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My Dad passed away a couple of weeks ago. He's the one responsible for getting me into sailing as a little kid and boatbuilding later on. I have a thread on the Sailing Anarchy forums about him and his company, Yankee Yachts. Here's the link: http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?s=e53e666f00d8...

I've been getting ready to seal the hull with epoxy, so first I'm filling all the nail, screw, and staple holes with thickened epoxy. Fill, sand, fill, sand, fill, sand. I just can't get away from three applications of filler to get it done. I tried leaving a thick amount on the second application, ...

Pennies will have the same spinnaker issue. It's not really a problem, you just need to figure in the cost of the spinnaker.

There are a lot of them around, so finding one shouldn't be to hard. Keep in mind that an OD14 will have a fragile, completely blown out spinnaker, if it has one at all. There are no usable OD14 spinnakers available. You will have to get your sailmaker to make you a new one, or you will have to cut ...

Wow Ed. Good work: you are really overhauling the entire boat. Keep the reports coming.

Mike, If the break is clean, it can be fixed. Most of us have learned how to fix a broken mast or boom, and it's not that hard. You will need: 1. A carbon tube (sleeve) that has an OD that is the same as your mast's ID. If you don't have that, then find a carbon tube that is about the same OD as you...

No vacuum bagging? Rand, Vacuum bagging is a pain, and produces a lot of waste, so I prefer to use a lot of weight on small, flat pieces. The weight shown on that plate looks like a lot, but it only works out to about 1.5 psi, which is less than vacuum bagging. It seems to be enough to get good con...

Last night I shaped the stem cap and the daggerboard case carbon bars. The carbon bars were made from some carbon plate off-cuts that I bought from somebody's website. There are some less-than-workmanlike glitches in the routing visible in the photo; not only was the router tippy on the rounded part...

I had more fun with the router. First I routed out recesses for 1/2" x 1/8" carbon bars (12mm x 3 mm for the imperially challenged)at the bottom of the daggerboard case. The bars will help distribute the point loads from the gybing cassette and mechanism. They only need to extend about 3/4 of the le...

Before applying the outer carbon reinforcement, I'm preparing the daggerboard case. I Routed out the bottom skin flush with the inside of case using a flush router bit. I laminated the carbon bottom panel for the case with the following layup schedule: 200 gm cloth 0/90 300 gm uni 90 200 gm cloth 45...

There was an interesting comment I read somewhere by Glen Truswell regarding the tweekiness of his world's winning boat. I'm paraphrasing here, but he started out with adjustable everything, and as they found certain sweet spots for each control, would eliminate each one in turn, to the point where ...

It's a hull!

Hendo,
I've seen your posts and raised you two. Time to post!

I glued the port topside panel on this morning. Here are a few photos. A couple of things to note on the preparation: 1. Getting the butt joint on the forward part of the chine to match reasonably well required quite a bit of trial and error cutting, planing, and sanding. The angle of the chine forw...

Terry, I have tried to place the middle scarf joint under the unidirectional carbon I will run from the mast step area to the forward rack-strut/shroud attachement area. The other two scarf joints will be visible unless I paint the boat, which is looking likely. Congratulations again to you and Evan...