A god's eye view

I spent today figuring out and screwing on fittings. I was all set to do the carriage tracks until I realised that the carriage has to be totally finish as once it's it won't come off (it hits the rudder post before it leaves the track, Doh). I've only drilled six holes in the wrong spot so considering how many holes I've drilled, it's not too bad...

Starting the foils

OK, I've started bagging the foils. The one in the picture is both sides of the rudder so it looks more high aspect than it is. I still need to do both sides of the centerboard and put all the fittings on the boat and then organise a boom, all before the nationals in two weeks. On top of this it looks like I might have a new job but I'm not sure when I will be starting. It will be nice to have money again but the boat building might suffer. Oh, well...

Carriage attachments

I had decided on and bought a Ronstan slide system for my boat a long while ago, before I'd seen the trendy carbon slides everyone is doing. Aligning the slides and the track has proved to be quite the dilemma. I had trouble getting the track parallel in all planes and once they were screwed down I couldn't bolt on the carriage sldies. I decided it would be easier to align the slides on the carriage first and then use the carriage to place the tracks on the hull (which I should be doing this weekend). If it works well I'll post some photos, if not I'm in the shit...

Bagging the spreaders

Progress has slowed dramatically lately as the boat fund dries up. I'm going for a second interview for a job this week so I'm pretty confident of the boat fund getting some more funding soon but working will reduce the amount of time I'll get to spend on the project. Anyway, here are the photos of the spreaders getting bagged (I'm a big fan of bagging)...

Sailplan

I was getting ready to put up the mast so I could measure the shroud lengths and such and thought I'd put the main on the mast just for giggles. It's at the approximate rake I'll be using. Hope it works in a few weeks...