new light weight rear wheels fitted

Looks good aus230. Interested to hear how you made the wheels.

love it, keep up the great work!! Will have to sail one of these one day!

It's beautiful!
Nothing else to add.

Brilliant Vic, you are a ripper but where can you go from here to top that?? ...maybe a sub is still on the horizon!!

How about bringing it up here to Shark Bay for trials and have a look at our whopping great Tiger Sharks to model a sub on?....wok

probably time to start on that 2 element wing Vic thta way vindisdad can start booking his trip to lefroy

Excellent!!!!

Thanks guys. I am not real happy with the weight of the mast about 18kg. I think I will build a foam one sometime next year.
I will build a lighter boom to. The yacht weights 118kg.I would like to get it back to around 110kg. Looking forward to Lefroy.

Beautiful Vic cant wait to see her on the lake!

Now have to work out where to put everything for a 800k road trip to Lefroy. The trailer is full with 3 class5 and a mini. Class3 will fit on the roof rack plus 1 more mini.

Obviously You need to build a couple more then, seems like You could build taller racks and stack them. Assuming, of course, they are painted black...............

This is what the wheels for the yacht came of. The car got sold in parts on ebay. Dam nice car wonder why it was broken up.

Help.
I am about to start getting the final materials for a foam mast. The only aluminium that I can find in 1/2in square or round is t5 will this fit the purpose?

I got to sail the class3, The wind was light but I was more than happy the way it went, The steering was excellent and could not believe how smooth the ride was. Due to lack of wind and racing commitments I did not get to sail it again on the weekend. During the weekend the mast cracked between the hound and base. (the reason we think is that the yacht was on its side with sail on and the mast facing the wind. There would have been a lot of down pressure on the mast when the wind became gusty and strong.) The mast can be repaired and strengthened in the area of failure and next time I will either take the sail of or use crazy wheels.

Vic. I checked out the CASE dealership and the 1/2" solid square alloy they were using to join the draper mats on header fronts, was fatigue cracking through the bolt holes, so they have progressed to steel 12mm x 12mm x 2mm RHS.
Sorry but no joy.

I would have thought the timber was really only the former on which the glass is layed. Cedar has bugger all compressive strength. If the mast is hollow, this failure is likely because the sides of what is effectively a tube are getting closer together. In real terms, it just ain't stiff enough. (Now when did I last hear that :) )