A suggestion on foil angles etc. We had a lot of trouble dialing (Calibrating) in any kind of set point on the foils as a sort of baseline to be...
Go pro, yep the batteries don't last too long, perhaps 18 months then they cannot hold a charge. Go to a store and try a fresh battery in the...
If video is that important, get a go-pro and simply stick it on your baseball cap. you'll be looking at the boat most of the time anyhow...
Doug is perhaps lucky. a week ago I was in FLA and had I been any closer I was going to drive down there and ambush him with a video camera and...
generally we do not use it. CA is after all water soluble given enough time, so it should not be relied upon. On some very small splices inside...
Some instances of lashings and other rope work on the boats. Shrouds, forestays, and the trampoline at the back of the boat are the big highly...
looking better. Another thing, when we use Dyneema etc, we pre-stretch everything we plan on using if it is going to be a long line and under a...
OK, so first up is my all purpose nylon twine. a few thousand feet of heavy nylon sewing thread I picked up for hand sewing leather for a few...
I don't buy that Doug. Spectra creeps? sure, when it's under 90% of design load for days and weeks on end. That's why we do lashings, they are...
string lighter, string cheaper, string won't absorb water, string better, start lashing string.... or don't you know how? How do you tighten...
What's to think about, they are heavier, ergo they are a waste of resources. 1g of string, or a few grams of shiny expensive turnbuckles which...
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Less Talk More Rock!
good thing something like a wing renders such silly debates moot
Less rationalization and more sailing. Go, come on, in time for xmas...... Come on DL, you can do it!
some mockups from another larger project of note. The one on the water actually survived out there in the middle of the harbor for a matter of...
All of our tooling for foils to date has been built out of pre-preg hi temp carbon resin matrix, to match the final part laminates. This way the...
The crash that caused said injury...This is what happens, frequently, when you have a vertical strut while trying to rely on a j-foil to fly...
Physical beatings for failure ultimately looked like this... Seven deep stitches later, I got back on the water two days later.
Mij, thanks, you are too kind. We spent the summer working our way through the foiling issue(s) on our program, with not as much success as we...
