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APRIL 1974

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I many varied questions you have put to her. She vill now be able to
! ooncentrate on helping me vith ''The Sailormanf'. The nnmes of the new
1 Committee are given below.
I The lively debate at the A.G.M. made it clear that xost members sax
the Polynesian CatAmxran Aasociation as prixarily performing a cx u i-
cations fhnction. Individually a1l builders would have to make the same
mistakes and try the same solutions. By joining together everyone's
experiences and answers to problems can be shared, and by this xeans
much w ark and uncertainty can be avoided. In this issue you will al1
know what works, as far as engine installatiann are eoncerned. Por
instance, do no1 moant outboarda on the last beam on the larger designa.
1 In the next edition,
! due out in early December (pleaae note we have
dropped the Spring/linter description in deference to our members living
below the Tropic of Cancer, who either do not haee a Spring or Winter or
@ have Autnmn when we have Spring etc)
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teohavesomeAore interestingarticleslinedup. nnpwillbeadescrip-
n of what the R.Y.A. has to offer individual memberB lare you listening
Peter?). I also want to hpxv about the rigs and rigging of boats which
have been aailed this ye&z. Does your boat taek eavily with itB existing
rig? Have you tried something different and with what result?
Fave you made any changes to the stanâing an4 running rigging? Whxt about
poaitioning of sheet 1eads and winches (measurements please). !
''Tehini'' and crew were last h eard leav ing Antigaa, and are expected to
be making their way back to Milford Haven now , arriving in MsY.

Work load f or articles in this issue has been extrenely heavy , and it was
difficult to deciGe how to get everything in . Natarally, I an very pl easeâ .
that Members are now writing in and hope you will a1l keep up the good work .

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Chairnan John Corke, 140 Somerset aâ, Southall Miâdx.

Secretary Peter Davey. ''Little Selwoodn J6 Melville
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Ass* . Editor Su ssex. Joan L. Lewis H '' /
Hon. Treasurer Keith Seamle, The çaravan, N w Road St Bl e
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oeorge Payne, Tythe Rarn Eouse Combe Mxvtin,
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Secretary North Devon.
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ASSX IATION NEWS

J R'mmerMeeting 1974willamin bedown onthe ''Isleof Sli-nmrs'PORTI,

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1 9th, 10th, 11th Auguat 1*JL4
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k We again have the use of R.N.sailing Club facilitiee at H.M.S. Qeprey, which
J means we can ran the bar, use of the lounge, toilet and ehower facilities.
l programme will be arranged anâ details posted on the Sailinv Club Notice Board.
Saturdaz l0th Aueust is set aside for the Rxrbecue night. Beer available frox
the bar, but bring your own food. Anyone Musically incline: vill be welcome to
brinc instruments to play.
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A slide prolector wilk be available should members xish to bring their own
filz slides for show. Anyone prepared to form discussion groaps or give short
talka on specific subjects, such as rigging, engines, sexmxnship: are invited to
contact the Sailing Secretary, George Payne, or the Secretary, Peter Davey.

ZZLUNTEMWS to help each evening at the bar are required. We are hoping for a
good attendance of boàts at the xeetinc ao that xewbers vill have b0th the
opportunity to examine and sail in thex, owners and weather pevmq
'tting.

Last y ear we were able t o suggest Caravan sites at Gloaeester Caravan Park,
41 miles from Portlanâ. Bagwell Farx: 6 miles frox Portland,vrite to kr. Texto
Bagwell Farm, chickrell, Weymouth to make bookinen. Tent Sites available at
West Fleet FAVY: Pleet Weymouth, vrite to kr. Ballam and make bookings as soon
as possible. Also Bagwell Parx (aââreas as for caravan site). BeG and Breakfast
lodgings - places can be chosen from Weymouth oxidea (write to Conferenoe,
Ehtertainmonts and Publicity Dept, 6 Pulteney Bridge, Teymouth Dorset. ,
It would be rather potite to send eonfirxation of attendl
'ng the Sn-mer Meeting
to George Payne yoqr friendly Sailina Secretary, Tythe RRrn House, Combe Vxrtin
N. Devon.
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EINA ovner Earry crossley of 22 Pieree Street. olâhnm LanceAha're, Zngland would f
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like to renew correspondence vith çrn.
hn.m C= in Auatralia. > has been
busy making a P.C.A. bnrgee this vinter (there is as yet no standard burgee)
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Gerard Pitzpatriek of 266 Sutton Park. gutton Co Dublin Ireland. has fitted l@w
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aspect ratio keels (5,.deep l0' long) to his GR0 eqtter riggeâ bev-ldan ketoh,
would like to know if anyone else has ased this rig or fitted keels...... '

PRNPAL SCHY
OFerseas Memb ers Eave you felt out of things? Unable to fully enter into
the spirit of PCA? Perhaps a pen-pal in Aritain vould solve the problem of
your isolatien. If yon feel you would like to write to someone in this country,
to exchange ideas and inforoation, please write to Peter Green j Valmont Road,
Sherwood, Nottinyham. But the lâitor adde, don't forget the uae of ''The
SailormAn/ which is alao a means oî paasa'nc on ideaz, informntion# problexs
and solution to all Members
U X. Members PoT a lone time noe it haB been regretted tbat overseas *embers
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have had litlle aontact With Other memb ere. K&lur&lXy 1h*ir Yfing YidelF
ttereâ has mnHe this a difficult problem to deal xith. Would yOu be villing,
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therefore, to have a pen-pal abroad - Just one overseas member?. After all.
you may at least get talea of the sun ve are all hxnkering to seel If interestedr
please contsct Peter Green, j Valmont Road: Sherwood, Fottinèhaa, Telephone 61559
(after 6.JqpM) and let hi> know what vort of hoat you are interested in.
Y0U MZY NKKD A CRKW IN A NrRPY 1

Peter Davey. 3ecretary, reports that the list of xewbers vishine to act as crev
is slowly groxing. Eowever, the corresponding list of ownors needing crev has yet
to get off the ground. The moral here aeeas ** 141* your 0.n*, but in the Meantixe
would exieting boatowners who nay from time to tixe need a erev, please dzop a
I line to Peter Devey xell in advanoe of your lik@ly needlgive your telephone number
oreve should also give telephone number if they have one, beeaase of last xinute
iemand f0r 0reWB)@.............
BACK IGRHQR qp 'TFR 3AILOXQS'

P.Lupip a new member from clo S.M.T.F. B.P. 2248 Labumbashi, RhAba, Rep of Zaire
xauld like tc hear fron any member willing to sell him back copies.
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! WAXTKD 1 Daviâ Walker of I St. Nicholas Close, Copmanthorpe, York, would like
MAUI l ft hulls either part built or kit acceptable, can collect Phone York 6j447
Also loan of larger Wharram Cat for participatiol in 1976 Sinvle Wnnde; trans-
' atlantic Race. Bponsorship not s a&ght, bqt neither is chArter. Will fit out
personally to required epecificat ion. Also interested in creving on Wherrax Cat
in 1974 Round sritain Race............ $
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ttany , Pranae. It will be 1
bew-ndan rigge: and he would like to bear frow aqyone vho has msde thetr own sails
' also from aqr Prench Polycat buildera or owners. His address is 82 Rue de Grand
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1 'aubOlrg 28000 Chartes, Prance.
Robin White of oœtward 3o:1na Qirls School, Rhneniar, , Mbzioneth, Wales is t
looking for a part-built Tangaroa, or larger boat. Anyone who ia able to help t
please write hi..

&&n Wisoky of Hobart Taamxnia, makes a good point, ''The only thing xhiah worries
Me, is the number of people, who obange the or designl one wants a deuble
l bnnk in eachhull,anotherlifts thedeckby 4* or even9*yet theâesignerput l
i into the TINQ tvelve years oc experience and although being himself 6: J'' tall
' he considers Tane big enough for cm llsing. Tell?l O 'n also suggests we mxrk the
two'half zearly Journals by the months of issue, instead of Winter and Spring.
A good point, we forget in our smug vorld of Aritain tbat Australla is ujside
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own,.... lâitor haa tharefore marked the Spring 1974 isaue *Aprœl 1974
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We received a copy or a oarvellous article on Polycats froœ Paal Thompson,
printed in the Ipacific Yachting'. This is available for mm-hers to read also
we hope to receive a copy of the magazine for library oopy. Ee Mentions Toe An:
Don Xbmbzofr's Qro, Harold and Wendy Goddards Qro, Kric axith's NAY-i, Reg Wilson'
Tane. An altogeth er excellent piece of writing and xe hope he got well paid for
it......... ;

Tould al1 area Secretaries let Eâitor of 'The Slilovmxn' h ave a written report
however short of activities within their respeetive areas to print up for the
Winter, December 1974 Journal.

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Priday night /saturday 2jth May, members arrive by road, or boat, make way to
Queenborough Fard, where you will find 'Icarisina/ moored. Informntion vill be
given about caravan sites, beâ-breakfast, tent sites or moorings.

Saturday 25th May chance to look cver and sail on members boats, barbeeue in
the evening, with beer, bring your own chops, sausages etc.

