Blue Peter Dinghy - Adjustable Mast-step Mk3
My previous attempt (Mk2) worked, it even had the mast vertical, but, it fractured in use. The polypropylene wasn't up…
Blue Peter Alterations (8)
Blue Peter Dinghy - Adjustable Mast-step Mk2
The first sliding mast cup attachment worked really well (in theory), but when I started shaking the mast strongly to…
Blue Peter Dinghy - Making a daggerboard
This evening I started routing out the daggerboard. In fact, to be clear, this is an oversized board to emulate…
Blue Peter Dinghy - Daggerboard
The daggerboard is presently an 11mm thick (at widest - i.e. mostly) barely tapered board. The daggerboard housing is 245mm…
Blue Peter Dinghy - Adjustable Mast Step Mk1
In my previous post, I mentioned trying to identify the correct mast cup location for designed COE on the sail…
Blue Peter Sailing Dinghy - Tiller Extension Mk2
After the previous failure, I was desperate to get this right. What the first tiller extension proved was that having…