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| Rigging and tuning a V5 |
| Mike had engineered the internals of the V5 to neatly take a standard futaba rudder servo with almost a push fit into the beautifully molded servo seat. The V5 was also custom designed to take a 280 smart winch from RMG offset to the right mounted in the cockpit. Ian prefered his mainsheet post well aft but I wanted to run my mainsheet further forward so I simply made a s/s wire loop and bent it forward off the original post as in the pic above. |
| The mast is deck stepped and Mike has fitted two sidestay attachment points |
| The very narrow cord (5mm) carbon keel fin fits into the hull like a glove and is tightened with an offset cam arrangment, very neat. My main proplem was with only 5 weeks to go till the NZ national IOM champs and the boat not finished let along tuned up would I take the risk of using it, or sail my old boat which was the devil I knew rather than the devil I did not! |
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| The second problem was the mast, I wanted to try a new 10.9mm tempered mast section from Australia along with a jackstay as I had heard great things about them but with little time to try new things I decided to run with the tried and proven Bantock 12.7mm round section because I knew I could tune it quickly and rely on it to hold the shape I wanted and so give me control over sail shape from day one. |
| There was now only 4 weeks to go! |