Boat Plans Catamaran | Nelson Race 2016 Line Honours 1st on IRC yes really! and close 2nd on PHRF all upwind

Boat Plans Catamaran

We prepared for the start to this race with 40-50 knot gusts in the marina, knowing it was going to be upwind effectively all the way, and that it was going to be even more windy on the south coast and for the first part of Cook Strait.  The Class 950 got blown sideways coming out of her berth and was damaged, never left the marina.

We saw sustained 50+ knots for about 30 mins, peak gust that we noticed of 60, and a boat near us saw a 65 knot gust.  Wedgetail lost their mast having already crossed the worst of it, near the Brothers.  The sea state was pretty friendly, given the wind speed (except at the corners in tide rips), since the gradient wind was curving around the top of the South Island ... so not a huge amount of fetch.  We didnt take video in the really windy bits (ran out of camera battery) but just before we entered Cook Strait we got this:

In 50+ knots upwind, Blink was still pointing well, fast and easy to handle with storm jib and 3 reefs. We did hoist a Fractional Zero briefly to leave the harbour, perhaps 10 minutes of downwind sailing but with 40+ knots too much breeze for the A6.  Probably ;-).  We also used a masthead zero for a couple of hours near the south end of DUrville Island.  But not a single downwind sail for a 120nm (rhumb line) offshore race...

So the downwind weaponry had to wait until the return trip, the delivery back to Wellington ... this was a great sail, crossing the Strait faster than the ferry when the breeze picked up on the eastern side.

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Boat Plans African Queen | Day to day life on Brimble

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We are now beginning to settle into something of a routine albeit not what we had expected. The children have adapted to boat life much quicker and better than anticipated. After a long summer holiday playing with each other both children were ready for other company but as yet all the yachts have not converged together and I do not think that will happen until the Carribean. So to begin with we had some sibling s quabbles on board until the children realised this was it and it would be judicious to et along with the only other play mateon board. this has meant that the children have grown closer, are already more tolerant of eah other and work well as a team, thank goodness.

Schooling generally takes place in the morning straight after breakfast, lessons consist maninly of English, Maths and German, all the other subjects are coming through daily life of travelling and general knowlegde; we use every opportunity possible to engage the children. Ella has been really keen to have Mummy as teacher and although the novelty has worn off, she really concentrates and tries hard, Jacobus being two years younger is working equally hard and trying to keep up with his big sister.

Depending on what jobs John has to do on the boat, lessons take place either down below in the main area, the saloon or on deck in the cockpit. The sun has been shining ever since we arrived in Spain and Portugal and so we use the bimini cover which is attatched over the boom and hangs down as a tent like structure over the cockpit to keep s shaded - it works really well and we are already glad that we had it made before leaving the UK.

Everything on a boat takes much longer than shore life. Simple washing of dishes - no running water and cramped space make a quick job something of a mammoth task. Ella and Jacobus tend to wsh the breakfast and lunch dishes - although they take forever to do it and Jack seems to become soaked as a matter of coursse, it is one of the many jobs they have had to take on board.

Washing clothes is a huge task and not one to be relished. At Baiona ~I had let the ashing pile up and could not face the task of hand washing it al, so off to the laundrette and twenty four euros lighter I decided perhaps that a daily washing of clothes was wiser. Whilst the children clear the breakfast table and wash up, I wash the clothes in our faithful bucket and chuck it bucket! My right hand has become a dab hand at being a washing machine and Brimble has become a daily washing line - it is Jacks duty to raise and lower the line for me.

On the subject of washing we are at present staying in marinas where there are showers to agreater or lesser extent so a trek along the pontoons and we can stay clean. Jack and Ella had their first bath since leaving the UK. we plugged the drainage holes of the cockpit, filled it up with a hose pipe, added bubble bath and they splashed away for over an hour in the sunshine in Lisbon. we are very adaptable.

