Saturday was the first day back on the water for 2007, and my last in Virtual Reality. Conditions were perfect, and in a somewhat fitting farewell, I had a huge crash, caused by the front hydrofoil coming out of the water at full height.
Before the session I made some more tweaks to my centreboard flap control and some gantry angle changes. The boat was further improved, but still no threat to a new prowler.
After the race, the boat went through a conversion reversal, with all the wand, cable and other bits and pieces being kept for the new boat.
John Gilmour is making excellent progress with the male plug for the new “St. George one design foiler moth”, and he has now started on the foredeck mould.
Posted in: News | January 21, 2007
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:43 am
Hey Bruce,
The end of an era? Where’s VR floating off to?
It’s great to see that John & Mark are making so much progress and I’m really impressed with how the hull plug has turned out - I can’t wait until the moulds are done and the hulls get under way - mine’s #3 after John and Mark do their hulls. Fastacraft have started work on John’s and my foils - guess it’s about time to start thinking about paint schemes
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Who came up with the design name “StGeorge OneDesign FoilerMoth”? Not exactly catchy, given the slick fascades of the “Bladerider”, “Prowler” and “Hungry Tiger”… I think we need to come up with a shortlisting of names to formally christen the design before the first boat has it’s keel laid - I nominate “Marauder”.
cheers,
Jon
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