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We've had some good A sailing down in chch this last week. 15 knots on the harbour, 3 of us out. I'm still getting used to my old/new boat as well, but murray and john are being great helps. I did break my dolphin stirker on saturday though, so I've gota pull it all apart agian a construct a new one. I tell you what, the rig goes loss when theres not dolphin striker

 

Awesome about the sailing, are there any pictures?

 

The striker situation is difficult, I don't want one so I am going to get a carbon beam made up because I find it a hassle when it comes to putting the boat on the trailer. Foils are the other thing I am thinking about doing. I have a short board with a very big cord that really sucks once the boat speed gets to 12 knots, I can feel the boat struggling.

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Don't have any pictures of the sailing unfortunately, but heaps of pictures of the boat on NZADC. Yeh I would like carbon beams, but they are down the list a fair way on things I would like. I'm currently running old paper tiger boards which are quite narrow, but I have molds for new ones when I get round to finishing them

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details ar in the KZ149 blog on NZADC website. Mold is milled MDF at mo, needs a sand and fibre glass and prep, then should be good to pop out boards, think it will be a winter project once I finish insulating the house. The foils are assy shape, 200mm chord and up to 1.5m long. Not sure if they'll be any good or not, but I spent so much time getting them made that I may as well finish them and make some boards.

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I have 3 rigs, my carbon one and one of the ally ones is 9 meters and the other alloy rig has a weird base on it thats 200mm high. not sure if anyone has different heights...

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9m is pretty standard. Some of the older rigs were about 400mm longer I think, but they seem to have settled around 9m now. There's not limit of rig height, just on sail area (which takes into account wingmast area). Means you have a rig about the same size as a ross780 I think

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Went out for a sail on Saturday. Unfortunately I didn't have time to race so I toke my sister out for a ride. There were 3 other A's out (2xDNA's and ASG3), they all looked bloody good going round the coarse. Was a perfect day for it.

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Nice, thats a pretty good turn out! Conditions were good on sat, was a bit windier up the harbour. This weekend looks crap though, so back to the big boats for me.

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Great day out yesterday. Had 5-8kts (could've done with a couple more). Nice Autumn day. Had 5 A-class out with a bunch of trailer sailors and Keelboats going round the same track.

We are now up to 7 A-class in Christchurch that will be racing regularly and we're looking to add a few more to that.

 

Does anyone know of any broken carbon masts lying around? Or unbroken ones for that matter, I want to upgrade.

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We also had an awesome day on Saturday up here in Auckland, 4 of us went out and it was a great learning curve with a lot of help from Bruce and Finn and Mike was on fire!, breeze got up to about 20 plus knots seeing me capsize twice and one other doing a spectacular pitchpole.

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Nice Matty, I still havent put the boat over (really should at some point). They really do get fun when the wind gets up, especially as you round the top mark

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So what's happening around the country. We had 4 A's out racing today in chch. Was a good 10-15 knots north east.

Upcoming big regattas down here are the south island then canterbury champs, then early next year the nationals.

Many northerners coming down to visit for nationals?

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