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I tried to use a rope ladder for my Romilly, and it turned out that it is a very complicated task to return back aboard with a rope ladder. Much better are those small, foldable, all-wood ladders...

Maybe at the 8th of May, start of may sailing season :-)

Bruce,

I never weighted the spars myself, but there are some comparative mass figures in the buildung notes for the main mast and the main yard (I hope I am allowed to cite these here!):

Spar...

Your mizzen mast looks great!

In the carbon spars version of Romilly both masts are stepped into foot cones, requiring the below deck parts of the masts also to be conical. I assume you will step...

Reducing sail area? No, think it over again as sailing the boat in a light breeze is such a delight. There is one Romilly with 10% larger sail area but to my knowledge no one with reduced area....

Hi all,

yes coffee in the morning is a must. I did not grind yet, but regularely use a stainless steel espresso maker on my Optimus Hiker 111. If you look carefully you can see both the cofee...

Bump.

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Hey Scott / Brumenschenkel,

I got your email regarding my Romilly's color scheme but cannot answer as your Email settings don't allow for receiving Emails: Please check your settings or provide an...

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Cream cabin top, inner bulwarks, masts and sails, white mast tops and spars, red antifouling.

Most wonderful boats. I wonder why we don't see more of the heavier Gartside boats here on the internet. There must be quite a number of them, but I don't seem to find them. Do their owners hide them...

Hi Max,

nice photos, but I suppose it will be diffcult to type in your password from a non-german keyboard. A selection of photos within your thread would be nice ...

"If the cabin were extended back to F5 would there still be plenty of cockpit room?"

We feel the cockpit with our slightly elongated cabin still is very generous, even when sailing with 2 adults...

The cabin was extended about 40cm, if I remember correctly.

Carbon spars for sure fit nicely to the boat. They are worth about 0,5 Beaufort compared the the wooden spars. The main effect of course...

Such a nice boat.

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How many cruise happily without full headroom?

We do. My boat is a wooden Romilly with a slightly elongated cabin, or better a cuddy. The cabin hatch is cut deeply into the roof so that you can...

Not only in banana republic: There is on the one hand the formal world of laws, regulations, organisation, processes, and then there is on the other hand the world of human beeings, acting in this...

Most interesting stuff, Roger. Thank you for posting.

Hi Ole,

what a boat and what a project. I was surprised to see the offsets noted in imperial, but found out now that only in 1907 Denmark moved to the metric system as - beside of UK - the last...

Daniel, but isn't this the davantage and the design goal of the modern high aspect hydrofoil: Producing the same target lateral force to prevent side way slip as the traditional board, but due to its...

To my eyes the Concordia Sloopboat is very, very salty indeed, the pictures of her lying on the beach and getting rowed out are just irresistable. But then also have a look at Paul Gartside's work,...

Still nothing decided upon so far, Yeadon. My season 2012 will start in May with a week of sailing, and I will then take the chance to experiment a bit on the topic. If there is some notable outcome...

No, I didn't save the thread. But the photos are of course still existing, and if someone would like to see them I could upload a selection of them to photobucket.

Thank you all for your answers.

James: No I didn't yet try to sail my boat without the rudder: The tiller would have to be lashed admidships as is is rather long and heavy and tends to fall to one...

I wonder whether it might be possible to rig a self steering system for a small yawl like a caledonian yawl or a Romilly by attaching the mizzen sheet to the tiller. Any experiences on that? James...

The Google Earth thing didn't work. Will try to find another way to share the map.

Yes, the boat is a Romilly. I documented her build here on the forum, but have removed the pictures from their original place.

John, some of the pictures can still be seen under...

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Hi folks,

summer's gone, at least for us here on the northern hemisphere. Just the right time to look back on our sailing advenures 2011 and to plan for those to come next year.

I'll make a...

No, to my experience they will not disappear. They will grow more and more in number until until the sail is all wrinkles and soft. Then you'll want an new one.

Not every stock anchor is a Herreshoff anchor. As was said before, key design elements seem to be the length over breadth over depth (stock length) relation as well as the details of the fluke...

TimH,

no, my light is mounted on wooden base. I just scanned my photos - sorry, nothing good availiable.

TimH,

I have the very same stern light (or at least the very close relative of it) on my wooden Romilly. I bought it from Reineck and Son, together with matching tear drop port / starboard...

I like those:

http://www.segelforum.de/attachments/dyneema-tauwerk-schaekel-dyneema-schaekel-7-t-mit-offner-79kb.jpg-193d1272061753t

Dyneema, easy to make, easy to use.

Allen,

this my wooden Romilly, cold molded, mahogany, here seen near the Greek island of Skiathos this summer.

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