Here's Geodetica sailing in a 12 knot breeze with a crew of four and the new Dyneema rigging. All the stays have stretched a bit and we will have to adjust: no problem!
https://youtu.be/H3jXnewE0zk
https://youtu.be/PHXm0qwYFK8
Here's Geodetica sailing in a 12 knot breeze with a crew of four and the new Dyneema rigging. All the stays have stretched a bit and we will have to adjust: no problem!
https://youtu.be/H3jXnewE0zk
https://youtu.be/PHXm0qwYFK8
As anticipated last year, in the last few days we replaced all the steel stays with 4 mm SK78 Dyneema line. The splicing (all the 14 eyes for the forestay, shrouds and bridles) was done by Rocco Sisto, a very expert friend of mine who is the commander of vey high end vessels.
We also bored two scuppers in the cockpit and retouched a few abrasions of the paint.
The picture below is an enlargement to show in more details the bridles
...showing the first tack ever of Geodetica after the launch
https://youtu.be/PuuVRUe6bfo
Here's a nice video of Geodetica's first sail taken with a drone by our friend Vincenzo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N4T5nNH0Z4
During the (many) years I've accumulated a lot of original boat building plans which were never used to build a boat, so I've decided to sell those at 50% of their value. Among these, there are building plans (original, I repeat) to build the following boats:
Anybody interested? Ask for the full list!
Currently Geodetica is stored for the winter but we need to do a few adjustements in time for the new sailing season.
In the early afternoon we launched Geodetica. Several friends gathered at the beach but we had to wait the lunch break of the X-Cat World Championship which had been organized just in front of our beach!
And finally we did it. Here's a pic of Geodetica sailing with 4 people aboard: Cinzia (friend, colleague, co-builder e co-owner), Raffaele aka "Mummolo", Filippo aka "the Commander" and yours truly.
The boat is fast even with a payload of about 300 kg, tacks easily and has a very light helm.
Thanks everybody from Cinzia e Pippo!