Leeboards. What every self-respecting, teenage boy can explain to you about the front wheels of a car, applies identically to leeboards: For optimum performance the boards must have camber, caster and toe-in.
They are up to 20 percent more effective than a centerboard. It allows for shorter boards. They never jam. They are easier to maintain and to repair in case of damage. Recreation. We provide a range of great outdoor recreation facilities for the community to enjoy, attracting more than 2.7 million visitors to our lakes and recreation sites each year.
Seqwater strives to balance the ongoing health of the catchments and quality of the region’s drinking water supply while providing access to a range of water-based and on-shore activities at our dams, lakes and parks. We are one of the few bulk water providers in Australia that manages open catchments, allowing the community to enjoy recreational activities on the dams and lakes that supply our drinking water. A variety of activities, including boating, swimming and fishing are permitted, to try and cater to differing community requests.
Not all activities are possible at all locations - our activities guide will give you an overview of where activities are allowed and which activities require a permit. We encourage visitors to learn basic first aid, and carry a first aid and snake bite kit. Home Built Boat Rally at Barton Turf. Hi Ian, sounds like the rig is working better now.
This is why I think the clip-on leeboard is better suited to someone steering with a paddle as apposed to using a rudder. The clip-on leeboard can be moved which allows you to fine tune the weather helm, whereas a pivoting leeboard doesn't. Depending on conditions and the type of tack your on, the position of the leeboard changes.Sticking a rudder into the water miles behind the rig and leeboard cancels out the need to fine tune the leeboard position. As for dates, I'm fairly easy as long as I have a little notice to sort out the work diary. Jim Michalak's Boat Designs/The Index. LEEBOARD ISSUES THE VERY BASICS...
I've covered sizing and placing of leeboards in previous issues that you can find down in the Way Back Issues link. But to recap, the things you might remember are that the immersed area of the board should be about 4% of the sail area, and that the leeboard must be mounted at the hull's widest beam in order to be in flow parallel to the boat's motion. The suggestion on area would apply to any board such as a centerboard or a daggerboard (but those boards need not be limited to mounting at the boat's widest beam). Lastly, the sail area has to be aligned with its sail area center right above the center of the board's area, more or less.
Rig advice for MacGregor sailing canoe: Probably the most tricky part about the lug rig is getting the battens right, and expect that it may take some experimentation.
Their function on this sail is not really to pre-shape the camber under tension (as they would on something like a Hobie Cat or sailboard) but rather to simply support that big mainsail roach, which would collapse without them and hopefully, do it without screwing up the rest of the sail's shape. To a somewhat lesser extent, the full battens can also make reefing the sails easier.As far as reefing goes, the basic style of these old fully battened canoe sails is a throw-back to the old cotton sail days.
Pointing up wind. You may want to adjust your leeboard angles or the position of the leeboard bracket so that they tend to produce a little bit of weather-helm (boards moved forward just a bit).
This may help increase your pointing angle through hull/water interaction a bit and it's also a pretty good idea from a safety aspect. Should you fall out or for some reason become incapacitated (too much beer?) Lines recomended for Old town rig. No, you aren't crazy.
You're actually on track toward a system that works much better than the typical mid-boom sheeting. The halyard on a lateen doesn't really matter much. SKINNY HULL Vol 1 No. 1 by Edward Maurer. Foil FAQ. The basic NACA section profiles are "symmetrical" so they are good for rudders, especially, but also leeboards, daggerboards and centerboards.
These are called the "four-digit" series and are identified by the name "NACA 00XX". Look at your board end-on (in other words, a fish-eye view from underwater). The Y dimension is measured in both directions from an imaginary centerline through your board. It gives you both thickness and curvature. Building Belle: Making the birdsmouth mast and more.
Ross Lillistone Wooden Boats: Getting a Consistent Taper when Shaping Spars. Mike has attached a comment to my last posting, which I will answer very briefly.
He is Mike's comment: - Thanks for sharing these insights into boat building Ross. Something I'm having trouble with is getting a consistent taper on a small diameter spar perhaps you could share some gems with us. Ross Lillistone Wooden Boats: Assembling a "Bird's Mouth" Hollow Mast. Most of the masts that I make are built hollow using the so called "Bird's Mouth" technique.
