Anonymous wrote:

Hi Mauro,

That looks quite clever! Nice idea! 

Did you ever feel the need to close the sides?

Cheers,

Paul

Thank you Paul!

I find your solution much smarter…

Anyway the tent can be lowered by sliding the tubes in the holding pipes fixed to the stanchion. This can be made on one side making the tent assimetrical and improving a little bit the shadow when the sun shines from one side..anyway I’m thinking to add side triangles :)

cheers

Mauro

Hi Paul, beautiful ideas!

I’ve also made a sun tent for my little kingfisher with leftovers of odyssey III…

Have a nice cruising in the north on your beautifully rigged Maxi, I follow your lovely made blog…

Buon vento

Mauro 

Anonymous wrote:

Another small leftover-project: chave-resistant slings for mooring at trees or stones.

As I had some dozens of meters of 50 mm PES webbing and some thick, chafe-resistang pvc cloth (batten pockets at the mast) leftover, I thought that might be useful. The webbing I cut to 3-4 m length, and sewed 10 cm wide eyes on both sides. All enveloped in the pvc cloth and sewn together. Quickly done, costs next to nothing and has a huge effect on safe mooring.

Sits perfectly on a tree, while protecting the bark due to its 50 mm with. Sits also perfectly on a stone, with the pvc preventing any chave.

Perfect for mooring in the wild!

Paul,

of course  -  both you and your boat are very different from me and my boat.

First of all, I am four or five notches smaller than you, and actually, I rounded 70 this Easter, so when I raise Ingeborg’s sail (..same size as yours...), that job calls for my full attention.

Secondly, Ingeborg is an IF, and is very different from the fin-keeled boats I used to have. These could be tamed simply by shoving the tiller fully to leeward (like Ilvy). Ingeborg’s rudder cannot be squared off like that, and besides, her trim lines and big keel area makes her set off each time the sail fills a little. Even the little friction in the sheet is enough to produce some drive. That drogue (..or a mate at the tiller...) is needed to keep her from picking up speed and then tack, if she feels for it.

I once sailed in a friend’s IF; one with the original rig. When we tried to heave to with a backed working jib and the tiller locked to leeward, she would hunt about quite a bit, and finally pick up enough speed to tack against her backed jib. Only after we took a reef in the main, did she heave to correctly, making next to no speed, and with a constant pointing angle.

I find that the behaviour of  different but similar-sized boats varies a lot more than the behaviour of our cars.

Arne

Paul,

in case you are itching to produce more useful stuff, maybe this parachute drogue is something for you?

It was primarily built to prevent my Ingeborg from taking off while I hoisted sail in the limited space outside my harbour.

Later, I found it to be a good way to heave to without a windvane or autopilot. I just reef to 2-4 panels, then tie the drogue to the lee or weather quarter and finally lock the tiller to leeward.

I guess a 0.20sqm drogue would be plenty big enough for your boat.

Cheers,
Arne

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