Ok, ok .. I know I should do all the boring stuff first like carboning the deck, but I just couldn’t help myself and moved onto some fun stuff like installing my wand tube. I finally caught up with Luka, over lunch this week and we discussed a few ideas on what I should do after the Bladerider blitzkrieg in Garda.

With this boat I have tried to ensure that there is strength, adjustability and a good development platform to evolve and adjust setup, whilst allowing for changes in the future, such as new foils if required.

The teleflex cable has been replaced in by a carbon rod in a tube that runs from the front bulkhead to the bow, combining the systems used by Phil Stevenson on “Tiger on a chain”, with those on the Bladerider plus a trick or two of my own.

I also tried and measured the difference in cable movement between a straight “Bladerider” wand and my existing “Prowler” wand. The results were interesting with the straight one having 50mm of movement, and the bent one having 32mm. So a straight wand will be added to my build list.

Just for kicks I put my old teleflex cable on the new boat in the approximate position just to see where the foil position was on my old boat. As you can see it was a loooooooong way back, compared to where the case is in the new boat.

Tomorrow I will be carboning the deck, and molding up a foredeck using John’s foredeck mould.