O lnday 26th May Mass sail to Horse-shoe Island for lunch. weather permitting.
Egening - sing aong: on Dead Mans Island (opposite xoorings) bring your own
victuals.

Xonday 27th May chance to view Ted Johnsona new ereation in the form of a rnam
sandwich 0R0 in the building stage, where any sivice will be given .
For Bed-Breakfast advance bookings it will be neoeasary to send stamp addressed
envelope
CTO to Ted Johnson, 9 Strode crls, Sheqrneas. Also ;ed would like to hear
A meB:*49 Ehp exm:qt .to-n++ond Yhzs xest.
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POLYCNTS IN ULs7KR

Kenneth J. Sampson, 21 Ferndale Rd, Carnmoney, Nevtownabbey , Co. Antrim. very

l kindly wrote to us a long history of his building and sailing and frox time to
l time telephones us of n evs of the North
ern Ireland Polycats.
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Ken has now agreed to be area Seeretary for N. Irelxnd, which members please note.

We gather there are J Tane's being launched at the same time, and Ken will get
pictures taken, other designs are Hina, Tangaroa anG Narai planning to build ,
l there will be quite a colony of Polycats in no time.

Ken first heard of the Polyneeian CatAmnrans in the summer of 1968, at that tixe
' he was well into work on a l7' Lysnnder sloop by early 1969, but on reading an
article on Polynesïan Cats, he came to the conclusian that the Hina waa Just the
' boat for him.

Folloxing on froo convalescence, after a crack on the sM 1Rl received in a riot,

! ''A Policemxm'a lot is not a haypy onen..... he deeiâeâ to start work on his Hina.
1 After this decision he was again hit with a well aixed half brick in yet another
j riot and this delayed his building work until 1970. Al1 went well and he xoved
t the boat out into the garâen anâ set the hulls up level. Ee bought a l6' 6H
i length of Qcegon Pine and made himself a much admized mast, he also made his own
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! sprit . Tine paaaes and he weathered the delays of shipping strikes which held
t up delivery of sails etc, but finally the *ay arrived for launching in Augast.
f He was towed to his mooring, raised the sails and cast off. There was a Tair
breeze and he aâmits his pulse rate had doubled as he was on the verge or rindin I
$ outifa1lhisworkhadbeenasucceas. Al1wentvellan4HMorningStar'
i Belfast Lough. There were f car up
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, average weight l4i stones and this didn't
( hinder the perfornnnce. Eàving taken time to tack, gybe, and generally get to
know the boat, at the end of the day the nnAniaous decieion vas that they really
had a boat that would go places fast.
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He continued the rest of the summer to enjoy some good sailing. The following l
season he designed a couple of cabins eith Just enough room to sit and cook a
neal and with shelter enough to sleep in. During 1971 he pottered around fishing
and sailing every ahanee he had. In 1972 he had soae succese during a club raoe
one evening. Following about j minutes after the gun he chased after the boats .
; and in a Force j he charged past the entries, and finnlly ended up JrG in the Race,
I although Ken still swears he was nobbled as the t+o boats in front didn't round
one mark1.....+....1.....

It was Augast when he realized his dream to sail aoroas to Scotland . Tith an
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) ex-dinghymannowconvertedCatman,hemadeplnnn. Hefittedasmalloutboard
' engine, bought anseafaren R.F.D. A1l preparations m-de they set off one Priday
evening from Carrickfergus. The wind was pitiful and they fitted a ntype of
. apinmxker'' supported by a long pole, this worked well for a time but eventually
they had to stnwi the motor. They arrived at Fhitehead where they settled down for
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small cabin?......'f Once settled for the night Ken, began to think of a
larger cat - say a TANE. Next mornlng they set off with the wind in the N. E.
which increased and the sky became overcasl. White topped waves appeared and
spray fron the bows flew over the boat. rhe Scottish coast was not in sight
nor the Ulster coast. The wind they estinated was then Force 6, but they kept up
a11 sail. Oat in the rrish Sea amongst the big waves Ken
was experiencing the
seas for the first time, and admitted he was slightly frightened . Howev er, he
soon got over this feeling and even got his aovie caaera out and took a fe
w feet
of colour film. One thing worried him and that was the water laying in the front
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! decks between the bulwarks and the front beam as he hnH not mnHe the drain holes
; big enouch (at Port Patrick he put this richt). After three hours sailing they
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' SO&@ They were very surprised to see Ken cone sailing in from the sea in such an
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l easy manner. The answer to that was sinple , they should have a Polycat.
; 7he return journey was uneventful. Wind was in the S.W. bloH ng a steady Porce
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i $. A cruiser went down at the entrance of the Belfast bough during the morrkiM
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1 and one person waa ârowneâ.
1 Daring the winter Ken decided to s
ell ''Morning Star'' and she vas bought Ar
Dereok Mctean. It was a saâ experience really fer Ken as he had become very
attached to his Hina. Ee said he felt like a father would feel vhen 1eading his
I only daughter up to the altar to give her away to somebody else..................

Now came the Job of acquiring materials etc, for his new boat. Chatting up the
! forenan in charge of demolitioq work etcl one day strolling through a plywood
7 warehouse he found a pile of 1
3 Israeli plywood sheets and talking with the
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Asst. Manager, who had forgotten the timber was there, he did a deal for f2.
1 asheet. Laterhemeta chapwhofirat of all intended tobuilda l7'Lysand
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1 sloop: but on talkinc hin out of it, he also ended up building a TANE . Ken having
1 decided to sheath his boat with GRP talked things cver with his nel foand friend
t and they decided to pool resources and he admits that at times two heads are
j better than one. Kents boat ia altered slightly to suit his fxmsly. who are keen
j sailors. Ee has used atringers 11''instead of â''anâ the cabins are wider thRn
; standard with a curved roof. Ee will fit s drop table attached to the shelf in
l the galley hull so the family can sit sideways for meals. The deck will be the
usual slatted type. Eis hatch covers will eooe from timber panels from olâ offiee
counters and for here and th ere he has been given some pieces of oak, and mmhogany
Ken then got down to the work of building, once he did get aide tracked and put
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people.
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Sheathing came next and he and his other Tane building friend saved up for the
mat and resin (hence he says, not being able to cooe to the P.C.A. Annual General
Meeting). They found this Job very hard work stippling glass onto plyvood hulls
but with persistence and hard work the Job was done.
Spring 1974 - he hopes to complete and launch ''Mitikele'e nnmed to include a1l
the family, MI = Michael TI = Timothy (sons) KE = Ken JS = Jeantwife)
Gary the other Tane builder and Ken hope to launch their boats together and there I
iz another Tane at Strangforâ Lough being launched atound the same time. Apyone
interested to Journey to Ireland can contaot Ken by Telephone Glengor-ley 445J0
for the actual launching date and time.

Dave Morris at Larne, built a Tane laat y eer and is sctually sailing the pants
off everything, including a Nicholson Jj.
We are sure in the troubled times of Ireland all wish Ken and his fnmn'ly happy
aailing on HMitikelen and look forward to œore nevs of their sailing adventures.
We have some pictures of l'Morning Star'' Ken's Hina ,
folder for maxbers to see at the P.C.A. meetings. in the Builders/sailing
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1 WIXD m SAR Roland and Ginny Huebsch. Ontario. Cnnxda

I beli eve there is a law of meteology

that states that the fairness of the
weather is inversely proportional to the
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anount of time available to enjoy it. Chi
* % was certainly true this year with the
finest sllmmer in years combined with the
busiest work schedule I have ever had. The
only trip of any distance we made was
across to Niagara on the Lake and back a
distance of J2 miles each way. This waa
aeomplisheâ without inciâent or Aach speeâj
the vinds being very light. Finally, t+o j
days before I intended to haUI Huaheine
out in November she was struck on her
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moorings by a 40ft trimaran that had 1
broken loose in a gale. Her mooring lines
were ripped out of her and part of the
bulwarks carried away. Fortnnn.tely, she
separated from the trsmmran and blew l
ashore right at the foot of the club ramp,
and some members who were present hauled
5r:l1 her up without sustaining further iamage.

All the work this summer means I now have

enough money to start shopping for materia s

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the work on the house taking longer thnn
anticipated (isn't this always the case?).
(See left) a sketeh of the methoâ I use
to hold up the sprit on Euaheine. When
the wooden pin is pulled the whole thing
comes free, leaving only the strenmline;
wooden ehoek and grommet around the mast
which does not interfere with the luff
laeing.

Roland Euebsoh also produoed the front cover sketch for this issue of HThe
Sailormann.........

