Thank you Haegar, I have had a look and I am sure it will tell me all I wish to know. All I have to do is find a freind who understands German and wants to go R/C sailing, maybe a new way of finding new Club members
Please visit and register at the U.S. RG-65 Yahoo site where the German article on swing-rigs has been translated and posted in the “Files” section.
On October 17-19 we’re holding the Rio Grande Cup for RG65s in Albuquerque. What with all the depressing news around these days we’re having a hard time getting anybody but local club members to enter, so I’m issuing all of you a personal invitation. Even if your boat isn’t ready, there are worse things to do than take a short vacation in the Land of Enchantment. We’ll accept registrations at the pond on Friday or Saturday, or you can just come and see the boats and talk about all things RG65.
And if you show up with or without a boat you’re welcome come to dinner with us at the historic Church Street Cafe, ( http://www.churchstreetcafe.com/) where we’ll be holding a no-cost drawing for two Askook hulls. Gas prices are going down and Southwest Airlines is running promotional fares, so please consider dropping by. We’d love to meet you.
Cheers,
Earl
hi all:
Here you can find some photos of the South American Championship and the results.
http://picasaweb.google.es/caymcaym/RG65#
http://www.caym.com.ar/Resultados%20Suda%2008.html
Maximo - Nice photos - didn’t you participate - or were you part of the race committee?
Dick
Hi Dick:
I can´t.
I was part of the race committee.
Race officer.
Hi Maximo, Hi Dick, Hi all!
More pictures in here…
http://rg65flp.spaces.live.com
www.caym.com.ar/fotos%20suda%2008.html
And some more tonight on my blog…
Cheers 2 all!
German
Hi German -
I didn’t take a lot of time at work today - but only saw one photo of CHI # 100 boat!
Looks like a great group of sailors too !
I “think” this is you ???
You are right Dick.
That´s the “Little” German.
Hi All!
yeah! thats me!!! Littlejohn, Viking, Olaf, Little German among others… XD
good luck this weekend to u guys up on the states!!! we are cheering up for you on this awesome boat class, Maximo, as the rg65 class “godfather” is very proud as we saw this last weekend on Argentina! He promised he will race us on the next championship on Chile next year!!!
Cheers to all!
German
I also posted some vids on my blog… nasty weather ones!!!
Regards!
Hull #1 (or #19 based on sail number) - a JIF65 hit the water today for first time. It was a maiden trial and with a few minor issues (and one major one) the first outing was a success.
Winds were extremely light, yet the RG managed to leave a bit of a wake and a bow wave as it sailed out and back to the pier. With batteries between the servos and directly behind the keel trunk, it had a bit of a “bow-up” attitude - which I was hoping for since a gust will bring her down level.
Had a bit of lee-helm which was a surprise. I had not attached the deck yet (used plastic packaging tape for temporary deck) and without a mast step, I had it temporarily fastened just in front of the keel bolt. Being behind the leading edge of the keel, I would have expected a bit of weather helm - so once permanent deck is fitted, I can verify proper mast location. Of minor consequence was that I need a bit more sheet travel. I am using a servo arm of 2-1/2 inches and I’m measuring just over 2-3/4 inch of travel. I’d feel much better if I can gain another 1/2 - 3/4 inch of sheet travel, so may increase my servo arm as much as possible toward a 3 inch length. I think I will send my other servos in to Servo-City for conversion from 90 to 180 degree arm travel which I feel would solve my problems.
I may change my mainsheet “ring” adjuster too - following an idea I’ve seen on a Brazilian boat. In today’s test, the jib was able to be “center-lined” while the travel on the main didn’t allow enough close-hauled adjustment for my satisfaction. (I like to be able to in-haul so both sails are as close to centerline as possible, then using sheet bowsies, adjust to allow jib to be slightly outside of main, with main pointed at leeward transom corner - for a start).
