More sunsets...

[PascalG]

Sunsets have been great so far this winter... Here are a few more

From Charmer

New cabin door, it hinges up and disappear in the sliding hatch:

Who says sailing has to be hard work?

 

[Nautiville]

is she navigating with that Ipad.... fur shame fur shame! Very envious. Even middle Tennessee is buckling down for snow tomorrow night. Stupid groundhog.

 

[Nancy]

Beautiful sunsets and lovely sailboat. What make, year, etc.? Gorgeous job on the cabin door.

 

[PascalG]

The iPad is for music mostly...

We launched the boat a year ago after 2 1/2 year building. The thread detailing the build is here:
http://www.boatered.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=147722

 

[Nancy]

Thanks for the link...I'm sure I followed the thread at the time. A lot of the links to the photos are not presently working. Anyway, I've just skimmed it again...did you design the boat? It has a lot of similarities to my dad's Stone Horse. What a great project and beautiful outcome.

 

[PascalG]

Yeah I litteraly started with a blank sheet of paper although the hull shape is inspired by various Herreshoffs (fish, alerion, Sadie etc). The construction is completely different obviously

 

[Nancy]

That's really cool. She sails and handles well? Looking back, is there anything you would have done differently?

 

[Chesagansett]

Very nice, Pas0cal!

 

[PascalG]

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Originally posted by Nancy

That's really cool. She sails and handles well? Looking back, is there anything you would have done differently?

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Not really. Call it beginners luck but she came out pretty much how I wanted her to look and sail.

I was expecting a few days of tweaking and adjustment but she sailed well out of the box. Had a big lump in the stomach when we raised the sail for the first time she accelerated nicely and we stayed out a couple of hours. I only add to shift one block on the gaff to get rid of a small wrinkle on the sail

What would i do differently? Build her 10' longer seriously maybe eliminate the centerboard which doesn't deally make a big difference as the show full keep is enough to point pretty well

It's been just over a year now and we put a lot of hours on her. If the sails had an hour meter I'm guessing 500 hours in the past year.

 

[Nancy]

I suspect it was a little more than luck. Well done.

 

[Riverbed]

She looks great Pascal - came out fantastic! Out of curiosity, what do you have for tunes on the iPad?