Gzaham Cox, Poste Restante Aucknlxnd New Zealand as from February 1974.
has sold his Qane not quite completed. and now has a ketch HPoemefl a converteâ
whaler, painstakingly prepared for circumnavigation over tens years by an old
man who then found out he was too old to go. Graham is now off to New Zealanâ
across the Tasman and later on into the South Pacific -

It is difficult to keep up with him he moves so fast, but we wish Graham a

safe Journey and look forward to hearing again of his adventures.
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NAVIGATION - Not an exaot sci
1hycommnnderJ.w.p.sriggs.Rqyalwavy enceinaSouthCoaslTane
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oger the past two years very fev seagoing veasels oan have been navigated xith
quite euch a laok of skill, let llone exactituâe, ssoT-> Mào Mào. 0h xamy
occasions errors of 50/ in distance made goo; and J0 in coursea -xae goo: wave
been aehieve; - no mean feal. Her ovner's gualificatione inolu;e 25 yoe*a at aea
and commmad of a nn-hor of xarshipsp includ'
lng the Royal lèvy 'a navigatinnnl
1 training frigate far 21 ymAr:.
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! It may therefore be helpful to other Polyoat owners to tzy and explain hov
; and vhy aueh ineptitude occur, nnd what can be done to i>preFe. However, in the
final AnAlyeia the beet poeitinn- will alvays b* obtained verbally fraâ -- 11 boys1
with buckets and epades on sandy beaehee.

Assqxing the departure port is knovn, often but not always 1he case, then

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lobater pot floats, buoys or veasels at anchor. At 10 knota one knot of crosa
ateaa neeGs a 60 aim-off.
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j especially xhen hroad reachihg at sp#ed. â vell-sited coopass poaition close
1 ahead of the helxemxn helps. In a Polycat one needa a separate aounting on eseh
hull. I only have one, amidshipa, xhich produces splendid steering errors,
especially at night, since we alvays ateer fr an the windvard hull.
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These lnnlude dodging other craft, buzzing slower yachts
an* using ancienl eharts with hopelessly out-of-date magnetic variatinnn on them .

Sometimes all these errors cancel. You kno. vhen this has happene; because 1
you arrive in exactly the right place . In particular, steering errors and leeway $
often act against each other. on the other han;, they can all accumulate to put
one into the vrong cmlnty, if not the vrong cOantry.

Now comes the second ingredient to a decent reokoningl speed oade good . I
't affori even one Gecent log let alone one in eaoh hull needed for an aecuratei
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answer in any oat. One can use a chip log and a atopxatoh ( with 17 feet between
knots on the line over a 10 seoond run) but thie only gives speed over the ten
seeon*s concerned, not the distance run cver, say, foar to teenty-four hoqrs.
Qpeeds v%ty so Much as a Polycat accelerates dovn a eave and then slows up again
not to mention wind changes that the ansver ie boond to be inseeurate. I prefer
to tow a Mackerel spinner to a log and so I guess the apeeâ by looking at the
wake and suhstracting two knots ky day an* three by night in my own boat.
one should adG the aame amount in other people'a craft. Tidal etreaa alohg the
traok is important, especially over odG numbers of six hour periods in ooastal
and chxnnel waters. Usually one is astern of dead reekoning , espeeially at night
when that quiver in the luff is harder to aee. This is no >ad thing sinoe running
full tilt into eliffe in the dnrk is a glooqr vay to be awakened from a dren-l eaa
sleep at the helm.
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h It should be remembere: that the radius ot the 'ctrcle ot error' increases
) steadily with time. It is quite a good idea to spin a pair of compasses around
one's cherished 'dead-reckoning) position every few hours to eee vhether any
lhorrid rocks, wrecks or unlit buoys in the dark may suddenly be alighted upon
expensively and at great speed.

I Kventually this radiua becooes so large that a good old-fashioneâ ffix' is

tcalled for to establish a new Geparture pointl hopefully within the circle of error
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jFixrs come from not less than two position lines which should 1ie at not less than j
r U - to each other
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bearingsofknownoblectsorcurvedsuchasdistaneesfromknownoblects. Theycanl
also be odd-shaped such as from soundings related to fathox lines on the charts .
rhe great thing is to use a1l position lines available at the time and the more the
merrier. A fix of two linea gives no vArning if one of them is shaky .

Eere are some of the types of position lines that I have founâ aseful in
1m> Mao Ma0:-

a) Compass Bearings. A small hand-hearing (or prismatic) compass is O.K.

prcgiding you let it settle (or take the mean of any residual swing) and keep it
away froo ferrous metal. A traneit of two known oblects in line is best of all
since this gives you your compass error as vell.

b) Ranges. Raising or Gipping a light is easy. The charted range of the

light is for a height of eye of lj feet and needa reducing by 2 miles in a Polycat.
Guess-timating ranges can be a help if you have no eextant for vertical angles
against charted heights. From a height of eye of 8 feet the aea horizon is Ji
Imiles away for instance. Blaving your foghorn at a steepish shore gives a good
1range too. 9/10 of the time between blast and eoho in seeonds is the distance
!off in cables.
c) Soundings. You may need to heave-to to get useful soundings over 5 !
fathoxs but if you allow, i.e. subtract the predicted height of tide , you can get
an excellent, albeit crooked poaition line in a xell-charted area . Nature of the
bottoa can be significant. If so then remember to 'arm' your lead vith tallow or
grease.

d) Highly Miscellaneoqs. These includel-

i. Tell defined shipping lanes @nd cross-chxnnel ferry i
routes.
ii. c lmulous oloud formatinnA over high ground that is
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that one can land up at the right harbour entrance in bad visibility after
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foul tides and cut corners when Tacing or near pub closing ti-*. The seAmon may
risk hia luok a little vhen the tide is rising and the botto. is soft but at other
times a aliw 7 foot boathook xarke; every foot prgFi4ea quiok anâ aocurate
sounâings insiâe the one-fatho. line. Use of the hAndbearing ooppaas oan minq-ise
risks in the tightest oorners. There are basioally two teohniquesl-

a) Runnin a Bearin . Choose a conspicuous mark ahead (or astern) on the

safe approaeh or departure) eourse. Note the magnetic compass bnering from the
chart and get your vessel onto this line in good time steering to allow for drift.
The trick is not to take a b earing of the mark but to look along what the bearing
should be. It will then be obvious which way to turn to oorreet, an; how muoh.

b) Use of clearing bearings. If you are beating or may have to avoid other
craft then the safe limits either aide of the chnnnel can be kept vithin by ,

mnnoeuvering betveen limiting bearings of a head or etern mxrk. These are knn-n
as 'olearing bearingsf.

$ These techniques often *epen: upon knovind the height of the tide at the
itime. Where there are two high (and lov) waters eFety day, as in nxropean vaters.
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pthis is very simply done by using the proportions of 1, 2, J, J, 2, 1, for each
suocessive hour either side of the nearest high and lo+ waters. This is applied
to the 'range' i.e. the difference Yetveen high anâ lov water heights from 1he
ltide tables. For example. if the heights are 14 feet H.W. and 2 feet L.W. and it
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!is 4 hours after H.W. then the range is 14-2 i.e. 12 feet. The proportinnn above
add up to 12 in all so each is vorth l foot in this case. Four hours after H.
lmeansl+2+J+Ji.e.lO,sotheheightoftideis12feet. W.
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I find that when there is only t+o feet under the keel, speed Grops, the
stern settles Geeper anâ the quarter vaves eteepen and start breaking. Th1s is
where one's seaman's eye can aave a crumblea vhen every other preoaution has been
neglecteâ.
Some 'hardy annuals' that have causeâ me to be subjected to public huxiliation arel-
I a. Not taking soundings xith safrieient frequency
b. Wishful thinking, especially regarding one's speed and ground to winiward.
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I d. Beating up very narrow chxnnels against the ebb rather than use a few
l pintsofpetrol.
ith the very limited space in a TANE what equipment do I take? Plastic envelopes
or the f:w pre-prepared passage charts are a must. Tide t ables, the Chxnnel Pilot
an elderly Adlard Coles 'chxnnel Harbours' colprises the library. Dividers,
onpasses (for range position lines) and a douglas protractor (instead of pA*Allel t
lers) are a1l essential. I used to take a sextant for ranges and latituâe Yut it
idn't earn it's apace. rhe hand-bearing and steering compasses are :0th saall .
strels with interchangeable fittings.
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nally, I would emphasise that it has to be a mighty unpleasant grounding to
ompete vith even a xoderate collision so please never be tempted to neglect a sea-
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am le

In the example a Polycat left Port A at 1700 and her skipper conyidered that the
arious drift errors cancelleâ so he steered the direct course of 28o magnetic. Ee
stimated his speed as 12 knots, laid off his dead reokoning and from this concluded
hat he would Hraisel' the island light at about 2000. At 1900 he sighted the well-
own silhouette of the A - B ferry some two niles to Port shortly before sunset.
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i By 2045 he was getting worried and he wondered whether there was coastal fog
off the island. Just in case, he decided to heave to and sound at 2100. Just
as he did so he sighted the island light to the South '
#est, bright and clear on
the sea horizon. A corrected sounding put him on the rive-fathom line, some
four miles to ötarboard of track having only made good 10 knots. He then turneâ
' towards the North East headland and fixed again before crossing the clearing
bearing of the dangerous vreck. OFer well-laced coffee, safely at anchor in
$ Port3 at 2245,heanlysed theplssagewithhis crew asfollovs:-
a !
. A combination of wishrul thinking, dirty bottom and an evening j
passage had caused him to overestimate his speed by two knots.

b. Broad-reaching, they had made very little lee-way but had steered
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WIND AND SAIL

Vould yOu like to sail NAK'?

