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- Tue Feb 13, 2018 6:04 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Bowmoor event
- Replies: 26
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Bowmoor event
Anyone be know who to talk to about the Bowmoor event, please? The Minisails are planning on using this as their International camping weekend. No idea on numbers at all currently, but usually between 6 and 12. What I would like to do is run some coaching on the Friday afternoon/evening for the clas...
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 9:25 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: de-bodging an Osprey centreboard case - advice req'd
- Replies: 76
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- Sun Dec 24, 2017 6:29 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: CVRDA Quiz - the 2017 CVRDA Craptic Crossword
- Replies: 26
- Views: 34580
Re: CVRDA Quiz - the 2017 CVRDA Craptic Crossword
Just got back from work to discover I'm really not very clever... Will have to work out how to print it and get my mother, who knows nothing about boats, but everything about crosswords, involved after Christmas.
- Sun Dec 24, 2017 10:30 am
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Xmas greetings and next projects
- Replies: 22
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Re: Xmas greetings and next projects
Mast ram envy...
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 10:01 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Zoom Handicap?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7613
Re: Zoom Handicap?
Try a Laser 2 handicap to begin with.
- Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:05 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: Xmas greetings and next projects
- Replies: 22
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Re: Xmas greetings and next projects
I think Saskia will be brought home in the spring for some work, once the Lightning transom has been made whole again. Pretty sure the Minisail will need tweaking, too.
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 8:51 am
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Kicker.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14166
Re: Kicker.
Liking that kicker arrangement, Jim.
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 4:07 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: New sails...recommend a sailmaker?
- Replies: 9
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Re: New sails...recommend a sailmaker?
Morgan sails have made my last 3 Minisail sails, and they are beautifully built.
- Mon Nov 27, 2017 11:27 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Kicker.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14166
Re: Kicker.
If you have marks for different conditions on the course tune, then it should work fine. Still seems a little overkill for the MS spaghetti mast!
- Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:12 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Kicker.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14166
Re: Kicker.
The lever is basically a flat triangle, hypotenuse upwards, with the other 2 sides very uneven. If you Google dinghy kicking strap lever you'll see some.
- Mon Nov 27, 2017 9:36 am
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Kicker.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14166
Re: Kicker.
In that case, to get the travel, you need to lengthen the distance between top and bottom. The only way to do that is to move the boom fitting aft. Or are you already doubling up on the centre main fittings already? You could also take a look at the 1970s era lever kicker, too. Easy to get 8:1 on th...
- Sun Nov 26, 2017 10:15 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Kicker.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14166
Re: Kicker.
Well, not strictly true. You can get a 16:1 by using 16 blocks top and bottom. Think the friction might be an issue, and the cost!
- Sun Nov 26, 2017 6:41 pm
- Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
- Topic: Kicker.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14166
Re: Kicker.
Can't see the link, but can roughly remember. What I'd suggest is a 4:1 block system, where the tail is then run to either one cascade for 8:1 or two for 16:1. The MS mast is pretty bendy, so 8:1 would be enough, I'd have thought. The final cascade runs out to the side deck cleats. If you lack trave...
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:01 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: 2018 events
- Replies: 61
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Re: 2018 events
Bowmoor sounds good and local for me! Great camping field, too.
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:00 pm
- Forum: Boat Chat
- Topic: moth cutting
- Replies: 8
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Re: moth cutting
Not sure about the colour. Old black and white photos don't help! I'd always thought they were the same, but could be wrong. Often am...