Thank you very much Greg for clearing this up. I know the parts I have
gotten from you have been first rate and I definately appreciate all you
have and continue to do for all of us Swifties.
I only kid you about finishing Rose because I concider you a friend. I
know that with friends like me, who needs enemies? No one.;)
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:33:52 -0700, Greg Ryan <gregoryrryan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I guess I should put on my other hat,
NYC Skiffs LLC has made all the specialised hand made Swift parts that
members of the class have been buying, including the carbon forestay
fittings, anodized swift solo mast steps, adapter brackets and foam
cores supplied to you from Aquilo and VMG. Stocks of all carbon and
alloy parts are running low at the moment. I have only a few mast steps
left but plenty of foam cores though (except rails). You might recall me
pleading with you all through this email server to get requests in for
parts last year and warning about a stock runout. BTW I got zero
response! After the nationals in April I will be able once again to
concentrate on really stocking up on parts for the class for the future.
I'd be more than glad to help people who are making their own parts, I
know Bram is committed to making the last part of the boat building
process easy and for the most part the pdf how- to's are easy to follow
for all the parts you need to make.
The parts we supply are
Foam cores for
spreaders
center board
rudder
throat
tapered tiller
toe rails
center rail
transom bar
We supply carbon skinned CB, Rudder, throat, transom bars. We will add a
convenient foam mold for the rudder cassette later this spring. (as a
tip, if you bought NYC Skiffs cores you might be able to use your foam
saddles as lost foam molds for the rudder and CB blocks, think about it,
they should fit if held spaced apart just a little. Acetone eats the
foam out!).
Our anodised aluminium Swift Solo parts include a mast head fitting,
Mast step (like the 49er fitting but modified to accommodate the more
complex Swift rigging system and the function of the forestay fitting),
compass/pivot-block adapter.
We also manufacture a carbon forestay fitting with integrated sheaveless
downhaul for the jib and I hope to soon have about 10 of these in stock.
While the NYC Skiffs mast step is redesigned to suit our needs you can
always use a modified 49er mast step and also a 49er forestay fitting
would work, just like you can use a 49er rudder cassette with modified
tiller and 49er CB and rudder.
Though I have been busy with building a Swift Solo (funny enough) lately
NYC Skiffs LLC has been testing a new revision of the forestay fitting,
a new lightweight carbon outhaul rack idea from Bram, redesigned
spreader cores, new moulds for the forestay fittings, new
compass/pivot-block adapters for the mast step, a new floating vang
collar, our new 3D vang arms and Al-honeycomb core vang boomerang. NYC
skiffs is also building light state of the art fully rigged masts/boom
combos and experimenting with composite-rod rigging. In the spring we
are going to start retailing sundry SS hardware kits and West System
Epoxy and fillers at a very competitive price, only for class members.
This will coincide with the NYCSKIFFS.COM website launch.
NYC Skiffs LLC is a for profit company which strives to keep the cost of
its custom, low production count parts as reasonable as possible and
nevertheless uses most of its resources to sponsor local Swift builders,
Swift Solo skiff and high performance sailing in the NE USA. We are a
proud sponsor of the 06 Swift Solo Nationals. I am looking forward to
meeting you all at the nationals with my new Swift Solo, (or if worse
comes to worse you will see me on the NYC Skiffs coach boat and I will
trade parts for a ride! :-).
Happy building
Greg Ryan
greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Harper
To: 'Warren Stevens' ; swiftsolo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:30 PM
Subject: RE: is anyone still building parts?
Last I heard no one was making the CB inserts. They are very easy to
make like the bulkheads with Bram's template. I'm not sure if there was
anyone making rudder cassettes to sell. You might be able to get a 49er
cassette but you will have to modify the tiller and it will be heavier
than the carbon ones that are being built. I too got lazy so that is
what I did. I'm not sure who was making the forestay fittings, vangs,
and other parts. I purchased some of those from VMG just before they
closed shop. Most of the parts aren't that hard to make. I just don't
have a good area to work in. The hull and deck took all the area I had
and even then I could barely move.
Best of luck.
Someone who knows more please chime in. Greg?
Robert S. Harper
Information Access Technology, Inc.
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From: warren.stevens@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:warren.stevens@xxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Warren Stevens
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:19 AM
To: swiftsolo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: is anyone still building parts?
Nobody? Noone is building the inserts for the CB trunk either?
On 24/01/06, Warren Stevens <warren@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
i.e. I'm thinking I may want to buy the rudder box and tiller
assembly. Is there anyone who is still building these?
Thanks
Warren
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Robert Harper USA 050 "Fugu"
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