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Sadly Rupert, as your experiments have shown, had the Minisail had a better rig it may have give the Laser a run for its money.

Boring fact: the first dinghy I ever sailed (in 1969 at sailing school) was a Minisail.

Sorry for the thread drift

Alan P. wrote:

Rupert wrote:The answer to the original problem is surely to simply keep on sailing south?

Yep, I'd say this is the best option!

But what do you do once you've crossed the Equator? Keep heading for Antarctica or head back North?

Wood dust allergy can apparently be quite species-specific. Hope it clears up quickly.

I don't think you'll need nails and epoxy as the epoxy bond will be stronger than the wood itself. I've only ever used it on smallish things but I've either just clamped the joint and left it or put in a few well-waxed stainless screws which I removed later.

It sounds like you've got a kicker lever there, perhaps a home-made one.

The Heron was launched in 1951(originally as the 'Yachting World Car-top Dinghy') and I know that sail numbers had reached 2000 by 1959 so that's somewhere between 200 and 300 boats per year. If it's a professionally built boat, I'd say 1953 at the absolute latest. If it's an amateur built boat it m...

I feel that WOW is the appropriate response

Remember it's 1:1 by volume not weight. Colloidal silica weighs virtually nothing.

TheGuvnah wrote:So the question is: for a 100ml of mixed resin how much colloidal silica (by weight/vol) will I need to be adding to achieve a workable adhesive mix?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nl09_h2ceE

Epoxying the inside of the case could be a good idea. It's so hard that it'll probably never wear though.

I don't know about your club but in every other club I've been a member of or visited there's always been plenty of people willing to give a hand pulling a boat up the slip.

You're probably talking about tiny differences in performance between gloss and matt finishes. I think it's more important to get a really smooth finish on the foils.

I don't think your scooter thing will work. I seriously doubt that you'll get sufficient traction without an adult sitting on it. Plus the thing is going to have survive immersion when launching and recovering the boat.

It's not just inland clubs where foilers would have issues. Anywhere where you have to launch though the surf or have to sail out through a shallow, narrow channel would be extremely challenging I suspect. Not that I imagine such factors will weigh on the RYA. All they seem to care about is generati...

I don't think the position is critical but they're generally on the mast just under the gooseneck. I think a 100mm box might be a bit short. There is/was a pair of Holt Allen H233 boxes on Fleabay at the moment which initially caught my interest... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252982958382?_trksid=p20...