Maintenance...
The tides will not be favourable for the next few days so we have dismantled the wing with a view to reinforcing a few areas and re-skinning the top surface. It appears that the African sun has weakened the thin, clear skins and that the UV has made them very brittle. If you just flick the surface with your finger it shatters and it crumbles in you hand when you 'scrunch' it up. The bottom skin seems OK.
So we will complete this today.
The next good tides will not be until later in the week.
We will use the week to continue detailing SailRocket. Tidy up all those little loose ends.
We have ben sailing the boat in pretty coarse trim as we have been focusing more on the general handling issues than the details of speed. I will probably do this for a couple more runs as I get used to raising the large low-speed rudder. I don't have fond memories of the last time I did this (the wipeout on Run 7) but then that was not caused by the rudder. I'm sure that the boat is now behaving much better. Malcolm believes that raising that rudder is good for 5 knots alone.
Ahhh, here comes Helena with the mornings coffee....
Cheers, Paul.
So we will complete this today.
The next good tides will not be until later in the week.
We will use the week to continue detailing SailRocket. Tidy up all those little loose ends.
We have ben sailing the boat in pretty coarse trim as we have been focusing more on the general handling issues than the details of speed. I will probably do this for a couple more runs as I get used to raising the large low-speed rudder. I don't have fond memories of the last time I did this (the wipeout on Run 7) but then that was not caused by the rudder. I'm sure that the boat is now behaving much better. Malcolm believes that raising that rudder is good for 5 knots alone.
Ahhh, here comes Helena with the mornings coffee....
Cheers, Paul.
posted by Paul at 8:20 am
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