Anonymous wrote:

Hi Rael!

I sympathize with you! I hope you manage to repair the damage and that the flooded hull withstood the load?

Keep junking!

Thanks Jan. No damage to the hulls, only a mess and stolen things....

I will be back to sail making this week, trying to use the sideways dart system that you showed me.... May the Force be with us, hope your sail is coming along better than mine.....

Keep Junking my friend, 

Thanks for the welcome winter advice....

Hi all, no sail making this time, getting back to that this week. Material is here, a 150 gsm ripstop polyester, may the Force be with me....

Today on the job, assembling kitchen cabinets I made, and a story of progress...

Progress is learning how to deal with the Dark Side... My Proa had been raped in Greece, they broke the lock, stole what they fancied... Left her hatches open, so rain water is welcome in... One hatch is gone, had to make a temporary one, now making the new real one...

Drove 1100 km to her, got sad, did what could be done and drove eleven hundred back.

Anyway, on the job, sail making next.

Keep Junking, and shunting...

Balkan Shipyards

https://youtube.com/shorts/Mw_lm5h4z30?si=2ttEW-0DGQHCkjqq

Anonymous wrote:Ha! I see you have a practically professional "wind tunnel" ;).

My "wind tunnel" is the "nozzle system" between the buildings near the garage. I have to wait until Sunday, it's supposed to be windy this afternoon. (This panel is just for testing, made from scraps.)

keep junking, Aloha !

Hey Jan, Sorry for the late reply...

Great comment, yes! a high tech wind tunnel it is.... But your is better, yours is free and it will always work! Mine? depends on energy that is getting more and more expensive...

I will have to invest in in a "Green" Tunnel like yours... Nice camber in your SJR, Beautiful panel, looks like you know what you are doing, unlike me....

Keep Junking man

The Force is with U

Images below show my latest model, still place for improvements...

Top panels are hard polyester sail cloth 160 gsm. I like this for the top panels because I hope the hard cloth, will hold a better and flatter shape, vs stretchy material that tends to cup at the leech... Also harder and stronger panels at the top for storm sails. I wouldn't use hard cloth at the bottom since reefing will be a problem, but these are top panels triangle shaped, so very little material is squashed between mast and front lazy jack, so I think 'Bermuda' sail cloth could work well....

Panel number 3 has good shape, here it doesn't show, since the hard Dacron of panel number 2 is twisting the batten slightly deforming the top camber of panel 3... If I slightly turn that batten the panel looks perfect like number 4 does.

Number 5 at the bottom is the longest, the deepest and the ugliest... 

Keep Junking

Balkan Shipyards 

Hi Rael!

The sail looks great!  I wonder if it could be flatter closer to the leech?

When will you be testing it? "My" lake is still covered in ice.