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8 days ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH (
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Haven't been working on the Optimist for a while But a lot of thinking going on because my lovely wife was cleaning up my new area that I was band too and it's beyond me while cleaning my work area decide that some wood pieces need to go in the garbage so new ones needed to be made . Good thing there was a template print of the parts I need So to save some money I have made a attempt to make new ones from some scrap wood I had laying around. Just so every one Knows I changed my Photo the other one was out of focus.
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8 days ago by 🇨🇦 Ronald (
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You are a humble person. Looking forward to seeing the finished project.
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1 month ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Captain)
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I was using too much brainpower trying to rig the sail servo, so I went back to the way Solings are rigged. Then a light bulb went off in my brain, and I realized all the sail servo rigging on the Optimist needs to be under the deck, not on top of the deck, like the way a Soling sailboat is rigged.🤔
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1 month ago by 🇨🇦 Ronald (
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Keep it Simple Sam
The KISS formula does it again! ▲
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1 month ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Captain)
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Got a sail servo from a fellow club member. I had to make a few modifications so the Rudder servo would fit better in the hull. I found that the Rudder rod was getting stuck on the cockpit hole, so servo arms had to be made longer.
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1 month ago by 🇨🇦 Ronald (
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Much better choice Garth for your sail control servo. I like the 322 for rudder too😁👏
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1 month ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Captain)
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Jib sail mounted properly I did not have the parts to do the jib rigging, so I did it my way after getting some fishing line stuff. Print shows how Graupner wanted you to do it but I wasn't going to look for those parts on the internet.Still need to do the Vorstag ? and the annahen thing ? P/S I can't read German. 😀I don't know what an annahen thing is.
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1 month ago by 🇩🇪 CDE (
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Good morning Garth, on my Oprimist I fixed the jib with little brass rings to the forestay.
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1 month ago by 🇩🇪 RNinMunich (
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Hi Garth,
That's annähen and it's not a 'thing' it's a 'do'😉 It means 'to sew on'. Cheers, Doug😎 ▲
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1 month ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Captain)
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Today, there was a lot of thought going into sail installation as most of the 109 parts are no longer available from Graupner, so a lot of thinking to find other ways to make the sails work & also easy to remove sails to transport the model to some nice water hole. The jib sail is tempary . I have to go to the store for some fishing line clips.
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2 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Captain)
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For the last few days haven't done much due to the crapy weather so installed the mast, main sail & boom I think it's looking like it's going to work Next Jib & I'll need to make about 8 bose's for the rigging lines. The sail is wrinkled because it's been in my sock drawer for 30 years.
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1 month ago by 🇨🇦 RodC (
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Amazing what you can find in your sock drawer when push comes to shove. Currently I have three sock drawers so there is probably some good nautical bits at the bottom of each of them🤔
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2 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Captain)
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I kept looking at my 1-meter soling to see how the sails on that model worked. The mainsail needs to have a rod in the sail close to the mast to hold the sail so cotter pins can be put in the sail & pins put into the mast that's done. Now, I needed to find a way to mount the mainsail boom onto the mast. found old rudder swivel. So, off to the hobby store for some 1.44mm rod & then to the hardware store for some cotter pins.I know the swivel looks a bit odd but with a little paint, it should look O/K.The last photo is cotter pin set up on the1 meter soling mast.
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2 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Captain)
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Here's what's going on with the Optimist. The sail servo has been installed, but the sail servo arm needs to be longer. The rudder servo also needed to be built longer. I was banished to the basement by my wife so it was difficult to install the mast as it's 5 feet 5 inches and my basement is only 6 feet high . I'm working on the floor. I have a 1 meter Soling that has the mast installed on the deck & it's always a pain to install the mast so the mast for the Optimist is inside the hull so I built a block that will take the mast & hold it in place Hope it works
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2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC (
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Envious of your wee drillpress & very tidy basement!! Looking forward to sailing with you this summer at SPENCER'S in Burlington & (hopefully) LAKEFRONT PROMENADE in Port Credit/Mississauga
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2 months ago by 🇨🇭 Mike Stoney (
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Hello Garth!
Oh oh oh! My heart does somersaults at the sight of this! Good luck! For me this will probably be in a year's time! Crafting greetings Michel-C. 
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck (
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That looks like a pretty nice basement, even with its restrictions - far better than my cold wooden shed in the garden!!!😁😁
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2 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Captain)
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Had the Graupner Optimist in my basement for about 25 years some one gave the unfinished kit to me at A show club was doing at Canal Days in Port Colborne Ontario . No keel so I made one from a piece of scrap plate at work on afternoon shift took a few weeks at lunch time had to learn how to use a cutting torch & industrial grinder to shape the keel like the plans. Then for some unknown reason I put it in the basement & kind of forgot about it after I finished installing keel & all the framing I think I couldn't find a sail servo back then so I stopped the build. I found all the manuals & sails stashed away in a drawer & the sails have creases in them that may not go flat.
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2 months ago by 🇨🇭 Mike Stoney (
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Hello CDE,
It's a pity that the Graupner company from back then no longer exists! They had some really great models . . Time goes its way, our models will stay with us. CDE, good wind conditions and pleasant sailing! Yours looks great too! Don't forget to pack a sandwich and a beer! Prost ! The freshwater sailor Michel-C. ▲
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2 months ago by 🇩🇪 CDE (
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Hi Garth, during the winter months I redid my Graupner Optimist and now I am looking forward to put it into her element again.
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 JohnJ1 (
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Looks lovely. Finish it.
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2 months ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly (
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What a beauty Garth! And she looks fast standing still!
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2 months ago by 🇺🇸 chugalone100 (
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Beautiful model. I love the laser marked deck.
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2 months ago by 🇨🇭 Mike Stoney (
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OMG Garth . . .
This corpse has been lying in my cellar since 1990! At some point it will sail again. Then I wish you lots of success and, above all, patience. As a precaution, I painted my hull with 2K paint 2 years ago, now it's waiting to be revived along with other boat corpses! I follow you with admiration. . . Too busy with the stern wheel steamer. 😌 Michel-C. PS: See my “harbor”. 
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck (
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That looks like the start of a beautiful yacht. Your metal working skills have made a perfect keel, and I presume rudder and skeg unit.
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2 months ago by 🇨🇦 Ronald (
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What’s your plan now Garth?
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