First time to the water in 24 years! We finally get the Farrier F25C tri underway.
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2024
- After a mad scramble to finish sail-ready tasks, we towed the boat to a ramp and slid her back into the water. Since boat work is never really done, we still have to build a proper mast-down road transport tower. Go find some windsurfer masts!
Great job. Lovely to see her on the water.
Very nice work! and so light!
great job must be so good too get the boat sailing
Thanks for the premieer video with the boat in the water. Well done with all hard work. The boat looks super light and awsome! :)
I am so impressed! Strong work!
Very well done Greg. Sweet boat
Congratulations! She looks good, sails good.✔ Nice job on making the stern boom ladder.
Thanks 👍
Looks great, and seems to point well from the clips of tacking in the harbor entrance. Cant wait to see the full sail rig with the bowspirit properly in use.
Yes, feels like she’ll point great. The video showed a tiny, improperly sheeted jib and the dagger only half down. Theres plenty more in the tank ;)
Oh nice. Awesome update. Been waiting on it.
And congrats on your Cow Bay win - you guys sailed well!!!
Thank you Garry. Gabe & Sunny & I became laser focused on Unleaded’s tactics. It was the most ‘match racy’ thing I’ve ever sailed and that was super fun to get into that mode. That weekend was really special to me - what a place and such good people. Now I want to get this boat up there next year to some events & mix it up with you and Makika and MOB/Wayne. Maybe go after the 31s too? But I should probably learn to walk first down here 😂
@@Ravenswingsailing That was a super fun regatta and as you said a great place with great people! Once you figured out the tactics you had us beat as we struggled a bit with boat speed through the weekend - we didn’t have enough batten tension so the top of our main was bending off to leeward in the upwind legs :( It would be really great for you to bring the F-25C up for future events and in the meantime San Francisco is a great place to practice on a boat like that!
Wow that boat must be light even for a 25C!
I’m just about to ask the BAMA ratings comm for who has the load cell? I want to stick that on the launch crane soon. Sailed her today in chop, dang it’s loud like a drum in the cabin and floats!
@@Ravenswingsailing It gets scary in bigger water. The whole boat is drumming and creaking.
the day I crewed on Mojo we were going so fast under spinnaker I must have had sensory overload and didn’t hear the noises ;)
@@Ravenswingsailing When outside everything seems fine. This is when you stay inside that it becomes scary and an actual stress factor.
Understood. This happens in the V berth on Ravenswing in a bad sea. So loud up there it is the opposite of restful if you try to sleep in that bunk. And footage from the IMOCAs with their bare carbon hulls making such terrible noise I imagine exhaustion was a big concern to manage.
Did you launch at KKMI there in Richmond?
Brickyard. She’s in the dry storage yard and we use the crane next to Quantum Sails & Easom Rigging.
Greg, looks fabulous. Congratulations. I have a question. My Pacific trailer looks identical but the boat sits so low that the amas cannot be unfolded, and catch on the mudguards. What is the actual height from GL to bottom of the main hull? Probably more questions later….
Hey, thanks! I can’t unfold as-is either. The fenders are easy to unbolt & remove. Then I had to roll the boat an inch to clear the first side. And same thing for the other side. It slides easily on the trailer. Use a limit strap so you don’t roll the whole thing over the side of the trailer! (I don’t know what GL height is in your question?)
Congrats on your splash!!! Just curious - what did you use to paint the rudder and daggerboard?
Nice work Greg. I notice you use 2 jib fairleads. I guess the front one is for your full size Jib and back one is used for your heavy weather. Is it how you designed it ?
@@ghislaindevouton5301 yes. The back ones are working well for the high clew, small jib. The regular jib hasn’t been sailed yet, so I’m anxious to learn how the primary deck-rings placement works. Since I built them, I received a copy of instructions by Randy Smyth on how to identify the correct position. Hopefully it’s ok even though I didn’t have the pro tips ;)
@@Ravenswingsailing I think that's a good idea. During R2AK, I tried to use an F27 storm jib on a regular clew point. It ended up being a disaster. We couldn't point and make any progress to the wind with big sea. I'd love to see Randy's instructions.