Welcome back! It's great to see you again. I knew Shane was brilliant, but dang, designing the tooling to make carbon fiber prosthetic limbs... What can't this man do? And Anna, well done! It was good seeing some of your work and creativity showing through. I can't wait for the next episode!
Orient Express first to exit the America's Cup campaign. Guess we can see how those "cultural differences" paid off. Looking forward to future videos and your expert commentary.
Phew, I was getting a bit worried there - so good to see you guys back!!! Love the channel and your insights into the cruising (or not as the case may be!) world. Very interesting insights into the Gunboats too... I'd have either!
Hey guys, it's great to see you back. The video was a wonderful overview of your projects. Is there any chance we could see more of the rigging modifications you completed on the two monohulls ? You make a great team.
That video should be a classroom study on the psychologists open display of tact and diplomacy v’s frustrated talented engineer who feels he has been made to do something when he feels he has better things to do 🤷🏼♂️ Very interesting and enjoyable for me and I always learn something from you guys so thank you 🙏 I look forward to the day the pedal comes off the metal and you can get on with fitting out and enhancing your own boat and starting to enjoy yourselves. I see the French have since been knocked out so something was wrong there. Great sailors but OMG the arrogance 🤷🏼♂️
so good to see you guys back! Have to admit, glad you left the French team...don't want them being too good.... Just how does a mast jack work, is it underneath the base of the mast? I can see how that works on a mono but where do you fit it on a cat? Cheers Phil
Yes jack lifts the mast up and down and you add shims to get mast to sit at correct height. I'll try to get a video done while we have access to the gunboat
Shocking that Shane could not get on with a bunch of Frenchmen lol. Such interesting lives you lead and allways on the ragged edge! If you’d post more maybe you’d become a you tube sensation and get rich just being you! Good morning from Montana USA!
Interesting comments re the French approach. Sean Regan at ETNZ once told me that the last IACC monohulls built for Valencia were built over male moulds and they only used 2kg of filler per hull to fair them. I thought he meant 20kg but no he actually did mean 2kg which blew my mind. No wonder the frogs coukdnt cope!
oh cool waterproof zipper for jib fairlead. New idea to me. I'm very surprised the French team favored offshore/IMOCA people. Totally different to inshore racing. I'm sure the Gunboat would be fine for the family if you had a paid crew to clean and maintain full time :)
Thanks for the video! So our cat has is nearing completion with a Hall carbon mast with EC3 and Synapse load cells, no mast jack though. Can't the load cells act in a manner that allows for the whole system to be properly tuned?
Hey Kirk! Exciting news about your cat. The load cells will give you information on side stays but not your diamonds. For that you need the mast jack to get the tension correct. The mast jack is also way easier to deal with than tightening up rigging screws especially on a 50fter. There's a bit more to it of course but that's the general idea
@@youngbarnaclesgotcha, thanks for the explanation & makes sense. I’ve not seen this before, I’ll ask Alex from Hall about this. Have a meeting with Doyle guys in Palma tomorrow as well…I’m guessing it’s a few months too late to have this incorporated though. Thanks for all the input, I took your advice and all the dangly bits on our build are carbon fiber 👍🏻
