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Step 9Sail
The sail is made of a main sail (yellow) and a front sail (light blue), the front sail being actually bigger.
_ The mast comes in 2 pieces (so it can fit inside the boat when cycling) as it is a second hand wind surf mast re-inforced with epoxy and fiberglass at the exposed parts (described preiously).
_ The main sail (yellow) is on the mast like a sock in the maneer of a windsurf sail, same with the boom that is a aluminium small tube with an inserted rowing rig as a fixation on the mast. Both the mast and the boom have plenty of space to move inside the "sock" that is the main sail (my english is so bad when it has to be technical ... excusez-moi messieurs dames ...)
_ The front sail (blue) is sewed directly with the forestay-fore halyard (nylon 200kg rope). If I don't want to sail with the front sail, i just roll it around the forestay with many knots.
The sails are reinforced (darker colors) eveverywhere there is more tension or knots to be attached, or where there is friction with the mast.
_ The forestay is also the fore halyard (red). The main halyard that are attached to the sides of the of the boat is slightly going backward : there is 2 of them back the mast so they balance the fact that there is no backstay. These two main not-on-the-side halyard remain problematic when you are navigating with full wind from behind ...
_ The mainsheet (green) is equiped with an upper lock attached to the boom and a lower lock attached to the frame of boat. The frontsheet is directly connected to wedge screwed on the frame. When changing direction, there is two frontsheets, one attached to each side of the frame on wedges so the changing of side is semi-automatic : just unlocking one side when the boat is turning, the other wedge being alrady prepared. This is very important when navigating alone, especially if you are rowing-sailing, we'll se this later in the navigation part ...
_ The mast comes in 2 pieces (so it can fit inside the boat when cycling) as it is a second hand wind surf mast re-inforced with epoxy and fiberglass at the exposed parts (described preiously).
_ The main sail (yellow) is on the mast like a sock in the maneer of a windsurf sail, same with the boom that is a aluminium small tube with an inserted rowing rig as a fixation on the mast. Both the mast and the boom have plenty of space to move inside the "sock" that is the main sail (my english is so bad when it has to be technical ... excusez-moi messieurs dames ...)
_ The front sail (blue) is sewed directly with the forestay-fore halyard (nylon 200kg rope). If I don't want to sail with the front sail, i just roll it around the forestay with many knots.
The sails are reinforced (darker colors) eveverywhere there is more tension or knots to be attached, or where there is friction with the mast.
_ The forestay is also the fore halyard (red). The main halyard that are attached to the sides of the of the boat is slightly going backward : there is 2 of them back the mast so they balance the fact that there is no backstay. These two main not-on-the-side halyard remain problematic when you are navigating with full wind from behind ...
_ The mainsheet (green) is equiped with an upper lock attached to the boom and a lower lock attached to the frame of boat. The frontsheet is directly connected to wedge screwed on the frame. When changing direction, there is two frontsheets, one attached to each side of the frame on wedges so the changing of side is semi-automatic : just unlocking one side when the boat is turning, the other wedge being alrady prepared. This is very important when navigating alone, especially if you are rowing-sailing, we'll se this later in the navigation part ...
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Apr 28, 2007. 2:48 AMhughwsk
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Apr 28, 2007. 5:26 AM
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