Flying Tadpole wrote in message ...
http://www.ace.net.au/schooner/lkss.jpg

Lady Kate self-steering with hi-tech ultra-modern HSD

Note stainless steel cedar bucket with oilies soaking (that's how
they stay yellow, you see..)

The motor is visibly not operating.

Before the carp rise too violently, my tether is still secured to
a cockpit strongpoint and I'm still secured to my tether.

Nice self steering system. I balanced out the boat and thought I
engaged the autopilot and for over 8 hours stayed on course then I
noticed that I forgot to turn the autopilot on. :0)

Capt. American

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Cheers MC

Flying Tadpole wrote:

http://www.ace.net.au/schooner/lkss.jpg

Lady Kate self-steering with hi-tech ultra-modern HSD

Note stainless steel cedar bucket with oilies soaking (that's how
they stay yellow, you see..)

The motor is visibly not operating.

Before the carp rise too violently, my tether is still secured to
a cockpit strongpoint and I'm still secured to my tether.

1992 or 1993, I think. You can follow the whole squareboat design
controversy in outline (with references back to the 20s-30s) in
back issues of WoodenBoat.

The Captains Master wrote:

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:29:37 +0930, Flying Tadpole
wrote:



katysails wrote:

You certainly have the most avant=garde boat on the group.....

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I'm willing to bet it's the most up-to-date and most RECENT
design sailed regularly by any of the regulars....

Bwaaaahahahahahahhahaaa!
Taddy, new paper doesn't make a new design....
then again maybe you have the only boat sailed regularly by regulars.

Oz1...of the 3 twins.
I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.



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Dammit. The straw what broke the ISPs back.

Use

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but it won't be a permanent home.

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Flying Tadpole wrote:

http://www.ace.net.au/schooner/lkss.jpg

Lady Kate self-steering with hi-tech ultra-modern HSD

Note stainless steel cedar bucket with oilies soaking (that's how
they stay yellow, you see..)

The motor is visibly not operating.

Before the carp rise too violently, my tether is still secured to
a cockpit strongpoint and I'm still secured to my tether.


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it's the most up-to-date and most RECENT
design

Didn't Thor Heyerdahl sail in something like that once?
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katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Hey, I just felt you purists were all due for a bit of upsetting!

Timmy, if you want to sail a square boat, be my guest. One wonders, =
though, if the boat mirrors the personality or the personality mirrors =
the boat? As in square...Do you perchance own a black beret and sport a =
goatee?

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katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

katysails wrote:

it's the most up-to-date and most RECENT
design

Didn't Thor Heyerdahl sail in something like that once?

Katy, surely you must realise that KonTiki was a late 40s-early
50s design!


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Katy, surely you must realise that KonTiki was a late 40s-early
50s design!

It WAS square, though....

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katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

That's better. Did you learn to cheese from CN? I'm impressed by the
lack of purchase on the mainsheet... What's with the adm. anchor, I
thought you had a muddy bottom?

More seriously, I don't think that's a good way to rig a safety line.

Cheers MC

Flying Tadpole wrote:
Dammit. The straw what broke the ISPs back.

Use

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but it won't be a permanent home.

The navigator© wrote:

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Flying Tadpole wrote:


http://www.ace.net.au/schooner/lkss.jpg

Lady Kate self-steering with hi-tech ultra-modern HSD

Note stainless steel cedar bucket with oilies soaking (that's how
they stay yellow, you see..)

The motor is visibly not operating.

Before the carp rise too violently, my tether is still secured to
a cockpit strongpoint and I'm still secured to my tether.

The navigator© wrote:

More seriously, I don't think that's a good way to rig a safety line.

Cheers MC


Perhaps I should have posed the photo. The photo does look a bit
like there's one super long line (long enough to waterski with!)
but that's optical illusion: there is a spare tether attahced to
the rudder-post beam which appears to be a continuation of the
tether I'm wearing but isn't. The tether I'm wearing is attached
to a strong point about 6inchs abaft an a foot below the turning
block in the foreground. Tether lengths are only 1.5m. The
strong point is a 1" ply hull/deck plate anchoring a U-bolt with
giant washers and a spreader plate.

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