The “BIG” issue of the day - I need a couple more arms/hands. First I managed to leave camera and tripod home and then trying to take pictures with a camera phone and still watching boat and trying to trim sails and steer - I wound up with fuzzy photos when actually away from the dock. Only the photos where I was able to concentrate came out OK… but the boat wasn’t moving, and I didn’t have a radio in my hands.
Given the very, very light breeze today and the boats performance, I think it will give some bigger boats “fits” in really light air. Will see how far I can carry the “A” rig as winds increase and I get experience in handling this little thing. Still - it looks like it’s going to be a rocket-ship in light to medium winds. Time will tell.
Photos: one is to show overall size relative to my “Horse-Hauling Hemi” and other is looking down from pier after it ran aground while trying to photograph. I’ll work on getting some better sailing shots and will try to get some light-air video as well.
CONCLUSION: Great Handling. Responsive. Tremendous Acceleration. Likes a bit of wind, but happy in the light stuff. Stiff (as far as I could tell) with little heel.
RECOMMENDATION: If you want to try a home build - consider this JIF65 design (plans free courtesy of Maximo Lange - designer) with hard chines and only four panels that make up the sides and bottom of hull. Build in balsa. Seal with thin epoxy or several coats of urethane. Save the fiiberglass hull covering for bigger boats. Use single, flat panel sails to start with…mine worked fine. Rudder servo is a HiTec HS322BB and Sail servo is a HiTec HS645MG, both running from receiver on four alkaline batteries for a total of 6 volts.
Just a follow-up post of one of a series of photos provided to me by good friend and International Class director (and JIF65 designer) Maximo Lange.
On October 18, there was a hosted regatta for RG-65’s and a total of 24 boats showed up. Now this is the kind of racing that makes it exciting. Also a superb regatta site !
Thanks Maximo.
Thank you to all the guys from South America for providing plenty of interesting information already. I am interested to know if any of you can let us know anything about the hull designs of the leading boats at the South American Championship. Having just had a look at the ‘Pro-Sails’ web site, I am particularly interested to know if the third place boat ( CHI 3 ) was a Pro-SR2.
Hi Phil…
Samuel Ruiz boat at the southamerican championship was a vadala65 design, built by pro-sails. Pedro Styer boat, the champion one, is a brazilian design. That hull by the way, weights only 30grams including keel. Ballast is 800 grams… The second place hull i think is a Lange design, cant’t remember well…
Hope this helps!!!
Cheers
Thanks German
This is a help and a worry too! The winners boat seems impossibly light.
I can see that I will need to do some serious weight saving on my next boat. The ‘all up’ weight of the Laerke I am sailing is about 1kg with a lead of 470g. I can save up to 100g from my hull and fin but any more than that seems beyond me.
A hull weight of 30 g does seem unachievable even with the most exotic materials. It’d be interesting to see a bare hull and its construction details.
Hi Martin, Phill
We did thought the same as you, that is impossible!!!.. I had the blue hull, which by the way is the winner boat, and a black one in my hands. It is incredible how light they are!!! They are built with one very light fiberglass layer and it is fairly fragile, “soft” you might say. To be honest is like a “paper” hull, very flexible, but it sails great. The keel is a few carbon strips with resin, then shaped and that’s it. All the brazilean rg’s were that same hull and almost all were for sale after the championship… Like U$1000 with 3 swing rigs.
Just ask anyone who was at Lobos… It was scary!
The pics im posting are from Pedro Styer, the owner of the blue boat and southamerican champion.
Cheers 2 all!!
German
I’ve been thinking (usually nothing good comes of me doing that). My very badly balsa built Apsara comes out with hull, deck, keel box and rudder tube at about 120 grams (4 oz for those used to imperal measures). A careful builder could probabably reduce that by 10-15 grams, so I estimate that the two would be roughly similar. However, the ballast weight is much in excess of my 540 g. Maybe we should be thinking of 2 mm balsa rather than the 3 mm used and be a bit less careful with the sand paper. Anyway, my sailing skill are the limiting factor, so why worry?