Here I am sailing back toward the dock, the very first time she’d been sailing to windward. Her Mik Storer built RSS sail is setting perfectly and although the water, sheltered by the mangroves doesn’t show it, the wind is up around 20kts and SEI is loving it.
There can be little doubt that epoxy has changed the world of wooden boatbuilding, particularly for amateur boatbuilders. But is it really all that it is cracked up to be?
Transom ripped out by impact of the rudder with a whale at high speed, while racing. The stern knee, projecting into the opening at the bottom, is a major strength member to tie the transom to the hull bottom. It has zero epoxy bond of the aft face where it is rebated into the transom and was held only by the bond onto the edges of the rebate.
Bote Cote Rough & Ready Boat Building and Racing!
First! To Trevor Twigden, Gary Coombes and Alexandrina Council staffers, all of whom gave their all to make the whole festival fly, putting wind under the wings of the Rough and Ready event.
Second, all the brave and inventive participants and supporters who make the R&R a possibility at all!
Third, The Bote-Cote mob have, from the very first festival in Goolwa the mighty Australian Wooden Boat Festival in Hobart, the burgeoning ‘new’ festivals in Geelong and Paynesville and Sydney, been there from day one.
The high participation is partly a result of the VERY desirable Bote-Cote Rough and Ready Trophies, designed and made in Brompton, SA by City Plastics, not only for Goolwa, but also for Geelong and Paynesville in Victoria.
THANK YOU ALL!
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