Sailing Experience

Eskom must own some, for lights are sometimes off!!! - seen it

 

Oh dear...

 

I have put pictures up of the Little Tri. You can have a look here

http://www.faze.co.za/Little Tri.html

 

Fanie,

That's a great job for 2 1/2 weeks build time! She looks good on the water. I'm looking forward to hearing how she goes into the wind with that rig.

 

Thanks Charlie. I'm actually surprized that she sits so high on the water, you can't climb out of her, you have to climb down

I was looking at it earlier tonight, and I wondered why I haven't made it larger but then it occured to me I've got to save some space for the cat. Some small things have to be done yet...

 

A fantastic documentary work, and construction. Good on you Fanie, All praise deserved & due. Geoff will only allow these tokens ::::: ::::: ::::: ::::: , use them wisely.

 

Ahem... Thanks Masalai, it is however not complete yet.

Who is Geoff and can I sell the tokens... I want to get going on the cat Shortage of money holding me back.

How are tokens 'used'

I'm not getting all my mail reply mails ! Keep on missing...

 

Fanie, at this point in time, you have (look at the right hand end, just below the separator bar above your post) a "Rep" of 178 for 897 posts (You are getting close to the thousand post graduation mark )... Now above that is "Post Feedback" click on the post of someone else there & there is where "brownie points" are added - put a little comment & "sign" so the recipient knows who was pleased....

The "tokens" are self replicating replacement because Jeff says "you must spread it around first". Use in front of a "D" or a "P" to make as many or as you like

 

Right.

Arrived at my friend's place on thursday afternoon. We started launching his fleet of stuff he keeps at the dam... a power boat, two jet ski's, his windrider trimaran, a canoe and one of those things that looks like a bug you sit on and someone tows you behind a motorboat on it, almost like a tube. I swear if he had some of those inflatable things the kids put their arms through, he'd have taken them out as well

My friend found a jib in between some stuff he got inside a house he bought so we fitted that to the baby trimaran on Friday and took it for a spin. made quite a difference, but not much wind, most we could get out of it was probably about 10 - 15km/hr.

The jib made quite a difference. I was wondering if the 6m mast with the jib would outperform an 8m sail without a jib on the same boat ?

Saturday was the fishing comp, and that afternoon during the weigh-in I noticed the wind picked up nicely, so I slipped out for a spin.

Sailed the leeward hull right under the water, spray and foam flying everywhere. After a couple of spins over the dam and back I picked one of the guys up that was fishing with us to sit on the windward hull trying to get more speed. Didn't help much. At about 20 to 30 km/hr the leeward hull gets burried completely and the centre hull then starts doing the same ! The downward pushing the bermuda main sail does....

The people wathing was quite impressed with the ball of spray we created so there was a bit of entertainment as well. My friend thought it appropriate to create some extra waves with the jetski for us to go thrashing through. You know, wild isn't wild enough Did some really nice and wet sailing for a change.

During the escapades there it occured to me it could have been really nice if the friends little tri had an aft mast setup to add some lift to keep those hulls out of the water. Might have added quite a bit of speed. I couldn't take mine unfortunately since the sail is in for mods

Great fun. Learned some new things. Will apply.

This sailing thing is a wee-wee

 

Well, you're one up on David Vann!! (Build a boat, do a lap thread)

 

Fanie,

I'm a bit confused (I'm blaming your post, but it could be my brain misfiring ). Did you sail during good winds in your or your friend's baby tri?

Oh, yes. Might be a good idea to check the weather forecasts to avoid trying to sail on beautiful windless days.

 

Hi Charlie,

Indeed -

My sail was in for a bit of a mod, so I sailed with the friends tri. I got my sail back this morning... it looks much bigger now and is in fact too long :-( so I'll have to mod the cleats a bit.

You have to keep in mind these inland weather forecast can really be anything, and the dam we sailed on is only about 1 km wide. I'm sure if the design was a bit more liberate with respect to bouyancy on the windrider it would be able to achieve better speeds.

I'm still wondering if I must fit a fixed keel to the tri or would a daggerboard be better ? and why that one ?

 

I'm doing it again - the friend's got a windrider tri. Mine I built myself. We sailed with his baby trimaran this weekend, mine's sail was in for mods.

I haven't put a keel or rudder on my self-built little trimaran yet, hence the

'I'm still wondering if I must fit a fixed keel to the tri or would a daggerboard be better ? and why that one ?'

 

Nobody knows ? Which is better - a daggerboard of a fixed keel ?

 

Come on Fanie, You should know now that every design consideration is a compromise, Will I point higher, Will I be faster etc.... A well designed keel or centreboard will not be significantly different - at this point in time go for the easiest to install/set-up as you seem to be a man in a hurry - I suggest the quickest to set up (install)...