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Thunderchild
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Topic: A Few questions + photos Posted: 03 Nov 06 at 4:59pm |
Has anyone got any tips for rigging up a two man boat for singlehanding?
I need to try and rig up the trapezes to aid getting out easier! I am up at Queen Mary Also i am looking for someone to make me sone wing material for the Moth- any ideas anyone?? A few photos of my current fleet- All of these under £500 bargains!! Chris Edited by Thunderchild |
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Isis
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Nov 06 at 5:08pm |
Graham Caws seems to come up a lot when looking at moth tramps, mine are made by him I think and they are top notch.
As for setting up a doublehander for singlehanding... moving the trap elastic further back would be the first move. Kickbars to help getting out and moving the controls around to be easier for only one person to reach would probibly be next in line if you wanted more perminant changes. |
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Thunderchild
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Nov 06 at 5:09pm |
I'll try caws- Southamton isn't it.
Want to get it out on the oggin asap!! |
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mike ellis
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 Nov 06 at 9:29pm |
the oggin? queen mary's a jumped up puddle not "the oggin"
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600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it.
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Thunderchild
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Nov 06 at 3:33pm |
true but it is at least big enough to have a good practice beofre getting it out on the open oggin! lol
Cant really do coast hopping on a puddle either. Had a good go on the 5o5 today- blowing a good 3/4 and after fitting my rs700 tiller ext got out on the wire- who needs a crew anyway! lol |
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Strawberry
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Nov 06 at 5:54pm |
What design is your moth? |
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Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry
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Thunderchild
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Nov 06 at 8:19pm |
It is a magnum 5. A fat moth i think they call it.
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NickA
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 06 Nov 06 at 12:47pm |
Send photos of single handing an FD! Preferably with kite up! Sounds fun. |
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Jamie
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 06 Nov 06 at 2:12pm |
I've seen an FD singlehanded before. (Indeed I had a go myself while my helm was trying to restring the kite halyard, At Queen Mary incidentally.) With the Continuous trapeze it is fairly easy but tacking does take some thinking about, especially if you have the Genoa out. I have seen the contender sailors put a piece of plastic piping over the rope ajuster so that the hooking on can be done one handed. Fine in a one sailed boat, but good luck with the Genoa as well (especially in the FD). you Might be a little short of hands. Not sure exactly what it is they do, but it'll be in a photie somwhere. If you have a spiro and your sheets are long enough you can fly the kite singlehanded. As you can launch the pole and kite as two seperate operations. This may require some tweaking with the rope lengths. But for the proper FD experiance And a hand with the sheeting in you will need a crew at some point. |
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far canal
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 06 Nov 06 at 2:54pm |
I trust you mean force threequarters.
I'd be pretty amazed if you could hold down a 505 in a 3 to 4 , as theys designed for 23 to 30 stone and a High performance boat , if they aren't fully powered up in those winds I doubt anyone would bother to sail them . Otherwise you must be bladdy big , bin the moth on that account
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