for a sail on Saturday. Unfortunately I didn't have time to race so I toke my sister out for a ride. There were 3 other A's out (2xDNA's and ASG3), they all looked bloody good going round the coarse. Was a perfect day for it. Link to post Share on other sites
Matty 0 Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Looks Good Dave! we had a great fleet at Kai Iwi lakes, 14 I think there was. pretty similar conditions as your picture. not sure if anyone got any pictures. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Nice, thats a pretty good turn out! Conditions were good on sat, was a bit windier up the harbour. This weekend looks crap though, so back to the big boats for me. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Great day out yesterday. Had 5-8kts (could've done with a couple more). Nice Autumn day. Had 5 A-class out with a bunch of trailer sailors and Keelboats going round the same track. We are now up to 7 A-class in Christchurch that will be racing regularly and we're looking to add a few more to that. Does anyone know of any broken carbon masts lying around? Or unbroken ones for that matter, I want to upgrade. Link to post Share on other sites
Matty 0 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 We also had an awesome day on Saturday up here in Auckland, 4 of us went out and it was a great learning curve with a lot of help from Bruce and Finn and Mike was on fire!, breeze got up to about 20 plus knots seeing me capsize twice and one other doing a spectacular pitchpole. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Nice Matty, I still havent put the boat over (really should at some point). They really do get fun when the wind gets up, especially as you round the top mark Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 So what's happening around the country. We had 4 A's out racing today in chch. Was a good 10-15 knots north east. Upcoming big regattas down here are the south island then canterbury champs, then early next year the nationals. Many northerners coming down to visit for nationals? Link to post Share on other sites
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