boatwork

I am glad all this reposting has stopped. i did put a comment to that effect foilermoth but it didn't appear to get past moderation. i feel oppressed lol.

a bit of boat work going on atm which is no excuse to not bloog really. two weeks to go till the start of my season and time to do the first real servicing session on my boat since it was built. all in all it has held up will for an amateur home build... so far...

the list of maintenance/mod jobs:

• replace 6mm fibreglass push rod with a 10x1 carbon pultrusion (50% comp.)
  
• fit a "dial" to the push rod (50% comp.)
• repair some cracking in the deck edge (80% comp.)
• replace tramp lacing (0% comp.)
• replace deck grip with foam (0% comp.)
• affix the mast ram with epoxy+glue powder rather than the duct tape and sikflex (100% comp.)
• tramps to sail maker to shorten, and add cut outs to moving hiking straps outboard.(0% comp.)
• shorten hiking straps (0% comp.)
• new boom webbing (0% comp.)
• take gantry to sail maker for a monofilm fairing with a velcro pocket (0% comp.)
• sail to sail maker to repair batten pockets and recut pocket opening at hounds. (0% comp.)
• new vang system, but more on that in a later post - a little secret squirrel, will post when it works. (40% comp.)
• New wand to flap linkage system (very secret squirrel till it is actually on the boat and working, we're both a bit excited about it but want to have a working conventional system first).
  

sailing fitness

today i got this email from n4rkla:

http://www.sailfitter.com/sailfitter.html

http://sportstrainingblog.com/sailing/sailing-fitness-10-things-you-must-do

regards,

Nick.

i think his meaning is quite clear, despite the message only having two words, one of which being nick. atleast the internet mothing is going well. this post should clock up teh 20kth hit!

Pitchpoles - Help

I always thought all of this talk about optimizing gearing was a bit of a wank. Well N4rks and I adjusted the lever off the wand to try making the boat take off sooner. Whatever we did has turned this nice happy docile boat into a angry monster.

I spent the whole day pitch poling and struggling to get downwind in about 16kts of breeze. I probably spent as much time on my side as upright. N4rkla took the folloiwng movies. It shows a number of typical pitchpoles.



Can anyone suggest what is going wrong? With the exception of the last clip it doesn't look like the vessel is flying too high. I'll try to get access to a better video camera for next time I go out.

WARNING: Fake Doug Lord Nude Pix

With the 2009 moth worlds in full swing, there is a scramble in the moth bloogosphere to get those all important hits. Some of the lowest kind of bloogers are willing to try anything to increase their website traffic. Recently an explicit photograph was leaked into the public domain aledging to be an intimate photograph of Doug Lord from an internet dating site. For some sites, it has become the mainstay of their hits. Be warned, the photograph below is a fake, and any morally compromised bloog asserting it otherwise should be disregarded by the world moth community.



The use of deceitful means to attract unsuspecting visitors has always been present on the internet. If you don't cater to the lowest 2% of the community, that's 2% less hits. While few users would actively search out pornographic images of internet phenomenon that is Doug Lord, links such as “See Doug’s Wand” or “Good Lord! He’s Naked” can arouse curiosity.

A well know mooth blooger, wishing to remain anonomous mentioned recently:
“I think this is a really cheap way of running a blog, just catering to hype and the lowest kind of person. It is a sad reality that there are some bloggers out there who have no shame. I am a real conisuer of internet filth. The reproduction of fake images like this can only be bad for the internet.”

But others are right into the pictures, guenuine or otherwise:
“I can’t get enough of them! DL in the nude! I don’t care if its fake, he is sooo hot.”

The final word goes to our in house internet consultant has the following advice
“Personally I think it is just disgusting and I haven’t downloaded porn since I stocked up 2001, prior to the proliferation of edited images like this. I think it is the only way to be safe from compromised images”.

AC33 and moth worlds

WOW! Two very anticipated sailing events within the same country within a month of each other!

2010 Dubai Moth Worlds
33rd America's Cup

Who wants support crew?