Is this the right name, for the cap tied onto the top of the sail ?
When I was packing up on Monday, I guess it was left on the trailer and blew off on the way home. It's missing in action!!!!!
I'm not sure why, or who removed it from the sail, but it's gone anyway.
We are very new to this game so that would explain it I guess!!!!
Does anybody have a photo of one, so I can sew up a new one and tie it on, " never to be removed again"!!!!!
All the other sails have "closed" webbed tops, if thats the right description, so I don't have a pattern.
Thanks guys, Chook
A piece of 50 mm webbing with each end folded over and sewn to make a loop
that will take 4 or 5 mm cord
The finished webbing needs to be about 120 mm long
Wrap the webbing over the top of the mast crossways and feed the cord through the loops and tie off at the right length at the back to the head of the sail
Job done
By George! Lazy Kangaroo you had best aught to APPRECIATE this and thank COREL.
I hope this is what you want. I have another where by the Tueban? is affixed via a Webbing strap that is attached to the sail and then folds back and held through a buckle allowing adjustment to different mast lengths.
Let me know.
Ron
PS. Note the Black Stitching down two edges. The mast stretched the web and the mast started to come through.
or the crazy trav version , which is a white PVA retic pipe end cap with a 5/16 hole drilled in it to take the rope, never seen it fail yet
Paul,
"Crazy Trav'" Damn! I could swear you're talking about my Son.
But shoot that would work and a lot less work though it wouldn't be an achievement thing
Ron
By George! Lazy Kangaroo you had best aught to APPRECIATE this and thank COREL."
I do, I do, I do!!!!!!!
Fantastic, many thanks for those excellent snaps at the different angles so I can get the idea of the construction.
I'll get busy tomorrow sewing it up. But only if it's not windy.
Had a bugger of a meeting after work that ran way over time. Then a mate rang and said the wind was up at the lake. I toddled down and slipped 21 kms in before dark. Not a lot of wind but in one gust achieved 51.9 kmh. It was just sooo relaxing cruising too and fro on the salt.
You guys are GOLD!!!!!
Chook,
You are most likely an intelligent man. Australia has so few of them these days due to Government Dumb-ing Down and it appears that what are left Dump the Idiot Box and head for the Large Car, Parks Salt Flats and Beaches. The rest watch the Idiot Box, Drink gallons of Booze and talk about women/men and Football and not necessarily in that order. Hmph! Over Commercialized Crap!
Anyway enough of the Bitching about what has happened to my country. Since the late 60's
Are your Masts all the same length?
All Pilots are not the same length, so one could make that Turban independently and use an adjuster strap (I have one if Pic's needed) to raise the sail and boom or use it as pictured and extend the top of the Mast according to Pilot Height or preferably Both for finer tuning.
The Call is yours. If you need a little Coaching I can always go through the Layout of the turban with you. (Pic's of the other Turban setup can be uploaded).
Ron
Hi Nikrum, thanks for the compliment!!!!
Don't get me wrong I don't mind a shandy on a hot day.
I don't like men and it's the girls mums that attract my attention now
Footy Hmmmm....... 36 grown men chasing a bag of wind round a cow paddock doesn't make too much sence to me.
Yes, I'm usually too busy to be bothered with TV.
I do like Sir David Attenborough, Myth Busters and Scrapheap challenge, when it's not repeats. I might see 3 hours a week if I'm bored. Sometimes I do have it on in the shed for the cricket.
I can't stand the news, as I have always been a captive audience driving tractors etc, when I was on my farm. Every bloody half hour in the mornings and then the wrap up on who farted where. Just s#*@s me!!!!
I pistol shoot, fly radio controlled helis, planes and gliders, kite buggy. I'm very involved with fire brigade, a private pilot and you guys just made me a yachty. That fills my week outside of work.
Enough!!!!!
Back on task. The turban that was lost, looked similar to yours but had rope to the sail and that adjusted the height. (I have used 350mm of a windsurfer boom straightened out as a mast extension and I machined up a wooden plug for the top.) Your photos show the layout nicely and are very much appreciated.
I will disappear now and construct one.
Many thanks everyone, Chook
Just about every sail I have has something different at the top
One of them just has a plastic plug with a rope sticking out of it that is attached to the sail
Shoot Chook that was just like looking in a Mirror
Break a Leg.
Hiko they are wide and varied but there ain't no challenge to have a simple plastic Pipe end. One must be able to lay on ones back and look up at a successful construct and say with Relish "I made that" and feel a swelling of Pride.
Ron
PS; Keep your thoughts pure lad. I didn't say Hard On.
Yeh found that out!!!
I short cut the system, as the machine wouldnt handle it even when turned over by hand. Took me ages to do a really botched job that I wouldn't sign my name too. It worked though.
Yesterday after work, the wind did come and go, but I managed to do 46.9 kms and a top speed of 56.1 kmh. We had a fat time with 4 of us whizzing about, and lots of 2 wheel action.
Still got a smile like I swallowed a coat hanger!!!!![}:)]
A german tourist saw the sails and called in. He was very hard to understand, but he sails on ice back home and was very interesting to talk to. They use a Y frame and a timber laminated suspension.
He had to go, as he had just pulled up in the middle of the road with his motor home and was stopping traffic. We wondered what the car horns were about.
Hope to do some more Kms tomorrow.
