Zane wrote:

Fiji, awesome. Slight thread drift - don't register her as 'NZ Ship' then, because the whole Cat 1 thing runs against the spirit or "ethos" of how you have voyaged offshore in all your years of sailing, and I can't see you changing your ways to meet a checklist of what they need. Plus it is $1K to register, and needs to be renewed after only 5 years, and they whack you with another thousand to renew.  

The so-called Cat 1 alone would be enough to stop me registering as a Kiwi.  I don't really want to sail under another flag, but I don't see that I have much choice.  It's not a matter of finances - well, not only - it's a matter of principle.  And I do have some. Frankly, I don't think I have a right to wander off across the ocean and then expect someone to bail me out when it turns to custard.  I am certainly not going to be forced into a situation where I have to load down my boat with rescue equipment.

If all else fails, I'll get my brother to register the boat in the UK.

Anonymous wrote:

  I may yet take this boat up to Fiji, 

Fiji, awesome. Slight thread drift - don't register her as 'NZ Ship' then, because the whole Cat 1 thing runs against the spirit or "ethos" of how you have voyaged offshore in all your years of sailing, and I can't see you changing your ways to meet a checklist of what they need. Plus it is $1K to register, and needs to be renewed after only 5 years, and they whack you with another thousand to renew.  

And here is a hinge-free alternative, Annie  -  a straight 1:1 scale copy of Ingeborg rigs. I just couldn’t let be. Its’ a bit bad form to jump in like this, but I happen to know that this rig works. With ample halyard drift, like here, one is free to shift this sail quite a bit fore or aft until the helm balance is right.

I learned yesterday from David that...

«Arne's postings on his rigs are often about how you need to do "thus" and "thus" to the YHP and THP and LHP and HKP to get them to set well.»

That may have been true in the days of Johanna. Since her mast was a bit too short, and since the sail had to be forced aft of its natural position to avoid lee helm, quite big forces landed on those running parrels.

This has changed a lot with Frøken Sørensen and now with Ingeborg. With ample halyard drift, which lets me move the slingpoint aft of the middle, and the YHP point even further aft and up (2/3 up), and now, after shifting the whole sail of Ingeborg forward to 13-15% balance, the forces in the parrels have become very light. Moreover, I don’t have to touch them underway, except when reefing and un-reefing. My THP is just the LHP which has been moved up to the top of the luff. The HK parrels are lightly loaded and only do small corrections as our sailing changes between upwind and downwind. These are set up at the first rigging of the sail, and then forgotten about.

Anyway, don’t lose focus on building the boat. It is not time for worrying about rigs yet.

Keep up the very good work, I’m impressed what you can do!

Arne

  

Annie, thinking more about your rig, which is currently a kind of low AR Weaverbird planform, and the possibility of adding hinges with flat (ter) sail panels, here's something that would work. Two 10˚ hinges at 45% and 50% of chord, with the sail absolutely flat aft of 50% and with sewn-in camber forward of 50% (since I know that you're not afraid of making shelves, I'd suggest doing it this way, but tucks or broad seam would be equally valid).

I've posted again on my blog.  Here is a bit of bling, for those who like boats that aren't white, shiny plastic, inside and out!