Un nouvel article publié grâce à l’enthousiasme du 2ksunist régatier du Thornbury Sailing Club. Rob nous détaille ici les modifications apportée à son sun 2000. Un beau bateau bien affuté!
“ Herewith some photos of the modifications I’ve made to my boat (Margarita) this year.
1. I’ve fitted a ’tiller tamer’ to help keep on course when sailing singlehanded, and a different tiller extension with a handle grip.
2. The mainsheet traveller helps a bit in certain wind conditions, but I’m going to change the end fittings so that the control line goes through a pulley and into a jammer on the side deck.
3. The gennaker bag in the hatch. I’ve tied a short bar to the mast underneath the cabin roof, and then have tied a piece of dyneema from one side of the hatch entrance, round each end of the bar, and back to the other side of the hatch. The bag has 4 clips (one at each corner), which clip on to the rope. It makes it easy to launch and retrieve, particularly singlehanded. I have separated the halyard from the tack line.
4.I’ve fitted 60cm jib tracks and adjustable blocks, with the control lines through clamcleats. It makes a big difference upwind, and with the new pentex genoa I can get the telltales flying right up the luff.
5. There is a bobstay to hold the gennaker pole tight, and minimize wear on the stemhead fitting (I sent a mail earlier in the year about the wear in the hole on the original stemhead, which was changed by my Jeanneau dealer. I’ve bolted the forestay to the stemhead now, and so far it seems to have stopped the wear.“
Bon, alors, en français, on notera en
- 1 :le système de blocage de barre déjà évoqué sur ce site (tiller-tamer sur Estouki!), and le stick à rallonge et poignée
- 2: la barre d’écoute intéressante!
- 3: le sac à spi/gennaker dans la descente. Perso, j’aurais la trouille de le déchirer, en le ramebant jusque là.
- 4: les rails d’écoute de génois, réglables, et tout l’accastillage de pont avec les petits spinlocks triples auxquels je pensais pour Estouki!
- 5: la sous-barbe réglable directement par un coinceur sur le bout-dehors lui-même!
Belle personnalisation! Mais ce n’est pas tout:
“Finally, a photo of 2 of our Sun 2ks on the moorings as we rowed ashore after the race today.
The pentex racing sails in the photo I sent last week were made by Momentum, and were around £1,400 including full battens, 2 reefs, a cover for the genoa (you can see it in the last photo above), sail numbers and delivery. Hugh Myers [myers [AT] momentumsails [DOT] com] is the guy I dealt with at the Southampton Boat Show last year. He came down to the club to measure my boat, and he has done a great job. The genoa luff needed to be a few cms shorter perhaps - I had to shorten all the shackles on the head and foot, and move a fitting for the jib halyard on the mast before I could get the right luff tension, but the other 2 Sun 2ks who bought sails at the same time are fine. Buying 3 sets together in winter helped us get a good price.
I hope this is of interest to other Sun 2k sailors. Thanks for your enthusiastic support!
Regards Rob“
Et ça aussi, c’est plus qu’intéressant. Je suis en plein dedans… dans le choix de voiles. Heureusement, n’ayant pas le budget dans l’immédiat, ca me laisse du temps. Un dossier voile est en cours de rédaction, mais il est loin d’être fini…
En tout cas, encore un énorme MERCI à Rob pour tout!
STAY SLIDES TO STANDARD HATCH
It is easy to cut and form the slots in 9mm plywood although a strong 6mm
Pour rappel, LOF STORY le sun 2000 de Gilles a déjà faite l’objet de 
un fort coup de vent force 8 qui retardera l’arrivée au mouillage à lundi prochain si les cieux sont plus cléments.
