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Hi Berndt:

I think you? might be the person that could help me decipher my mystery winches.? I apologize is this is not about your catamaran, but is catamaran related, and france related

I have two self tailing winches in my 1985 Edelcat33 that I think are original with the boat. I want to service them but I cannot identify them. Since the boat was made in france, maybe they are Lewmar wavegrip series - they have an ST 30 and a wave drawing. The self tailing part is bolted with 3 hex bolts.

here are pictures

Hi all,

Well we are having a magic summer in New Zealand, especially where I live in the Bay of Plenty! However I have failed to take advantage of the weather and wind. BUT I did get out once since the launch at that was last weekend. Sailed around for 4 hours or so. On this occasion I took my wind meter.?

Started with a breeze of 6 knots, fairly steady too. Was sailing at 4 knots max. Breeze got up to 9 - 10 knots and was sailing at 6 knots. Touched 7 knots but only briefly.?

Some other observations: Launching: I am able to launch in 300mm of water with the rear rollers about 100mm out of the water and the wheels a little over 1/2 submerged, brilliant! For retrieval I need the 400mm so as to get the rear rollers at least flush with the water surface. Still having trouble with it swinging around until well up the trailer, I have had some helpers keep it straight both times, the vertical wheels on bungees helps a lot to keep the keels centered, but don't stop the back end swinging around, if there is a cross wind or tidal flow.?

Hands off sailing: I was trying to let some friends catch up in their mono hulls. So furled the jib and set the main out on the traveler. I was on a broad reach. I noticed the helm had gone completely slack. so took my hands off it. Fixed on a point on land and noticed we were sailing in a straight line. So 20 minutes passed at 2 knots boat speed and I did not touch the helm once, in fact I spent 10 minutes enjoying the view from the hatch at the bow. Very Cool!?

Still love the stable nature of the boat. Tacking I am getting better at, only had 2 tacks round back on me. Jybes magnificently.?

Center boards: played around a lot with these in some deep water. Tried one up and one down for windward work. That resulted in a lot of leeway, irrespective of leeward or windward board down. Concluded through experience best windward performance with least leeward movement is with both boards right down, I won't be shortening the Boards!?

Lastly I was a little confused with sailing to windward in the first session. I need to do more work to see how close to the wind I am sailing. I was using the wind indicator on the top of the mast, of course I realised on the second outing that it shows the apparent wind once we are moving, so I will need to either use a compass or I have heard some tape deck ribbon or wool on the side stays gives a better indication of true wind direction.?

All in all its fantastic. I have to get used to complete strangers holding me up at the boat ramp with questions, thankfully I live in a small town with not too many people.

I still intend to do the plans for the trailer and the wing seats, but they are months away not weeks! also some better sailing footage is still planned, I just have not had everything aligned to get it done.?

Regards

Hamish??

Hi Bernd

What are the improvements? get from the? rounded bow ECOnomy cruiser Original? towards the Negative slanted of the ECOnomy cruiser N, except the easier way to build ?

Is there a difference? with the water line length? and with the bow buoyancy? I don't find such informations? in the study plan neither in this Yahoo group. Perhaps I miss it, but I used the Yahoo search system without success.

Thank you for your reply to help me to decide which version to order.

Bertrand

Andrew Lees, I think this was you

Apologies for the low quality - some distance away