#sailing #adventure #badidea Prognoza de peste 30 de noduri, o cursă de tragere în aval de vânt și o barcă de familie „sigură”. Mi s-a părut o zi interesantă pentru a merge la navigație. În acest episod, ne îndreptăm către Capel Sound Invitational din 2025, o cursă de tragere de lungă durată peste Capel Sound, la capătul sudic al golfului Port Phillip. Cu o prognoză incompletă, marii rechini albi au raportat pe plajă și Moth Nationals la doar patru zile distanță, am făcut ceea ce mi s-a părut a fi o chemare rațională: iau barca mea super grea și robustă Roamer de 14 picioare în loc de Moth Mach 2 pe care cu siguranță nu îmi pot permite să-l sparg. Decizia a fost testată imediat. De îndată ce ne-am lansat, am fost loviți cu peste 30 de noduri în direcția sud-vest, dar ne-am angajat oricum — vela mare completă și un spinnaker asimetric — și am fost lansați absolut în golf, cârma mică și plată luptându-se să țină barca sub control și câteva momente în care foarte clar am împins lucrurile prea departe. Partea de sus? În doar șase minute terifiante am aflat mai multe despre această barcă decât am putut vreodată în șase luni de navigație normală, plecând cu o listă lungă de modificări și optimizări înainte de a încerca aventuri mai mari și mai serioase. Aceasta este o ambarcațiune mică care navighează la limită – părți egale de viteză, învățare și întrebați în liniște: „A fost o idee proastă și ce ar fi trebuit să fac diferit? Mulțumim susținătorilor noștri: • Ronstan Sailing https://www.ronstan.com/au • Damic Design – Deck Grip https://www.damicdesign.com/deckgrip • Norfyard Retech/Tehnologie https://norfyard Retech/https://www.ronstan.com/au. 🙏 Susține canalul. Mulțumiri imense tuturor celor de pe Patreon care ajută la menținerea acestor aventuri cu barca vii și independente: https://www.patreon.com/TomStuchberySailing #dinghycruising #smallboats #dinghysailing #roughweather #stormconditions #realsailing #ocean #capelsound
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That was great, what a fun boat! It looked like it was going a lot faster than 4.8 knots when you were square down wind. Any plans of re-designing a new rudder?
That's almost "how to lose a Sydney Hobart on handicap"
Polling out a spinnaker. Very topical, ref Sydney Hobart protest.
Great stuff Tom. Good luck at the Moth Nationals.
would modifying the rudder be legal?
It does look down in the bow early on.
Would have been a challenge beating back.
Excellent stuff Tom. Training for the Strait crossing, well done mate. (HOKITIKA STH WESTLAND NZ) 👍👍
Man, that elevated foredeck is really earning its keep, isn't it.
The most ridiculous dinghy cruising video ever. Great stuff. I'd have been going along under jib alone !! haha
Sometimes you have to push things beyond the limit for problems to make themselves apparent. Took my dinghy out on a very breezy day a few months ago to see how things would go on a day I'd normally have stayed on the beach without crew/ballast. Got flattened by a 30+kt gust, couldn't reach the jib sheet (had my little storm jib up and reefed main), that needs sorting, then found out that she came upright easy enough but with a steady 25kts blowing refused to heal to windward and she floats far higher than anything I've sailed before, in the end just had to hang on till the wind eased a bit to get back in, not ideal.
On the upside she handled beautifully full of water and emptied very quickly.
I've now fitted loops to the centre thwart to help with getting back in and am scrambling my brain as to a way of having the jib sheets much closer to hand while single handed. Also the rudder started kicking up while planing (fixed with new bungees). I know her limits now too and I'm in no doubt that it was the fastest I've ever been under sail.
I once hired a 14 foot cat that would lose steerage as the speed increased. The rudders were 19mm ply with square edges. When speed increased the water was unable to touch the sides of the rudders. What a science lesson.
Great fun
Consider a bucket to get the water over the side, or even a bailer. tied in of course.
An easy fix for the rudder profile is the Pollock section. An Aus invention intended for boards that are rule constrained in thickness. It works. If interested, contact me, I've got a working spreadsheet.
Yes, you are crazy. I'm really not sure that what I saw on this video was planing. I think you were just pushing a huge wave! Maybe the comment below about water in the fore compartment accounts for this?
Every time I see you sail this boat, and I see the spaghetti laying on the floor, I just marvel as how complicated the boat has become, compared to a simple cruising-type dinghy. And also, every time the kite is up, it looks like it's just plowing the bow so heavily and brutally. Even though there's a kite, it sure doesn't lift the bow up at all. Occasionally when you were downwind and surfing, carrying over the top of a wave forced the bow out of the water as the downwind face of the wave fell away, and then the boat would try to do something other than push the whole ocean. But you are having fun, and that's better than sitting on the sofa.
I still think it’s a mini pirate ship 🏴☠️
More work to do, make a new MSR rudder…
Hey Tom. Did the outboard go under as well?
Was very bow down, still. Get the weight out of the bow.
Awesome! You need to rename her to My Sea Ripper
Great video. The self-righting castles seem to prevent you getting far enough back in the boat on some of the points of sail – do you think that's a factor? Cheers from Wellington.
Great vid! If the outboard goes under water, try and get it started ASAP. You can clear the crud out right away. At least i know this works on water cooled, and I'm not sure on an air-cooled.
Great video, so good to watch you pushing the boat hard. I sailed YW Diamonds for many years in Port Phillip, and they always rounded up when overpowered. I re-designed the rudder to be longer and more vertical and added Naca fairing. Never rounded up again and much more control. I am interested in your new rudder design, please if and when you make a change, post it on Youtube. Best wishes for the Season.
for other channels it's like "cool boat but lets see it in some proper wind!" but that's just the due course for @TomStuchberySailing!
Great practice for that Bass Strait crossing, could you deck it over to give a self bailing cockpit?
A bit of weight aft, wouldn't hurt a bit.
Nothing like being thrown into the deep end to really understand your boat💪
Talk about nosediving!!!
Maybe a reefing point needed in the main? And a few more lines to deal with, and a quick release on the vang to help during your next broach manoeuvre
Great fun! Sure is a good way to test things out 😅
Rule 3700 👍
shred that beast! man, what a ride!
I think the weight of the battery in the bow doesn’t help. Unfortunately the Weta Gennaker is cut so it doesn’t lift the bow – you might consider getting it recut so it’s fuller at the top but you do risk making it difficult to furl.
Very strange looking design? The bow at times looked like it it was extremely low as well. 🇦🇺
Great fun, kinda surprised you didn't break the rig, as the mast was desperate to go fast than the hull. Careful reefing as the main does stop the mast inverting
That was a great vid mate, well done 👍
You learn a lot from a capsize.
Great video and thanks for sharing the thrills and the spills. The camera angle gave us a good view to see how the hull interacts with the water. I think you’re always going to get heavier steering in strong down winds as the bow really digs in as it’s designed to do as a family leisure boat. It’s cool to see how that design performs when placed slightly outside its intended envelope. Very interesting.
That boat is a strange design. That is the area where I not only learned to sail but raced when I was a teenager in the late sixties. Survival was the key and I never once required a patrol boat for assistance. It looks like it’s exceeding hull speed or planing. Does it have ballast?
a safe family dinghy is not that full of string!
Looks so sketchy, but if you’re having fun it’s all good.
I was wondering why that whisker pole is illegal, and then you capsized! Great learning and development process though.