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It lives!!!! (After a fashion).



Struggling in a 8mph wind, but moving. A lot of lessons learned as well.
1) Never mount your blocks off the seat floor as your leg/thigh can only take a certain amount of squashing. Blocks now lifted 100mm onto a DIY rail.
2) Looking at the sky is very aerodynamic - but your neck kills after a while craning forward to see where you are going. Foam and gaffer tape MK1 headrest sorted for next time. Why on earth would anyone attempt anything of a sporting nature without gaffer tape applied????
3) There is a reason Europeans run without the rowlock on the end of the boom. Mine has now gone.
4) When I lengthened the mast to raise the boom, i didn't buy a longer sheet, 200mm x 5 = me holding onto the last few mm. A meter short of a full sheet
5) My wonderful mast crane had been shorted and beefed up to stop bending, however I hadn't allowed for it so it was holding the sail too close to the mast and screwing the shape up.

Hopefully with this lot sorted next weekend should be a lot nearer to being right.

Cheers Col


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