Ordering Sheet

Last update, February 8, 2007

The class website maintains a list of class suppliers. Be familiar with it. These suppliers are those providing items specific to the EC12 or parts that can be used. The List is a general ordering sheet of major parts and some supplies. Use Google to find them. This is an Excel spreadsheet and will be updated as building is revised. The changes are noted. You can keep a copy on your computer and print is as needed for your records or as a checklist in ordering.

The List

Updated - 8Feb08

Here are some good references to have around:

Tower Hobbies Catalog – This an online and catalog ordering company. A giant hobby store.

Micro-Mart Catalog – A noted small tool specialist for hobbyist and craftsmen.

Small Parts, Inc. Catalog – Specializes in hard to find items and just about everything small for builders. From screws, bar stock, metal sheet, mixing cups and syringes, specialty tools to composite rods and tubing. It is fun going through this very thick catalog.

Use a Internet to ferret out charts for conversions of metric and inches, drill sizes…fractional versus decimal and screw sizes for total diameter and tap sizes for wood,  metal and plastics. These are valuable references in the shop. The links used here are not listed because they change. But once you have them printed and on file, you will use them a lot. Then you will find many uses for a micrometer. It is a huge timesaver.

I lied! Vern made me do it

There is an option and it is in the Rigging section. The class has been using the single spreader rig with the Goldspar mast for years. Recently (2007) a new rig was developed and is used by this author. There is nothing wrong with the performance of the long time Goldspar set up and the main point here is to preference with thoughts in sail tuning. The Goldspar remains the choice here for this site and absolutely for anyone coming into the EC12.

The dual spreader rig uses the whippy Groovy mast by SailsEtc from England. All the parts for the rig are from Bantock's company. The key to the design is to introduce pre-bend into the mast, where and how much, to the liking of your sail cut and your preferences in tuning. Important to this process is that it can be done without any backstay tension entering into the mix. That tension would enter depending on the velocity conditions on the water. The pre-bend can be introduced simply with tension from the shrouds and adjustments to the Jumper tension. Does this sound a bit advanced...it is but will be shown in the rigging section, as one is being built, for your viewing and to share the thoughts. It is very different and interesting. It will be about mid January 2008 before I get to it in the new build.