Can't believe I missed this video. I thought I'd seen them all including the slate roof videos. This is a nice surprise. I've got so many model boats on the shelf but just keep making excuses; no money, pandemic, no space for shop, blah blah blah. But I'm feeling the pull of the sea so strong these days so definitely need to start even if it's just a sailing canoe. Hope you're doing well my friend. Cheers from Bali.
Working long days, trying to keep promises b4 winter sets in, getting cold below zero though no snow... So I keep making dreams come true, for others, while mine collect dust.... Epoxy is next, get hulls done and painted, then a long winter of akas, masts and all the rest lays ahead.... Look after yourself my friend, enjoy the sunshine.... Greetings from the Balkans.
Would you kindly show us shunting in the workshop with no wind? I'd like to see the details of what is happening with the lines and what is happening with the crabclaw. I can build everything else (Thanks to you) but I don't completely understand exactly what happens with the hardware when you shunt.
I moved to a very small workshop, and I've been cutting up "WHY NOT?" to convert him into a micro cruiser.... So at the moment impossible. I will be rigging again next month, when I do I will try to shoot a "dry sailing" vid.... But it's so simple, that if you just build what you see in the vid, you will get it. Just do This.... Take a straight piece of wood, drill a dowel into it (the mast) make a cardboard sail, from the boom you want 2 ropes (sheets) 1 going back, (working sheet) 1 going forward (lazy sheet). Endless Line, you want this thin rope to fix the tack of the sail by pulling it tight against the gunnel. So you need to mount 2 eyes, 1 on each bow. Now tie Endless Line to the tack, lead it through the eye, go around the mast, go to 2nd eye on other bow, go through and take it back to yard and tie it to the tack. Your line must be free of any knots along it's length... it starts with a knot at the tack and ends with a knot at the tack. To shunt. let working sheet fly ( when wind is abeam) hold yard and move it aft, once it passed mid ship, the wind will take it to the new bow. Endless Line it just slides along, nothing to do here, sheets? they just follow through, nothing to do here ether. Now pull tight on Endless line, to fix tack hard against the gunnel, sheet in and fly away going backwards but forwards...... It's as simple as it looks, in the Video you can see all the details. make a model and you will see how simple it is. all D best Brother. Keep Sailing, Balkan ShipYards....
more displacement, so we can carry more weight. important for cruising..... usually we are 2 aboard, we intend to go cruising this summer, so add another 25 kg for gear, water and food... also less draft, but that's just a bonus...
Love it . I really like the simplicity . No fancy expensive fittings , just stuff that works 👍🏻
Thanks man, welcome 2 freestyle boatbuilding.... Keep Shunting, Balkan Shipyards.
Can't believe I missed this video. I thought I'd seen them all including the slate roof videos. This is a nice surprise. I've got so many model boats on the shelf but just keep making excuses; no money, pandemic, no space for shop, blah blah blah. But I'm feeling the pull of the sea so strong these days so definitely need to start even if it's just a sailing canoe.
Hope you're doing well my friend. Cheers from Bali.
Working long days, trying to keep promises b4 winter sets in, getting cold below zero though no snow... So I keep making dreams come true, for others, while mine collect dust.... Epoxy is next, get hulls done and painted, then a long winter of akas, masts and all the rest lays ahead....
Look after yourself my friend, enjoy the sunshine.... Greetings from the Balkans.
Loved!!!
Молодец красиво сделал, я восхищён. Wonderfully
Spasiva my friend! Happy new year.....
Братан Счастливого Нового года!!!
Would you kindly show us shunting in the workshop with no wind? I'd like to see the details of what is happening with the lines and what is happening with the crabclaw. I can build everything else (Thanks to you) but I don't completely understand exactly what happens with the hardware when you shunt.
I moved to a very small workshop, and I've been cutting up "WHY NOT?" to convert him into a micro cruiser....
So at the moment impossible. I will be rigging again next month, when I do I will try to shoot a "dry sailing" vid....
But it's so simple, that if you just build what you see in the vid, you will get it. Just do This....
Take a straight piece of wood, drill a dowel into it (the mast) make a cardboard sail, from the boom you want 2 ropes (sheets) 1 going back, (working sheet) 1 going forward (lazy sheet).
Endless Line, you want this thin rope to fix the tack of the sail by pulling it tight against the gunnel. So you need to mount 2 eyes, 1 on each bow. Now tie Endless Line to the tack, lead it through the eye, go around the mast, go to 2nd eye on other bow, go through and take it back to yard and tie it to the tack. Your line must be free of any knots along it's length... it starts with a knot at the tack and ends with a knot at the tack.
To shunt. let working sheet fly ( when wind is abeam) hold yard and move it aft, once it passed mid ship, the wind will take it to the new bow. Endless Line it just slides along, nothing to do here, sheets? they just follow through, nothing to do here ether. Now pull tight on Endless line, to fix tack hard against the gunnel, sheet in and fly away going backwards but forwards......
It's as simple as it looks, in the Video you can see all the details. make a model and you will see how simple it is.
all D best Brother.
Keep Sailing, Balkan ShipYards....
Awesome! Thanks! I am following your lead.
why did you design the bottom flat???
more displacement, so we can carry more weight. important for cruising.....
usually we are 2 aboard, we intend to go cruising this summer, so add another 25 kg for gear, water and food...
also less draft, but that's just a bonus...