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« Reply #90 on: March 11, 2011, 11:33:38 am »
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« Reply #91 on: April 18, 2011, 09:43:10 pm »
might change the name to "nomad" for personal reasons!
just managed to destroy my first attempt at a centerboard with far too low density foam!!!
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« Reply #92 on: April 19, 2011, 12:35:47 pm »
I would reccomend that you use 200kg/m^3 foam for the centreboard.

It is easier to router and a little bit more stable when you get to the very thin bits.
No stringers required.  1 sheet should be plenty although you may need to be inventive with the sizeable off cuts to get the full length required.
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« Reply #93 on: March 31, 2012, 07:05:26 pm »
is using 1mm dyneema for the new trap wires brave or stupid? its got a avg breaking load of 154kg, but i would assume thats from a static load, and also that splices weaken it?
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« Reply #94 on: March 31, 2012, 07:32:12 pm »
Bearing in mind that you often run through a cherub and grab the wire as you jump out before hooking on, I hope you plan on wearing gloves. At least all your fingers will be findable after.
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« Reply #95 on: April 01, 2012, 12:43:40 am »
davro said the dynamic loads may be a bit too much, so moving up to 2mm with a big trap handle
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« Reply #96 on: April 01, 2012, 03:27:05 pm »
1mm dyneema - I agree with Simon that it is more a sliced finger issue. I think the elastic rope on the hook will take care of dynamic loading...probably
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« Reply #97 on: April 05, 2012, 09:30:06 pm »
We had 1.5mm for a while  (breaking load of 300kg).  and have now changed to 2.5mm.  The big enemy was chafe around the metal trapeeze adjuster. We had a similar problem near the top but solved that by using earth sheathing on the eye of the splice which attached the trap line to the mast.  basically dynema against dynema is ok for chafe but against anything harder can be a problem. especially if you didn't really have much margin for chafe in the first place.
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