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madyottie

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  1. So, recently I bought an old Noelex 22, and have been slowly beavering away trying to bring it up to scratch. Bought sails, replaced mast, designed rig tension system, put it mostly in position. The rudderblade was barndoor sized, and weighed a ridiculous amount, not to mention having some mild steel packers, which rendered the whole rudder useless and immovable. So anyway... Bought foam, designed blade, cut blank, shaped, added unidirectional strands to stiffen it up, and laid rovings over the top. All with West epoxy. So far so good. Decided to add a further layer
  2. Sheesh, you lot are making me pleased that I just ventured back down traileryacht terrace. I've still got a mooring, but it's probably best removed, having suffered multiple failures since the last service/overhaul. At least now I'm mostly just concerned with wheel bearings. Really sorry to hear that people are being priced out of their recreation activities.
  3. Aww jeez, I'm trying to get rid of a few boats, thought I'd start with the old free barge. There could be a small trailer yacht and a slightly larger tri going soon, although neither will be free, and we don't really want to sell either of them, but I think we're up to about 15 boats now, so it's getting out of hand. Also my front lawn looks like a boatyard
  4. Hmmmm, is it from the mighty BP, or something a bit closer to the 20 foot mark? We used to run a Noelex 25 kite for mixed fleet racing, still slower downwind than a 25! But we were higher and faster going the other way! Pm on its way
  5. I'm looking for a cheap jib and kite for a Noelex 22, condition largely immaterial, but usable. Not needed for racing, I'll buy some new ones for that. Will consider sails from other similar sized boats depending on price.
  6. I never read these really, but if you still need a dinghy, I've got a glass one you can have. About 9 feet long from memory.
  7. Thanks! Have emailed you for a price or two
  8. I was sailing against Ric yesterday. I believe Anthony is down with the flu right now, he wasn't there. If it makes any difference, we won the second race when Rob told me to drive for him. Kinda... The Hartley 16 fleet destroyed us in the light conditions
  9. Does anyone have an active (living) contact for the above? The website Contact link bounces back, and no-one seems to be running the FB page at present. When I last had a Noelex we got around a dozen boats out every weekend, but it seems there are presently 3, which I'm now expanding to 4. Slowly. Very slowly. Which is why I need to contact the class.... I need a jib and kite, and for some reason the class rules are restricted to members only. Really. Makes it hard to order new stuff. We've created an Auckland page in the last week, so we can organise travel etc for the local f
  10. Does anyone have an active (living) contact for the above? The website Contact link bounces back, and no-one seems to be running the FB page at present. When I last had a Noelex we got around a dozen boats out every weekend, but it seems there are presently 3, which I'm now expanding to 4. Slowly. Very slowly. Which is why I need to contact the class.... I need a jib and kite, and for some reason the class rules are restricted to members only. Really. Makes it hard to order new stuff. We've created an Auckland page in the last week, so we can organise travel etc for the local f
  11. With most trailer yachts being around the 2.5 maximum beam, I'm thinking an old Merlin or Coronet would probably be oversized. I guess a big boat could be cut into chunks the right size if desired
  12. That's how my tri was set up. Works really well. Just a shame the bottom end of the mooring crapped out on me. Ah well, I needed a winter project. Which reminds me, how much for a decent swivel KM?
  13. Ok, I'm a bit late to the punch here, but surely moving the hull drag to leeward of the Coe would reduce weather helm? It shortens the lever from the rig, at least compared to a circular hull form, where the combined hull/keel drag moves to windward as the rig moves to leeward. Then comes the issue of pushing that angled hull sideways through the water. I'm guessing the foils rotate slightly to weather to minimise leeway, so the trick would be in creating the right amount of lift without too much drag from the foil, versus the reduction in hull drag as it slides sideways through the water.
  14. Richard Woods has a design called the Quattro 16, which probably ticks all your boxes. Designed for ply I think, it's what my tri was designed around, or vice-versa.
  15. I would have thought that today would have been a top sales day. Run a skeleton crew and, oooh, I dunno, maybe have actual sale prices? I was thinking about going for a nosey but having read what's on here, I'll just stick to Burnsco
  16. Actually where are you? Plenty of N22s at New Plymouth, Manukau, and around Christchurch somewhere, plus numerous others racing in mixed fleets all over the place
  17. With the tweakers being at side deck level, and in line with the mast, the windward sheet comes up at such a steep angle that the pole never skied. Although it certainly could if the tweaker cleat let go somehow. In a very savage gust the pole would actually dip slightly, stretching the topping lift. Which by chance would also allow the kite to twist slightly, which may not be a bad thing. One thing I just remembered, between the turning block and the lead block, we also had one of those clam style cleats mounted vertically on the top of the coaming, just forward of the turning bl
  18. Hmmm, it looks a little lost. Should be located in Tirau
  19. Or the AC cat hulls etc at Onehunga
  20. I don't think I have any pictures. Lead blocks and cleats on top of the coamings, just forward of the helmsman. Sheet turning blocks were mounted vertically on the very aft side of the cockpit coamings. We had tweakers on the side decks, straight out from the mast step, which lead back to the cockpit. The windward one was always on, the leeward one was always* off. Single ended self launching pole, topping lift to the end. No downhaul on the pole. Parrot beak on mine was downward, which I prefer, some others like them opening upward. One thing we found : with the topping li
  21. On the fireball we wanted options, so set up a full length dyneema halyard, and had an open sided clamcleat, which I shackled to a double block. A similar block was bolted to the back end of the centrecase, with a cam cleat above it. Only gives a 5:1, but allows infinite adjustment, plus used up the surplus halyard. The clamcleat was hooked onto the halyard at the mast base, the purchase was threaded up, and then we just pulled hard. On one occasion we thought it was slipping as the lee shroud was loose, so we tightened it just before the bottom mark. Twice. When we got ashore we f
  22. madyottie

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    I had no idea there were even kiwi teams still competing- granted I have been out of the skiff scene for quite a while. David has come a long way since his early days in the far north
  23. Sorry to hijack the thread somewhat, but how do the three compare speed wise? The Carpenter is my favourite all time displacement yacht, I spent a few evenings racing on Lollipop and fell in love with it.
  24. Oh jeez, next week there could be safety rails, wire mesh, life rings, and big Deep water signs. Oh, and a seal on lifeguard duty
  25. I hope Damian, Greg, and Doug are getting modelling royalties for those pics. Zoomed out a touch more it would make a good wallpaper on my computer ????
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