aus230,
I think even more so "Black Ice" is the right name cos it's Black and very slippery.

After yesterday "Midnight Madness" would be good.
Ron

Baby that looks like fun.....I really, really, really hope it works.

OK so where did the seat cushion come from? I know i've seen that before.

aus230 said...

Its a car seat sit on liner. Its out of may Nissan it kept moving around.So they have found a new home. I have used them in all my yachts.

Genius! Autojumble here I come

Cheers Col

aus230,
She do look nice and I like the idea of the sail interchange.. Good stuff.
Ron

i wouldnt touch that mast rake or position until youve sailed it Vic, cos it looks like its just right

but every time i make an adjustable step ,i dont adjust the rig
maybe on the new 5

Seen as the subject has headed in this direction....when do you change your mast rake? What to? And why? I've used mine so far to lift the boom up from smacking my head

Cheers Col

You rake the mast back as you change down to smaller sails to keep the COE in the same place.

5.5m2 sail


4.0m2 sail


2.5m2 storm sail

I find that I have to lay back the rake a little more at Lefroy (on salt) and stand it up more on lake Walyungup (loose surface) without adjustment I get into all sorts of trouble there. The club 88s are or where a pretty standard design made on the one gig and the sails where made to the clubs specs so the mast post was set at the same angle for each yacht.
Aus230 was not built to any plans available so I had to have some way of balancing the yacht hence the adjustable mast post. I guess I just carried over the idea to my other yachts. I think all the new class5 have (Europe New Zealand) have adjustable mast rake for fine tuning.

Cheers
aus230

That is what I find others may find different results. (Lake Walyungup is a bit like sailing on ball bearings in some areas and if the rake is to far back I lose the back end of the yacht). I am only talking about a couple of degrees of rake. I still have a long way to go in learning all this stuff
Cheers
aus230

[}:)] how this get hijacked?! Waiting to see the winged beast rip.!!

hehe I know!! Yeppoonnnnnnnnnnn....here I come!!

Some close up pic.s, All I have to do now is pull it to bits, clean everything(covered in dust from building the new class5) Give it a final spray and put on the decals
Then sail the dam thing

Cheers
Vic

Hi Vic,

Yacht looks great, very neat job.

Please could you tell me what you are using as your steering connector (red bit)?

I also am curious as to why you chose to use mini instead of 5 with 26" wheels with a wing?

When I built Vindicator I decide at the time it was the smallest I could make a 'yacht for high speeds with a wing without things getting untidy............

I'd love to see you prove me wrong!

Cheers, Bill

Bill.
The steering piece is nolathane solid rod. my steering is the same as Clem's mini, he sent me the info on how to set it up(thanks Clem) I made it this way so that I could build a more streamlined body.

It is very much an experiment, would have drove me mad if I did not try(you no that WHAT IF THING) If it does not work it can end up in the chook pen maybe not all will be lost as I can always fit a wider axle and a longer front plank.
Cheers
Vic