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  • in reply to: Puddleduck Vineyard Racing DF65/RG65 23/05/2023 #13880

    Excelent write up once again Bodge.

    All in all, sailors appeared to be well behaved from what I saw which made for a great days sailing.

    Here is my hat cam footage from race 2. In all the setting up etc, I forgot to press record on race 1!

    I’m still processing some more races and will be available a bit later on.

    in reply to: Rules – Tacking and Running boats. #13843

    Great clarification of the rule Shorty.  Thank you for pointing it out.

     

    in reply to: Puddleduck Vineyard Racing 16/05/23 #13842

    Hat cam footage of Race 9:

     

    in reply to: Puddleduck Vineyard Racing 16/05/23 #13841

    Thanks for the great write up Shorty.

    Very good sailing by the pointy end of the fleet in the conditions that we had today.

    Following is my hat cam footage of Race 2:

     

    in reply to: A perfect Thursday Fly Day #13797

    Gee Hoppy, for a moment, it looked like the hovercraft was going to take you out!!!

    Great video. Thanks for sharing.

    in reply to: Puddleduck Vineyard Racing DF65/RG65 09/05/2023 #13791

    Hat cam footage of Race 4

    in reply to: Puddleduck Vineyard Racing DF65/RG65 09/05/2023 #13790

    Good write up Bodge.

    Here is my hat cam footage of that treacherous first race!!!

    in reply to: Puddleduck Vineyard Racing 02/05/2023 #13786

    Hat cam footage of race 5.

    This is the one where Bodge could have gone out to lunch when he finished waiting for all of us to catch up!

     

    in reply to: A perfect Thursday Fly Day #13777

    Excellent videos once again and a great pick on the weather.

    A terrific days flying and no prangs 😊

    in reply to: A Wet Monday Fly-In @ the Field #13755

    Yes, Andrew’s plane flew very well. I reckon he is happy with it and we’ll get to see it flying at the field a lot more.

    in reply to: Another Monday Flying Day #13752

    Hahaha… Good one 🤣👍

    in reply to: Another Monday Flying Day #13745

    All painted up and ready to do battle again tomorrow.  Now to charge up some batteries.

     

    in reply to: Another Monday Flying Day #13725

    No Mr Kermit. I’m going to plot a GPS exclusion zone around the goal posts!

    in reply to: Another Monday Flying Day #13724

    Yes Gerald.   A few starts and stops on the inside wing pieces as they kept on lifting at the skinny end.

    However, I came up with a working solution.

    In original position on the bed, the skinny end is not very close to the heating element and I measured the temp at that point to be 25-30 deg. I think the cooler temp causes that end to lift as the job progresses.

    I resized the printing area to 300 x 300, moved the job to the center of the bed and increased the bed temp.  The fibreglass sheet seems to drop the surface temp by about 10 deg.  I also roughed up the area where the skinny end is printed with sandpaper and applied a bit of glue stick.

    The print comes out perfect and you almost need a crowbar to lift the skinny end when the job is complete! 🙂

    in reply to: Another Monday Flying Day #13721

    Amazing what a bit of CA, CA kicker and 3D printing can do….

    I was able to repair the fuselage and only needed to reprint the wings 🙂

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