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New mast finished cooking and now ready for fit out and painting. There's not a lot of work to get the Wolf sailing again so anyone keen on doing this years Coastal Classic in their own ultra fast Trimaran should get in touch soon!

Timberwolf's new mast is now Laminated and Ready to be cooked in the autoclave..

Rory putting on 45 degree fill in strips

Yes Timberwolf is definitely still for sale If anyone wants a quick boat very well capable of winning Division 7 in the Coastal Classic then this is the boat for you New rig offers even better light air performance.

Finally some progress. New carbon mast section underway for Timberwolf Many thanks to Adrian Pawson for his help on getting me some of the Intermediate Modulus Fibre we are using

Here is the best photo I have of the most awesome boat you could ever dream of owning. Through Timberwolf I have met some amazing friends and in Bryan Roberts a great friend who has stuck by me and the Wolf every step of the way. This Photo shows Bryan and I competing in the last Simrad race. As you can see I was pushing the boat far too hard, and as Tim Clissold likes to say I was "sailing it like I'd stolen it", but during the leg to Channel Island we had smoked past Charleston , Taeping and also Wired and only had 888 ahead of us. You bet I pushed the boat hard, and sailed it i

Timberwolf can be purchased either in As is Where is condition or if required I can build a new taller rig, fit new rigging and halyards as required, as well as fit new Main and #1 Jib. Timberwolf will also be on view at the NZMYC Boat Show on Sunday 17th March from 9-00 til 4-00 near Team NZ base at Wynyard Quarter in the Viaduct.

Unfortunately diamond stays broke on way back from Route 66 and mast came crashing down. Mast broken into 3 pieces and main torn to shreds. Minor damage to starboard AMA and rudder. All halyards destroyed and some rigging unusable. Just had the best few weeks with my beloved Timberwolf we won the Te Kouma race by the distance from Shag Island to the finish and we won the Coastal Route 66 race in fine style. Our last sqaddy race on Wednesday was our best for a while and we had a nice handicap win. Someone else needs to own this beautiful boat. Timberwolf will reward you every time y

Yep foil fully down but at time of capsize we may have been going too slow to develop much lift and/or it let go Another cock up was that we didn't have the rig canted as its usually too hard to get downwind when it is canted, but at this time if we'd been fully canted it probably wouldn't have happened

Step One: You can't have fun sailing your boat or tipping it over for that matter if it is tied up to the dock. Step two: If conditions are too strong for you or your boat see step one! To me this wasn't a day I had thought we would be at any capsize risk. It was around 20-25 knots most of the time before the start. We had a Reef in the main and small jib which I thought was very conservative. The forecast was for the wind to drop in the afternoon and evening. Sometime after the start we were doing the usual Downwind Rum Race Wallow where we really needed an extra up to make it f

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no damage.awesome police force who righted us

Well here is a great shot of Timberwolf doing exactly what I one day hoped it would, crossing the finish line first at Russell. Once again my sincere thanks to all of you who helped me get the boat to the stage its at. Our next goal has to do with a record !

There are two parts to the beam. A non structural fairing on the front and a box shaped structural part at the back. There has been a small amount of movement since relaunch and the fairing has cracked a bit and there is some slight damage to the structural beam and socket after the Simrad but it is very minor and is extremely easy to fix and once done it will be significantly stronger than it is now so I'm not expecting it to give us any more trouble albeit it was probably not smart pushing Timberwolf that hard in such massive seas, we should have put in another reef sooner. The boat will be

Oh my god, no ! Tim Clissold was 100% right. We broke the new board. Compression failure of the core.... aaaaaaargh. Was probably not too happy dropping off 6m odd swells at Channel Island so decided to bust off and head off to Cape Colville. Absolutely no wood in the new board. It has a HD foam and carbon shear web in the centre in place of the cedar. However despite having to eat humble pie on this aspect i will NOT be removing my boom, buying a Sail Outboard motor or importing a Cheap chinese wind generator fan that doesn't spin and is fitted in such a way that with

The Upshot with the Jammers is that the Plastic XTS Jammers have 20% less holding than the XCS model and even though I cannot believe our 3:1 stays ever see 3 tonnes (and therefore the Jammer 1 tonne) I have decided to go for the upgraded model (which allows an extra 600kg on the sidestay). That should fix that !

Sure do have a safety, that is what stopped the rig falling over the side completely.

Well spotted. The little Cam in the Spinlock Jammer which is held against the Rope by a little spring when the clutch handle is closed kept lifting off the Rope on Port tack. I think the Spring needs replacing? Anyway that meant we had to sail to North head canted to leeward until we could tack and then fix the problem. I took it in to Sailors Corner and Pedro said they have had a few customers bringing in their Spinlock XTS Jammers having the same problem. Very scary for us as we are relying on the jammer to hold the rig up!

Compared to either Positive Touch or Fun n Games both Light Displacement 30' keelboats the loads on Timberwolfs rudders are around half to 2/3rds the loads of the two keelboats. I Know this as we built Positive Touch a rudder blade slightly stronger than Timberwolfs and it broke in the Coastal they were leading. I then used the laminate of Fun n Games' rudder to beef up Positive Touch's rudder and stock and I understand its still going strong today. The Blade of Timberwolfs Rudder is about 7 kg, the upgraded PT rudder more like 11kg. For a further indication take a look at either X Facto

New transom for both hulls incorporating new Carbon Gudgeons. The new Gudgeons are mounted from the Inside of the transom through angled holes. Inside the Transom they are Glassed over and the photo shows the Carbon over the new Gudgeon. The Old gudgeons had peeled off the Old transom, on the Starboard side we hit the bottom soon after the relaunch. The Port side fell off the Friday before last when we backed it into a mooring post. I glued it up quickly that night to do the Windward Leewards the next day but actually the Glue hadn't been properly mixed and it was probably too cold, any

On every leg on saturday we used about 10 degrees cant. Have found upwind we start canting the rig in 12-15 knots. Downwind (running) we don't cant below 20-25 knots. Canting the rig depowers the boat so you use it if you are overpowered.