Sailing Magazine
By Richard Crockett
Publishers back in the day had a nasty habit of turning feature articles over to pages near the back instead of finishing them in consecutive pages. As a result today’s headline is a little misleading as there are three features.
Aussie Cup Challengers – written by Don Ord.
While I was in Sydney, through the kind effort of Max Whitnall and Jim Hardy, the new 505 world champions I was introduced to Warwick Hood, who is the designer of the new 12-metre challenger, ‘Dame Pattie’. This boat is being built for the Melbourne syndicate, headed by Mr. E. Christensen.
“I spent a very happy few hours with Warwick Hood, looking at drawings, models, and being hopelessly confused by myriads of figures thrown out by a computer.”
Bonding Metals with Adhesives.
“Although it is comparatively new, adhesive bonding of metal structures is now an accepted part of engineering practice.”
What caught my eye was the subhead which said: “Besides their familiar dinghy masts, Alcan are turning out more and more cruiser mast sections for South African yachtsmen on the lines of this one for the Royal Cape One-design, which is shown full-size. Instead of welding they recommend Araldite bonding as explained in the text. The sail track is also a standard fitting, and can be used as well on the foreside of the mast for the spinnaker pole fitting. Largest size so far is 8in. fore and aft with a wall thickness of .188in.”
Laying Down the Law by Dennis Hammerschlag.
For those who study the yacht racing rules it may be interesting to compare the 1966 rules with those of today.
READ IT ALL HERE: 1966 06 – SA Yachting – aussie cup challengers – OCR
