Peter Wiley wrote:
In article , Flying Tadpole
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Peter Wiley wrote:

See, it's working already.

-ed, not -ing.


Hey Tad, how goes the mud sailing? I've been having a lotta fun with my
CCA treated pine sailboat with the welded mast. Got any tips for
getting off a lee shore with 150mm of water under you so the lateral
plane is about zero? I haven't added a motor yet but that's due to
laziness rather than any matter of principle. snip

Leeboards will continue to work until you totally ground.


The c/b does that, too, as it pivots back nicely. I have a pennant
going fwd to a block then back to a clam cleat under the centre thwart
so I can raise it a little at a time to keep max plane. When you hear
the grating noise, it's time to haul a bit more. Rudder kicks up when
it hits the bottom.

No, not what I meant. Leeboards will _still_ give you some
lateral plane (also tunnel effects) at the point where you have
your c/b all the way up and there's only 1cm of water under your
keel. Similarly, a kick-up rudder will too (not a spade rudder,
the kickup has to rotate). Pity about where the centre of effort
shifts in relation to the centre of resistance, but what the
hey--even with the lee helm you've still got a chance of sailing
out with leeboards. (all learnt from bitter experience with the
original Flying Tadpole--although she had a 12ft large-bladed
steering oar and could always be sculled out of trouble)


I have a couple of paddles. They were cheap. They are of marginal use
if you're by yourself. Gotta get some oars which means (re)fitting the
rowlocks. Dunno how I'll go with them, tho, given the restricted range
of movement in the arm. Only one way to find out.

Short strokes, Peter, Short strokes. My nymph dinghy only allows
7ft oars, and it's a real bummer at first to respond to the
little strokes they enforce (hard long strokes tip the dinghy over...

How is the CCA pine doing as its own antifoul?


Nothing seems to be living on it.

Yeah... they're surreptitiously removing it from all the
vineyards around here, and I'm not allowed to recommend CCA
sleepers for resting oil flowlines on in the cattle country...

Gonna haul this afternoon. I've
decided the bowsprit was a good idea but now there's too much lee helm.
I'll make a new mast base about a foot back and then make a new set of
stays & shrouds to suit. I never did like the existing chainplates
anyway, and I have a huge supply of scrap. Sometimes I think I took up
boats to finally have a hobby where I'd never run out of things to do,
things to change, things to repair and tools to play with while doing
it. The sailing side is pretty cool, too.

You _could_ have rigged unstayed, it would be saner if less
weatherly for such a craft.

Might build an elongated Buehler Pogo next, just for fun. Gaff schooner
rig. I have a Yanmar 3HP diesel engine with g/box that needs a boat.

Ah. I retract my previous statement. Nothing wrong with your
sanity index.


PDW

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