Over the last year we did spend many, many sessions with Dijkstra’s design team optimising Long Tall Sally’s design, inside and out. Implementing all the requirements from our list, however insignificant some of them seemed, into the design yielded some of the most rewarding moments of the project so far. Tax, legal en financial issues have not met
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Sales power
January 29th, 2010Having drafted our annual report on 2009, we have evaluated our qualities and our results at finding co-owners. All our efforts have not led to reaching our goal: bringing together the required minimum amount of owners. The long and short of it, we have to admit, is; we need help!
Mainsheet solutions
January 14th, 2010According to our current deckplan, the mainsheet runs from the boom, via the deckhouse roof, back to the boom, to continue along the boom towards the mast. There it turns down towards the deck, where it continues aft, alongside the deckhouse to emerge past the first winch behind the cockpit into the helmsmans cockpit. All in all
Helming and squeezing
January 7th, 2010This new year’s first meeting we largely deal with the helmsmans position. A bizar problem needs to be tackled: the passage between the steering console and the aft side of the cockpit proved to be too tight. How on earth was that possible on a 33 meter vessel. Why wouldn’t we be able to comfortably work our
Nesting anchors
December 28th, 2009We have made some fundamental choices regarding the underwater part of Long Tall Sally’s hull. Now the time has come to look at her bow more carefully. How are we to position two anchors there? Some practicle and esthetical challenges loom. For several reasons we prefer Bruce type anchors. A serious expedition vessel should carry two of
