Everest 1 Cherub

[Clive Everest]

I am still stressing.

[roland_trim]

Do you fancy meeting up at QMSC for a quick splash on Friday PM? I'll happily man a rib and carry her in and out of the water (in my underpants if it'll make you do it).

[paul_croote]

Looks great, think they would have been happier with the look of this layout in Santander!

[Neil C.]

Friday? Are you sure?
Just make sure you don't lift a brolly over your head, don't walk under any ladders, don't mention any Scottish plays by Shakespeare, don't shoot any seagulls  and if you happen to meet any ginger haired people on the way there make sure you stop and speak to them. And definitely make sure you're wearing your lucky underpants.

[ade white]

Sorry to grass, but QM Have quite a strict code on wearing wetsuits. I suppose you could do a superman impression!
Alternatively, if asked why you were only wearing underpants, you could say you were only looking for torchies old trailer...

[Phil Alderson]

The boat is looking great, when we brought Primal Scream down to the show we were running so late that the boat had Primer on, and the only fitting was a mast step.
The boat met the mast and sails at the show and we made up the shrouds in the main hall.

http://www.uk-cherub.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/boats/2686-20050306.jpg?t=1343491220&w=333&h=445

[Clive Everest]

On Saturday we managed to launch A + E.
The sail was brief as we were catching a ferry later in the day and are now in France. There is lots of snow here but it feels warmer than Hayling.

Since the dinghy exhib we have had a few issues to fix. The board would not go down the case and it was clear that the mast post needed to be stiffer.

Nothing broke during the sail which is always a relief with a new boat though we did not push it hard.
The boat felt very smooth through the water, and the solid wings were a pleasure to use.
As expected we came ashore with a list of minor issues to fix. The most significant is to change the finish on the spinnaker hoop so that the kite will slide round it.
At the moment it is finished in sprayed mat durepox, and the kite will not slide round it.
We also put the hoop as far forward as we could but this makes the angle that it wraps round greater.
Hope fully we will be in a position to actually race soon.

Clive


 

[Phil Alderson]

Good to hear that the boat got wet, best of luck getting all the systems working.