As we have no fridge on board, only a cool box, we have taken to daily food shopping . This has become a family outing, but as everything this takes so much longer than when we lived at home in the UK. We are all laden with rucksacks and trek to the super market or little local delis and markets to buy our purchases, we take it in turns each day to choose the evening meal; we are a true democracy! We also try to make local dishes as well as eat out in resturants: in Spain we became great at Pimento do Padron, a firm favourite. There was one memorable nnight with Big Jack. Pimentos are green chilli like peppers also known as Russian roulette, as about 1 in 10 are fiery hot. This one occassion it seemed the whole batch were mouth watering hot. Ella had tears in her eyes with uncontrollalbe laughter and Big Jack had sweat pouring down his face, who just drank more and more red wine to dampen the heat. Brimble was on fire that night. We have also bought a pressure cooker despite my reservations ( any good recepies warmly received please as our booklet is in Portugese!) so we will see what happens there. I remember twelve years ago on songbird in Porto Santo, where I write this blog post from now, we had been invited to a Swedish boat for dinner where their pressure cooker had just exploded as we climbed on board, butterbeans flew in very direction throughout the boat... We also tend to stock up on drinking water as we do not carry enough water in our water tanks for the Atlantic passage, we are stock piling.

For evening entertainment we have begun to play games, the current favourite being charades. So far the children are winning! Talking books are loved by us all and we have just completed the second Harry Potter book, we have all seven on board. You can hear a pin drop when we listen to them.

Generally we all go to bed at the same time, on such a small boat where there is little privacy,, it makes sense. The only exceptions are when we have entertained on board and in true Halsall fashion these have been boozy late affairs and on these occassions the children have gone to bed in the forepeak and have had to put up with their noisy parents and their new friends.

All in all life is great, it is absolutely the right thing to have done and we are all learning and growing together.

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Boat Plans Wood | Copper is on the way out

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THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL for copper-based antifouling paint. Washington has become the first state in the U.S.A. to ban its use on boats, with effect from 2018.

Antifouling paint discourages the growth of barnacles and plant life on submersed hulls. If you have a wooden boat, it also discourages marine borers from eating your planks for lunch. Copper became the most favored biocide after 1988 when Congress banned the use of tin-based paint, which proved to be harmful to shellfish. But now there is growing concern that copper, too, is toxic to many forms of sea life.

It used to be easy to understand how copper worked. It was a poison, pure and simple, and the rule of thumb was that the more copper a paint contained, the more effective an antifoulant it was.

Now, new ecologically safe antifoulants are available, usually at much higher prices, but their modus operandi is not as obvious. There is vague talk of formulations with biopolymers and promises of photo-active technology, but the net result is a paint with a seemingly impossible mission—to discourage barnacles and slime without killing other forms of sea life.

Until 2018, however, unless new legislation changes things, there will still be four basic types of copper-based antifouling:

* Sloughing. This paint slowly dissolves over time, exposing fresh copper as it does so.

* Hard epoxy or vinyl. This is a scrubbable paint that allows the biocide to diffuse slowly through the skin.

* Ablative. This is usually a copolymer paint that acts by hydrolysis, or chemical reaction with water, and the scouring action of water flowing past the hull.

* Permanent coating. This is a coat of resin, polyester or epoxy in which millions of tiny pieces of copper metal are suspended, each one individually coated with a thin layer of resin and thus electrically insulated from its mates. New copper is exposed by scrubbing the hull every few months and it’s possible that this system could last the life of the boat. But application is a job best left to the professionals.

Today’s Thought

A ship is ever in need of repairing.

— John Taylor, A Navy of Landships

Tailpiece

There was an old lady of Worcester

Who was often annoyed by a rorcester.

She cut off his head

Until he was dead,

And now he don’t crow like he yorcester.

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Boat Plans Catamaran | Is there mutiny on your boat

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I SOMETIMES WONDER how many acts of mutiny take place on small sailboats. How many times has a crewmember refused to follow the orders of the skipper? And, dare I say it, how often has a wife or girlfriend declined to do what her man has asked her to? Quite often, I suspect.

The definition of mutiny, among other things, is the refusal to obey the order of a legal authority such as a superior officer. But it is not necessarily restricted to naval and military forces. Mutiny applies to crews of merchant vessels, too, although such cases are heard by a civil court instead of a court martial.

I would like to know, then, that if I ask (order) my wife to varnish the cockpit coamings, or if I simply request her to bring me another beer from the cool box, and if she just laughs and says, “In your dreams, Captain Bligh,” is she guilty of mutiny?

I ask because this is a very serious business. Aboard a boat, there can be only one boss. During the days of the sailing navies, the penalty for mutiny was invariably hanging at the yardarm. Now I don’t have a yardarm; well not exactly, although I suppose I could rig up a spinnaker pole to serve the purpose.

