Gyula Ferencz (hope I have remembered his family name correctly) has launched the second OZ Racer with the lug sail.
The boat sails very nicely and seems to pass the other boat easily.
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Gyula should be proud. (he does look proud in the close up!)
That is one great looking boat!!!!
First time sailing ON A BOAT
This is a little amusing. Gyula has not sailed a real boat before. I asked him because he is sailing nicely.
He is actually a sailor of radio controlled model sailboats.
So he just had to get used to a different perspective – here is his normal perspective!
The Lug Rig for the Oz boats
The sail looks fantastic too. I have seen professional sails with a worse shape than that!!!
It is the lug sail plan and instructions that is available free to purchasers of the OZ PDR plan (the boat plan is $35). This is the second sail I have seen from that additional information … both sails made by people who have not built sails before … ever. You can see the pics of the other sail below.
For those who don’t know the whole story … Gyula was up against a whole heap of problems about getting materials in the early days of the project.
EVERYTHING was difficult – epoxy was available in 200 litre lots for example!
Many weaker men would have crumbled … but Gyula kept going and now … this fantastic looking boat!!!
So cool.
The full set of pics and comments is here.
Slideshow of Gyula’s OzRacer here
Thankyou Gyula!!!!
