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Moth Chronicles: Spring Theory
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Saturday, April 21, 2012. Recently finished some rudder tooling so I should be on the water again soon. Have also been spending some time with CAD looking at foil shapes, which one might convincingly argue is a waste of time, especially as things drawn on backs of napkins seem to have less drag than their full-on professionally designed CFD counterparts. Rudder tooling being done I'm on to a new mainfoil, for which purpose I put together a parametric Rhino file. This all leaves much to be desired on the ...
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Moth Chronicles: April 2009
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Especially moderation. That's my old motto. The jury's still out on whether I require a new one. I went with some windsurfer fins. Glommed them together on centerline and ended up with about a nice span and 11:1 AR. The tool effort is to duplicate the shape for the Nilla Zillas; this particular adventure in formica-coated MDF flangemaking has so far claimed only one guide bearing but the fit is strictly white on rice. Sunday, April 19, 2009. I need a flap? Phil Stevos Moth Blog.
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Moth Chronicles: July 2009
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Powerboating is pretty boring in the final analysis but people occasionally think of some pretty cool things to do with all those horses. I thought everyone who cared had seen this before but I realized recently I was wrong:. Sunday, July 19, 2009. Not long before it's out with the old, in with the new for my boat, minus flaps and such. Looking forward to a bit of added vertical in the bargain as well:. Someone in a kayak asked me if my boat was a Laser (! Enough fun for one day.
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Moth Chronicles: March 2009
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Thursday, March 26, 2009. Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. Sunday, March 15, 2009. OK for the concrete canoe guys, some technical info from my limited time-lapse experience:. I use a Pentax Optio 30 waterproof camera on "Interval Shoot" mode. I believe the Oregon Scientific ATC3K video camera has a similar mode, but much less resolution. For short 1-2 hour wet layups I started with a photo interval of 30 sec. This is too long. For the vid below I am down ...Subsc...
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Moth Chronicles: April 2012
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Saturday, April 21, 2012. Recently finished some rudder tooling so I should be on the water again soon. Have also been spending some time with CAD looking at foil shapes, which one might convincingly argue is a waste of time, especially as things drawn on backs of napkins seem to have less drag than their full-on professionally designed CFD counterparts. Rudder tooling being done I'm on to a new mainfoil, for which purpose I put together a parametric Rhino file. This all leaves much to be desired on the ...
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Moth Chronicles: December 2009
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Sunday, December 13, 2009. And Now Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming. I felt a lot like my boat lately when they opened me up and took various bits out of my back, then sewed me up again, all in the name of better performance. On the whole I am improved, but hoping not to repeat the experience any time soon. The boat won't escape a second trip to the operating room, I'm afraid. But that's progress. I plug these various scenarios into the spreadsheet and convert them into torque, in hopes of me,...
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Moth Chronicles: February 2009
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Sunday, February 15, 2009. Everybody who comes to my house asks the same question when they roll up: This is where you keep your boat, right? I mean, you don't LIVE here? I don't know if it's the barbed wire and the junkyard dog (see above) or the welded steel collar around my steel safety door deadbolt, or the graffiti on the wall of the corner hairstyling salon, but nobody wants to believe I live like this apparently! It's less intimidating on the inside. Really. Then I get an email from Kirk on yet an...
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Moth Chronicles: December 2010
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Sunday, December 12, 2010. The Speed of the Sound of Loneliness. Why do so many multiple World Champions seem to get grumpy and leave Mothing? Boredom perhaps. Or maybe it's that they hate losing so much they can't stomach the fact that someone may come up with something on the design side that no amount of good sailing can overcome. But after all that went on, and being so immersed in Mothing for so long, one can hardly blame him for wanting to do something else. Another boat and another multiple Wo...
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Moth Chronicles: August 2011
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Sunday, August 14, 2011. Some wind today in Long Beach made for interesting test piloting on the new incidence control program:. San Pedro Bay is a decent place to sail in these conditions as there are a couple of long breakwaters. But the end of the channel is somewhat unprotected, has a fair bit of tide sweeping past it, and can be a real handful if everything isn't going according to program. Not sure I like the filament wound spars at all; I think the next boom will be a nice rolled bit of autoclaved...