INVESTIGATOR 563

Looks like a nice ramp and that's a fair bit of wind did you reduce sail, reef main No2 jib, or manage with full sail up?

Andrew

That's a fair sized kedging Danforth,

I went out and tested Terias main anchor, it's a good size and weight to handle now. Set well and didn't drag in 15 knot winds. May need to upsize my kedging danforth tho..

Nice work Pete, makes it neater to stow and easier to work on I'm thinking if making a mast stand to go in the aft end of Terias cockpit, perhaps with a roller on top..your design gives some ideas. We need ours because of a low bridge across the river mouth. launch with mast down get past the bridge...

Thanks for the anchor info everyone. I've rigged 7m of 6 mm chain to the 10 mm diam anchor warp. Now the CQR plough can fit into the anchor locker due to the reduced bulk of the chain. :-) The stern anchor , trying a small 4 lb Danforth i had, it has 4m of 5mm chain and 8mm warp. It stows in the por...

Congratulations Pete, a fine day and the water's in sight

Any thoughts on what's the optimal range of sizes used for the main anchor , chain and rode on Investigators.? My main anchor chain is currently really heavy stuff, 8 mm with links 28x46mm which won't even fit in the anchor roller (assume its a standard roller, there's a custom stainless rub plate p...

I'm thinking about getting the Garmin 78sc handheld GPS, with a mounting bracket. I'ts got just about everything including sea charts and floats. Wondering has anyone tried one of these units or what to recommend?

Thanks for the feed back , if anyone's interested i have a blog going about maintaining and sailing the Teria. some more details on the centerboard refit are at http://teria563.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/centerboard-restoration-and-refit.html Posts in the blog may smooth the way for anyone thinking of ...

Hi Geoff, I don't know if my whisker pole is regulation or not (or if it's even a spinnaker pole, but looks too small for that) but it is very old so could be an original. It is made of 25 mm aluminium tube 1800 mm long with fico push on end fittings , which increase it's length to 1940 mm between t...

G'day Ian, Thanks for the u-tube videos, they add an extra dimension to learning about new things on the i563 Your new genoa really gets light wind hull speed up. Discovered that Teria came with a wire luff lightweight drifter genoa (i thought it was conventional spinnaker at first) . It hoists with...