In these enlightened days I suppose it would be frowned upon to hang one’s crew from a spinnaker pole, and I would guess that a case of mutiny would have to be handled by third parties in an admiralty court. I would further suppose that the penalty would consist of a fine and/or a number of years behind bars, rather than death by hanging.

What we all need to know is whether the skipper of a sailboat qualifies under the law as a “legal authority,” whose edicts must be carried out at all costs. And in order to know that, we first have to know what constitutes a skipper, a legal master of a vessel. (Or mistress.) It’s not necessarily the owner, we all know that, so if the skipper has no papers to prove his legality, who is legally in charge?  Can there be a mutiny, in fact, if the skipper can’t legally prove he’s the skipper? (Or she, of course, he or she.)

I have been faced in the past with what must be close to mutiny when my dear wife refused to sail across an ocean with me unless I provided a door to the head compartment. Unfortunately, I had no proof that I was the legal master of the yacht. I was, of course; I just didn’t have the proof. So, rather than confront her before an admiralty court, I bought a sheet of plywood and built her a loo door.

I don’t doubt that many similar acts of mutiny have been dealt with in the same namby-pamby manner since we lost the use of yardarms. I’m not saying that it’s a good thing or a bad thing. Just pointing it out in case you hadn’t noticed. Just sayin’.

Today’s Thought

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

-- Grover Cleveland

Tailpiece

“Why did your algebra teacher confiscate your rubber-band pistol?”
"She said it was a weapon of math disruption."

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Boat Designs And Plans | Thoughts on lying ahull

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SOMEWHERE IN Rich Wilson’s book about the Vendée Globe race he makes an offhand reference to the fact that it’s not safe to lie ahull in a sailboat in a storm. I was surprised by that statement because Wilson is one of the most experienced sailors in the world.

In his book, Race France to France — Leave Antarctica to Starboard, he tells how he was the only American competitor in the 2008/9 running of the non-stop race around the world for singlehanders. At age 58 he was the oldest of the 30 skippers in the race, and he finished in 9th place in his Open 60 class boat, Great American III. It was a magnificent effort that placed him among the absolute elite of ocean racers.

But he obviously didn’t know that others in his elite class, some who went to sea a long time before him, did use lying ahull as a storm tactic. It was, in fact, standard procedure in the days when round-the-worlders sailed in boats with deep full-length keels and wine-glass sections. Wilson’s storm experience presumably has been in modern multihulls and fin keelers, which need different handling in storms.

Lying ahull, of course, is a passive and very simple tactic. You simply douse all sail and lash the helm to leeward.  A boat with a full-length keel will drift slowly sideways-on to the waves. As the wind drags her through the water like a barn door, she leaves an area of big eddies and swirls to windward. When a top-heavy swell hits those swirls, it tends to break and expend its energy before it reaches the boat.

Of course, when the seas get so big that they pick up your boat and hurl her bodily sideways, it’s time to change tactics and run off before the wind, but most boats plying the trade-wind routes at the right times of the year never face such bad weather. And meanwhile, lying ahull in a “normal” gale is a safe, approved tactic for most boats with traditional keels — always allowing, of course, for the fact that all boats react differently.

Fin-keeled boats do better in bad conditions if they are kept moving, so that the keel moves through a greater area of water in which to expend the energy the boat accrues from abnormal wave action.

 Anyone needing a more thorough explanation should read C. A. Marchaj’s fascinating book Seaworthiness: The Forgotten Factor.

All of which goes to show how even the most experienced sailors can’t know everything about sailing and seaworthiness. It is indeed a vast subject, and we can all learn more every day.

 Column No. 1,000

THIS IS a special day for the Mainly about Boats column. This is, in fact, column number 1,000. Many thousands of words have gone into these columns, some sucked out of the air, some the product of grinding teeth, many forged in panic with a deadline approaching.

Three columns a week for seven years adds up to about two-and-a-half full-length novels. All 1,000 blog posts are stored in the archives, on your right, for you to fossick through at will.  Sooner or later you should find something there that interests you, or amuses you, or possibly even educates you. That was the plan, anyhow. I hope it  worked.

Fair winds and good landfalls.

