Thread: "Quasi leaning plank" for Beth?

BTW, special suits for protection of bottom and knees - for example:

Profesjonalne szorty ochronne C-YA HillBilly - Ochraniacze - Po?ladki - biodra

Profesjonalne ochraniacze na kolana. - Ochraniacze - Kolana

Described: "for extreme sports"

BETH is an extreme boat!

And you are an extreme MAN except for your knees and other tender bits.

MIK

Originally Posted by Boatmik

And you are an extreme MAN except for your knees and other tender bits.

Haha!
Hoping it was a joke.

On a more serious note, for hiking, padding on the seat is not quite enough. You really need the padding to extend down the back of the thigh as well. For some boats such as those with side deck seats, the backs of the calves need protection too.

I found a nice pair of heavy cloth quick-dry B*rke shorts with removable closed cell padding on the seat and back of the thigh as well. They are really good over the top of a long wetsuit or wetsuit shorts. However a good mod that a lot of guys do is to also attach a couple of flexible fibreglass sail battens to the pads on each side which spread the load better than just the foam pads on their own.

The knee pads are not such a silly idea either. After a day's sailing my knees always show a quite few bruises. Buggered if I know where they come from!

Originally Posted by woodeneye

On a more serious note, for hiking, padding on the seat is not quite enough. You really need the padding to extend down the back of the thigh as well. For some boats such as those with side deck seats, the backs of the calves need protection too.

About paddling:

Last my daysailing I've returned to the beach paddling with mainsail dropped out. I've paddled kneel a midship but pain in knee provoked me to sit on left side deck... BETH have good initial stability and I'm not heavy skipper (75 kg max), but she progressive heeled to really danger angle.
I've really quickly kneel again on a mid ship into the cockpit against the capsize.


...
This is a style of side deck "edge" (coaming) sitting in light air with puffs with no reef or moderate breeze with puffs with first reef on mainsail:


...kneel (or squat possible too) by tacking/gybing:


Moderate breeze and first reef - I can seat on side deck without hiking:


This is a good and safe paddling position (kneel) with mainsail dropped out:

Man, I love that boat!

Originally Posted by woodeneye

Man, I love that boat!

I love her too.

Me too ... but I'm biased!

Originally Posted by Boatmik

Me too ... but I'm biased!

Haha! Really?

Tell to the truth weight of sailor is very imortant for BETH.

This day sailing was with friend who is really heavier than me.
Wind 2-3 with puffs Force 4. Me light sailor with first reef:













And my friend Lukasz - sitting on bottom of cockpit still:









Few of more photos there:
Picasa Web Albums - robhosailor - Beth_Jezioro_...



And first movie on YouTube:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH7XjW4mNwg"]YouTube- Sailing Canoe BETH YuanFen - Dziekanowskie Lake (Poland)[/ame]

...and another one:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-joHCA-o04"]YouTube- Sailing Canoe BETH YuanFen - Dziekanowskie Lake (Poland) - gybeing[/ame]

I am glad several people are getting the chance to sail BETH in Poland.

Good work - it is always nice to share the fun.

MIK

Another two short movies from previous sunday (AUG 29th 2010):

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkKDzQdo7sA]YouTube - Sailing canoe BETH -YuanFen- Dziekanowskie Lake (Poland)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3NhW5YYfdw]YouTube - Sailing canoe BETH -YuanFen- Dziekanowskie Lake (Poland) 2[/ame]

Enjoy!

Few another, recently uploaded photos:








This is a moment when mizzen sheet was hitched onto rudder's yoke - before the tack and after...




Enjoy!

Omigod I'm in love.

What a beautiful boat! Great pictures!

I really enjoy you let your friends sail her too, that's always nice.

I feel like if I had a Beth we'd be sideways and full of water a lot....

I always wondered about the way some people have a violent negative reaction to box shaped boats.

I wonder how history might have been different if Bolger had drawn up a few pretty ones too.

MIK