assassin

Anyone seen one of these before?
It's called an Assassin.
Somehow it managed to use a keyboard and left me a comment.
Its website is here:
http://assassinmoth.blogspot.com/

It'll be interesting to know if that mast post goes into the hull - otherwise he will find out what happend to Stress Less the first time we rigged it.

Celebrate Obamarama with a SLINO Trifoiler

I have been out of the moth scene for 18months and finally got around to reading this thread:
http://www.moth.asn.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1740

For those who don't click it, it suggests revising the rules to make the fleet less restrictive. Key rules being questioned are:

• no multihulls/wing mounted foils
• sail area/number of sails/sailboard rigs
• sliding seat / trapeze
• restrict to one configuration

I am still not sure which side of the fence I sit on. While I agree with all of mashmosh's comments, our current designs are very elegant and race friendly.

For kicks, and to try to sort out what I believe in, I sketched this.

• Trifoiler arrangment with curved foils
• Asymetrical wing sail, C class cat style
• Longitudinally sliding seat.
• Fits within the current box and sail area rules
• The main hull is a SLINO
• The outriggers are 37% scales of slino
• Haven't done any engineering of this arrangment, other than positioning the CL of the wing in line with the lifting foils

If anything drawing this makes me more uncertain of which way to go. It looks like a pig, but I am very curious how it would perform. The moth platform looks too short and too narrow to work but who knows? The good thing about a self stabilizing arrangment is it can be model tested. One day maybe.

Al is a God!

The rumour was he was fast in the light stuff but I didn't realise he was fast enough to take a bullet at the nationals against a lot of pro and semi-pro guns.

Well done mate! May there be many more in your future. You sure you want to sell that boat now?

oh, mr hart!

As the n4rks said below first paint went onto the hull last weekend.
Masking up is really annoying but the results are worth it.
The grey is Altex High Build Primer 1.
I think the colours work great at the moment with satin carbon, but once the clear goes on the carbon the matt grey will look wrongy. I can't wait to see it with the yella (loveleh!).

I am a God!

The painting is started! High build went on Sunday evening and looks good. Sanding this weekend (again!) and hopefully the clear and edging can both go on then too. This should mean that we can rig it next weekend, pending supply of all the little fiddly bits...Markla?

My other ride is an F16...
Sailing on Saturday in the local Australia Day regatta. Need to get some time on the bigger boat before The Great Race. Speaking of which, what were they thinking with a marathon race on Valentine's Day???