Ghe is moored at Watermouth Cove near Illfraeombe, North

Devon and is available for qhRrter for day/veek. deepsea/
inshoreyfishing/sailing with skipper.
If you bring the family or come with friends, we
can offer one of the following arrangementsl
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1 Sleep and cook aboard Raka
1 Tent in a fse1a nearby
Bed, breakfast, evening m ea1 in gaesthouse.
Mà ificent coastline. safe beaches, secluded ccves. Any
Plan discussed with pleasure. Write tœ t-George Payne,
Tythe 3arn House , Castle Street, CoMbe W rtin, North Devon.

l xo szvx zwxcwaow by codfrey stephens, victoria 5.c.

Tinter is upon us, and at last I have some time to write to ''The SailormAn'l for
those interested in what has happened since launching qy crazy Tangaroa size Cat,
which has no nane yet. April 197J, I rigged the boat in Victoria xith a fabulous
1 old set of poles from a wreek called the Cantatta, a 28 ft, Sea 3ird Yawl, with
l new dacron gafe rigged sails which I got for j2j0. I took off with very little
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I with everything reefed as far as it would go, I arrived at Vaneoaver and bought
some used sails to adapt and a phenominn.lly long shaft Seagull, 47
a feet long,
which pushes her reliably, when there is no wind, and can be hauled up completely E
but of the way when not in uae. It is a Silver Seagull l0 Canuk h.p. - 6 British.
With lots of gass, food, and a huge pile of collected hardware, as I am contin-
uously builâing and changing things, I toak ofr alone North to a hidâen cove, anâ
next day had an incredible passage surfing nearly al1 the way to Hornby Island.
Had to keep it very cool because the bows tended to dig in when those beautiful
canoe sterns lift t o the wave and then the incredible push. I have since learned
to reduce sail and not run dead down wind in a huge following sea. I have since
childhood been stunne; by the fantastic dugout canoe of Captain John Voss, the
''Qilie tm' which sailed from Victoria to England at the turn of the Century. It is
now in the Màritixe Museum in Victoria. Rrought back here from Canvey Ialand in
l92j. His book describes sea anchors in great detail and will experiment with
them in different conditions when I take off next year for the Great Southern
Ocean. Anyway, I made it J00 milea up to Blackfish Sound and the ancient Indian
land around Alert Bay. Fad some fabulœD sailing and met a lot of wild people,
including Dr. Spong who is very staunch in trying to wake people up to the intelli
gence of whales. Anyway made it around Cape Scott, and into Winter Earboar where
Captain Cook anchored. This is where the fun began. Stormed in and waiting for a
westerley to blow me down the west coast of Vancouver Island. I took six Cxnndian
4 T.V.film crew out in a really brisk wind in the big harbour. They were waiting
l to go towilâ Triangle Island to film the Puffin birds. We were really moving anâ
! just a coamic churning river of white water between the hulls, and terrific strain
on everything, but so Much fun, cameras going like msd. I worked it into a super l
reach and a huge gust came out of a cleft between the mountains, and BANG the mast
snapped and broke right at the throat of the gaff Jaws and three sails went over
board.
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WIND AND SAIL contd ... N0 NAME TANGAROA

I yelled asking if everyone was O.K. Yesl 0h the scarry thrill of a dis-
mastingl We pulled everything aboard and limped back to the dock, where I
got an o1d trolling pole anâ spliced this to the top of the o1d mast, and used
this to get 1j0 miles to Ucluelet. on Wickaninnish Island I cut a 55 foot
Sitka Spruce, peeled ofr the bark, lopped off the knots and stuck it up in a
really heavy 2 x 12 yellow cedar tabernacle. The 2H thick c lmwood ones I had
before split and bent a Jn bolt double, when the mast came down.
In Vcluelet Harbour, I worked on everything; 18 turnbuckles and h eavy
fishermans 7 strand galvanizeâ wirer a 2 x 12 yellow cedar plank runs the wholet
length extending beyond the netting beams which are sitka spruce poles al1 heavy i
;
' duty stuff. The plank is 56 feet and is great to walk on to tend the three
headsails, the bow sprit is bolted to this plank. It looks powerful with cables
and chains to take up stress. I am so indebted to James Wharram for enabling me
to get mobile and l earn the ways of th e sea, and have a home which can go any-
where. I think Janes may be a bit shocked in some ways, if he sees this one.
3ut I am sure he would like the strength and nataral wood everywhere . Lots of
driftwood and natural u ees of Red Cedar roots to hold the pl= ked bulwarks
solid with real scuppers. The bulwarks are three l'' x 4'' plnnks, instead of i
i
I 6hastly pln ood. I have given more sheer to the actO l hulls by beM ing the 1
top bow and stern top strinrrs about J''up the stem and screwing them on# and l
when the bulwarks were on, built boxes alxost back to the hatches a1l rotm d so
there are buoyancy chamb ers fore and aft, which are planked her ing bone style
< th Red Cedr . Looks very beautlful . All the decks and bulwarks and woM are
oiled with an ancient method. Pine tar, Linseed oi1 and Qarpentine. I would
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never varnish wood after the rich mellow dull colour of pine tar. A steering !
1 wheel motmted anidships on the port side so I can steer from the cabin hatch, '
1 and feel the wam th of the Little Dot IronwoY stove fu1.1 of good B.C. bark. (
The wheel is connected to the tillers by a system of pulleys lm der the deck. t
If you want to steer using the tiller instead of the wheel # simply untie the 1
I lines. The mizzen at this tixe is bermudan, an old Jib hanked onto a cable i
pulled taut with a tarn buclrle. œ e day this sllmmer I looked up from a sculp- '
ture I was carving on the deck, and th ere was Gregory Warnick and Barbara. Jast
; in on their fkrst voyage in a heautiful little keteh Tane Hsherazaden with
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flaming red Junk sails, a dog aboard, and two amoking wood stoves puffing aray.
i 0h what a fantastic summer. We sailed tied togetY r screaming up the Albernie '
Canal from the graveyard of the Pacific. Barkeley Sound and the Wildly wonder- '
ful west coae of Vancouver Island . We sail ed right up the SnmAss River and 1
anchored midstream. Eibatches cooking, pots of coffee and salmon gifts from j
friendly fishermen, and embibing of a1l sorts of intcxicating licquors that Justl
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l made everything perfect. Naked with :ur girl rriends diving into the river. :
We sailed to Victoria together and all through the Gu- lf Islands. Someboats we
met were a Gulfweed by Harm a, a D iendship Sloop ; a nearly completed Narai with
o1d tarps for sail power, and Mike Pmrkerst r een junk rigged Narai. Gregory t
is a firm lover of wo* also, where ever you can use it, he has sections of ;
o1d mahogany (packing cm tes for Japaneae xot> cles. Got to tell you of a 1
storm I was in. In sight of lard , and able to rtm in if it got too heavy. 1
I forced the boat to do all kinds of antica to see where so> of the weak points
would be to f:
LI and strengthen, and being aline I did not have to worry about
JeopaM izing anyone else. I ''Ocean Kekshe '' literally crashing into the breaking
waves knocking the slats up. Ripped w hœ dsail to shreds, stretched the 1
rigging so much If11 hr e to take up the slack of the chnins, took wavea broad l
side, and got one hull almost out of the water with a knife ready to cut the I
mainsheet. Wowl it really can take a smashing. I am leaving for sure, l
weather permitting, end of Gpring 1974, either for Hawaii and onwards into !
perfect beauty. Hope I neet al1 of you and will show you lots of photographs,
paintings and wood carvings. Meanwhile shoulâ be glad to h ear from yoa. P.O. Box
1656, Tictoria, B.c. canada.
Godfrey Gtepehens..................
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! HAMMER NAILS AND A BIT 0F GLUE
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There is a etrange phenomenon that happene when you build a boat. You build the
hulls upside down, turn them, deok thew and buil4 in the furniture. Then you
loin the. up, fit the mast-ateps an4 deoks. Finally, you launoh. T--ediately
lhere ia a ohange. You no longer have a building proleot bu1 a boat. And this
boat is no longer a part of you bu1 iniependent, with a personality anG oharaoter
of her oxn. You aee, Ifve aaid her ovn. Up tilk nov it's beeh 'it'. lowp
however, you find youdve got a la*y to (eal with an4 if ehe'a a Polyneaian
Catamaran, a beautiful lady. Por there's one thing about Jim 'a designs, they lre
always beautiful. And when you see thi: lovely thing aeross 1he vater, riding to
her xooring, the y ears spent building - in our case three an; a half - fade away
and you Just eanwnt believe that you ereated her.
We started LRHAVA HAYAK (Hebrew for fFlame of the Sea', because or her red
ooloar) Mày lst 1970 in the garden of ohr oottage in Sussex. Because I had very
little faith in my skill aa a oarpenter, let alone a shipvright, I'd put ofr
building her myself for some 1wo and a half years vhilst I looked around for some-
one to buil: her for me. kind you, Anne had no suoh qualxs, being quite convinced
that I could eonnge it an* enoouraging me to go ahead. I proteste; qr incoppetenc
louâ and long but to no avail. I uaed pr tm zop eard, pointing out 1he gar4en woul
be messe; up by turning it into a shipyard. That didn't xatter, ahe saiâ, we
coald put it right aftervards. And ae for wy lack of skill, haân't I had enough
oarpentry practise modernising the eottage? so I gave in and boughl the osterials.

