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  1. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    Ok, so I said it wrong. Here is my point though. Our sailing displacement is 1450 kg, so the buoyancy of our new ama is 240%? (Being 3500/1450 x 100) When I bought Wolfy it was claimed it had 200% amas, but when you flew the main hull, the gunwhale of the ama was virtually level with the water, and there was very little reserve. I think a lot of people state there ama buoyancy % using the weight of the bare boat, not the Sailing Displacement, including alll crew and all additional gear on board? so if my new ama is 240% then are Lucifers and Sam's new boats amas really 350%
  2. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    Because the person I know with the biggest mouth saw me weigh them I had to 'fess up. Word was going to get out there any way ! We aren't exactly sure how much the old ones weighed but I have lifted the old ones on a number of occassions, as have Bryan and Jason, these are definitely lighter, but to be honest I am not certain by how much. These ones are a good deal bigger though at 22 square metres of surface area, and when fully submerged will displace around 3500 kg
  3. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    I wasnt asking about the financial arrangements just curious to see how long it takes a couple of pros to build some carbon floats. Me and George were hoping to take 600 hours but it was more like 800 to do our tortured ply floats with a bit more fairing and painting yet. Ha Ha Ha, Totally busted ! I never really properly worked out how much the ama was going to weigh, and never did a weight study or anything like that. The basic premise was that the new amas were longer and lighter than the old one's and have similar amount of rocker. Therefore that should be enough to m
  4. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    So #278 is basically showing that before the Deck was laminated, we started with around a 2mm rebate in the bow. The bow wrap layers in #278 are 3 200 gm Carbon Cloth layers. then the deck was laminated. when the hull laminate goes on it is just cut at the bow rebate. after that dries, the bow is sanded up, and 4 more layers of Carbon Cloth 200 gm are put on at 45 degrees. that wrap over the bow, and land in our side rebates. So what we end up with at the bow is about 120mm wide of High Density foam, which is covered in a total of 1900 grams of Carbon. we end up around 8mm th
  5. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    About 125kg in the photo, with still a few fittings and paint to go. BTW they used to give a Rum prize out for the poster who starts the popular thread ! you could bring it with you for a Rum race, so long as you don't mind sailing on a multi, might not want to wear Ugg boots though.
  6. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    It has a seriously sharp bow !
  7. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    Ama 1 is virtually finished,ready to fair, then ready to attach gudgeons, chainplates, tramp tracks, fittings etc, then paint
  8. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    Carbon Boom nearly ready for Shelf. Joggle at back is so Outhaul Car ends up lower keeping foot of sail in contact with the Top of the boom to maximise the end Plate effect.
  9. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    Port Ama underway
  10. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    We are trying to get the centre of buoyancy further forward, that will reduce the nose dive tendency. the wave piercing bow is designed such that as the bow is burying the finer bow sections means the boat slows down less as it increases buoyancy (more slowly). Combination of the two should make for both a faster and safer boat.
  11. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    So we have actually recut the main to shorten the foot length by 100mm. At the same time Kenny has balanced the luff curve a bit better to suit the mast. so the new boom is 4750mm long
  12. So to summarise. we don't know what we are doing. i am not a professional boatbuilder that has been employed as a boatbuilder in Auckland since 1989 I have not worked for Cooksons, southern , matrix and hall spars. You don't like the Timberwolf thread. you are much better at everything. At approx 75 kg our new amas are heavy. That's great Rob, other people are taking a lot from the thread, Gary is doing a great job, I'm looking forward to sailing Timberwolf again.
  13. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    Yeah I know. The coastal is the reason we bought the boat in the first place, so it will be very hard to watch all the other boats racing while we are still finishing things off. But we still have BOI regatta and the Tauranga Race to look forward to as well as next years Winter series !
  14. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    Thanks, it was a great day yesterday to see it for the first time. LOA measured from forward tip of prod to transom around 11.4 metres, whether that would get us through the 10m minimum for the RNI remains to be seen I guess. We are still 4 weeks from completing the second ama, then I think we have to reckon on another 6 weeks to get the Painting and finishing done. So I'd say straight after Christmas is around when we'll be sailing again. Certainly before attempting the RNI in a boat this small we would need to be very sure everything is up to standard. So no way is it a possibil
  15. MrWolf

    timberwolf

    looks like the biggest ever batch of photos is coming in I'm sure will take a while for Dave to process, but I'm hopeful you will find it worth the wait.
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