printed the original pic as a4 on my printer

penciled over a 1cm grid

worked out 13x by height and 15x by width would be the best fit to the sail, penciled light grid ends onto sail

used battens and 1 square at a time transferred the pattern from a4 to sail with b2 pencil

much the same with the hulls, all paint, no stickers

hulls were badly oxidized and sanded down to satin finish with wet'n'dry. that was a few years ago, they are starting to look chalky again, will need to use 1000 or 2000 to buff them back up



marked the corners used battens to make a sliding grid on the


eric e
1982 nacra 5.2 - 2158
2009 weta tri - 294