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Re: silence from rob

Robert — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:23:48 GMT

-It might be worth considering doing it outside and wrap it in black plastic and leave it in the sun ... available now

Re: silence from rob

Robert — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:21:26 GMT

-good going in light conditions robert ... a day over 3 days? ... available now ... available now at Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html

Re: silence from rob

Doug Haines — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:37:57 GMT

so how many increments in ternsioning the straps are you taking one a day over 3 days? sailed up to safety bay, 18 nm took 3 hours, wind came and went.

Re: Any thoughts on symetrical foil and outline

Rob Denney — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:38:45 GMT

G'day, I tried them on harrigami using Tom Speer's double ended 12% section which worked reasonably well, albeit with a lower stalling angle on one side than

Re: silence from rob

Rob Denney — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:19:17 GMT

G'day, School holidays, China, Panama, plans, general laziness. Not necessarily in that order ;-). However, it is slowly coming together and looks pretty

Re: Auxiliary Propulsion Options

Arto Hakkarainen — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:25:14 GMT

Actually I wasn't thinking of APU batteries but APU generators. Aircraft has many APUs to produce electric power and other power needed. However, I believe

silence from rob

Doug Haines — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:11:45 GMT

Hi, wonder if that means he's still slowly bending? long time to bend the polycore doug __________________________________________________________ Not

tiller musing

Robert — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:36:11 GMT

I have uploaded some drawings of some tiller ideas in Tiller Musing in the files section Robert

New file uploaded to harryproa

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:27:16 GMT

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Any thoughts on symetrical foil and outline

tsstproa — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:27:02 GMT

Has it been tried? Like to here if so. I was thinking anywhere around 4- 7 percent of cord width for foil thickness. Probably 5 percent. Now nowing rudder will

Re: Kevin's DIY halyard catch/locks

Robert — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:26:28 GMT

If you make the pulleys a bit oversize for the diameter of the halyard, you could incorporate a short splice (known on the fishing boats as a C--- splice) at a

Re: Kevin's DIY halyard catch/locks

Robert — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:06:59 GMT

-Never had any problems with a Paper Tiger or on Hobies with cleats on the side near the top-. I 'm working out on how to turn a similar mast design to the

Re: Kevin's DIY halyard catch/locks

Rob Denney — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:04:56 GMT

G'day, The hooks and catches are simple. Making them failsafe and working with only one line (the halyard) is the tricky bit. The Volvo 40' cats and others

Re: Auxiliary Propulsion Options

Robert — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:55:29 GMT

-I like the idea of a long tail, but am concerned about how to get a small marinised motor Robert-- In harryproa@..., "Paul Wilson"

Re: Kevin's DIY halyard catch/locks

Robert McArthur — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:52:41 GMT

... On our Jarcat 7 (picture attached), we run two mainmasts both being thickish wingmasts made from 1.5mm ply around a thick cedar gusset. The halyards run