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Articles written for Watercraft magazine on the building of lille draken can be found at the bottom of this page Latest:3-07-06
Sailed down in Milford Haven with Seafair 2006.All those involved were tremendously helpful especially when I needed a tow! My thanks goes out to you all especially Andrew Watters and Chris Everall.My biggest news is the underwater filming - although not complete as yet I got some pretty impressive film of the air forming at the leeding edge then spirraling along the hull. Also my experiment with Norman shields attached to the rear (see Bayeaux tapestry) in my opinion did aid sailing to windward although conditions were not right to try out reefing using a rope tied round the sail half way along its length.
-14-6-6 Sailing on Queen Mary resevoir. Colin Henwood steering, (Ballast!) David Jones and sail technician for the day Richard Gooderick from Teddington Skiff Club. Click on the image below to down load a short Windows Movie file (Windows Media Player required)
13-6-6 finally back on the water at Queen Mary resevoir http://www.queenmary.org.uk/ where they have a natty lift which can raise or lower your craft gently into some of the cleanest water in london, after all, we all drink it after i've sailed on it! Don't worry the tar on the bottom is the stuff you line the inside of water tanks with. 24th of June Milford Haven sea fair
Lille Draken has spent her winter in a field and now has had her first new coat of tar below the water line 06/03/06 .The linen sail is to be treated with lanolin from sheeps wool made less sticky with some added beeswax to prevent damp destroying sail.
Sailing down at woolwich - I now have an underwater video camera with which I hope to film air traveling under the hull.As the Thames is a bit murky for this I hope to sail on Queen Mary resevoir in April then out to sea in june off Milford Haven.
Great River Race result We came 268 out of 300 . 22 miles in 3 hrs 45 mins. It didn't help that a rope became trapped under the hull and we dragged a lot of weed a long way . That said the crew were magnificent and we shipped no water in the rough bits. We also managed to raise £700 for the myelin trust.
17th September 05 The Trafalgar Great River Race David Jones and his valiant vikings will be racing some 22 miles down stream from Ham to Greenwich starting mid afternoon and with luck and a little judgement arriving early evening. They will be supporting the Myelin Trust and hope you can cheer them on from whichever bridge you can. To sponsor Lille Draken please send cheques to The Myelin Project - details on their website. 12th August "Put an outboard on the side and travelled down to Woolwich to meet a full size copy of the Gokstad called Gaia ( Gaia Link).I persuaded my dear wife and a good friend Sylvia Wicks to act as ballast! By the end of the day we had travelled down to the barrier back up through a raised tower bridge then back to woolich .By now the tide was fast coming in and the wind was in the opposite - seriously hairy- 9.00hrs later we staggered up the gangway to the nearest loo.
We may be 1/4 scale in length but that makes us 1/16 volume---small". --- 17-19th JULY 05:
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