This is just a development of a vast range of similar methods used over many hundreds of years, but it is particularly suited to this day and age - mainly because of tilting-arbor table saws and power routers being readily available. In this series of photos, I'll just show some basic steps in the assembly process. Fenwick Williams Caboat in Cedar Strip - Michael Storer Boat Plans. The performance and building stuff in a moment, but some lurve for the builder and owners first. David Wilson, who mostly works at Duck Flat Wooden Boats is about the best boatbuilder I know.
A strong sense of aesthetics plus a practical streak. It means that every individual detail of the boats he builds are perfect to look at and usually work very well too. This particular project was undertaken as a partnership between David Wilson and Winemaker Rob O'Callaghan of Rockford's Winery (champion of old vines in the Barossa and the wonderful Basket Press Shiraz). The catboat has taken several years in the building as more urgent work kept being put to the top of the queue, but this is a real "Gold Plater" as Phil Bolger would say, or a special vintage in Rob O'Callaghan's language Everything is simple, which is appropriate given the workboat background of Cape Cod Catboats, but it all works very well indeed.
Q&A Birdsmouth Masts - Michael Storer Boat Design. Birdsmouth masts are a really neat method of making a hollow round or elliptical mast. The mast is made of staves which have a 90 degree notch cut out of the stave's side with a router or using a table saw. For a round mast, identical staves are made up then held together with cable ties, plastic tape or hose clamps while the glue sets up. Bird's Mouth Spars revisited. Introduction A few months ago, an interesting article on bird's mouth spars was published right here, at Duckworks. The author, David Farless, presented a series of equations to accurately calculate the size of such a construction. This has inspired me to study this subject in greater depth. In this article, we will explore some of the limits and potentials of bird's mouth spars. You will also be provided with tools to let your computer do the size calculations for you.
Duckworks Magazine. ... and Other Wooden Masts and Spars From time to time we are asked make masts, spinnker poles and the like. Our largest spar set to date was for an Italian Schooner that hit trouble when en route to Cape Town along Africas East Coast. The yacht was some 70 feet long and in a heavy Carvel Planked timber construction, so quite a large boat.
SMALL CRAFT WARNING: The Matinicus Double Ender- Part 21. Canoe/Kayak Rudder Gudgeons. Brass Flat BAR 25 4mm X 1 59mm X 300mm Long. Practical Canoeing - Tiphys: Chapter 4. Stowe Canoe Restoration. Dragonfly Canoe Works Sailing Canoe Hardware. Many folks are surprised to hear that a canoe can be sailed. Indeed, it was quite popular, and canoe sailing has seen a resurgance in popularity in recent years. Old Town canoes are by far the most common wooden canoe encountered, and Old Town offered sail rigs for their canoes continuously starting in 1908 and continuing through 1978. As a canoe restorer, I am often asked about the bits and pieces that are used to set up an Old Town canoe for sail, so I have put this guide together to help describe Old Town sailing rigs. Goat Island Skiff (GIS) - systems for lug sails and rigs - Michael Storer Woo...
The picture above is of Peter Hyndmans GIS "Gruff" which is now 12 years old. Everything is original too - showing how cheap lug rigs are to run. The pictures below are also of Peter's boat. Hiawatha Sailing Canoe. Open Canoe Sailing Group. Subscribe to our mailing list for news of upcoming meets and events. Enter your details below: Making Balance Lugs faster 2013 – setting up sails, spars and rigging. WIKI for setting up and tuning Lug and Sprit Rigs. Lug Rigs for Small Sailboats. By John C. HarrisApril 2012. Caledonia Yawl Sailing.
Side Boat Loader - How It Works. Sailing Canoe Spraydeck. My sailing canoe and its features. Www.bccanoe.co.za. Location: Langebaan, South Africa. Fuji saiko part1. The "Any Canoe" Sail Kit from SailboatsToGo on Old Town and Coleman Canoes. John Floutier Sailing Canoes. Canoe and boat building : a complete manual for amateurs... : Stephens, William Picard. eBook and Texts > California Digital Library > Canoe and boat building : a complete manual for amateurs... View the book. Practical Canoeing : "Tiphys" A thousand miles in the Rob Roy canoe on rivers...