Vorpal Blade

A well set up system will make your life easy. Our main is around 50sqm and its a one person op to both hoist and stow, and when you put in a reef it controls all the loose sail.

What you are describing is more or less an automotive headlining material. Typically a textured vinyl fabric bonded to a layer of foam 2-3mm thick. I have a bloody big carton of swatches in the workshop, if I find some spare time I will have a dig through and see what I can find.

The new stuff is water based, low pressure, no odour, and probably both vegan and gluten free but not cheap . Smelliest thing about interior linings is the person that is next to you helping get it all stuck to the surfaces before the glue tacks off.

I hate the stuff but I recommend tear off and replace at about 5 years before any mould etc can start to colonise. The old glue on the boat is the issue. Easiest is tear it down and just put up more of the same.The 5kg canister spray glues I use are not that horrible inside a boat. You saw what i went thru got get the VB interior fur-free and glossy painted inside, major improvement but hours, and hours, and hours.

What about sanding a small recess where the join is.

or a Lime scooter.

As I understand it the pivot points for the foils are set in the class rules and are a specified distance (+/- 10mm or so from the centreline) or something like that, so in comparing all of the hull shapes take it that the foil pivots are almost in the same place relative to the centreline. Theres some fatties and some slimmies, its going to be interesting.

There was minimal damage to the boat. We alwasys recommend what Chariot said about the wedges to tighten the boat up against the uprights. Do not pull the cradle arms into the hull as this unloads the diagonal bracing and the boat will fall over sideways. A good keel guide to get you into the channel properly is useful, as is a stop so you put the centre of gravity in the centre of the cradle. It really helps to know the underwater geometry of the boat, particularly if the bottom edge of the keel is not horizontal. Multis on the other hand don't have this problem.

Keel not in channel and owner has just realised.... then the tide goes out a bit.... and it all turns to carp The port side cradle arms couldn't hold the boat upright and collapsed.

I do a lot of haulouts on cradles like yours at Little Shoal Bay, the biggest mistake we see is a mismatch between the gunwale dimensions and where the cradle arms are set.

https://cardwells.co.nz/rod-ends.html

Thats largely what I did except I spliced them into a loop so they can't fall off.

I haven't got pics but I will sketch it up.

The T bar (or bunny ears) is what you usually put the tack rings onto at the gooseneck

I have a dyneema loop through the tack rings on my reefs. Each loop up the reef stack is longer so there is no need to drop slides out as we get to R3. I put the loops onto the T bars with a figure 8 hitch so it won't come off accidentally, never had any chafe issues and it also gives a decent sized grab handle to pull the sail down with.

I've had several cats with them in the steering system. Cardwell racing supplies in Albany, they had s/s, aluminum and titanium in lots of sizes.

Looks like a very early square top main for a multihull, it's all been done before.

Find the lowest halyard or whatever hole in the mast that gives you some access inside. Find a ballon, put it in the mast and inflate, tie off balloon. Get a smooth tipped stick and push it down a bit, try to get it down at least 100mm from the hole you are working through. Squirt in some foam on top of balloon. If you don't squirt in too much foam it will seal up to the access hole and all will be well with the world, too much and there could be a clean up pending.

Based on the phone calls Ive already had there is widespread dodger and sail carnage.

What about on the roof of a car.

That was the PIs very first race , the 1987 Auckland -Onerahi. We were still deciding where to screw cleats and some of the deck gear as we went through Tiri.

The Public Image was originally a Galaxy 800 design but when we were planking it up Jim Young suggested it would be easier to fair if we extended the planking 400mm or so aft of the transom. if was an easy decision to leave it there as a scoop. The rig was also a heap bigger than the original sail plan too. It would be a fun machine with a decent T keel.

Why bother doing that, glass it up and put a big window shaped sticker on the cabin side. Never leak.

While cleaning up a bunch of father-in-law stuff I found an Auckland Star newspaper from May 19 1972. I found these ads in Situations vacant, a clothing machinist could earn $40-50 a week, and there right below it is an ad for a sail machinist placed by a Mr Giddens. and parking at the Airport 50c a day! I will go into car prices soon. `