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Adapting to changes of route, less water, masts mowing aft.
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Adapting to changes of route, less water, masts mowing aft.
The change of route from NZ to Chile and cruising northern Patagonia reducing needed food from 180 to 100 days and making bilge keels neccecites and permittes many changes. Now I need only 100 hundred liter water. My green plastic can holds 5.5 liters. 6 w...
  • Mar 05, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:18
Duplex stainless steel. Very corrosion resistant very strong and magnetic in this application good.
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Duplex stainless steel. Very corrosion resistant very strong and magnetic in this application good.
Across the street, I am lucky, Grönitz do buiseness in steel. Today I found duplex stainless steel. I was looking for something else a weight that drags the chain through the PVC lined hawse pipe but luck favors the prepared mind. Below is somthing about...
  • Mar 04, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:42
A self tailing winch for warping, warping me up a beach or waring afloat after I run aground.
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A self tailing winch for warping, warping me up a beach or waring afloat after I run aground.
This Andersen 28 self tailing winch shall give 28 thimes the force. I do not know how much force I still got in my arm 20 maybe 30 kilos. That times 28 is something like 700 kilos. With the longer lever 800 - 900 kilos. Using a block 1700 kilos. Then in th...
  • Mar 03, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:35
The importance of CB & bilge keels. Because a rised CB gives trouble free stable downwind sailing
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The importance of CB & bilge keels. Because a rised CB gives trouble free stable downwind sailing
Weather helm is important when sailing into the wind. But most cruisers avoid sailing to windward. When sailing downwind weather helm is a pain. By with my bow centerboard rised I get lee helm and a boat that is stable sailing downwind. The use of my bilge...
  • Mar 02, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:05:38
One more darling gets killed in this video, the mowing ballast.
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One more darling gets killed in this video, the mowing ballast.
Doing some volyme calculations on the bilge keels I realised that there can be a lot of low weight in them. That will increase stabilite a lot. I also realised that with bilge keels the mowing ballast was now less important. To keep things simple I am elim...
  • Mar 01, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:18
Solving the Ljungström gooseneck problem or how to attach the boom when the mast is rotating.
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Solving the Ljungström gooseneck problem or how to attach the boom when the mast is rotating.
The Ljungström rig invented in Sweden by Fredrick Ljungström in 1933 have some very desiriable properties. Foremost is the ease to reef. The freestanding mast is just made to rotate to pull on a rope, like a furling jib. This rotation also makes it possi...
  • Feb 28, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:04:02
To ruggidize I am adding twin keels for more stability and better beachlanding.
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To ruggidize I am adding twin keels for more stability and better beachlanding.
NOW I ADD TWIN KEELS TO RUGGEDIZE EXLEX Twin keels have been on my mind for a long time in fact since 1980 when I was up in Maine and John Letcher help me to draw a nice twin keeler. I worker on her for three years but things interfered and she never got f...
  • Feb 27, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:04:53
Reflections on using the rudder as lateral area. It have worked well in the past.
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Reflections on using the rudder as lateral area. It have worked well in the past.
Amfibie Bris was the first cruiser using the rudder as lateral area. Earlier I had built an open boat to test the idea and it had worked very well. Later several people built boats using the same principle from drawing I made in collobaration with Rolf Eli...
  • Feb 26, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:34
Flaking is how I will store the rope and chain anchor rode with no drum winch.
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Flaking is how I will store the rope and chain anchor rode with no drum winch.
Figure 8 flaking is a good way to avoid entanglement of the chain rope anchor rode. I built a device with two pegs on Bris in Marthas Vineyard 1976. It worked well so now with no drum winch I will use that Idea again. Two pegs will keep the rode in place a...
  • Feb 25, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:29
Ropes and chain and more about the hawse tail.
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Ropes and chain and more about the hawse tail.
i now got a good idea of how to deal with the long rope and chain for the hawse tail and how to get space in the cockpit. I will not use a drum winch as was the first plan. There was not space for it and to put it on the deck is not good seamanship. There ...
  • Feb 24, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:04:15
Testing the functional drum winch. The result was not was I was hoping for.
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Testing the functional drum winch. The result was not was I was hoping for.
Today the epoxy on the functional mock up of the drum winch had cured. I shaped it and screwed the pieces together. I tried several positions. Unfortunatially it took up to much space. Hindsight is 20 20. I only needed 50 - 60 cm more 2 feet. If I had sque...
  • Feb 23, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:23
A short video about a third option for steering, steering in close quarters.
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A short video about a third option for steering, steering in close quarters.
The wheel in the cockpit was not comfortabel to use when standing in the cockpit hatch. Here is a way a yoke tiller with steering lines. I have succesfully used steering lines 1989 2007 2011 2018 2020 2021. It will work well as a compliment and it is a si...
