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Morgan Ohlson ) writes: Which is "the best quality (performance included) compared to price" when it comes to attatching sailes to the mast? a mast sleeve, like on the laser. mast turbulence is the worst performance loss on sails (test by AJ Marchaj) as the leading edge is so important. also cheap as it requires no hardware. What makes the best home made mast... GRP or wood? I've not seen a fibreglass mast. It would be very heavy. The usualy choice is wood or aluminum. What is the price for full performance Al alloy mast profile of standard quality? perfectly round aluminum tubing is fine on cruiders and is used on many home built boats. I don't know how to determine required diameter or wall thickness. One more fence to overcome is to make the mast really unstayable. Support needed for self tacking jib though.... I doubt it's possible. To get the straight jib luff you need a lot of tension. You need the stright jib luff to point high. A bendy mast with stays and spreaders is the usual way of doing it on dingy's. You're getting into some spohisticated sail controls like outhauls, boom vangs, cunninghams, mast rams, etc. that's a recing boat and why they are expensive. you don't need a jib for responsive sailing (quick tacks) or to point high. TF Jones, the builder/writer I mentioned earlier, sails on a tidal river and favours unstayed sprit sails on his small boats - no jib. any boat with the front edge of the sail attached to the mast can point high and be very responsive. hope that helps. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-FreeNet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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On 7 Oct 2004 22:01:55 GMT, William R. Watt wrote:
Morgan Ohlson ) writes: Which is "the best quality (performance included) compared to price" when it comes to attatching sailes to the mast? a mast sleeve, like on the laser. mast turbulence is the worst performance loss on sails (test by AJ Marchaj) as the leading edge is so important. also cheap as it requires no hardware. Any links? What makes the best home made mast... GRP or wood? I've not seen a fibreglass mast. It would be very heavy. The usualy choice is wood or aluminum. GRP tube would be more flexible compared to Al, but not heavy... I think. The radius have to obe a little larger for GRP to compensate. What is the price for full performance Al alloy mast profile of standard quality? perfectly round aluminum tubing is fine on cruiders and is used on many home built boats. I don't know how to determine required diameter or wall thickness. Can a sleeve be mounted on a standard Al tube? One more fence to overcome is to make the mast really unstayable. Support needed for self tacking jib though.... I doubt it's possible. To get the straight jib luff you need a lot of tension. You need the stright jib luff to point high. A bendy mast with stays and spreaders is the usual way of doing it on dingy's. You're getting into some spohisticated sail controls like outhauls, boom vangs, cunninghams, mast rams, etc. that's a recing boat and why they are expensive. you don't need a jib for responsive sailing (quick tacks) or to point high. Fully aware of that, but I will most likely have to reduce sail area without a jib. So, it's about holding on to a low momentum CE. Morgan |
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On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 08:53:58 GMT, Morgan Ohlson
wrote: On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 23:37:38 -0400, Rodney Myrvaagnes wrote: On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:42:21 GMT, Morgan Ohlson wrote: On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 21:44:48 GMT, Jim Conlin wrote: If there's a one design or manufactured boat whose design you like and whose parts are available, you might well save a buck or shorten the debugging period by using it. My thought was that it may, in some way be more difficult to "adopt another child"... so it could be more difficoult. But... perhaps that is worth the effort to just buy well proven sails and rig. Three dinghies from the 1950s and 1960s, the 5-0-5, Flying Dutchman, and Contender share a 10-square-meter medium-aspect ratio mainsail. Any good sailmaker who does dinghy sails will have patterns. The Finn dinghy also has a 10-sq-mtr sail, but with a lower aspect ratio. Also known to sailmakers. The Finn has an unstayed mast. The others have headstay and shrouds, but no backstay. Like the Finn, the Contender is a cat-rig. The other two are sloops, but very different from each other. I would look for an obsolete mast and boom from one of these classes. If it is no longer competitive it will be cheaper than a new one. Old FInns had a wooden mast and boom. Another possibility is an off-the-shelf 10-sq-m windsurfer rig, with the sail and spars matched to each other. You would have to devise a mast step to hold it up as an unstayed rig. Can sails intended for a stayed mast be used with a nonstayed? Maybe not. The stays will change the mast-bend characteristics. I don't really feel comfortable to buy a very worn mast. I don't find that worth it since I gonna sail in no-mans-land, Scandinavic northern nature preservations under harsh conditions. Mostly it will be nice lakes, but the demands is put to meat the harder conditions. Aren't there any big differences between my slow, safe daycruiser and thos fast racer dinghies? THere are indeed differences. Your loaded cruiser will be much heavier and slower. But those rigs allow a lot of sail-shape control, which is just as useful for your purpose as it is in a race. Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a Does one child rape really change Strom Thurmond's lifetime record? For better or worse? |
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On 7 Oct 2004 22:01:55 GMT, William R. Watt wrote:
Morgan Ohlson ) writes: Which is "the best quality (performance included) compared to price" when it comes to attatching sailes to the mast? a mast sleeve, like on the laser. mast turbulence is the worst performance loss on sails (test by AJ Marchaj) as the leading edge is so important. also cheap as it requires no hardware. Sleeve? ...in the meaning of treading the sail over the mast? How can I reef that? Morgan |
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Morgan Ohlson ) writes: Any links? try a search on "laser + sailing" or "mast sleve"? Is there nothing on mast sleves in Bolger's book? Can a sleeve be mounted on a standard Al tube? the mast on the laser is aluminum tube. for convenience on shore it comes apart in two pieces. Fully aware of that, but I will most likely have to reduce sail area without a jib. yes, reefing in a dingy is never easy. racers don't usually bother reefing. reefing is one of the weak points in the sprit sails I use but I do what most dingy saiors do, let out the sail in a gust, and don't sail in bad weather. races are usually postponed or cancelled in rough conditions. I've been workign on sprit sails that rotate freely around the mast to eleminate downwind rolling and broaching in strong winds, the worst part of dingy sailing. Works great. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-FreeNet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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Morgan Ohlson ) writes: Sleeve? ...in the meaning of treading the sail over the mast? How can I reef that? on big boats the sail is rolled up around the mast - "roller reefing" Look at the "Freedom" brand of cat ketches and similar boats on the Internet. I've seen photos of it being done on a laser. No experience with it myself. I run for shelter. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-FreeNet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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On 8 Oct 2004 12:30:49 GMT, William R. Watt wrote:
Morgan Ohlson ) writes: Sleeve? ...in the meaning of treading the sail over the mast? How can I reef that? on big boats the sail is rolled up around the mast - "roller reefing" Look at the "Freedom" brand of cat ketches and similar boats on the Internet. I've seen photos of it being done on a laser. No experience with it myself. I run for shelter. An unstayed stiff rig must be the easiest to adopt, wouldn't it. It should be easiest to adopt a rigid rigg since it easily can be given the same stiff mast etc. Whith almost no bending the bening could be more easliy aproximated and less fault, even if homebuilt mast etc. Morgan O. Morgan O. |
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