I deoide; on the b eat materiala that I oould affor4 And for three reasona.
Firstly, I knex it was going to take a long tiae (though I didn't know quite how
long) and it se---d ridiculous to spend all that td-m and effort on rubbish.
Seoondly, with th reserFations I had about qr akill I theught that really goo;
materials vould an-ohow compensate for qr deficieneies in that direotion. lnâ
lastly, I am by religion an orthodox ooward and I vanted a nice strong Yoat that
I hoped, would not fall apart the fitet t4-o we toek her to sea.

In his plans, Jim speoifies î/ ply for the hulls. Wxny fine hsrails have
been built using thia thickness of Douglas fir plyvood, However, I pluxped for
Thn-es Màrine ply, :* for the Gecka and Q* for the hulls. %o eaae Mr oonscience
! as far as the extra expense .as concerne; I msde the bulkhea;s of :N exterior
, grade WPB ply. I nox realixe; that py tvo and a half years of vaiting were Ay no
Keane waated. I had seen auch of other people'l cats, read quite a bit about
materials and construction and this stood xe in very good stead. #or glue, I
decided on resoroinol, at least for the hulla (1 uaed urea for the deoks) an; I
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Xow, I knov that Jim built TEHINI vezy vell uaing gslvondzed nails. But I waa '
going to do the structural work pretty well on qr ovn ehich vould oean nobody with
a Golly on the inside being steadily deafene; vhilat I hn--ered in the naila frox
outside. The other lmportant decision I -*de .as about the aheathing. I woul;
use nyloh and sheath the hulls up to the gunwales.

Now, the nice thing about building a Polynesian eatx-oran (at least. a
l xooden one) is the enormously rapid progresa you oAke to start xith. You really
get quiok resulta. Within a veekl I'd lofted ou1 the boat on sheeta of hardboard.
l made all eight bulkheads for :0th hulls and was v-Rl on the way to completing one
l baokbone. rhe folloving week sa+ the first ae1 of bulkheads ereeted vith the
baokbone slotted into place and the start of atringering up . Ar the tioe May
+a, out, the first hull was ready for plxnking. Here I oade a slight alteration
; to the plans. In the normal way, the plywood plxnka are glued an4 soreved (or
; nailed) to the inner keel of 1* thiek softvood. A:wne this is a rather important
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l join, I âeoideâ to double up this seaa. I did this by glueing anâ serewing a
li'ffillet all round the edge of the inner keel.
l;70, you Msy recall, *as a xarvellmln sn--er. In fact I .as held up
i only once, right at the start, by rain. It waa a real heatvavel The trouble
I ,
when you build a boat out of doors in a heatvave using glues that go ofr in the
wnra, is that you have to work in a very great hurry . Here is where I found qr
deciaion to use screws paid off. Each plank .as marked , predrille; and the
countersinks were boreG. I then called for Anme. 7h11st 8he put the Aerodul on !
the stringers, I did the aame to the plank. It +as lifted into place and an t
;
1 average of 70 acrews were driven hoxe. I bless the povered screvâriver I used, i
I can tell youl Basically, this is a simple gadget that fits into the chuck of a
z-speed i/ drill. lnne vould pop the screxs into the holes whilst I drove them
in and so efricient is it that she had to hurry to stay ahead af me. Aa soon as
a plank was fitted, we oleaneG off the surplus glue . Me vere meticulm zs about
r this having aeen so xany boats Made ugly by massea of hiieoua glue n xns. And it
was then that Anne started the heroic task that xas to continue throughout the
bqilding. KFery one of the thousanGs of screeholes ahe filled and rubbed down
. j
Trimming away the edge ply preparatory to 1am7*n*ting on the keel is a
laborious Joh and I thought it Juatified buying a power plane. However, when it
r cn-o to it# whilst the power plane oade a terrifio noise,
it wasn't very effieient
and I fmand it better to use Mallet, chisel and blook-plane
' . It was only when it j
l
came
b to shaping the keel that the power plane *as at all usefql. Perhaps if IId !
lught a better one, - say , a Wolf or a Black and Decker it msght have been More t
,
efficient.
1 I The xakers of mine have sin ce, I gather, gone out of business. t
neidentally, I xade another ohange frω specifieations in the skegs. I used two
( thicknlsses of ;''ply, giving me a thicknees of liN rather thmm three thicknesses
j of :'Igiving lin. I also set them in differently. After shaping them to the keel
I glued and screwed a strip of wood 1''x li''to eaoh side, then glued and screwed
the skeg into place through these stripa. The first lamination of keel waa slotted
around it, the other two closed over this covering 1he Join and giving a very i
atrong setting. At last the day came when we could no longer put off sheathing
,
which
11 xe :0th Greaded and, heart in Aouth, I cut py first 40' length or 56.. vidthl
ounce nylon.
When you sheath a boat with nylon, you atick the c10th to the wood using
resorcinol glue. Obvioualy, the feeer the number of senm-, the better the
finished job will be, so the first thing to do is to mark out xhere you expect
the seams of your panel to come. rhen you tape round this ueing 2* or J'' Sello-
tape or s oxething *nq
' '1ar. A stapling gun is essential,
loadeG with i''staples,
and maases of il wide battens (we cut up hoodboard). Yo= also need squeegees.
I These need only be pieces of hardboard, about 6' ' x J* vidth vith the edges sand-
papered nice and s*00th. Each section of c10th has to be put on in one eontinuous
operation - you cannot l eave it in the middle and cope back to it the next day
for the glue gets into the nylon, hardens, and you oxnnot xlke it stick again.

We starteâ by stapling the nylon into poeition in the middle of the hqll
We spread the glue over a three foot area .
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1 the nylon (without it ooming right through) and to get as thin a fila of glue as
possible. And you want to make the nylon as tight as youccan . You then staple at
the end of the piece you fve done and along the top and bottox edges. Then you do
another
th three feet. ànd so on until you finish . às soon as a panel was âone nnd
e glue set, it was painted to within about 5* of the seam vith Cascote. 'hls is (
a vynl !
paint xade hy Borien Chemicals Ltd for uae in their own
system . nylon sheathing 1
:
Casccver. cascote is expensive but extremely good f
make the nylon c or, not only does it '
oxpletely waterproof, but it also aeems to aet
on it like
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laircrartdope,xaktngitveryhard.
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l Wefoanditbesttoworkinadefiniteorder. Pirstwedidthelongpanels,
one each side, fron the gunwales up as far as 1he c10th alkoved. Then ve
sheathed the skeg (bringing a 2* overlap dovn onto the keel - al1 senmq need to
; be 2'.). Next, we did the keel, and finally the stempost >nd sternpoet. And it
was a proud day when we had the first hull fully sheathed an; painted vith Cascote,
knowing that it waa proof against any weather that might coee. And it hadn 't taken
very longe either. In order that we could most benefit froœ the experience gain ed
1 from the first hull, I decided to tackle the second one right axay - fortunntely l
;
; there's room in the garden - and I looked forward eagerly to seeing two beautiful d
hulls standing th ere side by side. 1

