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pondscum 
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 Topic: Who was out this weekend?.....Posted: 05 Oct 10 at 9:38am |
Hope you enjoyed it - I was one of the organisers ...
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Medway Maniac
Really should get out more 
Joined: 13 May 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2788 |
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Posted: 04 Oct 10 at 1:30pm |
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I understand that the Alto has been tried with a carbon boom/kicker set-up, so there should be one kicking about somewhere.
[Off--topic: being pretty used to the L3k's 79kg hull which two of us can manage, and having helped turn an Alto hull over yesterday with four other people who were 'largish', I'm very sceptical about the Alto's 85kg hull weight claim...]
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getafix
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Joined: 28 Mar 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2143 |
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Posted: 04 Oct 10 at 12:55pm |
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can't P&B help? they're pretty handy with most things.....
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G.R.F.
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Posted: 04 Oct 10 at 10:51am |
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I haven't been out since Sheppy and am going stir crazy.
And I haven't fixed the Alto yet. How do you get a carbon boom for a boat previously without one, specification wise I mean, do you order tube by length?
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alstorer
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Posted: 04 Oct 10 at 10:27am |
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With the mast being at Synthesize and me off to 6fest, wasn't out this weekend. Hopefully the stick will be ready and sorted for Hayling this weekend- bring on the tide Ride!
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alstorer
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Posted: 29 Sep 10 at 10:03pm |
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Was sailing the B14- which does have uppers to the spin hoist- but yes, the main does hold the masthead back quite a lot. We messed up, and paid the price. If the main had been eased rather than slipping out of helm's hand, it would have helped a lot!
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Mister Nick
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Posted: 29 Sep 10 at 8:34pm |
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I was out this weekend! :D 30 knots of breeze in an Elan 333. It was awesome, we managed to set the spinnaker but then the crap shackle on the end of the sheet unsnapped itself and we had to get it down :/
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JimC
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Posted: 27 Sep 10 at 11:40am |
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A couple of thoughts...
A neat trick I was shown to reduce vertical loads on the gooseneck is to run the cunningham round the boom. I have a block each side of the tack and run the cunningham up to one block, down round the boom on a extra slippery "track" made of graphite/epoxy mix, back to the block the other side and down to a hook on the mast. That means that the cunningham is pulling the boom up. I haven't broken a gooseneck since I started doing this. On 29ers and the like the mainsail leach/kicker tension helps supports the masthead. If the main is dumped as far as the shroud and kicker tension is reduced too much then the support of the topmast reduces very considerably... Rotten 'ell wasn't that a chilly northerly! Edited by JimC - 27 Sep 10 at 11:45am |
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radixon
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Posted: 27 Sep 10 at 11:00am |
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opps sounds like a fair few masts went this weekend. I heard of a few at Brightlingsea's Reg Fest.
I went out in a Pico, F6 blasting, water was cold when it hit you, but had a great time. Was a little interesting when the RNLI boat came towards me, they were only doing a little training excersise and didnt even speak to me! |
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alstorer
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Posted: 27 Sep 10 at 9:25am |
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Thorpe Bay for the B14/Musto/9er open. Rather "exciting"- with the windward mark dead downwind of Southend town centre, the gusts and holes were unpredictable and violent. Gains to be made just by keeping the stick pointing at the sky. A few 29er masts suffered- top sections, as is so common (due to having a spinnaker hoist well above the hounds).
Bad dancing in the club on Saturday.
More wind Sunday- the Sheppey weather station was reading 30knots+ all morning- but racing happened anyway- a fair few boats didn't head out though. Keeping it the right way up did us good in the first race, and was doing us good in the second until we gybed late, overcooked and dumped the main before dumping the kite- upper shrouds didn't stand a chance of helping, top of mast snapped at the upper shroud spreader bracket. Doh! Never snapped a mast before.
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