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Well, this weekend was...good... nah... great... nah, AWESOME!
Christina handed in her PhD thesis.
So we went sailing together for the first time this summer
(it's only my third time this summer also)Managed 7.1kts in about 6 knts of breeze averaging 0 knts.
And even got a sunburn of freedom
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Gee, I'm actually kinda glad you posted what appears to be advertising in the forum because i just re-read this interesting thread
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When is it better just to turn this puppy over and re-skin the whole thing?
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weekend achievements (and monday through to Wed morning)
Emergency boat surgery (cabin rot) and windows finally sealed on the Palace along with a few other keep-out-the-rain maintenance issues.
Work boat finish...
dry berths at last
I hope...
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Standing headroom also! Very nice
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I have to say, and sorry to other multi owners, but TW is my favourite multi of all time.
Looks good
Goes fast
Home made (mostly)
I'd want one for fun commuting if I lived on a gulf Island.
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Like I say, I did think about the bevelled edge/scarf patch, but the ply is only 4mm thick, and will receive some severe point loading so I wanted it as strong and simple as practical. Also without the doublers a beveled patch is likely to move out of position during cure. Yes I could screw it then fill the screw holes etc. but I'm happy with it like this. If it was 6mm ply I would have bevelled it in like you suggest, but 4 mm gives less room for fairing afterwards. Got to make the patch flush and good all round to get easy finishing.
Weather is meh today and I'm a bit under the weather also so I'll have to wait for tomorrow to see how well it has come up with the epoxy all set. The aim was to make a strong repair that would not be seen - the aim at least.
You've done well, but here's an easier way for next time, get a grinder with a 40grit sanding disc and bevel the edges of your hole about 4:1 and same to your patch (no need to be perfect). Plonk it down using lots of epoxy and your good to go. Saves all those doublers and its pretty easy to do. -
a lick of paint and no one will notice.
except you.....
how horribly horribly true
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While my Christina was with me, I think I'd like to take the credit. To note, we had the fastest ride to date only a few minutes before breaking it, gusting 20 knots we were FLYING along on a quartering reach. As we got closer to the narrow little fairway into our ramp (seen on this web cam) : http://www.scc.ch/cam/image.jpg the fairway is between the boats and the roof in the foreground, what followed was a comedy of willy-waws leaving us capsizing over someone's mooring buoy and bowsprit.
Righting the boat I launched myself out of the water to make sense of the knitting and sieze back control from the elements before we charged off into another boat but I landed a little too enthusiastically on the deck, punching my knee clean through quite close to the transom. About this time I realised that the boat really doesn't have a lot of freeboard (aided by my weight in the worst position) and was alarmed to see the lake flowing into the hull at an astonishing rate!
Staying calm, I finished lowering the main and threw things overboard to gain freeboard (paddle, girlfriend...) and jammed my foot in the hole, making it larger. With the situation under control, Christina hanging on the bowsprit after having retrieved the paddle, we swam/tugged and paddled the boat back to shore (200ft).
Photos below show the result and the repair to date. I considered making a very tricky 4 sided scarf patch, but thought better of it. I could just see the hole getting bigger and bigger as I tried in vain to get a good fit...
a lick of paint and no one will notice.
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Saturday's achievement
That hole lets in and awfully large amount of lake...
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looking good.
I'll have to get a hurry along with my new project so I can start to post photos instead of just enviously looking at your progress.
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Printing was done at the factory. The panels are computer cut, and all have little locating marks printed on them at the same time for indexing the assembly. Using the same system they print the outline of the design at the same time and then some dude manually paints the ink (UV proof and apparently hard wearing) onto the sail after stitching. I just sent them a vector graphics format file of the pic and said " In the middle."
It apparently doesn't take too long to fill in the outline.
Group called iSails. They're on the web. French company.
The gaffer was great. But it fair p!ssed down about 30 min later - big fat drops. Everyone was pretty wet.
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Our first competitive event. Chasing and collecting balloons around the lake dropped by the committee boat.
