qsiv
Well-Known Member
Why, thank you kindly!
<hr width=100% size=1>
<hr width=100% size=1>
CORK WEEK
- Thread starter irishmark
- Start date
irishmark
Well-Known Member
ahh sure u have until the 10th july...treat it as a shake down cruise...an intresting one at that..anyhows if anyone can point in the right direction it would be great...
<hr width=100% size=1>
<hr width=100% size=1>
Jules
Well-Known Member
Tried to look at your pics, but each one has just a small red x in a box. This happens occasionally on my machine. Any ideas how to correct it?
Many thanks.
<hr width=100% size=1>
Many thanks.
<hr width=100% size=1>
qsiv
Well-Known Member
Unless it is an IE security setting on your machine, I'm afraid not - I've just checked and I can see the pics - but that doesnt prove much, as my server is sitting upstairs in the attic office.
Just in case I'll try linking the image here ...
<hr width=100% size=1>
Just in case I'll try linking the image here ...
<hr width=100% size=1>
jimi
Well-Known Member
Wow ... what a beautiful shape .. you'll be hopping from one foot to the other until you get her sailing .. any names yet?
<hr width=100% size=1>I Have The Body Of A God... Buddha
<hr width=100% size=1>I Have The Body Of A God... Buddha
qsiv
Well-Known Member
Wraith is a probable - goes with the black colours (including most of the sails). Couldnt really use Stealth - bit last year!
Quite fancy a nice 'Caspar' style logo on a kite...
<hr width=100% size=1>
Quite fancy a nice 'Caspar' style logo on a kite...
<hr width=100% size=1>
qsiv
Well-Known Member
For those who cant see the <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.navwiz.com/photokorn/index.php?action=showgal&cat=4> photo album</A>, here is the cockpit ..
<hr width=100% size=1>
<hr width=100% size=1>
jimi
Well-Known Member
Caspar logo in luminous whitey green would be brill on a black spinnaker at night ... partic if semi backlit .. reckon it would cure a few cases of constipation!!
<hr width=100% size=1>I Have The Body Of A God... Buddha
<hr width=100% size=1>I Have The Body Of A God... Buddha
tome
Well-Known Member
Vin rouge fine wih Fray Bentos but I'm told it doesn't go with quiche or cauliflower!
Black looks great in the pics and I really like the fine boot toppings lines, she wears them well.
Congrats, Iain she's a be-joot in the making.
Will the US crew give you some familiarisation training? I'm especially interested in how you coordinate and make use of the dual rudders. Is the forward rudder designed to improve tacking performance?
I ask because I was out sailing with my nephew and we spotted a boat ashore with a canting keel, which fascinated him. He asked many more questions than I could answer and I tried to recover with a brief description of a Schock, which only made matters worse as he asked ever more searching questions.
<hr width=100% size=1>
Black looks great in the pics and I really like the fine boot toppings lines, she wears them well.
Congrats, Iain she's a be-joot in the making.
Will the US crew give you some familiarisation training? I'm especially interested in how you coordinate and make use of the dual rudders. Is the forward rudder designed to improve tacking performance?
I ask because I was out sailing with my nephew and we spotted a boat ashore with a canting keel, which fascinated him. He asked many more questions than I could answer and I tried to recover with a brief description of a Schock, which only made matters worse as he asked ever more searching questions.
<hr width=100% size=1>
qsiv
Well-Known Member
Thanks for the kind words! I move that Black Label Lanson be adopted as the House wine!
The two rudders are linked normally they turn in 'opposite' senses so they both steer the boat round the arc of the curve. There is a 'piece of string' brought up to the cockpit by the helmsman, which when tweaked causes the fwd rudder to turn in the same sense as the aft rudder, which can be used to reduce leeway (claims that you can 'lift' the boat to weather are a trifle overstated) - this is known as the collective. Because each of the rudders is located at a high pressure, or wave hump location, the control exerted is said to be greater, and the ability to prevent broaches is reduced - mind you a big asymmetric kite flown off a long sprit also improves off wind control. I suspect all this seems quite academic at speeds of over 30 knots!
<hr width=100% size=1>
The two rudders are linked normally they turn in 'opposite' senses so they both steer the boat round the arc of the curve. There is a 'piece of string' brought up to the cockpit by the helmsman, which when tweaked causes the fwd rudder to turn in the same sense as the aft rudder, which can be used to reduce leeway (claims that you can 'lift' the boat to weather are a trifle overstated) - this is known as the collective. Because each of the rudders is located at a high pressure, or wave hump location, the control exerted is said to be greater, and the ability to prevent broaches is reduced - mind you a big asymmetric kite flown off a long sprit also improves off wind control. I suspect all this seems quite academic at speeds of over 30 knots!
<hr width=100% size=1>
Jules
Well-Known Member
Thanks for the pics, best of luck with an exciting project!
<hr width=100% size=1>
<hr width=100% size=1>
irishmark
Well-Known Member
looks a mightly fine boat..what are your initial/long term plans for her??
<hr width=100% size=1>
<hr width=100% size=1>
qsiv
Well-Known Member
If that was directed at me ...
Cowes week this year, then some RORC and club races till the season ends. Next season I quite fancy some shorthanded (maybe two up rather than solo) - maybe the Royal Southampton to Santander, interspersed with club and RORC.
Above all I want to have some fun, sailing fast! I've more or less paid for the whole project now, and last season I didnt use my current boat at all (SWMBO sick), and probably wont get much sailing in before Cowes either - all rather dependent on a big case conference for SWMBO next week - in between all 2 sprogs demand a certain amount of time!
<hr width=100% size=1>
Cowes week this year, then some RORC and club races till the season ends. Next season I quite fancy some shorthanded (maybe two up rather than solo) - maybe the Royal Southampton to Santander, interspersed with club and RORC.
Above all I want to have some fun, sailing fast! I've more or less paid for the whole project now, and last season I didnt use my current boat at all (SWMBO sick), and probably wont get much sailing in before Cowes either - all rather dependent on a big case conference for SWMBO next week - in between all 2 sprogs demand a certain amount of time!
<hr width=100% size=1>
irishmark
Well-Known Member
wow..fair play.....she looks like an out and out racer, but if u wanted to cruise over to antuiga etc and get some relaxing and raceing in over there would it suit??? or would you have any intention of that kind of thing at all??? just a relitive newcomer to sailing, 2 years, will do coastal this year, and I can really see the wide and different attractions that sailing can have...good luck with her anyhow......and if u plan to do cork week sometime and have enough patience to put up with a relitive newcomer to it..drop us a line...
<hr width=100% size=1>
<hr width=100% size=1>
