Hey it's busy around here. sorry for lack of bloggage, but we're making a lot of stuff for customers - in particular our special projects side, and of course it is the sailing season and championships in various classes are coming up fast and we are involved one way or another.Well as you can see the wings are on, the sprit fits properly and we're busy stringing up. The mast has been up an down a few times and hopefully we'll get the skiff on the water soon. Big up to Ady who has been putting a lot of time in helping me catch up with skiff work when 'real' work gets in the way.
Stringing up the trampolines is a big deal - they take a couple of hours each side to get right, and that's using a pre made trampoline... We got through probably 30 metres or so of high tensile dyneema (cordura casing) to string them on, with each 'stitch' pulled as tight as we could get it, working the corners first, then the outboard edge, the inboard edge and finally the ends. Its a lot of string - and even more when you consider each tramp' has around 70 metres of string in it. When it's done properly, they are so tight they ping!The whole boat has taken a long time - a lot longer than we wanted it too, but 2 things are just plain facts. 1. Every job on one of these things needs to be done properly - you can't just lash something up on the way to the start, and 2. The project has generated a lot of interest in what we do (err kind of the point!) and made us busier this year than ever before - and that's right in the teeth of a downturn... I am therefore happy that we have been so busy that the boat has had to take the back seat at times - and delighted that each and every job on her looks so good. Can't wait to get the thing in the water!
Looks hot Dave. Wow, what a transformation.
ReplyDeleteMy experience with stringing up 18 footer wings was on an old ex-GP 18 footer a few years back with the heavy old allow wings... the tramps would actually bend the outer wingbars quite considerably by the time the mesh was tight enough. I imagine it'd be even tighter with carbon because the bars are all stiffer! But, it's worth it as there's nothing else out there that does the job quite as well.
Hi Jon. Thanks for the compliment. We put the rig up yesterday and wound everything up. Just a few things left to do and we can go sailing. Plan is to then put it in a container in December and do the JJ as our very first event!! The racks are pretty stiff but they do bend a tiny bit. More news soon, good luck with the A' moth - looks cool!
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