We got killed , collecting just 2 of 50. The ladies in the old gaffer got 15...
was a tough weekend...
and cold. I want summer.
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Cool. Glad to see it coming along.
Probably been asked before, but what's the design?
R
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If you buy your second hand boat in, let's say, Europe, and then spend 10y drifting around from place to place, then finally wash up in NZ, your boat in floating but ratty condition.
Do you pay GST and duty on the value of the boat from 10y ago? Or on the value it now has?
Seems a rough deal if they make you pay duty and GST on something that is totally screwed. Proabably safer just to stay in NZ until your welcome is over, then shoot up to the islands for a stretch etc etc ad infinitum
What about the poor folk who loose their boat off the coast on the way here. It washes up intact on the coast and is sold in NZ as is by the insurance company. Is there import duty and GST on that? It is surely not worth bugger all compared to what it was worth. It's technically a wreck, after all.
Similar case - I know there was a Contessa 32 for sale in NZ a while back, 2y maybe?, it was from Geneva. Not imported. If you bought it, do you pay duty on it's Swiss value? Which is probably 10x it's actual value in NZ or on it's sale value in NZ? understanding that the VAT in Europe (OK Switzerland) was already paid.
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I like sitting on the boat in the marina. It's my blokes shed and I'd be screwed without one of those.
Agree whole hartedly. A boat in the water is worth 2 on the land. My blokes' shed is a little hard to sit comfortably on and enjoy a beer.
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You just need them to offer to pay the marina fees and haulouts and you're sorted
One option is hard storage, while the market recovers. But only if you have free storage, near the sea, and cheap launching, close to AKL, with someone who will check regularly and keep everything clean. Stuff still gets old even without being used.
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Thanks, and the learning has just begun! So responsive and everything can go wrong in a fraction of a second. There's no grace period.
I'm still trying to figure out the procedure for sorting everything out if I crash with the kite up.
Plans for the next boat are in the post now
Bigger, faster and more ocean capable... (also a heck of a lot more account emptying!)
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Cool! what lovely looking sails
Thanks, pretty happy with how they look. Artwork courtesy of my best friend in NZ.
Printing on the asymmetric was only 30€ per m2 - quite a good deal actually.
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Well, after sitting out the 25 gusting 47 knts of the Fön (mountain induced hot wind like a Norwester in the South Island) on Sat/Sun, then plucking up the courage to take the boat out with a reefed main in the 15 gusting 20 of Sun arvo, we finally got a spell of weather on Tuesday (public holiday here) where the lake was flat and we had beginners breeze for playing with the asymmetric.
Not a great photo, taken from about a mile 'n a half away, but we were planing in about 4 knts of breeze. Forecast was 4 gusting 6, but I looked at the data logger on the web afterwards and noticed they'd had an outage so I don't have accurate numbers.
Still was nice to finally get out and hoist the thing, see how it goes, see how it doesn't come down easily. A few things to sort out and a bit more practice needed then we'll be ready for the next 20knt blow
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This just keeps getting more and more interesting.
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Yeah it was nice. A few coats of varnish next weekend and we'll hoist the gennaker for the first time on Good friday...
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fitted laminated beam to foredeck. It's supposed to be a spinnaker take-down guide. We'll see how it works.
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Laminated some mahogany to make a spinnaker take town guide on the foredeck of the skiff.
Repaired the mast track
Repaired mast base where some swelling had occurred
Attached the Spinn halyard top block, - twice - once in the wrong position.
Fixed hole in mast from wrong position above
Sanded bowsprit down in diameter until it fitted in through the hole in the stem, then redid the carbon on the ends.
Made some cedar grips for the 2m carbon tiller extensions I'm making
made list of all the goodies i need to buy
Took main to sailmaker for Cunningham install
ate too much
got drunk
suffered at least three simultaneous headaches on Sunday...
This Weekend's Achievements
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Defence on Friday 13 September...party on the 14th if anyone is around.
She already hand sanded the little one twice over, I think I'd be pushing my luck!
Still, it'll be a little ways off before we break out the long board... maybe she'll have forgotten by then?