Wednesday 27 July 2011

Farr 3.7 forsale

No not mine :-)... Howden's in New Zealand have a boat which was built on spec for sale. The hull is glassed on the outside and sanded back ready for painting, resin sealed on the deck ready for clear coat varnishes, Epoxy sealed in the cockpit and sanded back ready for paint, internally it has been sealed with three coats of epoxy sealer. The mast step is fitted, chain-plates and bow handle are fitted, alloy transom cross beam is fitted and the hull to this stage weighs 42.8kgs, min weight is 50 kgs. The asking price is $8756 NZD which is roughly £4648. Anyone interested go to the links page and contact Andrew Howden or send me a email / message / comment and I will forward it to him.





Sunday 24 July 2011

Light and Patchy



I was hoping for better weather for trapezing but the wind didn't live up to the forecast. 13knts was the forecast but is never really made it much past 8knts. The lake is also starting to weed up. Which didn't help. I'm also at the top of the weight range at 75kg ( which is an incentive to lose some weight ). 10kg less would be much better. In an attempt to actually show some trapezeing I went on the wire in as many of the gusts as possible, resulting in the inevitable! :) But at least getting wet shows how easy righting from a capsize is!

Monday 4 July 2011

Video rig

We had no wind this weekend. So I set about making a video rig as I'm sure lots of people are interested in seeing some video of how the 3.7 goes in this country. I have a waterproof bullet camera from some earlier sailing video experiments so I dug this out.


And set about making a boom arm for it (see pic). In the past I've always suffered from not being able to attach the camera particularly well to the boat. This situation gets worse when you add a big lever arm in the shape of a boom. As what ever you have used to tie the camera boom on with tends not to be man enough. And slowly droops or falls off! Not good. As I was scouring the house for something suitable, I saw my sons drum kit and had a brain wave. A Drum rack clamp! Perfect for attaching to the transom bar and holding my bullet camera boom at 90˚. Now all we have to do is pray for some wind!