Can I show you my carbon bowsprit - SAILBOAT REFIT
Welcome back to sailing NV, after 2 hot sweaty years on the hard stand in Fiji, transforming our Open 66 into a fast family cruiser, it’s great to be sailing again, and especially to be flying are giant gennakers.
This video is about the process we went through to modify our bowsprit to enable us to both fly our gennakers further forward as well as having a system to raise and lower our anchor.
Having a bowsprit sticking out the front to allow us to fly the gennakers further forward than the bow was important for us because our gennakers were designed this way as NV used to have a bowsprit in her racing days, so like this it keeps them far away from head sails and enables them to fly better.
This looks cruisey now - but the process of getting here wasn’t always so breezy.
The first step was to untie the bolts attaching the original anchor bowsprit in order to remove and remodel the setup.
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Caio! We are Timo and Jo, an Italian and English couple with countless ocean miles under our belts. We're refitting an ex Vendée Globe Open 60 race boat originally designed & built & raced by famous Hungarian sailor Nándor Fa. He competed in her in the 1992 Vendée Globe (round the world single handed race known as “the Everest of the seas”), finishing 5th, becoming the first non-frenchman to finish.
We are currently in Fiji giving this old gladiator a new lease on life, transforming her from an ex race boat to a performance family cruiser, which we'll need to make both dog and baby proof! We’re planning to set sail again in Oct 2022, so with limited time&money we have plenty of challenges ahead to turn our dreams into reality&get back on the water!
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1 окт 2024