: on the lst of ôctober. five monthe to the day froœ the etart of building, the
Ivillage football team assexbled to turn the hulls. I felt that, using the system
i I'4 vorked out, the Job could be done by about half a Gozen xen and I aasuxed that,
l of the eleven brawny rootball players vho promised to coxe about six would actaally
1 appear. But I didn 't take into aceount the euriosity of 'everyone in the village
j to see #hat I vas up to and vhen it came to it, no less tu.n seventeen turned up1
j In an hour ve'd turned b0th hulls, fed everyone vith cider and san4viehes and the
I football teaï waa away. The aotual tnrning xa8 done with four 12 foot levers of
j 2''x $''wood. When one hull vas turned, we transferred them to the other hull
l and turne; that. A lever is laid along the hull against each of the centre cabin
I bulkheads. The other levers m 1n underneath the hull and are blote; to the 'legs'
of the oentre eabin bulkheads and to the first levers. You nov have a very strong
'scissors'arrangement. The fraaee for eupporting the hulls right xay up oannist 1
1 of three pieees of jN x 2'' timber bolted and roughly Jointe; together to a 'U' 1
shapewith triangulaticna to keep it rigid. Diagnn-l grooves are cut in theup- j
rights to take 2* x 2'' wood 'knuckles' that vill bear against the hull and support
l it.
' For turning day
I , half of each frame waa demonnted And bits of carpet nailed 2
r to where the keel woAld rest. Ealf of the team lifted the levers until the hull
lreaoheâ the point of balance (when you lift the hull,everything coxes off the 1
I grouwa except the 'lege' or the centre oabin and it was very reassuring to know tba'
s
' the weight of the hall +as being taken hy good soli; levers instead of two pieces 1
1
of J''x l''vood). The other half of the teax lowered it with the levers until the :
hull lay on its eide, the support frame being held upright in poeition. All we had l
to :o# now, was to unbolt the leFers and raise the hull until it atood in the frn-o!
1 The other half of the frame vas qutckly bolted baok into place. carpet-eovered !
I 'knuckles' G olaxpe4 into position (until they could be boltedj an4 we were ready t
)
Ito
'
go on to the next hull. Ineidentally, so good *n4 efficient vere our frames
that I never had any qualms that the hulls might fall over. #or two and a half
years they stood there, firmly and securely holding them up. 1
oone the football team left, I walked round in a kind of daze. I really i
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about anstart
to -that j
ibuilding a boatl As I said earlier, it had been a really dry slzmmex. But on the
ntght of october 1st, it rained. And hov it rainedl Next morning I n early hxa a
fit at the sight of gallons and gallons of water slopping about in py beautiful
new hulls. But though I didnlt think so at the time, nature vas being kind to xe.
lp
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the hulls, put w unused ply sheete = 1o them to M 1 as agood,
with tarpaulins. I Gon't suppose it 4id the pln oo; av
roof,but
andI'
cA ered this
> sure it
j
GiGn't d.o it xuoh harm eithe .
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jjBUU.tMING OF,LEHAVAjHàYAMjj , j
1
;We had nov co- to the conclusi= that we must sheath the decks too. In faot# as
l time went by we got hooked on sheathing so that everything tM t could be sheathed
,
jwas sheathed. That included the beams and even the decking betveen the hulls. And
$it *as at this etage that we mnHe another alteration to the plane. txzr boat vas
1
) oing to be for ua. That ia, vhilst N ests or orev woald be velcox from time to
!time, in the xain she waa going to be sailed by Just the w o of us. Therefore,
1
her acco- ndation had to give the maximum comfort for the two of us. We wanted a
really big galley; that x ant no space in the centre cabins wasted vith side decks
Ior entv -hatohes. We also wanted a proper marine loo in each hull placed ehere
tthey coulâ be :omfortably use;. Finally, we insiateâ on a âouble berth that woulâ
kgive mc e room than the deaigned vidth. This we achieved by raising the deckhead
l
rof the after osbins by about a foot, startie at the outermost deck-stringers. Al1 l
!we ha4 to do now was to raise the bunkboard of our cabin and we had much more width.
(Wedivided thecentrecabin ofthe 'sleepinglhull intothree,usingpartialbulk-
theads. In the middle section I put a Headland loo with a eash-hand basin opposite.
1> ch of the outer sectiona has its own entry-hatch. In this way, by curtaining off
1the loo, eaeh berth has its own entry- vestibule-cx -dressing rox .
1
i The port hull ie the 'day' hull Entry is through a
' hatoh in the for
tthe afler oabin. Partiaà bulkheads divide
.
e end of i
this entry vestibule off, leaving about ;
ltwo thirds of 1he cabin for use ss a chart-rooa. Right aft is the navigator's seat h
Iwith a Watexloo marine toilet under. rhe cbart table has a hinged centre-section l
'
jwhich,when inposition takesafully opened Admiralty chart. Thereareshelves 1 ,

pu
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the ides of the tabl
cabin, eve
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thia tibul
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dining through-way int
Tith o the galleh.
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fixe; to the
!ship's side. This table o&n be lowered to oonvert the saloon into a single berth.
!Qf course, this layout was only possible beeauae I cut away the backbone. But that
!doesn't matter for once 1he keel ia on # the Job of the backbone is finished and it
beeomes a spaoe-wasting nuiaance.
1 Once Christmas 71 *as past, we started on the beams; we brought all the
i
;timber for them into the house to get really drytas you see: Anne is very long-
!safrering). Then xe laminate: them up. Nine laminations of J. x l''softwooâ with
1a vertical lamination of YN marine ply each side and sheathed with 11 ounce nylon
(painted vith J ooata of Caecote. Encourageâ by this I aade up the rudders -
isheathe;, of course. And with !he commencement of spring, it was tioe to think of
painting the hulls. I didn't llke the appearance of the nylon weave and certainly
!did not like all the additional skin friction ârag that it e-z'd give. So this l
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nnderebail4ing
oats,rubbIed downlifted
between eoats. And-he reIdid
maat point-out thatd uring l
I
j
the never a paintbrush ânne the lot inside and
out (and it's Just as well because I'm a rotten painter). Qf course, when the
'Camper & Xicholson' type paintwork is >W-6 2e4 - and it usually is - I give a
modest smile.
1

For one Gelirious moment we thought we'd get the boat out of the garden and
down to the coast during the aummer of 72. Portunately, reason prevailed. There
were portlights to putnin, a mass of work to do on the xasts, the boom. sprit. k
netting beama, tillers and tiller-bar to make. âna there were the mast bearers to
I
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make. I was nnhxppy at seeing xooden mast bearere rlexing on other boats, so I

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itsonaateel4xa
ed to take a M
-hoexitheteelflangeeunderit. These
'' bolt. The xast step is a sa'-slar shoe but
the other vay up. Thus the mast rests on a bolt. The advantage of this arrange-
ment is that large tabernacles can be done vithout ,
boltholesGonothavetobe 1
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h contd. . . . . . Blizu lxc oF 1,> ,vA Hz.
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i drilled in the mast , yet it can still be raised or lowered with sheerlegs
! .

The summer of 75 came and we decided on June 4th - ànne's birthday - to move
the boat down to the coast. I thought that it would be a nice birthday present
for her to have her garden back. But we got the vrong people to do the Job and I
draw a veil over the diaaster of overweight lranes and Laurel and Fardy type
inoompetence. Fortunately, the boat exerged from al1 this intact . areathiâg a
f
so
ir
gt
hu
tne
ofre
liefIlookedforanothercontractorandhadastrokeofrealgood
I co% seted Terry Clune of Birdhn-. Right from the start I aax what
.
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f
real professionalism meant anâ never haâ a qualo during the entire operation
' Nonetheless . :
. it took until four in the afternoon before the boat AYYHved at 1
Dnsworth Yacht Harbour, a distance of 20 miles anG we'd started loaâing at eight
that mornixg. Ar then it was too late to start tlnla.ding And, it being Saturday,
we deeided to leave it a1l for konday morning. Nov, Terty Clune's Job +as done.
All he needed to do was to drive his Tprries under the erane an4 wait for the hulls
to be lifted off. But that's not his vay. He spent a full hslf day (for vhich he
;i; not charge me) helping to line up >na Join the hulla, giving xe the benefit of
h
is considerable expertise. Ee didn't leave until he was atisfie; the boat .as
Secure .

'he previous y pnr IIG creved for Bob Sxart on the Qro GWOJUC GWOJVG for a
cruise lo Brittany and I #as impresse; by the plywood Geoka he had in place of
the slatted decks that Jix speoifies. They aeeme; to me to be lighter, eleaner,
More ooMfortable >nd easier to make - a big conaiderstion after J years of building
So, the next step was to fit these, for Ild already fabricated them, and then, of
couree, sheath thew. There are six Geek eeetione, eaoh with fnur stiffeners )
underneath# all but one of xhich sit on bearers soreved to the ben-n.
whioh is on the port hand between beams three and fYlr rests on ateel bangers
The oddatone I
i
the level of the hult deck thus giving oe a ahallow but userul 'cockpit'. Skering
is by vheel with the vheel-stand fixe; to the third beaa . In the best Jim Wh arram
tradition, the tiller lines are ot fibre rope. not vire. I've made a seat for the
helmsmAn the lid of which lifts so that binoculara , a thermos flask and other !
j
ixportant paraphevnxlia oan be stoweed in the iry , reaây to hand. '
f Qâ the 2jth of September we launched. Anne naae; her in her best ceremonial
kvoice with a JM of our ho- -x de cider and drenched me eith it. I'd
jthat, <
littl
calxfla
th the additional thicu ess of plywood in the hull etc, she would. ted
loat a
.

e lower tM n the Gesigned draught and I acribed t e waterline accordingly .

