This looks promising!!

Is that mast step vertical or am I also mistaken?

nice sunny day with not too many spectators today( and no wind), so I made some progress. todays big thank you goes out to my youngest daughter whos little fingers made all the cable ties a doddle.
This is my first attempt at a stitch and tape craft, but Im starting to see the possibilities.



the wood is some rather nice 6mm 5ply from the tip that was a home for some kind of pump..
the idea is to clean up the underside of the yacht and get a wedge shaped upper body to help with stability in those +80kph moments
the 50mm ground clearance should help too.
those wheels arent mine, so dont bother speculating


I suppose I will have to credit Paul Becket with some aspects of my influences on this little experiment

finally settled on the back of the seat. A simple frame that slides forward , or back, allowing 200mm of movement at the rear of the yacht .Along with with the 200mm at the foot pedals , That will give a really nice range of pilot sizes.
The fibreglassing of coming along. Ive glassed the outside , with little gaps at the cable ties, then pulled the ties,and glued/nailed reinforcing strips at the joinns on the inside. More glassing tommorrow


i read a few years ago that when using wire, you heated the wire witha soldering iron and then pulled it from the glass/resin
i just ground one side of the plastic, and the otherside just pulled out

The inside of my ties usually get buried in the filler radius and the outside ends
get ground off when the radius is done wth the flap disc Quick and dirty
Am watching with interest this yacht as I now have a spare chassis needing a
seat It will probably get converted to ski axles first though
Compulsive constructive disorder is the right name for it is there any cure?

What?? Oh yeah right Thats what you do with them
Trouble is when I build something myself I always think I can do it better or different anyway and cant leave well alone
Its a very bad habit --never satisfied I need therapy of some kind

my problem with CCD is getting the thing finished BEFORE I have another turn
I have 3 unfinished designs round the back that never rolled out the shed in anger
got almost nothing done today cos I had to work, one job didnt even start till 3.30pm
I'll be lucky to have any green paint on , so it might get called the "red oxide arrow"

in class5 the rules are boom must be above eye level, and 450mm,which evr is higher. I can get that boom 'with difficulty' down to 460mm and still be above the eyes. you couldnt get it that low when sailing. Class5 promo is a minimum of 550mm? , above the helmeted head, and must extend behind the head.
this is presumably for safety. once the promos are racing hard , all the top yachts had the boom down at the side of the head. having a short boom means there is no need to sheet out to tack. you can also hold the boom more inboard when sailing. as explained in another post by the kiwis

Compulsive constructive disorder-could this be the name of the yacht[}:)]

seat is glassed , sanded and primed. dont be alarmed by the colour
Ive run out of wood primer , so I added some matt white enamel to some red oxide metal primer. i was trying for pink and got something that looks like nanna's lipstick, so i will definitely be repainting a better colour over it

due to the neccesity to put my feet somewhere, and use them to steer effectively, i couldnt really emulate that lovely Blokart wedge, that I suspect is stabilizing the yacht when it gets up to silly speeds.
The inside at the front is 290mm wide which is as narrow as I could go and not have to sail barefoot
I just couldnt bring myself to set up handsteering, Im not that desperate yet
by the time the inner seat and external cape go on the back it should be quite neat and "streamline"
first coat of finish went on today, chassis buffed and primed

since mid2005 27, I think, plus 8 class5's, i think, plus 5 speedsails(windsurfer rig),3 micros(1 never finished),2 class6(1 never finished). 1 big 3 seater
this year I built a beginners windsurfer board as well and that is kinda my favourite
'Nappy rush" would have to be my best mini,or maybe "ankle biter'
Thats 46 landyachts,I must have forgotten something, that doesnt seem to be enough

thats why its COMPULSIVE constructive dissorder

That front end is the sweetest one Ive built. I wish I'd had it on a few yachts over the last 30 years. We even used exactly that front end on our big 3 seater

looking good paul