I am far from current on the active dinghy classes.
The hull seems to have a rocket launcher on the bow.
The crew will get their exercise, and stay young and spry (just like a 20-year old)!
Have fun! I await the reveal…..
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I am far from current on the active dinghy classes.
The hull seems to have a rocket launcher on the bow.
The crew will get their exercise, and stay young and spry (just like a 20-year old)!
Have fun! I await the reveal…..
Ants
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Can't remember a Jet Ski having swept back spreaders. And what's the thing sticking up in the middle? Pray tell, a daggerboard? Tell us you didn't really drive Connie's Prius 800 miles to WA state to buy a Snipe?
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Philpott
Cal 2-27 Dura Mater
If this is a quiz and there is macapuno at the end of it, I finally know the answer.
I'm guessing your new 15 footer, never launched, singlehander has a jib boom like SURPRISE! once had. But no mizzen, ha! OK1? When is the christening?
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BobJ
Alerion 38 "Surprise!"
This is a beautifully designed and built singlehander's dinghy. There are 184 of them in the UK and two in Australia. There's only one in the U.S. and as Sled states it was never launched - everything is still in its wrappers. It's going to be a blast putting it together and sailing it. Here's a teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7OejfxgRMI&t=1s
As to how this came about... it was kismet.
The K1 dinghy is remarkably stable in breeze and looks to be nearly impossible to turtle. Here is a capsize with the skipper doing everything wrong, yet he still rights and boards his boat, from the leeward side yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyNm6KOwkPM
Though I would question that it is "gusting 35 knots", here's a short video of rig, launch, sail, and haul a K1 from/to dry storage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1GKhmK3XcI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyNm6KOwkPM
Though I would question that it is "gusting 35 knots", here's a short video of rig, launch, sail, and haul a K1 from/to dry storage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1GKhmK3XcI
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The K1 is a delightful little keelboat passing off as a dinghy. I can see where the boat generates a lot of attention.
It seems you have the only K1 in North America. Do have some general ideas on how to get more boats locally after a few sails gets the attention of others.
Inverness Yacht Club has their portsmouth (?) rating that would handicap the K1 against other small boats.
Looking forward to gopro footage from your helmet!
Ants
It seems you have the only K1 in North America. Do have some general ideas on how to get more boats locally after a few sails gets the attention of others.
Inverness Yacht Club has their portsmouth (?) rating that would handicap the K1 against other small boats.
Looking forward to gopro footage from your helmet!
Ants
Last evening on my sunset walk to the Fossil Cliff something arose from clear and empty sky to the southeast. It took a moment to figure out what I was seeing: a rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB, 200 miles south. Though I couldn't see the slivery space ship at that distance, the thin white line separated and became a large bright cloud in the sky reflecting off the last of the sun's rays.
Returning to CBC I checked the Vandenberg report and realized I had seen a Space-X Falcon 9 rocket launch carrying 22 Starlink satellites into orbit. It reminded me 47 years ago that Voyager was launched into outer space. And is still going, even communicating back to Earth at an astronomical distance into deep space.
For a treat at CBC, can anyone name the navigator for Voyager who designed the solution of aiming the NASA rocket around planets in our solar system, using their gravitational pull to sling shot Voyager on its epic voyage. Hint; both he and his family sailed and raced out of Inverness YC. And the tradition continues...
Returning to CBC I checked the Vandenberg report and realized I had seen a Space-X Falcon 9 rocket launch carrying 22 Starlink satellites into orbit. It reminded me 47 years ago that Voyager was launched into outer space. And is still going, even communicating back to Earth at an astronomical distance into deep space.
For a treat at CBC, can anyone name the navigator for Voyager who designed the solution of aiming the NASA rocket around planets in our solar system, using their gravitational pull to sling shot Voyager on its epic voyage. Hint; both he and his family sailed and raced out of Inverness YC. And the tradition continues...
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The navigator was an extremely talented scientist with a slide rule and a working knowledge of celestial navigation.
In my first college physics class in ‘67, we calculated the trajectory of a rocket with the objective of hitting the moon. My first introduction to computers was a machine that key punched cards that gave directions to the computer. The 20-40 cards would have to be in the correct order. The cards were dropped off and someone would feed them into the computer. Most of the time, an error report would be received. A success would be a tabulation of numbers with results of multiplying 6x7, 6x8, 6 x 9, etc.
We kept using the slide rulers until the first Hewlett Packard hand held calculators came out a year or two later.
Ants
In my first college physics class in ‘67, we calculated the trajectory of a rocket with the objective of hitting the moon. My first introduction to computers was a machine that key punched cards that gave directions to the computer. The 20-40 cards would have to be in the correct order. The cards were dropped off and someone would feed them into the computer. Most of the time, an error report would be received. A success would be a tabulation of numbers with results of multiplying 6x7, 6x8, 6 x 9, etc.
We kept using the slide rulers until the first Hewlett Packard hand held calculators came out a year or two later.
Ants
MAGICdreamer
New member
Rocket plume
I pondered the differences between our sailing south along the Baja coast engine-less, with sextant, compass and clock, 'lo, those many years ago - and now seeing a "routine" rocket launch, which navigates taking in even quantum mechanics to be accurate.
Glad you saw it.
