After Teal

Although the urge is great to build another boat, perhaps windsprint,
I think I will focus on finishing my Micro fist.

A few post-partum thoughts on Teal: You have to store the oars while
you sail, but they don't fit very well. And when you row, the sprit
and the rudder and lee boards have not place to store easily.

Also, hanging over the stearn to mount and demount the rudder seems
precarious.

One idea I had for reefing the sail, would be to cut and hang a
second smaller [less tall] sail to the mast, like two pages of paper
in a book which have identical 'foots' [feet?] with the sprit shared
by both sails. In normal wind, you would fly both sails. In high
winds you would roll up the bigger sail along it's clew and sail with
just the shorter sail.

Why is it that boats always seem twice as heavy hauling them back to
the car, than when hauling them to the beach from the car?

I think that I will put some HDPE, along the bottom of the keel strip
and on the skeg, to make dragging it around easier.

The 'found' mast was a sensible thing, easy and strong. But, had I
bought a stock sail for a Teal, it wouldn't fit on the slightly
curved mast. I think that pre-bending the mast, lying on the ground,
bent between three screwdrivers stuck in the ground, and then tracing
the shape on the sail cloth, was a slick way to determine the curve
of the luff, custom for the natrual curvature of the mast. In a way,
home cut poly sails have a benefit over stock sails for this reason.

Also, I used that 3M spray adhesive, on the folded over seam in the
poly sail. It held the seam together nice, and it also increased
the 'stickyness' of the white duct tape to the poly tarp.

I made the sprit out of 3/4" electrical conduit, and it seems to work
nice.