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I can find carbon tow but not kevlar tow. Anyone know where to get it?

Thanks heaps for the offer. I have a couple of things to work through to check how much work everything is going to be and what is actually going to work at all. So the gennaker seems pretty hard to pull through the existing chute so a new chute seems in order. With that in mind I figure I might as well do all the bits I want to do but figure I should at least check with someone with some experience in these things first. One thing to keep in mind with all of this is my wife, while enjoying sailing the Jav with me, hates any faffing involved with setting up beforehand. On top of this I

I suspect even for me freighting would be easier than suggesting to my wife she was wrong about something and I know nothing about freighting anything. One of those universal things I imagine. I put a stayed prod on my last Jav and used Dynex Dux but found that the creep was too much and we were forever having to retension it. I'll take your advice and if the gennaker drags through the shute OK I'll do a fixed prod with stainless stays this time. One thing I struggled with last time was find a way of getting clearance between the hull and the tang to fit a shackle. Did you guys use one

Thanks heaps for the offer but the Auckland to Nelson transport thing is a problem unfortunately. The current shute tapers from 140mm diameter at the bulkhead to 170mm near the bow before widening out when it rises up to the foredeck. I haven't tried to drag the gennaker through it yet but figure its a fair bit too small. If I have to make a new one I was just going to make the mold out of cardboard and foam as I'll only have to use it once. The other issue I have come up against is that if I want to put a prod through the front tank (bow stem to bulkhead) where it will exit the stem i

There seems to be more Javelin sailors here than on the Javelin site so here goes. What diameter should a gennaker retrevial chute be for a Javelin gennaker with two retrevial patches? To go with that question, has anyone used bags instead and are there any plus sides? Cheers, Chris

Yes, the term "character building" did come to mind more than once. I just had a mate check in on me tonight to make sure I wasn't curled up in the corner crying. I've had a better look at it and I think I'm going to have to strip all the paint (nice fresh new paint) off the side decks and tanks and sheath the whole lot in 100gm fibreglass. Fun times.

Sooooo, the whole lot got blown over in the storm we had last Wednesday. It looks like the wind got under the hull and lifted the whole lot up before dumping it back on the concrete. Lots of stress cracks all over the show. The front aluminium frame has punched through the side decks. The hull has a small split at the front of the centreboard case. So back in the garage it goes for the winter. I'm a bit gutted as you'd imagine.

We went sailing on Sunday afternoon. The wee boy thought it was great which was the main thing I was after. A bit much lee helm at this stage so will try and move the rig back in the boat. The furler was the star of the show. Made it super easy to depower the whole thing. The centreboard split a little though so back to the garage I think. Anyone know where to get cheap laminated pine shelving for a core?

As it turns out I have three proper Javelin mainsails for it. My 6 year old is pretty keen to get out sailing so with the Junior Cherub main and furling jib I get to combine sailing with hanging out with him. Best of both worlds. I figure by the middle of next summer he might be up to trapezing with this main. Of course I'll put one of the big mains on for sailing with other adults. For now the boat is for going places like the lighthouse, camping at Oyster Island, Rabbit Island and the like. The sailing for sailing sake will come later I'm sure. I'm more interested in trying to ge

Sunday is launch date. That's when I find out how poorly balanced it all is and where I need to put reinforcements. There is plenty I would like to have spent more time on but I had to stop somewhere if I want to sail this summer. So winter is going to be busy with a prod, reinforcing the cockpit so I can be a bit more confident about removing the traveler bar etc.

I finally have my new Javelin (new to me that is) ready to go in the water. Thanks to everyone who helped with advice over the last few months.

Bugger. Thanks for the info. Saved me from my own stupidity.

Is it necessary to have the backing plate for trapeze lines? I found a reference to the 505 guys not bothering. I have a small hole already in the right place where the old line used to feed through and connect to a through bolt higher up the mast. I happen to have a couple of old short sections of wire with a hook swaged on the end so figured I could make the hole a little larger and hook directly into them. I would use dyneema for the rest of the length.

