{"id":627,"date":"2011-06-10T15:54:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T19:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2011-06-10T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T19:56:17","slug":"fixing-my-nester-dinghy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"FIXING MY NESTER DINGHY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_628\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-628\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=628\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"size-full wp-image-628\" title=\"dinghy brefore repairblog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dinghy-brefore-repairblog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">mY nESTER WITH THE MAST IN THE WRONG PLACE<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many of you will have seen in my book, photos of my Nester dinghy sailing.\u00a0 I enjoyed her, but she \u00a0had two flaws- she twisted quite a lot, and she sailed with lee helm.\u00a0 My own fault, of course- for convenience I put the mast too far forward. I built the forward side-to-side member at sheer height so as to have enough &#8220;engagement&#8221; of the bottom of the mast (about 11 inches) \u00a0to eliminate any stays. How could I have failed to see a better solution- one with the mast in the right place?<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m ripping that member out, removing the rowing thwart aft of it, and making a new rowing thwart, enough higher in the boat to result in exactly the same height of engagement, yet not too high, I hope, to still be able to row from that position. I&#8217;ll keep you abreast of progress in this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will have seen in my book, photos of my Nester dinghy sailing.\u00a0 I enjoyed her, but she \u00a0had two flaws- she twisted quite a lot, and she sailed with lee helm.\u00a0 My own fault, of course- for convenience I put the mast too far forward. I built the forward side-to-side member at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-work","category-our-yachts-abuilding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckpaine.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}