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Schooner Kamanik

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My Bearospace Irene schooner.

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  4. Zbip57
    Master Seaman
    I also sometimes use an Insta360 camera which records a full 360° spherical view. It's a neat piece of kit, because the camera automatically removes itself and the selfie-stick from the resulting image. It seems like the camera is just hanging in space. But you can still see the wooden clamp I use to mount it on the gunwale railing, or the shadow cast be the camera and mount.

    The video can be edited for cool "tiny planet" effects as shown in this image, or focused to look at only specific angles and zoom levels as shown in this video.

    Or, I can post the unedited 360° spherical video to YouTube like this and, as the video is playing, you can click-and-drag to rotate the view to your own desired viewing angle.
    Liked by Mike Stoney and EdW and
  5. Zbip57
    Master Seaman
    I use an old GoPro camera in a waterproof case clamped to the gunwale railing. With a couple of swivel connections it can be aimed in different directions. And the wooden clamp can be positioned anywhere along the railing.
    Liked by Mike Stoney and EdW and
  6. AlessandroSPQR
    Fleet Admiral
    Excellent realization of this very successful project but, above all, fantastic video.

    I would like to see a photo showing the camera position.
    I also took some shots from the edge but these have a very external shot, exceptional.

    Really good!
    Liked by Len1 and hermank
  9. Zbip57
    Master Seaman
    flaxbybuck asked: " I am interested to know how you have arranged your sheets such that your jib sails are able to overlap. I have not been able to get sufficient slack on the windward side sheet."

    I initially ran into the same problem.

    As you know, the sails using booms are relatively simple since you only need one sheet to let out or pull in the boom. It's self-tacking because the boom swings all by itself to the other side when tacking.

    But overlapping jibs require separate sheets port and starboard. Pull one side tight to set the sail, while the lazy sheet on the other side is let out loose.

    My winch servo provides 18" of sheet travel. So when I first did mine, I figured I could have 9" of overlap on the jibs. Nope. Like you, I found out there then just wasn't enough slack on the lazy sheet. D'oh!

    I had to stitch up a new set of smaller jib sails, so they overlap less. See image attached.

    I use one winch servo for the boomed sails, and a separate winch for the flying jibs and fisherman staysail. See the image with the coloured sheet lines. The red line is the sheet from the winch servo, pulling in or spooling out 18" of travel. The mate to it on the other side runs in the opposite direction.

    That red sheet line then splits three ways. The blue runs to the jib staysail (the middle jib), the green to the jib topsail, and the yellow comes back to the fisherman staysail so I can pull the foot of the fisherman to the correct side of the mainmast.

    I added bowsies into each line so I could make adjustments to each individual line tension. But I still need to make some changes there to lengthen each line. Studying my videos, I can see the wooden bowsie blocks need to be repositioned as they sometimes snag on other lines.

    p.s. I don't know why my previous post got truncated. The standard design should weigh 25lbs, but my modifications brought the boat up to nearly 28lbs.
    Liked by hermank and Doogle and
  10. luckyduckBronze
    Lieutenant
    Thanks Zbip57 for that awesome video of underwater and her unbelievable sailing qualities. You have a real stunner on your hands there. Brilliant. I now understand her stability, and your strength!!
    Liked by hermank and Zbip57
  11. flaxbybuck
    Captain
    She's beautiful Zbip and sails really well.
    As a fellow schooner sailor I am interested to know how you have arranged your sheets such that your jib sails are able to overlap. I have not been able to get sufficient slack on the windward side sheet. In consequence the clew of the sail is held back by this sheet and prevents the sail from setting properly.
    A sketch of your sheeting arrangement would be helpful ? 😉
    Liked by EdW and hermank and
  12. Zbip57
    Master Seaman
    luckyduck asked: "how have you made her so light for carrying, and yet stable in a wind, cannot see a deep keel? "

    Ha! She's heavier than she appears, or I'm stronger than I appear.

    The boat, in its original 3-sail configuration when built as designed to the plans by Gary Webb of Bearospace Industries weighs 25lbs. She has a long aluminum keel fin with a heavy lead keel bulb. (http://www.bearospaceindustries.com/boats2.html)

    I added an extra servo and topmasts and topsails bringing the total weight to almost 28 lbs.

    You can see the keel fin in this video. It snagged some weeds because I was fumbling trying to shoot video and steer the boat at the same time, letting her stray a bit too far into the shallow weedy area of our bay. Oops.
    Liked by hermank and AndyN and
  17. Zbip57
    Master Seaman
    Gary Webb's Bearospace designs are brilliant and simple to build. I chose his Schooner Irene design as my first attempt at building a model sailboat. The original design carries three sails, but I subsequently modified mine with the addition of topmasts to now carry a total of eight sails.
    Here's a playlist of youtube videos of the boat in action.
    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLngMU-9AtNNx6s_6HHEEoPavtJv1p6BY
    Liked by hermank and AlessandroSPQR and
  18. roycvBronze
    Fleet Admiral
    I often watch the Bearospace videos and I love the one with the bear doing the construction.
    Roy
    Liked by Ronald
  19. Nerys
    Fleet Admiral
    These Bearospace boats are great, particularly the schooners like this one, based on the 'Irene' design. I also like the smaller 'Emma', rigged as a sloop with a sprit mainsail. The method of building is reasonably simple and so well thought out. From the videos I've seen they sail so well, particularly when steered by the designers' teddy bear.

    Cheers, Nerys
    Liked by hermank and Dougd and

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