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.)
Posted in: Foil Construction, News | October 23, 2006