Today’s Thought

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can’t take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

— Kingman Brewster, President, Yale

Tailpiece

A friend of mine thinks he’s going to make a fortune. He’s working on a dog food that tastes like a mailman’s leg.

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Plywood Boat Plans Australia | A charity weekend on Brimble

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The years sailing really kicked off with a cruise around the Solent (Dyan, Annie, George, Marcus and John)

The weather was absolutely brilliant from start to finish as we cruised down to Chichester marina and back to Hamble over the weekend.

There were some modest complaints that the fore deck was not ideally suited to the sunshine but this was easily rectified with the aid of a pontoon.

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Plywood Boat Plans Australia | Closer to Sailing ‘Pike’

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As long as the weather holds, I can make progress towards finishing the patio; after which I can take ‘Pike’ for a sail. That is the goal - that is the incentive to press on.

Yet to do, is a narrow portion beside the shrubbery boarder. This section gradually tapers, the widest part being at the lawn end. Making these pieces of slab will entail a lot of measuring and cutting. The boarder edges are not quite straight, and at the higher end, closer to the house, the boarder mouldings dip, instead of gradually rising, as do the lower ones. Because of this, I may have to reset the mouldings so that their tops are in line with the upper surface of the slabs.

The last two rows of paving slabs have to be cleaned, and their joins tidied.

The possibility remains that I may be able to finish the patio before my wife returns on Monday from her mini break in Italy.

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Boat Plans Wood | Antifoul on just about there

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The levitating boat trick.

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Boat Plans At Mystic Seaport | Southend on Sea Borough Council Public Slipway Part 2

Boat Plans At Mystic Seaport

The above signs are all legible, unlike some of those posted yesterday

As I pointed out to Alastair in yesterday’s ‘comments’ section, apart from the excessive fee for using the slipway, my main gripe is with the slipshod maintenance of Council Signs in the vicinity of the slipway. It is impossible to read everything written on them, because of their poor condition. At the entrance to the road leading to the slipway there’s what appears to be an official stainless steel and glass display cabinet for Council notices, but it does not have a single notice in it; instead, attached to an outside support there are two tatty paper notices.

I appreciate that several signs in the locality are not owned by Southend Borough Council; for example, there are a few belonging to the Maritime and Coastal Agency regarding the adjacent Coastguard Rescue Station, and there’s a large Ministry of Defence notice setting out rules and regulations in connection with the nearby Shoeburyness Artillery Range. I fear some of the technical jargon spelled out on the latter may not be understand by members of the public; furthermore it is in a poor condition.

Generally, I believe the Borough Council has tried very hard to present Southend as an attractive seaside resort. Huge sums of money have been spent on improving the seafront with new road layouts, pavements, lighting etc.. They have parted with money on advertising the town’s attractions, such as the pier, the beaches, the Beecroft Gallery, the Cliffs Pavilion and the Palace Theatre. There’s been quite an emphasis on promoting water sports*, but they appear to have overlooked the carbuncle and eyesore at their prime launching site. The facility at East Beach could do with a spruce up and perhaps the installation of a freshwater hose for users of the slipway. 

Links 

*Water Sports in Southend

http://www.visitsouthend.co.uk/watersports.aspx 

Southend Beaches

http://www.visitsouthend.co.uk/beaches.aspx

Visit Southend

http://www.visitsouthend.co.uk 

Perfect Day Water Sports

http://www.perfect.uk.com 

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Boden Boat Plans Australia | Pressing On

Boden Boat Plans Australia

There could still be three or more days work to finish building the patio. Very good progress was made today doing several slaps and fiddly bits by the steps.

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Kayak Boat Plans | You want to have a leg up on the cold

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Buy "Belle Ile". A 1995 steel, 33 M.B.C.C model. (Modern British Channel Cutter). Presently located in the Canaries Island . She can take you to the Carribbean where I understand it is warm now! There is still time before the hurricane season. I am waiting for more information, meantime I can tell you that the asking price is 58KE.

Belle Ile Video.
I have just received more pictures of the boat.
I designed Belle-Ile to re- create in a different way the nostalgic era of the Norwegian Rescue Fleet so well rendered by Colin Archer and so many others. The type of boats that shaped my life at an early age. I was enamoured by Jacques-Yves Le Toumelins  Kurun and the account of his voyage around the world. I must have been 12 years old at the time and in Boarding School. Not fun. When I got the book, I just could not separate myself form reading it again and again. To such an extent that I stole it from the School Library and still is in my possession.

