Rob Guyatt, designer and builder of RMG winches has answered to the challenge from the super-quick arm-winch camp by sourcing a new motor for the RMG280D (the most popular model for an IOM). The motor is about 15% faster than the previous model, while torque is about the same or slightly less. Couple the new … Continue reading A new, faster RMG
Jari sent me some pictures of tiller arms that he machined during the weekend. These parts need to be machined in three separate stages, here's stage 1 where the tillers are first roughed and then finish milled. Here's what the parts look like after the first stage. After finishing the hole for the axle and … Continue reading CNC machined tiller arms
I've sold my Cockatoo (some setup notes and pics still to come I hope...), and along went most of my other gear, batteries, charger, Tx, two RMG's etc. So I'm slowly replacing everything during the long and dark Finnish winter - hopefully to see an operational new Noux sailing in April '07 or so... Here's … Continue reading X-peak 3 plus
Jari has been busy planning and building a new spindle for our CNC mill. The project is now about half-way so I thought I'd take a few pictures and write some text. So far we've been using the stock spindle on the Opti BF20 which has a Morse Taper #2. The original motor burned out … Continue reading A new spindle for our Opti CNC mill
The small rigs came out of the rigbag for the 6th finnish ranking race of the season ! The first ranking race organized by TPS provided steady 10-12 m/s with gusts of up to 17 m/s and sunshine for 12 competitors.
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.
A building guide for the "Ninja" Marblehead in 4 parts by Henry "Heffe" Ericcson. Published in Pienoismalli in 1988. During the 80-ies it was still possbile to home-build a competitive Marblehead. The article describes the planking process, radio installation and rig building. An unknown number of these were built and raced in the 1990-ies, the … Continue reading Ninja, a Marblehead by Henry Ericsson
One problem with the current IOM class rules is that proper event measurement requires the use of a cumersome and not very accurate measurement tank to check for the overall depth and hull depth. During the winter Olof Ginström came up with this jig to do the job - here are some pictures and comments from … Continue reading Depth Gauge Test
This years Model Expo was held during 5-7 of May 2006 at the Helsinki fair centre. The Finnish RC-Sailors exhibited a Noux IOM and a local class boat, the 5.5mrc. Our stand was moderately interesting to the 10000 or so visitors with a handful of people interested in either buying second-hand boats or building a … Continue reading Helsinki Model-Expo 2006
Today I had time to mill out the new Noux-2 deck plugs from MDF.