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About Me
- steve
- A welshman displaced to wonderful Plymouth in SW England; a novice sailor, motorhomer and boat builder with a passion for all things to do with the sea. Follow my journey as I learn to sail Arwen, grappling with charts, tide tables and passage planning so that I can become 'a dinghy cruiser' And by the way, just occasionally, little snippets about our travels and adventures. Subscribe on this blog and at www.youtube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy for videos about dinghy cruising. I look forward to hearing your comments, tips and thoughts.
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11 comments:
Hoi Steve,
Very nice vid. Thanks for posting it. Nice music also. Glad to see you did not put her away for the winter yet.
Good to see your boat from close up. I have some questions about it. May I email you about them?
Regards, Rik
Hi Rik
Glad you enjoyed it - no will try to keep going through winter this year if I can although how she fairs outside under a tarpaulin on the driver will be the determiner of that
by all means email me or if easier post your questions as a comment here and I will reply to them and then others who visit the blog can get the answers too
does that help?
steve
In my waters our winters mean a softer tradewind :)
The questions I have a technical ones so I can learn from your experience:
Your stays are connected to the hull by blocks. Any particular reason for doing thatinstead of semi fixed stays connectors?
Is your mast solid?
The job-stay seems loose. Is that a camera lens induced illusion? If not, how come you leave it loose?
The main sail is attached inside the boat and quite some distance from the mast causing inefficient sail area. I am sure you are working on this but curious why it is setup this way.
Why have you not opted for the inboard engine setup?
Thanks for your information.
Rik
Hollow mast
Blocks on stays no reason than I like them and when the kids were younger they liked to pull them tight. Don't like stay connectors.
Didn't want inboard outboard well, smoky and noisy, also takes up room and would interfere with tiller movement a little.
Sail is inefficient. When I had it running through deck the sprit boom was very, very low. We think the mast is 30 cm shorter than it should be, an accident ...not sure whether mine or mast builder so I'll go with my fault......hence we have to have it inside the boat. This is something we re looking at. Also front foaming is slightly higher than on the plans which also interferes a little with original sail plan
Very observant rik
Are you building a pathfinder?
Steve
Oh jib stay is pretty tight ..optical illusion. I can put some down pull on the bowprit to tension it further if need be
Steve
Read somewhere that JW also recommended the blocks on stays, or at least a lashing to tighten the stays. I like them.
Yes. Here is my attempt: http://pathfinderriksbuild.blogspot.com/
If you have a hollow mast, is should be relatively easy to add a 30 cm solid plug in the bottom to push it up. You have beautiful sails for it. Seems that the boat is sufficiently stable to handle the heightened center of sail.
Post and be observed... ;)
Cheers,
Rik
Thanks.
Nice pathfinder build Rik
Steve
Great vids Steve. Thanks for sharing them. I wish I was tough enough to go out sailing this time of year :)
Question: I noticed that you've got your main sail on the outside of your boom. ie the boom is between the main sail and the mast. I thought on a sprit-boom rig the sail goes on the other side of the boom so the boom doesn't spoil the sail shape as much. Just wondering if you'd found an advantage rigging it your way and what it was? Hope you're feeling better.
Hello stranger
How you doing?
I miss blue men tunes!
I confess.....laziness and poor packing away the sail last trip out. The mainsail should be the other side and normally is.......I just couldn't be bothered to faff around altering it
I really am a poor excuse for a sailor.
So how re you Joel. What you up to?
Family all well?
Steve
Aha, I see. I was hoping I was missing out on some revolutionary secret sprit-boom rigging technique! Family is all well. In fact, that's why I've been too busy to make any new BMG vids in a while. Oldest daughter got married (the weekend of the Port Townsend festival of all days!), my other daughter gave us our first grandson, so we've been busy enjoying him, my son got his college degree so we've been busy trying to find him a job, and so on and so forth. That's why I've been enjoying your vids so much. Thanks again Steve!
Sorry!
Congratulations....what an amazing time for the family. My eldest daughter in job hunting mode. Difficult here in UK.....feeling very sorry for young people.....jobs difficult to come by but she is getting out there and that's critical. Son is in final year of a levels...tough exams ahead. Me, I'm waiting to be told I will have to retrain as a maths or English teacher.......as schools battle with falling rolls, stupid government decisions and lack of investment in a world class education system
Congrats on grandson.....enjoy these early years, they grow up fast
Steve
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