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Still,itwasverymueh'W pzessandbyGod'. Tov œ zementshefloatedaninch' i
tabove her M rks. Considering that there were no masta or stores aboaM I was well 1 ,
1and.truly satisfiH . > at didn't satisfy me was the installation of the engine. l
(I muat explain that on w previoua boat - a monohull - I had continuous and ce onic
iengine trouble and was determined that on this. v A eam ship: x cuxmioal power
was going to be good and reliable. Now, if you think about this loglcally , there 1
V only one answer to the enl ne problem, a large inboaM diesel. But on Polycats, !
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into xrda,weird
using butbe causeofdrive
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which T
xaste an enorxous proportion of the po- r and.
has to also because of lack of spaoe one (
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(the M-atroke being prohibttively expensive) and I didntt like the idea one little 1
!bil. Then. the Italian Carniti Cocpany nnnounced their l6hp diesel outboarG. I
(it seexe4.xasdesigned for puehing j0tonworkboataalongwhieh itwasGoing This,
l
!suceessfqlly.
b It seemed the answer to a Polyoal builder's prayer . But there were
pro leme. '

Por a start, the engine is noiay. Thxt I can do nothing about . I did buy
a GRP cover for it but this Goesn't seem to have anae vezy Mu
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B0S7NS LOCTRR
NEARLY A CATASTRUPHE by Brian H. Turner
l
l The importantquestionofa nameforourNARAIwaswith asfrom themoment we 1
! realised that this was a living thinv that we were creating. The twin hulls, 1
l
; black with Epoxy Pitch, cried out for something Polynesian and drmmxtic. All 1
r
k the accepted Gods had apparently been claimed, so we racked our brains to finâ, $
i a name that wculd do credit to our masterpieee. One night over a pint (or two)
l we were once again exercising our minds, when suddently inspiration struck.
''3lack Catn I yelled. Slightly overcome with emotion, my boat buildinc partner k
Brian Priest considered this. 'Certainly apt', he mur= x*oâ. Theh crafty devil
that he is, he went to the lihrary and found that it tranalated into Polynesian.

The following night over another post-boat building pint, he said ''Black
Cat'' translates into Polynesian.......n No< it was ay tarn to be overcome.
l ''Te1l me# tell me....n I urged. ''The Black bit turns out to be OOLY OOLY''
! he said, but then we have a problem''. 0h1 I querieâ, all agog. 'Yes' said
j B
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O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
A.F.clement of Perth PEl lPH says.....'fyou may be interested to knov that as a
result of Pete Jezardfs remarks in Bosunls Locker of Winter 1975 nThe Sailor-œn'l
I went to a local Junk yard to try xv luck at llrounginc vooâ. I got sufficient
for a friend to build a shed and members of the local ReG Cross emeot Force got
wood to make into bundles for fire kindling for elderly people. I obtain ed two
pieces which c ould make up one stem of a Hina and some other pieces which may be
uaeful. A lot of elderly folk ought to be graten l' to Pete, if they knew about
hic. Firewood is dear in this diatrietl

Vio Felgate of Stockton-on-Tees wrote in February 74. After apologising for late
payment of his au% ..... n We laanched our Tane NNocn Wine 11'1 in June last
year, minus decking, mast, rigging etc. We cGnpleted this work in one week of i
our holiday anâ the second week we sailed to Whitby (about 26 mi les) for a well c jà
ith his œ o dîsis Cd* sf c& W e 1
earned rest. ânchored off Whitby <as Donald Deanjzwua
abnard later anâ had a chat. Later that xeek ve z a gooz aass yysusng s o (
we took Donald his tea (fresh fish) and had another lonz chat aboard his boat. 1
We were so engrossed talking about Yoats that the pubs were alxost olosing by th4
time we got ashore.
ûxr next holiday was in September and we vere hoping to xake Berviok but every-
thing, weather-wise, wae against us. We got as far as the Parne Isle but
reluctantly had to turn baek in order to start work again. Eomexard bound we
met up again with HSisl in n 1n derland. Donald Dean xas hoping to get the boat
hauled out to attend to her bottom planking.
We are going North again this y ear an* hope to mnke Seotlnmd. %e have ordered
a genoa as ve obJect to mono's passing us. Te seem to be under-canvasse; ih
light airs. In a good blow she really goes. One day in November we had b0th
reefs in the main and she whs really going, no other sailing boats around that
day, until we blew the clew out of a brand nev Jib..... Vio 'elgate.
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O O O 0 O O O 0 @ @ @ @ O @ 0 @ O O

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( BOSUKS L0cKMR contd.....

F0œ F0R THOUGHT 1 by CravroM œ en U.S.A.

;
p l fellow tied up his 45' ketoh at the boat yard the other day. àfter giving the
é yard manager instructions as to lifting it out. he xandere; cver to >e# introduceG
! himself and proeeeded to tell xe an intereating stozy.
i
l Ee and his wife arrived in Mt
i . Pleasant after a fifteen hundred mile Jolirney froc
j the north. The boat,52 Cubits, was the result of eight years bxx4'ding. A labonz
i af love Ana a hope ror a b etter life. It has not, prcven to be so. nnrine the
p building procesa,he ha; been aoerApped up in his dzeam, he Gid not eee thefaoe
l of col; reality looking over his ehoulder.
i
1 In those eight years, his wife never tried to stop him, never diseouraged him,
l
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only treated the project as some innooent past time, that he vould soon grow ou1
! of. rhat his wife only ca-- to see the conetruotion progress tvice during this
period, did not iniicate to him that all vas not as vell as it should be .
1
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1 How he managed to sell their hoxe, furniture, car And then xove his vife and her
'
oat on boArd the eoxplete4 boat: I don't knew . EbV this long auffering vife eoald
i
l then go along with ideas of going south and chase 1he rainbov . is stll; anether
I question, but ahe did. Proa the starl of the Jolxvney, the iream started to fade.
k He was surprised to learn that
! , no xatter vhat eare you take, flaxs must be worked
: out of the vessel. Ee was eurprised tbat oae cnnnot e/end ---ey corevex with
j none ooming in. gb vas n--Red that his vife and oat, didn't like the boat, Giân't
I like the water, and didntt think much or his crazy ideas either.
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I I heard the stories of the break-dewns. the groundings, the ator-- and the bAndit
g boat yards. The theme of eadh revolv ing lround the poor eife sn* her xiserable
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daily life and wish for a b etter ta-nzrow , without doqnc aqything about it. I
told hi> it was better to try anG fail, thxn never to blve trie; at all.
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lThe
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local boatbuilders. Qhe story about Chria de Lanee's Tnnhallah in Maui, Fawaii,
piqued Cheryl's interest and mine as we were about to spenâ two weeks on that
lcvely island. l
We tried hard to track Chris down but faileâ, However, we saw his boat and then by
a stroke of luck, met another Polycat boat builder, Craig Matheson, who built his
scaled up to 2461 Hina elass, Ika TkA, with Chris. We spent a âay with Craig on
1 the beaeh looking at his boat which he had just hauled out for painting. The :
k enthusiaan which he has for the Polycat designs and the exciting stnmn'es he tolâ
!as about how his and Chris's boats Ilbaul assn through the high winds anâ seaa
around Sawaii Juat whetted our appetite to get our own boat complete. tOne hull
is built and we are reaây to start the second now. We were going to fibreglass
hull No. 1, but as glass is in short supply we deaided to leave this until the
sllmmer when conditions will be better).
It's really nice to meet someone with a Polycat. I get the feeling that the ones
I know are more than just boat ownersr perhaps unconsciously they.see in the
Polycat a neans to a better life. ADH to share that sentiment is a great experiencel.
' The âay we spent with Craig and his friend Charlie on the beach near Paia ! sun l
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JRoyalYachtAssoeiation
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The Anmual oeneral Meeting Januarz 1974,vote: in ravour of our joining the RYA.
One memb er wrote us when such a move was suggested last year. Ee waa strongly
against the idea and any other moves which would turn the Polyhesian Catxmmran
Association into a conventinoxl sailing club. Ee saw the adopticn of a
l eonstitution for the Assoeiation as the first step towards hell. Polycat members
1 are by and large anti-organi astion and your Comm4ttee reeognises this as one of
the factors to be borne in xind. It is our aim to keep ehoas at bay without
introducing bureaucracy. ân Assoeiation of over 400 xenbers needs ozûer in the
eonduct of its affxirs if everyone is to get what they want or need from Aember-
l ship.
The RYA issues some very useful publications such as No.G9/72 HRecnmmendation
for RœFety Equipment for Sea-going Craft below 4j' (1jp)
No. G7/71 D.T.I. Registration and Classirication of Yachts (20p).
1 Editor...........
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1 CALLING ALL NApAz BgyLozRs

; David Martin who is planning to build a Narai in the not too distant future,
I wishes to hear from menb ers who have already built one. He built a Hina in
1 the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and can be ccntacted at King George $th School,
i P.O.Box 265, Bikenibeu, Tarawa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
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John Mccartney, 19 Alton Avenue, Northcote, Auckland 9, New Zealand, has asked
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for information about some exotie and little known timb ers, th: information he
wants eoncerning sapele and iroko is given belovl Can anyone help him with the
timber nx-e; abcve?

weight lj/
moisture content Strength Bendability V trability
lb cqbic ft.
Sapele 40 fair fair fair
Iroko 41 High fair v. good

1Grant Masland, is putting his HINA UP F0R SALR

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I âll bronze, fastened with al1 bronze and stainlesa fittings and riggtng.
' Completely glass sheathed, sails are 8oz (âmerican) blue dacroh by Jeekells.
Nev trailer wtth spare wheel, for details and price write Mhslxnd, j50J
j Western, axtha, Neb. 68251 U.S.A.
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RUNNING BACKSTAYS

Do any owners aotually use the rllnning baekstays or do they leave them aet up?
I would be intereefed to h-mv frox memhers as to their practioe and vhether they
Ifind standing back stays on their own provide sufficient support Tor their mast. i
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spars, Gecking, hul
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sails ltoomplete.
to ofkxhogaqyMarineply,B.C.pine !
Boat kept al Harstpierpoint, auY ex. :1,000 ono - Telephone 8aa - 6p>
01 - 6J9 - 4749, addzess 105 Salehurst Rd, Crofton Park, London 3.E.4.
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1Pieter vanSuddese of 17 Tansor Gerth Westwood Sstate, Peterborough, wrote
Just as we were going to Press:-
''I wonder if the rolloxing obserFation vould be of help to anyone in the riggtng
1of their boat:-
i I firat worked in a traditional boatyar: as a shipvrigkt. then move: to
work in the Theatre as a Technician an* have founâ a 1ot of si-a
'larities
vhile ri scenevy. one is a cleat, vhich ia -*de in cast ateel with
t+o holes for bolts. These arevery strong as they carry thewhote weight j
of flying seenezy. they aould easily be galvnndeed.

