Comments for RFOR blog #1

Comment on Back in La Trinite s/Mer by Nicola

Nicola — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:55:37 +0000

mate, careful with the Christopher Cross comments, Ryan loves that music

Comment on Cool! by rfor

rfor — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:46:34 +0000

The material I used was FLEX 13. They thought it would be too light, but so far it’s been great for the mini.

Comment on Cool! by Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:50:19 +0000

Congratulation after all this hard work.

On SA I red that you are happy with the Flex material from dp, which one exactly do you use ?

Comment on BAM! by rfor

rfor — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:34:21 +0000

I was very happy with the shape etc. I think Ullman is an amazing designer, and it shows, but I am just going through the motions right now so I can go sailing. My sister pretty much dominates my mind right now, so the work is just happening on autopilot, because I am obligated to carry on.

How are you doing? I don’t even know if people get these responses.

-R

Comment on Picture time by rfor

rfor — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:07:24 +0000

It’s 40′ off the water.

-R

Comment on Holy S#!% !!! by Nicola

Nicola — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:14:34 +0000

Love reading the blog, its great to finally see the boat in the water. I’m already curious to hear if its a mast of dreams or nightmares. Happy sailing!

Comment on And picture time. by rfor

rfor — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:54:48 +0000

I think it has something to do with the halyard tension on the sail trying to crush the tube under compression. Reduce the halyard tension at the mast base, and you reduce compression. Reducing it totally can be done with a lock. You still get compression on the tube, but not from the halyard, which is a large part of overall compression.

-R

Comment on Parts trickle in. by rfor

rfor — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:32:20 +0000

Hey, thanks. Tripple spreader rigs used to be the norm for protos when the rule only allowed aluminum masts. Now that Carbon is allowed tripple spreaders are pretty rare.

-R

Comment on More time in the studio. by rfor

rfor — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:49:26 +0000

I heard about this from the multihull guys. Should work especially well in my case because I have an adjustable forestay, but if it doesn’t work well enough, I’ll write about it. I’m going to use 9mm twelve strand. Good luck.

-Ryan

Comment on Mmmm… by rfor

rfor — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:59:24 +0000

Hey Will. Yeah, it should stay up. Any failure that I can see will be user error and nothing more. Just means I need to be slightly more on my game than before but not much. I’m using both cotton and glass G-10 tubes. I’m using cotten ones in the gooseneck and spreader hinges to isolate the stainless and also because of the better impact resistence. Have I ever told you hom much I love G-10?

As for the Traveler, It seems pretty rigid and doesn’t deflect much when under load (used my foot to push the car down). Should be even better with the mainsail up. I can’t really attach another block to the cockpit wall though, because it will kill the whole concept of being able to drop the whole package to leeward super easily. If you ever sail on a mini, you will probably experience this frustrations. I’m not married to this now though, and if it doesn’t work well, there are plenty of other options.

Thanks for checking all of this out.

How’s the Olson coming?

-Ryan