Laser310
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if you ever wanted help with a delivery.., i'll bet you could find a few hands hereOr ask me very nicely next spring and come out for a play.
if you ever wanted help with a delivery.., i'll bet you could find a few hands hereOr ask me very nicely next spring and come out for a play.
Come November /December that might come to pass.if you ever wanted help with a delivery.., i'll bet you could find a few hands here
Absolutely. I had the pleasure of a close inspection and above deck tour of a 1010 yesterday. The boat definitely went up in my estimation. Apart from the possible drawback of the odd marina tut tutting about the beam. It’s substantially larger than our tri when folded, for the same length. If the 39s proportions are the same, it’s going to be beamier than a Prout catamaranEpic thread.
I really love this new breed of powerful & fast French designs, I get that traditionalists might not like the looks, but I don't see many downsides at all.
Yup, November is still the plan. Then will have to decide where to leave it for the winter.
Aluminium mast, carbon is just silly money and I do not need one.
I am having a winch on the mast so the choice is mine.
Haven’t paid any attention to the fridge capacity, maybe I should but on most boats it’s too big, IMHO. This will not be a live aboard boat.
The plotter will be down below and I’ll use a tablet in the cockpit. Three displays above the coach roof, a pilot control/display for each tiller.
Sorry about the lack of a below deck tour, but with those two reprobates on board the interior looked like a bomb had gone off....Absolutely. I had the pleasure of a close inspection and above deck tour of a 1010 yesterday. The boat definitely went up in my estimation. Apart from the possible drawback of the odd marina tut tutting about the beam. It’s substantially larger than our tri when folded, for the same length. If the 39s proportions are the same, it’s going to be beamier than a Prout catamaran![]()
Ouch.Absolutely. I had the pleasure of a close inspection and above deck tour of a 1010 yesterday. The boat definitely went up in my estimation. Apart from the possible drawback of the odd marina tut tutting about the beam. It’s substantially larger than our tri when folded, for the same length. If the 39s proportions are the same, it’s going to be beamier than a Prout catamaran![]()
I look forward to you both coming over to the 39Yeah, Prouts are as lovely as a smacked arseFlaming’s JPK is, in modern dating parlance, bang tidy. I like big butts and I cannot lie….
It really is. It’s our ideal cruising speed in reality. Things only get edgier when much faster than that, where 10 to low teens is relaxing.View attachment 180959
Picture from this weekend, cruising with some old school friends. We have the A5 up and sitting on the plane at 10-12 knots at 130ish TWA.
Flat wake whilst cruising is a lot of fun…
and also some gadget for his headsail halyard (can't recall what its called and it was all a bit above my head)
So how do you adjust the tension in the halyard when you're sailing?Its the Antal halyard system. A pretty cool setup I think.
Its a self locking track on the mast, you have a half halyard that attaches to a car on the track, you use a bit of line and a winch either on the mast or led aft to pull the car down & tension the halyard, the car then locks in place & you remove the extra bit of line.
So you don't have 50 feet of Genoa halyard coiled up in the cockpit or at the mast that never actually gets used until you drop the sail.
In fact as you see the videos, there seem to be a lot of nice modern solutions to the running rigging.
So how do you adjust the tension in the halyard when you're sailing?
Thats smart and simple. My Genoa halyard is a pain!Our system, the halyard tail is just long enough to be winched, and obviously sits in a clutch, conventionally.
Makes me smile just looking at that!View attachment 180959
Picture from this weekend, cruising with some old school friends. We have the A5 up and sitting on the plane at 10-12 knots at 130ish TWA.
Flat wake whilst cruising is a lot of fun…
Personally, if someone gifted me the antal locking system, I’d stick with what I have, thanks. I think it sounds unsuitable for us, with no perceptible advantage for anyone.Thats smart and simple. My Genoa halyard is a pain!
Having the Halyard stop at the base of the mast with the Antal system sounds even better, I guess that comes at a financial cost. It definitely sounds more of a cruisers option rather than a racer who may change sails often and is more likely to tweak halyard tension.