New Boat Build

[kerrgreg]

Hi Phil,

Looks good, could you share how you made that spinnaker snout and what the dimensions are?

Thanks!

[Phil Alderson]

For the chute I glued together two rectangles approx 20cm wide of 8mm foam into a slightly flattened arc that stretched across the boat. Loads of clamps were used as normal. Once it was set I cut the fwd section into a curve. The pic below shows some of the foam that I cut out.


After that I bonded it to the hull, added some bits of filler to help round out some areas sanded it into a smooth shape before covering with Carbon. I tried to keep all the corners with wide radius where the kite is likely to contact on drops.


The hull is about 30cm wide where the hoop is, and the hoop is about 20cm above the deck.


I also bonded some tube to the gunwale to increase the radius to make it eisier to get back in after a trawl.

[Phil Alderson]

I have been working hard on the boat, and just have not been sitting down infront of a computer. Mostly I have been wearing out loads of sandpaper, and making big piles of dust. It does not make for a very photogenic boat.



However I have started putting together some shiny things to get away from the dust

[Phil Alderson]

The boat is now looking quite shiny, it is now painted,

Some fittings are going on,

I am now doing alot of splicing and tying, and hoping that all the hard points I glued on are in the right places.

[Clive Everest]

Fantastic.

[Neil C.]

Looks like a total weapon. Fantastic!

[kerrgreg]

Looking great Phil!

[Phil Alderson]

Thanks,  I am getting quite excited about getting on the water I have picked up the rig so it is getting closer.

Phil

[JP233]

Saw that when i was at PinBax. I now have mast envy!

[Phil Alderson]

On Sunday Afternoon I got Zero Gravitas complete enough to go sailing 



There was not much wind, it got up enough to single wire, but that was probably enough for a first sail. Learned loads, and have a bunch of little tweaks to do but a very successful first sail. The mast is very nice P&B did a great job of finishing it off the sails fit well and look great.

[pratn0]

very nice.

[Neil C.]

Woohoo! Congratulations Phil and Carol. Looks brilliant.

[roland_trim]

Well done guys

[JP233]

Phil, couple of questions for you.

What layup did you use for your daggerboards?
I hope to be rescuing some moulds, just looking for a starting point really.

Also the flip flop cleat set up you have on the top of the stump; a+e has the jib here. You have two cleats, what controls do you have here?

[paul_croote]

Looks very nice, Good job!