S/Y Linnea

Comment from Ricard
Time: August 12, 2007, 10:55 pm

speachless

Comment from Bob Sosin
Time: August 13, 2007, 4:06 am

Your work is an inspiration!

Comment from Amos
Time: August 13, 2007, 4:07 am

What a beautiful boat! I especially like the picture as seen from ashore. It is absolutely beautiful. It is great to hear that it sails so well and you have not even begun to tune it up. Congratulations.

Comment from matti
Time: August 13, 2007, 7:39 am

Thank you!
/m

Comment from neil
Time: August 13, 2007, 3:02 pm

Fantastic, Matti….I hope to finish my project and follow your wake soon. How tall is your mast? What made you choose a single stick over two? Any pictures of your interior and lastly, what are your plans?

the best of luck to you!

Neil (s/v SEA ELF)

Comment from Nick Kitchiner
Time: August 13, 2007, 4:06 pm

Congratulations. Been following the last few posts with bated breath.

Comment from matti
Time: August 14, 2007, 10:18 am

Hi, the mast is about 38 ft above deck, if I remember correctly. All reasons but one favor a single mast. It is lighter, easier to get more sail area without double sheets, simpler, less expensive, more efficient. The only reason to use two masts is that with one sail of 800 sq ft the sail is heavy to hoist. But then you only need to hoist one sail.
No, we don’t have any pictures of the interior right now. It is difficult to take pictures of it that are meaningful before it is painted.
Our plans are to play with the boat for two months in the water now to learn as much as possible about it and the bugs that needs sorting out and then take it out of the water to work on the interior during the winter.
Regarding where we want to sail after that, we don’t know, but we have ideas. Probably not south. We like Norway, Shetland and Scotland, so maybe a revisit there. But we might change our minds.
/m

Comment from Stuart Crawford
Time: August 14, 2007, 12:19 pm

Matti,
When you say the sail is heavy to hoist. How hard is it? Can one person do it with a winch? Does it take more than one person? How long did it take to raise? How difficult would it be to reef, given it’s weight? Would there be much difference in weight if it was made out of the cloth specified in the plans?
Stuart.

Comment from Yihang
Time: August 14, 2007, 3:11 pm

Magnificent. Next 2 months should be fun.

Comment from matti
Time: August 14, 2007, 5:35 pm

Stuart. I will try to write a more detailed post about how heavy the sail is to hoist later when I have evaluated it a bit more. But the first and only time we have hoisted it yet I was quite short of breath afterwards. It was quite quick though. One stood at the mast and hoisted and someone else took up the slack. Then the last panel was winched up.
There isn’t much resistance when using the winch at high gear for the first part and low gear for the last panel of the sail. I don’t know how long it will take that way though, so I will come back about that. I am curious. how far up my six year old daughter could get the sail.

I don’t think our sail is much different in weight comparing with the plans. We haven’t optimized the weight at all yet, though.
- The yard is much too heavy in solid spruce. Tom made plans for a hollow yard for me. But we haven’t had time to build it. It should be about half the weight, if I remember correctly, we could half the weight of the yard. Now the yard is even about three foot too long.
- When I hoisted it we didn’t check that the running lines were let out without friction in the most efficient way.
- The battens are on both sides of the sail, since they are too thin. It is lighter to use one thicker batten on one side and only a thin strip on the other.

So I am quite certain we will be able to hoist the sail in all conditions without much problem. In sheltered waters or calm conditions one can hoist by the mast quite fast. Otherwise we can use the winch. It might take longer, but with a junk sail you could always hoist a part of the sail, start to make way with that, and hoist the rest later. Probably even on a dead run.

Also remember that with two sails you need to hoist and trim two sails. (Sounds silly but i hope you see my point.)

We don’t need to use the winch for the yard hauling parrel or the luff parrel.

I can also add that we tried reefing the sail with great success one panel at a time right down to the last two panels. It is a great way to just slow down the boat when maneuvering in close quarters.

It was also possible to use the luff parrel to position the sail either with very little overlap in front of the mast possibly a good thing while beating, and with maximum overlap, for a balanced running.

Comment from Bruce Dillahunty
Time: August 16, 2007, 10:14 pm

Congrats! Looking really nice!

I took the liberty of putting a link from my site:

http://www.craftacraft.com/s/y_linnea_-_blog_about_sailing_36_ft_sailing_boat_junk_rig

Take care… I’m looking forward to new entries!

Comment from fam. olofsson
Time: August 31, 2007, 10:06 pm

Tjena familjen!
Ser verkligen helt otroligt ut! Sara och pappa sitter här med tefatsögon och vidöppna munnar och undrar - “Hur sjutton bar dom sig åt?”
Det lyxiga skrovet med den naturliga masten, ihop med det spartanska bamburöret, vilken vacker kombination!
Låter som en saga, men vi vet ju att den är helt verklig, tycker att ni är fantastiska!
Kram från hela familjen Olofsson i Gbg

Comment from matti
Time: September 2, 2007, 11:48 pm

Tack!
/m