Congratulations, Annie,
I hope Fanshi will serve you well.
As for the way webbing has been used at the mast top, I share Ueli’s nagging worry: There will be a very sharp bend and then the halyard will pull to this and that side as the sail swings about. This could lead to high point loads at the edge of the webbing. You know I used similar mast tops on my Broremann and Frøken Sørensen ( photo below), but these boats were after all only meant for pottering around on the fjord.

I see Asmat has made the ultimate sunhat from a discarded fender  -  a mighty good idea.

The trouble you got with ss. bolts on Fantail’s mast top, stems mainly from less than good engineering: An eyebolt protruding from a mast like Fantail’s, is not meant for taking cyclic bending loads from a halyard. Such loads will put very high strain on the top edge of the bolt (and maybe even there were threads there as well?). After a while, the metal may stress-harden and fail. Stainless is particularly vulnerable to stress hardening  -  a cheaper, galvanized bolt would probably have fared better.  Actually, the optimal use of a bolt is to keep it under tension where the whole cross section of it works in unison.

Cheers, and good luck,
Arne

congratulations for fanshi – she looks great!
thanks for sharing the pictures (and her whole development anyway…)

there is one point, i'm not sure about: the webbing which is partly soaked with epoxy resin could develop a weak spot in the small stress area where it changes from epoxy stiffened to flexible. i would keep this webbing under regular inspection, at least at the beginning. (or did anyone try this epoxy-webbing thing before?)

can't wait to see her in the water…

ueli

Truly beautiful and inspirational Annie.

Anonymous wrote:

But the pink. No. Just no. There are too many colours. White would have worked. Perhaps salmon, peach or apricot would have worked. But not a horribly, gruesomely inappropriate chemical pink.  

Annie wrote:

I am dying to know what David will think about his creation, now that he can see her properly.

What does David think?

It isn't my creation, it's yours, Annie. I just provided the bare bones of the shape of the boat, and you have put the flesh on those bones, creating a wonderful piece of work that is yours, all yours, and really is something to be proud of. The overall appearance, and the craft work that has gone into the build are all that I hoped that they'd be.

Fanshi is going to be a head turner, when she's afloat, no doubt about it. Those dragons, the black, red, yellow and aqua paint job ...

But the pink. No. Just no. There are too many colours. White would have worked. Perhaps salmon, peach or apricot would have worked. But not a horribly, gruesomely inappropriate chemical pink.  

But that's only what I think. What the proud owner thinks is what matters. Congratulations, Annie!