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This website was due to cease functioning on 29 November 2007 as I changed provider. The new address is http://home.ozonline.com.au/f41_sail33/ The content has also been re arranged / updated on the new site
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The construction of ALCATRAZ, a Farrier F41 catamaran was started in April 2002 near Adelaide, South Australia. The shell of the boat was completed, undercoated by March 05 and the internal fitout and services installation completed in early August 2006. She was launched on the 26 October and exited the Murray Mouth on 31 October following which we motored to our home base, Marina ST Vincent, south of Adelaide SA.
The
sailing trials and excursions have been going well, with most of the bugs
out off the system at this time. So well in fact, that we covered 36..5
Nm in less then 3 hours and logged a max. speed of 17 knots with the first
reef in the main.
On another occasion we recorded 20-23 knots with a full main and the asymmetric spinnaker in 15-18 kn. wind @ 160 degrees. I did not think to record either event, nor would I be game to get on the roof to take the photo's needed.
The wake in the photo was recorded another day, at 14 knots.
Some of the sailing adventures of ALCATRAZ are being documented, in an alternative location, a blogspot, http://alcatrazsailing.blogspot.com/ .
I have started to cover some additional technical issues, on another ISP and these can be accessed via links in the table below which lead direct to the new content.
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Nov 06
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Launch | The preparation, loading, transportation and launch of Alcatraz |
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May 07
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Slipping | Slipping Alcatraz to change the oil in the Sail Drives, fix a seal, replace a transducer and some remedial work to the anti foul. Plus details of a mishap occasioned y the shipyard |
This web site was first established to share my experiences during the
build of ALCATRAZ, but soon out grew the space provided by my ISP and
once my e-mail's started bouncing I was forced to omit material to publish
the updates. I also had to scale back a feature I liked providing, big
enlargements of the illustrations (by clicking on them) as these provided
for a more detailed study.
The final version consist of 29 Chapters, some of which never appeared on the web and to provide for simpler navigation I compiled a "linked" Index listing all the chapters, topics and items of interest.
The latter Chapters, services and furniture, are not F41 specific and may well be of interest to those of you building other designs.
Only some of the original Chapters and excerpt of some of the new ones are available on this site and these can be accessed by the active links (coloured) of the Index or via the table below.
On completion,prior to transportation I took a set of High Resolution pictures (approx. 0.5Mb ea.) at these can be viewed at http://www.digitalvagabond.net/alcatraz courtesy of a fellow F-boat builder.
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The SB Inner Hull | The first hull section I started, the excerpt covers the stringers, foam fixing and fairing and is fully functional including access to the enlarged photo's. |
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The Port Inner Hull Exterior | Again an excerpt of the original chapter, with photo's. The content describes the completion of the external surface of the final hull I build and it illustrates some of the techniques I developed as things progressed. |
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Front Deck, Bow beam and Netting | This is an excerpt with some of the photo's missing as I ran out of space. I left the text as it still illustrates the content provided on the CD |
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Waste and Water Services | The text of the Chapter was not edited, the photo's & diagrams are largely missing. The content of these latter chapters is applicable to others designs as it is normally determined by the owner |
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Electrical & Refrigeration | Full text, no data and partial photo's of a topic I spend many nights sorting out. Again all solutions are going to be different and determined by the type of function required by the owner. |
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Interior Fitout | Again the full text but only some of the photo's. I opted for the Tricel solution as I was keen to get away from the fibreglass/foam/fairing and this seemed to be more like traditional carpentry |
NB: I did not "clean" up all the broken links in these excerpts so you may get some error messages.
I have not duplicated information available from Ian Farrier's site www.f-boat.com
The complete build record as outlined in the Index, including all the other build photos (672 Mb) is available on CD for A$ 100 (Australia) and US$ 100 (rest of world). Those interested, or with queries/comment, please contact me by e-mail.
This site has been accessed
times since inception in March 2003
