November update

December is going to be busy!
The way i like it, i hope school won't stand in the way too much.
3 projects are active all to be finished till the end of January.

My father and I decided to take part in the 2015 footy gold cup. More info will be soon avilvable on a dedicated site. For now Thomas(the german footy registrar) is keeping some of us updated on: http://www.footy-sailing.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=308

Footy first:

This is Booyah, my 2015 footy design. It already is the first(known/proove me it isn't) 3D printed footy. Photos follow.
The design is placed into the box longitudinally nose down.
giving it a max lwl of 33cm.
The all up weight should be 450g
But the 3d printed prototype won't be as light. After testing and improovement the boats will be made of composite, to save weight.
The hull has a high prismatic coeff. and plenty of reserve volume. It will carry a classic rigg. The A_rigg will exceed 2000sqcm.

Then come the rg65s,
Some sailors here in Slovenia decided to start building them. 2goths, one own design and two other are looking for boats.(that makes 8, counting the dragonforce seen on regatas, me and father)
It looks like rg65 is going to be the new class here in slovenia.
So i picked up my left behind projects..
the jif65:

which only needs a bulb, and a paint job(to cover porosion)

and the angeldust rg..

..it is a 9/2012 design, designed to be nothing special, following the common rules of thumb know in naval architecture. Only the rigg will be somewhat special.
It is intended to be an allround boat, and a rigg testing platform.
I already made a plug and a hull for it, but it is twisted, so i wont use it. The past two days were spent drawing the sucker in solidworks, refining the rigg and bow sections. Today i have the files ready to start 3d printing the new plug.
It will be hopefully printed by sunday, so i can glue the parts and get the plug ready for moulding.


There is also the new fila which has to be finished till late may. To startthe national championship season.


The battle plan is to get the angeldustplug printed asap.
To finish the footy in the next 14days and trial it against Karo.  -then analyse & improove
The jif should be done till new year.
Angeldust should be done till end of january, to test agaist jif and hopefully other rgs.

Where the rg65 at?

The idea to have the rg65 in the water by this weekend fell into water, because of the KARO riggs...
But the project is making some progress:

this finnbox is made of 1x80g carbon, 1mm balsa and 1x80g carbon + 1x25g glass sandwich

this is the switch/battery/reciever lid, the yellow thing is the thread, the hole on the red lid itself will be covered by a patch to save weight

this is the 1gram rudder mount

this is the current state of the hull, the finnbox is aligned, the pen will be replaced by an aluminum tube, glued in at a 5 degree rake, this will be the fixed mast rake for this boat.

Tommorow's plan is to make the sheeting servo mount(it will be mounted behind the finnbox laying down), the radiogear tray and glue on the deck, the mast tube will be glued afterwards.

Angeldust making good progress!

The plan is to have the boat on the water in five weeks, to get alot of time for testing, improving and building a mould before the eros in Greece in november.
The hull of mould was 76g(layup:80g/m2 carbon, 3x50g/m2 glass), from here on i'll let the pictures to do the talking:

The shadows, wich are to be the support frames for building fit snuggly.

the downhaul is still a question but other than that the rigg is nearly there. For the beginning it's sporting flat sails with a 6mm luff curve.

RG65 - Angel Dust

Finally my rg65 project is making some progress. Today i layedup the first hull on a positive mould.
Its a relatively conservative boat nothing extreme yet.
from the simetric shape of the waterlines when heeled i would say that it will be well balanced upwind. At the momemnt the ce leads clr for 12% of lwl, in the future ce will probably be recesed, in search of the weather helm balance that suits my style of sailing.
Anyway here is the "above waterline" sketch:

The displ. Is about 960g, jib:main ratio is 40:60, mast rake 5deg. And freeboard in the fornt 7cm + 3cm.
For starters i will be using a 30cm deep keelfinn, later i plan on developing a keel wich gathers the most of area just below the hull, and the bulb is then supported by a profiled strut.