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Sail Numbers – Putting Them in The Right Place…!!

If you have new sails, you’ll be wanting to get the numbers and insignia on them – and if you race internationally then you’ll want your country code as well.

Where is this all defined? Read through your Class rules first, and then for at least the international classes, you’ll need to check what it says in the Radio Sailing Appendix (E) of World Sailing’s rules…. subsection “G”.

Most of it is there I think, letter size(min max), gaps, which side is highest (starboard), distance between rows and all of that.

You can use stick on numbers if they comply, but I feel most people use an indelible pen. BG Design does great stencils in the correct size (if you tape them together, you have the correct gaps) and can supply an appropriate pen. In the end, I went to the local stationers and bought two indelible pens – a superfine and a chisel ended felt pen (much more versatile than a round point).

I taped the BG stencils in place, traced around with the superfine. The error to avoid is ink leaking under the stencil, so keep the pen moving quite quickly. Then I removed the stencils and used the chisel ended pen to “colour in” the outlines. Worked well. There are some good hints and tips on the Sailsetc website. Worth a read.

https://www.sailsetc2.com/index.php/products-by-class/international-one-metre-class/sails/sail-identification/stencil-for-rg65-insignia.html

Take a look at Rules Appendix E here:-

Race Report Sunday 1st October – Marbleheads …!!

Well done to Craig at the A Class Nationals!

At Datchet today we had 6 Marbleheads including Richard Jones’s brand new F-6.  Some of us expected to be in B or C1 rigs, instead it was A swing rigs, however the direction was sort of SSW with enough shits to make life interesting.  We managed 10 races and the results were;
1st Richard U with 14 pts
2nd Hugh 15 pts was plagued with rig failure
3rd Graham 23 pts
4th Richard J 27 pts new boat nerves?
5th Les 30 pts
6th Phil 46 pts damaged sheet post and two attempts at temporary fixes failed.
Richard with his Quark beat the later designs of F-5 and F-6s

As a heads up, the Ten Rater Rankings for next weekend have been cancelled.  So it will be Club Racing with Tens on Saturday and IOMs on Sunday

(Photos by kind permission of EH)

Plans to Make a Wooden IOM Stand

If you fancy building your own boat stand in wood, here are a couple of plans you might follow. It would be pretty economical route, so long as you have basic woodwork skills.

I’ve been using a wooden stand (maybe from these plans) on an IOM loan boat. There is something very satisfying about it.

The one extra thing I would suggest you consider is adapting the design so accommodate the next Class size up, (eg Marblehead), and also the next Class size down (eg DF95, RG65 etc). If you replace the keel support bar with a sheet of marine ply, so that all the fin lengths are covered… you get a universal stand!

Take a look at these two (very similar):-

http://nmsclub.org/boat-cradle

https://tomndi.blogspot.com/2015/04/rc-sailing-folding-wood-boat-stand-iom.html