Daggerboard

Another failed attempt, the skins moved in the last process. I need to get a better system/ think about it more. I trimmed the excess off the skins and had very little to hold in place, also the mould shape has less location, so when I flipped over the upper mould the skin just fell out, I thought I had managed to get it back into place but had not.
No time to do more before the nats, and no resin. No time either to fit the first daggerboard I did, so back to the old one I made for 240, how frustrating! Also still no new seat and carrige, need to spend some time on this boat to get the best out of it!!

Naca 63A 010 Dagger board

At last had a chance to layup the skins (again) from the new mould. Down at Aldeburgh this w/e so will trim them and put them together next week. Used 1 layer 200gsm at 0/90 and a random amount of ud, onlt a short bit but about 900gsm 100mm wide and going down about 400mm from the top of the board. Will prob put in another cloth reinforcement 2/3 the way down the board when I stick it together.

Phantom Nationals

OK so more non-canoe sailing but the competition is so good I have been sailing the phantom all year. This is at the nationals, photo of me and of the fleet, we had 83 boats entered with some really world class sailors, I think about 5 previous world champs from various other classes.
I came a slightly disappointing 33rd, but was completly phased with all the boats, last time I was in a fleet that size was the laser nationals in the early 1990's. All in all a really good championships, and I like sailing at Stone as well.
The next event I am doing is the Canoe nats in Weymouth, I think we will have a good turn out, just need to make a dagger board from that latest mould, disaster struck with the first skins I took out, left them in the car after trimming them at work early one am and the bloody things warped so badly I can not use them, never mind they were a bit sub standard in any case.