Posted by kubalasek | Posted in news | Posted on 28-10-2006
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Somebody somewhere doesn’t want me to foil. Last Saturday I had wedding (but the race
was cancled with 30 knot winds), last sunday the wind died before we could go out,
today the wind was gusting to 30 knots and next week the fleet is all up at Toronto,
and I will be staying home with the family.
This is all starting to get extremely frustrating. On the plus side though, at least
I haven’t missed any club races.
Original post by Bruce McLeod and software by Elliott Back
Posted by kubalasek | Posted in Sailing | Posted on 23-10-2006
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After spending Sunday sanding, fitting,
measuring and adjusting my boat is now ready to foil again. The original plan was
to do some testing yesterday as well as setting up the boat, in what seemed like perfect
conditions, however as the breeze which started out at 25 knots in the morning faded
to a light breeze by the time I would have been ready to go.
Luka was on hand and helped considerably to alleviate the problems that I had
previously, and the foil now has around 2 degrees angle of attack on it the
right direction this time. To fit the foil I sliced up my old filler case and applied a
large amount of bog to the trailing edge, it now has a much tighter fit and is inserted
from the bottom, which should help significantly.
The next work item is to attack the gantry, and replace the bottom strut that is
simply wrong and needs replacing. (And rather quickly if this whole foiling thing
actually decides to work.)
Original post by Bruce McLeod and software by Elliott Back
Posted by kubalasek | Posted in news | Posted on 08-10-2006
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Yesterday was the first day back in the
boat for the 06-07 season, and we were greeted by a nice 15-18 knot NE breeze, (as
I write this there is a 30-45 knot southerly blowing). My total around the course
time was quite poor, but I had spurts of great speed when everything was hooked up.
Mark Wolny and I had a great match race in the non-foiling “division” with me beating
Mark in the end, only to finish the wrong way…
The other highlight was getting intimate with the reef at low tide that sat between
the club and the start line.
Original post by Bruce McLeod and software by Elliott Back
