Bought the fabric, some bunjee cord, and a couple of other bits.
Then it all sat in a box being moved from time to time, and I thought.... I HAVE to do this sail!!
Last week, I found the box of bits again looking for something else, and though... IT TIME!!
I got my wife to make up the sail, as she is a very clever girl when it comes to sewing (she made her own wedding dress and the bridesmaids dressed last year), then yesterday and a bit of today, I finished it off mounting it to the yak.
Its come up pretty good!! The sail looks awesome! Im happy with that part, but im a little unsure of the base where its mounted.
Time will tell anyway and im sure I will have to fine tune it, but it should be a bit of fun which im looking forward to playing with!
The masts are just 15mm pvc pipe, with a piece of dowel in the middle to strengthen them up a bit.
The masks sit in a 15mm pvc 'T" piece, which are threaded onto a old piece of hose.
Bungee cord runs through the middle, with a clip at each end.
One the mast is a piece of bungee that is fixed halfway up the mast, goes down to a clip on the nose of the yak, and back up to the other mast under tension.
2 thin pieces of rope are attached to the mast, then down to the yak near the legs on a short bit of bungee then clipped to the yak.
The whole sail comes off/on with 5 stainless steel caribbean style clips.
The sail is meant to be able to lean on a 45 degree angle to catch the wind.
I will put some cleets on both sides of the yak (there is one there at the moment) to tie the rope off when the sail needs to be on a angle.
The sail lays down on the side of the kayak, and as the sail is under tension from the bungee cord, a flick of the sail up into the air and it springs into action
Anyway... on with some pics...
I will put some more up tomorrow when its in action
The mount had to be changed to compensate for my fishbag, it may still need some work...
