S/Y Linnea

We are planning to go out this weekend and maybe “camp out” in the boat. It is going to be cold, though, since autumn came this week. Today it blew 22 m/s at the outer weather stations. A bit too much. Let’s see what happens.

Now we are trying to enjoy sailing Linnea as much as possible before taking her up for some more interior construction during winter. It is important to get some energy from having fun with the boat and to learn how she behaves.
Yesterday we went out five adults, Ida, 6 and Joel, 2. Everything went […]

So today we moved the sheet, stretched the sail more along the battens, added some bamboo to the boom (lowest batten) and went sailing (third time out now).
It was much better. We tried with downhauls with no reef and with one reef. And it was better. I am not sure about the best place to […]

Today the wind was gusty 5-10 m/s (10-20 knots). We were reaching at 7.5 knots. Nice. Found some bugs in the sail though.
- Wrinkles, we need tighter lashing at the ends of the bamboo battens, so the sail is streched. (And it still hurts when I tie my shoes after lashing the battens the first […]

This is the first trial sail of Linnea.
Ready to sail
Lashing tha last lashes
Ida took this from ashore. She can come next time, I promise.
My parents.
Running.
Sailing
Mast top
Lazy Jacks etc.
As seen from ashore. 
Conclusions:
- We haven’t got the Lazy Jacks sorted out yet.
- We need to stretch the sail more along the battens.
- It is a bit […]

We finally made it! Today we went sailing and everything went great. No disasters, no panic, no unhappy faces. Just like I remembered a junk rig sails. Happy people waving from the shore. I’ll come back and post pictures and details later.

Today the bamboo for the battens finally arrived. But they are too thin. Obviously there was some misunderstanding in how to measure the diameter.
So we got 26 canes. 5,4 meters long. (That means about a third of the batten will be overlapped and seized in the middle.) At the thick end they were 40-45 mm […]

Under sail
Made by Ida. Hopefully soon we can show a photo as well!
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A longsplice by my father in the bolt rope finished the sail. Now it is just the battens…