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26th June 2009, 05:05 AM #16New Member
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Hi Al
To Al Burke. From Mike Roberts (Headland Boats) Hi Al, No .... ! I have not disappeared. I still work out of the same Bayside office that I have worked out of for the past ten years ! I still have the same website The same phone numbers (+617 3893 0676) and Mobile (0407553794) The same email address .. etc Yes ...... I still sail my Green Island 15 out on Morton Bay. These days I regularly post out plans globally, including UK, NZ, USA, Poland, Italy, Greek Islands, etc. ( I quote from my latest US customer - “The Green Island 18 plans are more than I ever expected. The clarity and level of detail is immense. I have bought and inspected many plans from many N.A.`s and designers and can say that your plans are at the top of the best. They are well worth the money paid. Sincerely, R. L. ) Recent projects in the custom design dept have included a 23 ft strip plank trailerable yacht; an 18 ft balsa core power cat; a 15 ft clinker rowing dory and renovations to a 30 square meter racing yacht etc. Over seas trips have included sailing Falmouth, Cornwall, the Solent for Cowes Week and San Diego to sail aboard the classic thirty square meter racing yacht “Benchmark”. While in the US, I did have the honour of recording with some “Top” jazz musicians but I am not about to give up my day job! Now to the business of answering woodworking questions. SAILING UNDER LOW BRIDGES ... Most well designed boats will have the rig and hull specifically designed to compliment each other. I have had a number of requests to to place other rigs on the Green Island 15 but have never felt that any of the alternatives offered would work as well as the rig drawn in the plans. I have sailed my GI-15 under the low bridge at Breakfast Creek in Brisbane at various states of tide. At low tide it was enough to drop the main sail into it’s “Lazy Jacks” and “Heel” the boat a little to lower the mast. At high tides I have been forced to rig and de-rig the boat at anchor in the middle of the river. Not too much trouble if you prepare correctly. With a small modification the whole rig, including mast and sails can be dropped into the boat then re raised ready to sail. 1. The fwd thwart needs to have a removable “Gate” where the mast passes through, so that the mast can be lowered without disconnecting the shrouds at the chainplates. Any boom vang must also be removable. 2. Rather than simply lashing the forestay to the eye bolt on the fore deck, a double mini block on the eyebolt is paired with a mini block and becket affixed to the end of the forestay. 4 mm spectra ties to the becket, around sheive 1 on the eyebolt, back the the sheive of the block and becket, through sheive 2 on the double block the back to the cockpit via a small hole in the front of the coaming. This is then secured on a cleat attached on the forward bulk head. When “Shooting” a low bridge, the procedure is the following 1. Loose sheets and disconnect vang from boom. 2. Remove mast “Gate”. 3. Untie forestay tensioner from cleat and use to lower whole rig into the boat. 4. Haul the whole rig back up using three part forestay tensioner. 5. Re-cleat forestay tensioner and sail away ! A little organisation and practice will be required but a very efficient and seaman like manoeuvre can be the result. All the best Mike Roberts (designer)
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26th June 2009, 05:53 PM #17
Mike,
Thank you for the very detailed reply,it makes good reading & re-inforces what I like about your GI15.
I have seen similar rigging on trailer sailers that work well for raising & lowering the mast & agree it is a simple & workable solution to the car bridge problem.
Sadly I have moved on & started building Jim Mikalak's Ladybug.I say sadly as I would have preferred a GI15,but I allowed?? my good wife,who is good crew & an accomplished sailor,into the selection process.
With so many great designs to consider,we narrowed it down to a few with Ladybug in the mix,mainly because of the large,uncluttered cockpit,low Cof E free-standing rig & it fitted on an existing trailer.High performance was definitely not one of the criteria,nor classic good looks,although I like Ladybug in a practical sort of way.
Ross Lillistone's First Mate & GI15 sort of tied for looks & good all-round performance & one or two others were not far away,but "SHE" plonked for Ladybug.
She was also a but severe on GIS after I sat her down & looked at the two videos on Michael Storer's site,where she played them several times & remarked that even 3-up it seemed very tender in gusts.Having crewed with me on VJs when we were fairly young & having sailed thousands of ocean miles together,I don't argue.Although she conceded that GIS,being a performance boat, would need a much firmer hand on the tiller.
AND,while very fit & agile,we are both in our 60s & should slow down a bit for a change!
So for now,Ladybug it is, but being addicted to wooden boat building,I might well have a relapse down the track.
Thanks again Mike & I look forward to meeting you in person sometime soon.
Al.
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26th June 2009, 06:42 PM #18
Finally found your web-site Mike - Headland Boats.
Duly book-marked.
cheers
AJ
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4th September 2009, 01:00 AM #19New Member
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Green Island 15
Mike is definitely alive and helping me with construction questions. My GI15 is nearing completion and I hope to find other GI15's on Lake Macquarie. You must see one of these boats before you build something else.
Any other GI15's ?
Bruce.
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4th September 2009, 01:05 AM #20
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5th September 2009, 10:49 AM #21
Are you sure Richard?
MIK
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5th September 2009, 10:56 AM #22
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7th September 2009, 10:59 AM #23
If you mean the varnished boat near the skip it is a Murray Isles Swallowdale.
In a way the Swallowdale was one of the inputs into the GIS. I sailed one with a friend and a couple of kids a few times and they are a nice little boat if you put a boom on the standing lug! Makes sailing much simpler and gives a lot more performance.
It is a nice little boat. Not the performance of the Goat though it can be cartopped and would probably row a lot better than the Goat when the wind gets up.
It is really a dory with a wider stern.
MIK
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7th September 2009, 12:01 PM #24
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9th September 2009, 08:35 PM #25
I have never ignored your posts Daddles, had to reread them a few times maybe but never ignore.
I believe you are correct about a Green Island for sale at DF, well according to the for sale section that is, mind you it's a fair drive to pick it up.
Mike
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9th September 2009, 11:01 PM #26New Member
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GI15 listed at DF
It is a GI15. I can see the frames and am certain that it's a GI15. I know every angle on that design. It's a very cheap boat, well worth the drive I would say.
About twelve months ago I would have snapped it up. To give you an idea, the trailer alone has cost me $800.00 Second hand, the main will cost about $900 and the head sail about $450. Paint $500.00, add to that the ply, timber, epoxy and fittings. If it's a reasonable build quality it's a steal.
Bruce.
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15th July 2021, 05:19 PM #27New Members
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Green Island 15 on Port Stephens
Hey Al & Bruce, are you still sailing on Lake Macquarie in a GI15?
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