Manie's Microcruiser

Everything fits nicely

 

Go Manie,
You had me worried there for a while....
I hope to get the "new" second hand chinese outboard today.
Will let you know what it looks like.

 

wait until you see the tight fit on the trailer
and then
the tight fit to get the whole lot out of the garage

gives new meaning to "made to fit"

 

So I got the Sail 15 2-stroke today. Basically a copy of the Yamaha, with the flappy paddle gear lever on the front.
General impression is very good. It is an old motor, and I am sure it did not take the years much worse than its' venerable Japanese cousin would have.
This was genuinely a matter of:
Bolt motor to stand, put bucket with water around the foot, plug fuel line in and prime, set throttle to start position and choke......One pull, nothing, second pull, surprisingly smooth and quiet elevated idle, nice strong stream from pump, give it a few seconds to warm up, close throttle completely, quiet burble as it idles cleanly and the stream of water is just tepid. So far so good, we will see what the high speed circuits of the carb does when it is tested under laod on the water. But a very good so far so good feeling...
All that for the princely sum of $550 (R5500)

 

One of your heroes goes in the opposite direction . .

Roger Taylor swapped his Corribee 21 for an Achilles 24 . . . .

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Yachting Monthly* has an interview with Roger about the purchase, rebuild and modifications of this boat.

* March 2014 issue, page 3 & 72 to 75, digital editions here.​

Info online:

Solo voyager Roger Taylor and his boat Mingming II

Ocean-going yacht for under £6 K

Mingming II

Junk Ming​

 

From above links . . .

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Roger showing the new free standing mast, which is an lamp-post ! ! - - ( is info from the YM interview )



Roger believes in shallow draft within reason, bilge keels and a skeg hung rudder. - - ( is info from the YM interview )

 

Free trial offer for iPad now in the App Store:

Note: I've read the article in the magazine on paper, so I didn't try this offer.

 

Angel I have always been fascinated by most everything Roger Taylor does - hence the "Roger believes in shallow draft within reason, bilge keels and a skeg hung rudder." which I would like to think would be very important on a 3m displacement boat BUT who really knows.

As I said before this "ten" thing has got me perplexed
and absolutely the next project on the table

 

Well finally there is something to post on Fargo - she's getting her sail !!!
It's going to be very interesting to see how well calculations that were done 4 years ago stand up to the test of time.

Going to be interesting.

The "wing keel" will become more evident once it's installed and you see the photos of the tight fit on the trailer AND the tight fit to get the boat in and out of the garage, interesting at best.

The tabernacle on deck is so that I can get the mast lowered by myself with the boat on the water. It's going to be a bit of a overdesigned and complicated gadget but hopefully it will end up being strong enough.

The photo shows the centre board in more or less it's correct position in relation to the boat.

 

Looks good, Manie. My idea of a big enough boat is if you go out fishing you don't necessarily see your fishing friends the rest of the day. It makes it more interesting if you can tell of your experiences without everyone sawed what really happened

One has to be practical though.

 

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Look forward to seeing her sailing, Manie!

 

Is the mast going to be stayed or unstayed . . . ? ?

Norwalk Islands Sharpies have unstayed lowerable masts but they use high tabernacles to achieve that.

Some info and pictures about that --> NIS products --> ‘‘Alloy and Carbon Masts’’ --> ‘‘Tabernacles’’ -->

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-- non clickable pics, all cat ketch, the mizzen is folding forward --​

 

my mast system is similar to that as shown in those pics
the difference is that my tabernacle is sleeve to guide the mast and then I drop it into the deck
so yes definitely a free standing mast

 

Just a couple of pics to show where I am going to with this lot.

This is the "sleeve" that the mast will slide into.
The pipe will be covered in a couple of layers of glass and epoxy
The tabernacle will be shown complete soon

And a good pic of where the centre board goes in.

Dries I'm working on that info for you.

 

Funny how these mono sailors all have their stuff upright... probably for harbor use. One would think everything would be at 45 deg so at least half the stuff is usable under sail

Keen to see her under sail Manie !