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The annual newsletter of the Finnish radio-sailors is out today:

Looks like the mast bends to leeward at the middle, while the top of the mast stays in place. I don’t think that’s a good thing. Should try lower shroud attachment point and maybe shorter spreaders.

Remember to turn up the sound so you hear the wind, water, and the RMG winch! Also try these in higher quality by going to youtube and clicking “watch in high quality”.

Here’s how the camera looks on the foredeck:

Although we’ve already built a number of finboxes, I’ve forgotten to publish the plan - so here it is. As the Noux Mk2 is still somewhat of a prototype this finbox has a long 27.5 x 5 mm slot for the mast which will allow optimisation of the best mast position and rake angle during testing. So as not to carry a whole lot of extra water in the boat we made the mast-box narrow, 5mm, which means that the lower end of the mast needs to be an aluminium extrusion of 5mm width… A future Noux Mk3 might again have a more traditional mastbox for a round mast when we have found the optimal position.

Some plans and ideas for the Noux mk2 radio installation. We are using a ca 116mm diameter food container lid and rim as the only deck hatch. We want the winch, batteries, servo, and Rx, all accessible through this hatch.

Update 2006 Aug 30: A variation on the same theme: a “flat-pack” version.

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