Visited Ken to drop off the deposit for the sail. I was glad to see he had almost as many pictures of landyachts up in his workshop as he did yachts!! Top bloke!!

Then went straight out to David's to pick up my mast, boom and axles. He's done a great job and couldn't be more helpfull. His good wife even fed and entertained the kids while he and I talked landyachts!!

Then went to Mullins wheels to get the wheels, but unfortunately they aren't open on Saturdays. So I stopped past Paramount Browns on the way home and they had 3 wheels and (wrong) tyres in a discount bin for $19.00 each. As Mullins charge $18.00 for the wheel alone I grabbed them. Now I just have to get the correct tyres.

Unforunately I ran out of time and missed the bearing shop so that'll have to be next weekends trip.

Hopfully I can assemble it tomorrow and post a pic of what she looks like so far.

Well my landyachts back out at Davids house. He has very kindly offered to install the safety belt and he's reinforcing the axles with dowell, which is all done now.

But while its there he asked if I was prepared to display it along with 4 other club members yachts in a ALYC display at the 4x4 and adventure show. Davids going to lend me a club sail for the display as mine probably won't be ready by then.

So if you're in SA you can head along and take a look on 12th-14th October at Morphetville race course (I believe, please correct me if I'm wrong)

Crickey! get it quick . pay with leprechuan gold if you have to

Picked up my sail and it looks great. Ken has double checked the size is legal and now has the sail plan drawn out on the workshop floor. He has made a couple of improvements over the previous sails he made so, even though he honoured my quote, from now on they will be about $570 but get a quote first.

Yep that's the one. David and Ross tell me I need to take about 6" off the mast, but to start at 4" and see how it goes. I'm not sure if its 5 or 5.5, I'll find out from Ken.

Well as you'll see in the photos section it is now complete. The last step was to borrow my mothers sewing machine and upholster myself a cusion. Turned out really well IMHO considering I don't know jack sh|# about sewing!!

Now its complete, you can thank me for the drought breaking rains that will hit Adelaide for the next few months

landyacht said...

OK hills now to rig it properly.The boom shouldbe hard up under thesail , not hanging around way down below. Pull it up.

Yep no worries will do

landyacht said... ypu should have a rope around the mast from the front eye,and a SEPARATE one around the boom. the same applies at the other end. one rope to the boom , another adjustable one to the outhaul. when this is set you will see that you can lower the sail 50-60 mm at least.

yep, they were there, just not adjusted as you said above.

landyacht said... the base of your sheeting is too far forward. edge it back. when sheeted in hard the boom rowlock should not be hard up against the mast but back off the mast by 1-2cm.. the sheeting should go straight up and down.

ok, the base pulley blocks are in an adjustable stay channel so I can move them back one notch, which will take the back one to about 1.5cm from the rear edge of the mount in the fibreglass seat. Would that still be too far forward?? (I'll post a pic). If so could I move the pulleys on the boom forwards?

landyacht said... make sure you have some sacrificial ally on the back of the mast where it contacts the mast step otherwise you will chew out the mast and it WILL snap.

The base of the mast has a plastic sleeve so there is no contact between the mast and the mast hound. Should I still put in a sacrificial block anyway?

landyacht said...
your getting there

thanks for your help mate, its much appreciated!!