Wow!
A very interesting video of an impressive boat.
A true little time out on the boat, whith all sorts of situations. Even outside views of shunting maneuvers.
Many thanks for the effort of producing this.
It gave me a very positive impression of the boat. Sheltered positions in the cockpit, with a good working and living platform on deck. Relatively spacious interior. Good performance. It looks very convincing to me.
Interesting to see the spray around the bow and rudder. However it hardly is of concern for the crew. It all goes downwind. And the is no boat downwind. So, no worry. But still, here is a potential for improvement, since all that seems to produce drag also.
I wonder where all the friction is produced in the sheeting system. At least it sounds like there is some friction, and the crew effort seems to confirm this.
Good job to the owner, builder and designer.
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au
From: henny@fram.nl
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:33:20 +0200
Subject: [harryproa] Video of Blind date
A very interesting video of an impressive boat.
A true little time out on the boat, whith all sorts of situations. Even outside views of shunting maneuvers.
Many thanks for the effort of producing this.
It gave me a very positive impression of the boat. Sheltered positions in the cockpit, with a good working and living platform on deck. Relatively spacious interior. Good performance. It looks very convincing to me.
Interesting to see the spray around the bow and rudder. However it hardly is of concern for the crew. It all goes downwind. And the is no boat downwind. So, no worry. But still, here is a potential for improvement, since all that seems to produce drag also.
I wonder where all the friction is produced in the sheeting system. At least it sounds like there is some friction, and the crew effort seems to confirm this.
Good job to the owner, builder and designer.
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au
From: henny@fram.nl
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:33:20 +0200
Subject: [harryproa] Video of Blind date
As promised I have made a video of Blind Date, now
sailing with her renewed "old" rudders, sailing last Sunday September 11
under the lee shore of the dyke between Lelystad and Enkhuizen, wind from S to
SW Bf. 4 to 5, max speed 12.8 kn, see
On my blog you can also find an image of the track
and speed. Unfortunatly I cannot figure out yet how to show this in Google
Earth (to be continued)
Not to bad compared with BD's
second generation rudders. My experience with BD so far was with these
second generation rudders. They just didn't work. With the latest modifications,
reinforcing the original rudder sleeves by Rudolf and Nol to replace the
original rudders and removing these second generation rudders by Nol and me, BD
is now reborn and healthy again.
Only for remembering purpose, and only for
that ;-) below is a short video of the second generation rudders (they now
RIP)
Henny van Oortmarssen
----- Original Message -----From: Henny van OortmarssenSent: Monday, September 05, 2011 6:03 PMSubject: {Disarmed} Re: {Disarmed} Re: [harryproa] Re: Wantoo vs ExpeditionarryI guess he first has to recover from the work last Saturday ;-) ;-)Nol and I removed the new rudders of BD and that was hard work. Rudolf had made it to last for centuries. Real hard work and still a lot of itch over my whole body.So Nol and I have the appointment to undergo a tough test in high winds with the "new" old rudders, as soon as we both have time and the wind is blowing 20kn or more. I promise to take a video camera with me.To be continued.Henny van Oortmarssen
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