Just had a sneak preview of the recently launched ANNA LUCJA 2, two photographs in the recent  "Are two masts too much on a Cape Dory 28" thread.

Congratulations! She looks like a fascinating vessel that will attract interest wherever she goes. Sails look lovely too.

I should think a lot of people are waiting in anticipation of a full report and more photos.

Well done, Kris!

She looks beautifully built, and a gold mine of innovative ideas.

And I just love that look of pride and satisfaction in the second photo!

Look forward to the trials.

One thing puzzled me - I too am looking at twin rudders with lifting blades, but resiled from end plates on the blades. it strikes me that with twin rudders end plates may not be necessary, but the main issue for me was - does this mean the rudders have only two positions: fully up and fully down?

Good luck for launching day and future adventures.

PS I meant to add: I think you have done well with the tabernacle, just looking at those photographs from a previous post.

You have avoided any fastenings through the mast at that sensitive point - and avoided that horror of horrors, a pin through the mast. Your arrangement might look a litle frail, but it is not. You have realised that the hinge arrangement is used only for those few seconds when the mast is being raised or lowered, the rest of the time it is out of the picture, structurally. If an aluminium mast is to rotate on that axis (the top of the tabernmacle) something like that is the way to do it. The hinge pin should be mounted on the tabernacle, as you have done it, not on or through the mast.

There is a possibility too, that the pin could extend each side of the tabernacle (a bit like a bollard) and the clamp could be just a temporary square lashing. I haven't seen it done, but can't see why not.

I hope you will post more photos which will stimulate more comments from other readers.

Anonymous wrote:

Hi Kris,

Your new boat looks great!

I like the 'external' blocks of wood that you used to mount the threaded rods to the tabernacle. I had considered doing something similar. Was this part of the plans, or was this your personal touch?

Scott.

Scott, original plans are much simpler regarding masts. Wooden box-section wooden glued masts inserted from the top to the type of gully.  Since I want this boat to be an easy trailer-sailer  I decided on aluminum lamp posts and tabernacles. I planned based on what I could find in this JRA site adding some ideas of my own. In 90% I based on Annie Hill description and Oryx's tabernacles. I bought the idea of an external "hinge". The construction of mine is tricky, but it WORKS! The axe rod is only M8mm, as it works only when collapsing the mast. In the tabernacle there are pieces of adequate size pipe epoxied in. Other, holding, rods are M10.

Kris wrote:

My ANNA LUCJA 2 ( CARABELA 650) is finally out of the shop and tabernacles are stepped. I would love to try her sailing before winter. 

Congratulations on getting the boat completed to this stage. We look forward to seeing photos of the boat in the water, and hearing how your new rig works out. But the hard work is done and this is the fun part.

I can't think of a reason to make the two sails with different camber, but I can think of practical reasons to keep them the same.

The after sail needs to be sheeted in more, but I don't think that has any connection with the amount of camber.