SloopJohnB

Hopefully more breeze than the 3 knts today.

Ali sleeves are still used but carbon sleeves are lighter. The sleeves are used for reducing the possibility of breaking the mast above the gooseneck in heavy air gybing, also reducing the bending between the gooseneck and the hounds, and still allowing the top section to fall off.

The current masts are a JT section out of Wellington thru the association, a with a carbon fibre internal sleeve. The last sleeve I got was from Kilwell in Rotorua, called in and selected the tube i wanted, they reduced the od and put a layer of fibreglass on it to eliminate the fuzzing between the ali & carbon. As madyottie said they need to be airtight.

Haven't given sailing away totally, I've taken up radio controlled sailing again racing a IOM. Is that a trapeze, they where very popular with the teenage boys at Torbay Yacht Club back in the 60's I didn't think PT's are sailed at Waiuku but there are several racing at Howick, my brother gets his bones together now and then and gets his PT out, Mark Orams sails at Torbay and I believe he starting to get a group together up there. Iam sure we can find a table at the "Village" and catchup.

Retired now sold the boat 3 - 4 years ago, neck issues. Hull weight less than 53 kg to be competitive. Standard mast section but different forestay setups Sails Norths Lintons Doyles Mark Orams is using a north's string sail. Foils long skinny ones someguys are using A class boards. Foils up & down controls to each side Mainsheet setup either from foreward or from the track aft. Traveller control as per the mainsheet. Cunningham and kicker to the sides on a continuous system Kicker well there are difference troughs about this. Fleets in Auckland, Napier New Plymouth and Wel

Better pedal chips.

Conrad will be on Sunday TV1 tomorrow night.

because it just broke in half......no crash

You can't beat these things for beauty ans eloquence. 6 of them racing. http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2017/03/19/photos-st-barths-bucket-2017/

About 3 hours now.

Due to Safety concerns All Foils will be removed from boats when moving. Bring back the monos.

4 hrs according to Foss's predictions.

Only 1300nm to go for Conrad.

Not wind but all around the compass this at Narrow Neck for the 3rd day of the Sunburst Nats. No sailing at all.

Bit like a Irish joke. There was a Irishman on a 747 flight crossing the Atlantic when the pilot announced that the arrival time was delayed by 1 hour as one of the engines had stopped.Couple of hours later the pilot announced there would be another delay as another engine faulted. The Irishman turned the passenger next to him and said luck there'e 4 engines otherwise we will be up here for ever.

Did anyone see TV1 sportnews last night? A couple of men's tennis players (4) in a little rubber duckie with no lj's n

About a day ahead of Peyron on Banque Populaire V time. Far better time under Australia.

https://www.facebook.com/sailuniverse/videos/1667456766863026/

That's the best tracker so far.

Speed is directly proportional to money spent.

smithy ouch lucky it was a hydro test and not a pneumatic test, it would have cleared the decks for some distance.

Some more old timers galf rigged sloops and big wally's https://youtu.be/T7k_qOJ0sIY

The Challenge Cup 4 beautiful schooners from 1 .47 minutes. https://youtu.be/Y1PeD5hGBZM ELENA OF LONDON PURITAN MARIETTE GERMANIA NOVA Guess what my screen saver is. The original Elena

For more memories of the great man and his boats. http://www.kialoa-us1.com/Pages/default.aspx

The top one is the Condor of Bermuda (old Heaths Condor) the vanished timber and the second one is the Ron Holland design fibreglass one.