Hi Drbob, Thanks for the offer. I was given one very similar over the weekend so looks like Howdie is in. The standard currancy amongst sailors does seem to be rum it seems. Cheers, Chris

So I just broke my third rivet gun in five years. This time I was just putting the normal Burnsco monel rivets in the mast and just like before the jaws broke. The latest gun was a $60 Stanley one so I thought it would do the trick. The last one was a concertina style one. Can anyone direct me to a decent one that won't break the bank?

Hi Dr Bob, Sorry for not getting back earlier. I'm figuring it might be a bit big for a Javelin if it was almost big enough for a R930? Any idea what it weighs and roughly how big is it? Also, how much would you be after for it if it would work? Cheers, Chris

So I'm setting up the Javelin to be easy to sail with the kids (3 and 6) while still being able to go for a blat with the full sails. One of the things stressing me out is our oldest is not going to be strong enough or have the know-how to tack the jib for me or uncleat it when we come back to the slip. I have tried to find a jib with a shorter foot but had no luck. This has led me to consider a furler of some sort. The problem is the cost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So my idea is to make one of these http://navigatorjoel.blogspot.co.nz/2010/12/how-to-build-roller-furler-for-under-4

Awesome. Thanks. Time to get intimately familiar with sandpaper.

How do I tell when it is gone? I have washed the surface with a rag and soapy hot water then a scotchbrite with soapy hot water then rinsed with clean hot water. Each time I used enough water that it was pouring everywhere. Before I washed it my finger would slide over the surface without making any noise, now it makes a squeeking sound like it is on a window. Does this sound clean enough?

Thanks. Looks like I'll just take the kids sailing for a month or two with a sunburst sail on it then sort the trapeze later in the summer. I figure I'll be able to afford to sort something then.

No, the trapeze lines are above the stays as it allows us to trapeze forward and behind the side stays to trim the boat in all conditions. Was more thinking of this http://www.ronstan.com/marine/product.asp?ProdNo=RF348 Part of the problem with it is how huge it is. The $30 per side is a bit much for the bank balance at this time of year unfortunately. The other option I thought of was to get some stainless plate and get it bent a few degrees and drilled.

I need to attach trapeze new trapeze lines to my javelin mast. They used to be threaded through a small hole in the mast and looped round the same through bolt as the side stays. I'm keen to move to dyneema so don't want to feed it through the mast as I figure it will wear in the hole in the side of the mast. At the same time I don't want to drill any more holes in the mast so was wanting to do something like in the diagram I have attached. The trouble has been finding a tang or something similar that has a 10mm hole for mounting to the mast. I know Ronstan do a really bulky one at about $

I need new stays and Trapeze lines on my Javelin mast. Can anyone recommend one of the rigging places in Nelson to me before I head to the wrong one? Yes I know I should do it myself but I don't have access to a swaging tool. Cheers, Chris

So test number one took place last night. With the hull on the beach trolley I hung off one side (120kg) and a 70kg body bounced up and down on the other side. Without the traveller bar in the width of the boat changed by around halfa milimetre. To measure it I laid a aluminium box section accross the decks and taped one side down. When we leant on the boat, one side of the bar stayed attached and the other moved to show the deflection. I marked up mm measurements on the side that moved and then videoed the movement. The question now is whether the beach trolley provides more support than

Thanks for the drawing ScottiE. The side stays attach about 100mm back from the forward alloy frame so I'm pretty confident the compression loads of the rig are handled OK. I have just finished sanding the side decks and haven't found any fibreglass or carbon tape although it it all holding together well with the traveller in. The budget won't stretch to carbon tape of any sort unfortunately. Do you think some 400gm fibreglass double bias would be worth a try? Alternatively I have some spare carbon tube so could put two lengths from the side deck down to the middle of the cockpit. This