Christian Lindholm's report from the 1994 event.
Reproduced with permission from Radio Yachting News / Chris Jackson
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Noux RC-Pot Recess Progress
We've moulded the first aft-deck with the new pot-recess for the round lid+rim that is going to be the only hatch into the new boat.
Nordic Cup 3, Saltsjöbaden
This weekend I took part in the final Nordic Cup race of the year, in Saltsjöbaden just south of Stockholm. 28 competitors showed up and we sailed 9 races on Saturday and about 5-6? more on Sunday. Saturday was a very wet day with light to heavy rain the whole day. We started in no2 rig and switched to no1 for the later races. Sunday saw the wind coming from an unfortunate direction over a hill with wild shifts and gusts as a result - frustrating racing at times...
Nothing new under the sun when it comes to the results, Torvald Klem won, 2 points in front of Sören Andresen, and myself third, 2 points after Sören.
No pictures from this event as Saturday was too wet for photography and I tried my best to concetrate on the sailing on Sunday... If anyone has photos, please send me them and I'll gladly post them!
Results and pictures are likely to appear on www.iom-nordic.org in a few days.
Marblehead Worlds 1992, New York, USA
Henry Ericsson reports in Pienoismalli from the event held in Central Park, New York.
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Noux Reduced Shadows
I've had a couple of requests for reduced shadows for the Noux by people wanting to home-build the boat using planking or other methods. Here are the lines with 1-6mm offset from the outer hull surface. A DXF file is attached to the pdf, click the small paper-clip next to the text to save the DXF as a separate file
Quantum, a successful Finnish Marblehead
Quantum was a Finnish Marblehead designed by the team of Henry Ericsson, Christian Lindholm, and Olof Ginström for the 1991 European Marblehead Championships which were held in Hanko, Finland.
In this Frisk Bris article from 1991 Heffe describes the rationale behind the design and the building process.
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RC-Pot recess for Noux
I'm really happy that we now have the whole chain from drawing (far left), into CAD/CAM and cnc milling (middle left) making high-tolerance (well, almost...) parts (middle right), which can be used as moulds for Noux components (far right). With some effort and determination you can now go from concept drawing to finished part in one weekend.
IOM class overview
2006 Wasa IOM Ranking
WSF hosted the seventh finnish ranking event of the year. The results are here - also check out the pictures at Olle and Kai Martonens site.
An introduction to radio sailing and the IOM class
An introduction to the IOM class which I wrote for Pienoismalli in 2004.