The design quirk is the treatment under the hull. I designed twin keels with the thought that it could more efficient than a traditional long keel. She was one of the first one with such a feature.

The interior is "cozy", particularly for a couple and the occasional guest. All in all a fine vessel with tradition in mind in a timeless sense.

The Sail Plan is of a cutter with a double headsails configuration, and added sail area under the form of a spinnaker/reacher for light air and downwind legs. The mast location has the particularity to seat literally in the middle of the boat, allowing for a smaller mainsail and more power to the fore triangle.
If interested, please contact me: tantonyachts@gmail.com; tantonyachts@aol.com; Tel.401-847-4112

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Boat Building Plans And Kits | On the Drawing Board now

Boat Building Plans And Kits

A cruising shoal draft aluminum boat with a "twist", as for the sail configuration. The "Elia System" for mast, rigging and sail plan. The renderings are showing an earlier version of the boat before modification to the deck with a pilot house to give more headroom for the tall owner.

                 



A Trawler of 50 in length, based on specification about style, size and layout. The project is on hold,  the owner having his present boat for sale.

A Westerman 51ft. Pilot Cutter 1998. Designed by Nigel Irens & Ed Burnett. Built by Covey Island.
If interested in purchasing this Classic beauty, please let me know. Full information readily available.

   

The GLC 40 is under bids now. The ambition is to complete the Great Loop Circuit. Designed for a repeat customer, this aluminum boat is on the simple and rugged side of Yachting.

The project started based on the "Gentleman Cruiser" but evolved to something different, more adapted to the method of construction and the ultimate goal for the vessel.

The interior is made for a couple, and does not allow guests to feel comfortable for long, the way it ought to be.

It has been decided to drop the nose to increase the visibility from the pilothouse. This boat is a coastal, river boat.

Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year; the longest time I ever took to deliver  Preliminaries!

Well, well. It started with a question?  If an RV (recreational vehicle) 37-40 long with an 8 beam for interior could be fitted into a sailboat. I guess simple enough and with a projected length of 49 as depicted with a provided Plan view, it ought to be a piece of cake.
Except that..
The other stipulations where to be. A double ended hull for 3 free standing masts, aft cabin, center cockpit, a pilot house and sure enough, the RV interior to fit inside. In my only telephone conversation, I expressed that the challenge would be with the emplacement of the 3 masts for the accommodation to circulate around. Plus the 3 dimensional aspect of hull shape, balance, stability and sail handling.
The hull is 48-3" long, with a beam of 14-10" necessary to important passageways with full headroom on either sides of the center cockpit. The 1Rvs is short of another cabin simply because it was not anticipated on the photos and documents delivered for the project. So, what we have, starting from the stern; a double berth in the Master cabin with full complement of storage, hanging locker, drawers and a dresser/ bureau. Going forward, a private head and shower on the starboard side. On the port side, we are going forward through the galley to join with the Saloon. Both version have similar interior arrangement to this point.
On deck, the center cockpit is followed by a sunken pilot house, with a dinette to port and an inside steering station. To starboard, a step brings you down to a day head and a full navigation area. Forward of the main bulkhead and a few steps, the location opens up to a double sofas type of layout. Clearly an arrangement for a couple and with not even a guest cabin or separate sleeping except for a pilot berth squeezed onto the starboard side. This is all in all for the Rvs Accommodation Plan.

2Ap, with the second version there are things in common with the Rv; essentially the same layout for the aft cabin, the cockpit, the galley and the head on port and starboard. I managed to keep the masts in the same position.Where things change, are the treatment inside the Pilot house, the Saloon and more importantly, the addition of a forward cabin. In the Pilothouse, the steering station is to starboard and to port access is given to the galley down below. Ahead, below a couple of steps, the Saloon with a U. shape dining area supplemented by a small dinette position from right across. The forward cabin is very versatile and can eventually be transformed into different layouts like single beds, up and down bunk beds besides the double berth as shown. In any case this cabin offers many options. Storage is important all over and well  represented in this configuration. So all for now and we will see where the above will lead us.

                        

            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

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