CS20 in Sweden

[Designer]

Here is a picture of Anders Holstrom's CS20 #48 "Spray". He reads the forum and if you will give him a little encouragement I am sure that he will come on.

He has an online album at http://foto.spray.se

The directions are in swedish but after a bit of fumbling around I got it to work.

Imagine sailing that boat around those fiords in summer. Maybe we could arrange a swap with these boats in all these wonderful places? Trade a week of sailing his boat over there for him sailing our boat for a week over here.

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[Brent]

Anders

Your boat is looking good.

My CS20 #31 was in about the same condition this time last year. Since you now have #48 under contruction, there are getting to be a quite few of these boats around the world.

Let me assure you these boat sail very sweetly. I look forward to seeing more pictures of Spray's construction and in good time to see her sailing also.

---Brent

[Roger Peterson]

Anders,

#48 is looking really nice. What kind of lumber are you using framing, keel, centerboard, ect.? I know, Strange question but Grahams boats are built all over the world and it's interesting to see the local differences in building materials and methods.

Roger

[holmstrom.anders]

Anders

Hello Brent,

There will be more pictures as I progress.

You said that at this time last year your boat was at about the same stage. How much more time did you have to spend to have the boat ready?

Have you made a tent for the boat? If so, how did you do it?

I want to make a tent but I'm not sure how I will do it. I want it to be quick and easy to put up. Maybe I will do it similar to covers you often se om motorboats. Aluminium tubes that you can fold up and maybe one or two that have to be put in to holders. The mizzen mast will be a problem. Either the tent will have to go around the mast (something like shown for the Loon on the B&B site) or stop before the mast. In either case there may be leakage at the mast. Maybe I should make a second mast tube to make sure that any leakage will not end up in the bunk but will instead continue down to the floor instead.

Anders

[holmstrom.anders]

Anders,

Hello Roger,

It is ordinary fir. It is a common tree here and therefore cheap. Pine is also common here, but a friend of mine who owns a boat yard tells me that fir is better for boats.

Anders