Oryx

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  • 28 Jul 2012 04:11
    Reply # 1024183 on 1004194
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    It helps to have built a boat before though. If I was to build this one again (the Badger we are onto now), I'd probably save a year at least. Doing it for the first time is like building and designing at the same time. Means second guessing every saw cut I make.
  • 28 Jul 2012 01:47
    Reply # 1024069 on 1004194
    I just heard from Pete today, that Oryx has been launched.  No doubt he'll be posting his own photos, so I won't preempt him.  Suffice it to say that she looks as beautifully built as all his other boats. 

    Don't worry about his being fast, Gary.  When Pete is building he is totally obsessed, he has been building full time and as his missus has been working half the time overseas, he will have been able to concentrate on the boat to the excluson of everything else - even more than he normally would!

    He is talking about sailing trials next week - should be very interesting, with his unusual variation on the rig.
  • 12 Jul 2012 14:26
    Reply # 1007050 on 1004194
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    He is fast!
  • 11 Jul 2012 18:56
    Reply # 1005877 on 1004194
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    Pete just passed the two year mark in June.
  • 11 Jul 2012 14:24
    Reply # 1005683 on 1004194
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    Mark, thanks for putting up pics of the Oryx.
    Do you happen know how many years Pete has taken for this build?
  • 10 Jul 2012 13:50
    Message # 1004194

    I was visiting Devon last week and Pete Hill kindly treated me to a look around of Oryx and a chat and good mug of coffee.

    She is looking excellent with a superb finish.  Pete thinks he is still a couple of weeks away from launching.  It will be a busy fortnight,  mainly deck gear, hatches etc still to be fitted to the hull together with masts installing and rig assembling.

    The half wishbone - split -rig was explained and now understood.  On thinking about it later I have a couple of comments (if I dare to do so to such a seasoned sailor):

    - The jiblet is attached to a its own half wishbone, which pivots on a bolt at the front with the main wishbone.  I did think this would be better as a more flexible joint (ie webbing) as there may be a significant twisting from the down haul.

    - The sail is actually to one side of the mast,  a point I had not realised.  With the mast to windward of the sail, it will be more efficient than with the mast to leeward.  (When to leeward it is both where it disturbs the flow on the back of the sail, which is the most important,  and it also sits in the slot between jiblet and main.)  I did not ask Peter, but as it is a side, by side rig, each could have the half wishbone on the outboard side, such that the widward rig has the more efficient mast-sail handing. See sketch in photo album

    I very much look forward to hearing how Oryx performs, with its unusual and unique sail and also the hulls which use winglets, and no centreboard / keel.

    I have put a few photos of the visit in my profile - photograph album.  Unfortunely, with the tent still in place not easy to get a good shot.

    Mark Thomasson

     

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