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As it happened, Skip, I took Vicky's iPad out onto the driveway to watch the launch online as well as to then see it climb out. Launch was 1928 PDT. (Just 13 minutes after official sunset) I watched the broadcast with one eye and looked southeast with the other. H.E. was 194'. A bright orange plume jumped into view on a bearing of 163 M, clearing the nearest of the Irish hills, distant 4,920 ' , elevation 725'. It was somewhat surreal to be watching it go up while the iPad had a feed from the rocket looking down at the surf-highlighted shoreline. We could see the stage separation as well as when the booster began to boost back toward its planned landing on the barge west of Cedros Island.
I pondered the differences between our sailing south along the Baja coast engine-less, with sextant, compass and clock, 'lo, those many years ago - and now seeing a "routine" rocket launch, which navigates taking in even quantum mechanics to be accurate.
Glad you saw it.
The MAGICians
Hey Sled, So thoughtful of you to think of my dear father, Alexander Bratenahl, who was the navigator of Voyager I. In those days, he had no computer or other electronic help either, and- not unlike the compass and sextant that I grew up with- he had only longhand mathematical calculations to work with. When I congratulated him on it he brushed it off as " Just Engineering " He went on to work on Solar Flares and magnetic fields. He was a very good sailor !
New boat for Jay: A 56 foot Viking boat built by Jay Smith of Anacortes over a 12 year period and launched yesterday at Skyline Marina. Big pieces of wood (oak & yellow cedar). She will have a sailing rig as well as twin electric inboard engines. Coast Guard approved. Quite an amazing job with a bit more tonnage than BobJ's new K1 dinghy
Also a very skillful job by Associated Boat Transport driver who had to back down a long, narrow, tortuous gravel driveway and position the trailer perfectly underneath the shop roof (one corner disassembled). Lots of tree branch trimming on the way out.
This might be the vessel for a "raid." She could carry the entire SSS Forum, and then some up the Napa River. Ants, you're in charge.
photo by Vernon Lauridsen who volunteered many hours over the years in the construction.
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Intermission
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Dang! That sounds fun! Sign me up!
Well, that certainly is exciting. Sure, I will help Raid the Napa River. Quanci and Lovely help would be appreciated.
Thanks Skip for your connections and information that does not make it to Bodfish directly.
Ants
Maybe the nest race is the R2AK ? Ya never know- just sayin'
In a significant win for the hometown, the Coast Guard announced last night they would not proceed with the removal of Santa Cruz's iconic and historical Mile Buoy (124 years). The plan was to replace the buoy with a dot on an electronic chart, not a great idea for the many who use Mile Buoy, it's light and moaning sound, for local bearings, navigation, and recreational paddling, rowing, and sailing.
In a county divided on a lot of issues, I've never seen such prolific lobbying to keep our red and white buoy, including by O'Neill Sea Odyssey, the cities of Santa Cruz and Capitola, the Santa Cruz Yacht Club, Port District, and hundreds, if not thousands of boat owners, ocean recreators, beach walkers, and residents.
As the bumpersticker on Milly's truck says, "PLAN ON IMPROVISING.' With this in mind, sleddog over the years has taken many different tacks to coach, practice, and improve boat and sailhandling. Readers of this blog will recall to practice downwind spinnaker drill, gybing, twin jibs, mainsail reefing on a run in breeze, etc. sleddog would stern tie WILDFLOWER to a buoy off the Santa Cruz Wharf to practice his footwork for the SHTP and Pac Cups. No worries about traffic or running out of runway!
Recently at Inverness YC we tried a variation: Sally S. was getting in her licks with Laser boathandling in S to SE 4-10 knots when the breeze faded to 0-3 and the ebb increased to 2 knots, risking flushing Sally's Laser out Tomales Bay.
With Sally aboard, sleddog tied her Laser bow and stern to the IYC floats, And with a masthead line led ashore through a turning block, sleddog could heel Sally's Laser to any angle so she could practice hiking and sail trim.
I'm sure there are dozens, if not hundreds of improvisations practiced by resourceful readers...
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More Improvisation:
As kids, we loved to practice flying and trimming the spinnaker on the family Cal-30 COCHISE. A flat calm never stopped us. In fact, it made us even more sensitive. Often, we'd fly free-fly the spinnaker without a pole, something I practice to this day in the 110 Class. How'd we do that, practice spinnaker technique in no wind?
When Double-Handing the Wylie-60 ROXANNE we experimented with an interesting spinnaker hoist method for the 1998 PacCup. It involved no effort on our part, no electric winch or motor, no block and tackle, no bungee or giant wheel. In fact, the method didn't cost anything and would two block the spinnaker halyard in seconds..
Anyone wanna guess our hands free technique?
Here's ROXY on a SF Bay daysail. Only boat I've ever raced to Hawaii that had heated towel racks, we were First-to-Finish the 1998 Pac Cup sailing DH.
As kids, we loved to practice flying and trimming the spinnaker on the family Cal-30 COCHISE. A flat calm never stopped us. In fact, it made us even more sensitive. Often, we'd fly free-fly the spinnaker without a pole, something I practice to this day in the 110 Class. How'd we do that, practice spinnaker technique in no wind?
When Double-Handing the Wylie-60 ROXANNE we experimented with an interesting spinnaker hoist method for the 1998 PacCup. It involved no effort on our part, no electric winch or motor, no block and tackle, no bungee or giant wheel. In fact, the method didn't cost anything and would two block the spinnaker halyard in seconds..
Anyone wanna guess our hands free technique?
Here's ROXY on a SF Bay daysail. Only boat I've ever raced to Hawaii that had heated towel racks, we were First-to-Finish the 1998 Pac Cup sailing DH.
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