  • Feb 22, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:00:57
The drumwinch for the hawse pipe tail. A first mock up. Improvements neccesari.
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The drumwinch for the hawse pipe tail. A first mock up. Improvements neccesari.
This is a mock up video of the placement of the mock up drum winch for the hawse pipe tail. It needs improvement. I got an idea but I realise that it is best to make a functional drum winch with the right dimensions. I was sitting in a good position but th...
  • Feb 21, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:01:27
It turned out that the Quadrant thing opened new ways
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It turned out that the Quadrant thing opened new ways
Here is one twice as strong it it does have two lines. It works just as well with one line is cut
  • Feb 20, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:07:26
It turned out that once I started to think about the Quadrant betterment was possible. I am glad.
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It turned out that once I started to think about the Quadrant betterment was possible. I am glad.
I had a very interesting day and night. Once I started to think of the different configurations of blocks quadrants and drum steering wheels new possibilities turned out. Now after the days work I kind of got a Darling I call her the Butterfly quadrant. Of...
  • Feb 20, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:07:26
More about the aft hawse pipe and how to prevent chafe on the rope/chain tail/drouge
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More about the aft hawse pipe and how to prevent chafe on the rope/chain tail/drouge
I have been lucky with Elisolation in Laxå. The G 11 pipes for the hawse pipe came very quickly and they are superstrong. I persuaded one of the persons in the building, a big guy 110 kilos to hang out on a lever very much longer than the rudder axis on a...
  • Feb 19, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:21
Space restrictions have persuade me to give up tiller and to use a rudder quadrant.
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Space restrictions have persuade me to give up tiller and to use a rudder quadrant.
A boat with a canoe stern have less space aft and if the boat is decked and the steering is belov deck the tiller cannot swing outwards. However quadrants are interesting the cables come of as tangents from the center line. This means that there are more s...
  • Feb 18, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:10
15 betterments for Exlex the sailing canoe.
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15 betterments for Exlex the sailing canoe.
To summarize the betterments in the new boat Exlex the sailing canoe so far here is a list of 15 items that will enhance performance and practipality. I will put the text on my website Yrvind.com so that you by reading hopefully will understand it well. On...
  • Feb 17, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:05:52
The new drouge/anchor system with a tail through a hawse pipe in the sern. A bettering.
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The new drouge/anchor system with a tail through a hawse pipe in the sern. A bettering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuqTqbZ4bZ4&t=27s The abouve link is to a video I made in Horta harbor Fayal Azores sommer 2021. It is also about the idea of achoring from the stern At about 1 min 20 sekund you can see a boat sneaking about. The boats ...
  • Feb 16, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:05:52
Some of the reasons why Exlex the sailing canoe is a double ender.
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Some of the reasons why Exlex the sailing canoe is a double ender.
There was a question about why I chose to make a double ender. Nowadays close to every production and amateur boats are not double enders. If so many do not choses double ender is there something wrong with them. They have disadvantages but it is more buro...
  • Feb 15, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:06
The rudder axis a 50 mm steel pipe mock up. Results exceeding expectations.
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The rudder axis a 50 mm steel pipe mock up. Results exceeding expectations.
Today I bought a 5o mm steel pipe as a mock up for the rudder axis. For a long time I have beeb uneasy about the results. It was a relief that it turned out so well. With the aft end of the boat resting on the rudder axis the draft was only 45 cm or 1foot ...
  • Feb 14, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:01
Today a big chance I have killed my darling
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Today a big chance I have killed my darling
Today a big change. I have killed my darling. The mizzen is gone. Exlex will not be a canoe yawl. Exlex the sailing canoe is her new name. Why? I did some estimates on lead in this case I use the word in a geometrical sense. That is how far the center of e...
  • Feb 13, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:57
Rethinking the rudder. G 11 pipes gives new ways to design the rudder due to its immense strenghts.
Sven Yrvind
Rethinking the rudder. G 11 pipes gives new ways to design the rudder due to its immense strenghts.
I got a short sample of G 11 rod and pipe. Here I am testing the rod with a 70 cm long steel pipe. I am about 70 kilos with 5 kilo clothes and shoes. I also persuded a freind 110 kilos the rod did not break. The rudder will not be more than 40 cm below the...
  • Feb 12, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:16
History of my bow centerboard. starting in the middle of 1980-s
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History of my bow centerboard. starting in the middle of 1980-s
There is less space in a small boat than a big. To find a good place for the centerboard - the centerboard is one way of preventing leeway - I put it in the bow. The rationale was that the combined center of effort of centerboard and rudder was between the...
  • Feb 11, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:06:10

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