Diary on the construction of a Seaclipper 20, a plywood trimaran designed by Jim Brown and John Marples. Our boat's Sail No. is 50. The boat has been named GEODETICA and was launched on september 28th, 2024.
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!
We spent the whole day today at the beach to rig the boat. The christening and launch will be done tomorrow. Wish us fair winds!