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' 0R0 ''Mànticore'' in the fall of 1971. He rigged her as a junk schooner with a
rantilevered bowsprit so as to be sure it was self tending. The sail plan on l
trials was balanced so he reckons he must have done sonething right. !
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For power he has installed a small diesel with hydraulic drive. He made a 1
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retracting trailing arm for the final drive, with a sleeve adapter on the out- 1
put ahaft to fit the propeller. The hydraulic motor was installed so it was under i
water; he did not use a sleeve b earing on the outboard end as he considered this
totally unnecessaty. Henry reaommends a P n Diesel, which is already set
up with hydrostatic drive. He does not see using a hydraulic system frox a
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ENGINE Il'
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K & A Morcon, RD1 Whitianga, New Zealand - would like to h oor frGa anyone who
has tried fitting an auxiliary engine in one hull, driving one hull only.
H e wants to know how they handle, so does the Editor. . . . . . .
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i Oli Oliver (Maggfe Oliver's father) has suggested that a possible solution to the
1 engine problem could be in the uae of a hinged po4 eontaining an air cooled
automobile engine, using a Fenner Spaeesaver drive . The general ilea is shovn
in the sketch below l-

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The mot or cxnnot be left mounted when sailing - the main à* ee1
j gets tangled.
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effectively precludes using that hull for anything else. I
4. Refitting the motor when required, usually in a hurry is both
âifficult and dangerous in a seavay
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Much frowning and pencil chewinc resulted in the method shown in the sketch i
below. Briefly,an openbottoxedlidâe;bcxwasooHetotakethexotorand fitted l
between the near and centre eroseb eama When xoored or sailing the motor is
. 1
horizontal and out of sight in the box , held up by a sling under the prop. When
neeGed, the sling is released, the motor drops down And you are zeady to
When finished with the engine, you pull it up by the torque rope and replale
startthe
up. j
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eling under the prop. This melhoâs lenâs itself to a11 of Ji> s *esigns a
torque rope or strut takes the driving strain awly frox the x- xnting braoket
s the !
the shxft ean be extended to enable the Motor to be at deck level vhib maintaining
the , so j
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f=xnd it prop depth. I have used this Method over the last tvo years and have
excellent in every lly.
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Joe and Jeannie Miller, vho should be well on the way to launching their YARAI
by now, wrote last year about the problem of auxilliary power. They are thinking
about an extendeâ version (41.. shaft to shxet) of the oeean outdrive unit mounted
Ibelow the deck, driven through V-belts by an air cooled diesel engine mounted on
deck. An R.P.M. reduetion would be incorporateâ in the belt ârive in adâition to
the 1: l.6 reduction in the outdrive. The xotor and drive unit will weigh around
200 lbs. The sketch below gives an idea of the set-up. t
toqe I
Bob Evans was consulted about this AG toottd d-* l l
system and he said that the engine l
suggested(a nn1Oh.p.
âiesel) shoul: be suitable but
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lm ncs, England would have to
specify the right prop to absorb
10 B.H.P at j-7 knots forward speed. a ao wow
; The belt power transmission mxnu Fe l:z
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facturer woulâ then have to be asked fk*
to specify the belt capable of trans- A%.
1 nitting at 15 B.H.P. (j@# safety .
%e
; factor) to get the correot R.P-- for 1**+-5,.2 q . .
i the prop from the given shnet GOnG Y
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that the Aost backward
Groningen,Netherlands,writes:- 'IBecause people have found out
bean is not the best place for an outboarâ engine, even
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a long shaft is not long enough there, our latest idea is to use an outboard
engine with an extra long shxet, which must be supported by wires in the m4a dle
of the boat. (
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h sorgdrager of 19 Jillico Ave, Tallangatta Vic, 5700. Austzalia, writes thal he
as an old but sound longshxft 4 h.p. Seagull as sn a'nd liary xotor. It is
! stowed in one of the hulls forward of the hatch. In use it operates on a centra
( mounted bracket on the rear beam as per design. The Seagall ioesn't svivel steer
'
anymore, it is bolted up. It's tikler is removed and the throttle control mounte:
on top of the carburretor. But it can still swing up out of the water . The
motor xoves the oat effortlesaly but is not used often , as the boat sails so vell
even in thosting condiiiona.
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TNE ULTIMATE? Ren
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I Writing from Ferryside, Carms, Sth Wales, Ernald says...n I sail a cnldsing
' Narai - Cheetah by name. When I scquired her she was fitte; with t+o oulhnœrds.
Theae vere fitted to swinging braekets vhich could be lowere; and held in
position by means of pulleys and ropes . In use these prcFed unreliable, as the
1 motor pods had no protection froa the swash coming through between the hulls anâ
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after a season of sailing the Bristol fhxnnel from Gloucester to Milford Haven,
! Ilfracombe anâ along the North Devon coast, with engines which conta'n&lnlly
) spluttered to a halt or woald not start when required I felt the time had come to
j have a long think about propulsion, especsxlly as at ta'mos I have the safety of
t up to eight people to consiâer. I sail for pleasure an; charter for busin
l (when it is around). Time is important, esa
j a chqrter partywhomay have to catch train
fsIem
tc
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where it is12 hoursoflopower
squirt stto l
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1 C0114 get us over a foul tide and home on time. i
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1 consider what wOn d be your ideal .

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2. SAFSPY - virtually a non-nnr
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and soon er or later will let you down.
4. ORRAP ANm AVAILABLE
Pmuu - at 10p a gallon I love diesel available
fran building sites, central-heating txnks etc
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fitt p. Yanmar diesel installation. In 1975 I
ed a 12 h.p. Yanmar with the same stern gear.
lnotcrIfindxrsailinghaaimproveG;Inowsailint
j knowing that if I need power it i
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I comnent f'Another of those oate with an i*iot crewld' e
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l Havina acquired an eyltzine, how to get the drive to the water? I âecided the ,
mrkvimum drive angle to be 200, so r started from the v ong end - established l
O . cl 1
where the prop should be - drew a line at 20 which put O the engine Just forzzar
of the centre of the boat . By mounting the engine at 10 and using a second-han(i l
r
Hardy Spicer from a car prop-shaft fitted onto the gear box output shaft, v.
rith the
drive-shaft (12 ft, long approximately) and prop I now had drive. To suppoe the
shrzft (l''dia. bright drawn barl I used 1-
f)''inside dia. galvanized water pipe
and P.T.F.E. bearinas (4 fitted evez'y J feet) weldeâ a cavitation plate, oft which
I fitted the liftinc and support ladder arransement. This enabled me to raise or ,
lower the prop and a1s o gave rae a boarding and swimming ladder. '
i'he steel ladder
with l'' dia. rungs was made to fit into a plate with a slot at deck level and this
holds the prop in posit ion. The rtm gs at the top can be so arm nged that the
lowest part of prop assembly is never lower than the line of the hulls and there-
fore there ia no danger of damage when grounâing. In the raised position the
whole assembly is clear of the water.

It is an easy Job to box-in the engine with a lifting 1id on the top. This is
6 to 8 inches above deck level, makes a good seat, nna is hanây to stand on to
reef or gather the main onto the boom.

Although the prop assembly souqds complicated, it is as simple as I could make

it and relatively cheap to make up. A1l materials uaed can be found in a good
Jank yard, except the P.T.F.E. bearincs, and cost Ej. The P.T.F.E. was then
turned to suit the inside diameter of the pipe, allowing J thou, clearance between
ahaft and b earing. I was able to nake up a11 the stern gear for appraximately
Zl8. Only you know what you have to spend on an engine, be it new, second-hand,
re-conditioned,diesel or petrol. :e sureyou can hxnd-start it. f
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John Moore also favours the ''Cheetah'' system for his 0R0 which is now being
built. He considers outboards suitable for the smaller cats but for Narai's
upwards a more 'solid' installation is essential. Alternate swamping and then
lack of water for the propeller are the problems of outboards. He is thinking
of buying a second-hanâ air c ooled diesel from a dumper truck. These are
usually from 10 to 14 h.p. with trrin cylinders anâ are hand started. He likes
diesel because it is in line with his and his w ife's concept of simplieity ,
which includes the use of paraffin for lichting and cooking.

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