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Steampunk Lugsail Land Windsurferby TimAnderson on June 17, 2008

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Steampunk Lugsail Land Windsurfer ...............................................................................................

Intro: Steampunk Lugsail Land Windsurfer ........................................................................................

Step 1: Board and Gooseneck .................................................................................................

Step 2: Lugsail ............................................................................................................

Step 3: Lugsail Dimensions ...................................................................................................

Step 4: Details - the four corners of the sail .......................................................................................

Step 5: Halyard ............................................................................................................

Step 6: Wooden Wishbone Boom ..............................................................................................

Step 7: Laminating .........................................................................................................

Step 8: Scarf the tails on .....................................................................................................

Step 9: Front Joint Block .....................................................................................................

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Author:TimAnderson author's website

Tim Anderson is the author of the "Heirloom Technology" column in Make Magazine. He is co-founder of www.zcorp.com, manufacturers of "3D Printer"output devices. His detailed drawings of traditional Pacific Island sailing canoes are at http://www.mit.edu/people/robot.

Tim's philosophy involves building minimum-consumption personal infrastructure from recycled scavenged materials.Redirecting the waste stream. Doing much with little. A reverse peace-corps to learn from poor people all over the world.

Intro: Steampunk Lugsail Land WindsurferHere's a lugsail land windsurfer that will go with your top hat or pith helmet.To my surprise it works really well.

It's a work in progress, I'm gradually replacing modern parts with "authentic" ones.Here's some video of previous landsailers in action.

If you haven't yet met Steam Punks, they're people who dress up in classic outfits and build machinery with a Victorian era aesthetic.Here's my contribution to the movement, a land windsurfer with a 3.6 meter lugsail.

It sails just exactly like a regular windsurfer. Sail tuning is a little different, due to having four corners to adjust rather than the old three. Study up on lugsail tuning.

Step 1:Board and GooseneckThe board is any skateboard you're willing to drill a hole in the front of.Later you'll make a truly Victorian skateboard.

The gooseneck can be almost anything, a universal joint from an old car's steering column, two interlocking eyebolts, or a simple loop of cord.For the first tests I innertubed a regular mast base to the mast and bolted the universal to the board.
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Step 2:LugsailHere's the lugsail.I made it for a tandem kayak in 2004 by cutting the head and foot off a nice old windsurfer sail.The design came from "sailmaker's apprentice" adapted to the shape of the original windsurf sail.I cut and hemmed it and added reef points and grommets.

The spars are all cut down from scrap sticks of 2x4 lumber.

The boom jaws are made from the basket of a lacrosse stick.

We're not going to use this boom for the windsurfer, we'll use a wishbone boom instead.

Image Notes1. reef points2. yard3. mast4. boom - we aren't going to use this one, which is fine on a dinghy.5. boom jaws made from lacrosse stick basket6. halyard


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7. halyard cleat8. outhaul or clew9. peak10. throat11. tack

Step 3:Lugsail DimensionsI originally made this 3.46 sq. meter lugsail for my Klepper Aerius 2 tandem folding kayak.It was about the right size except when a howling gale was blowing.I made it from a well-preserved windsurfer sail, which had some broadseaming.Broadseaming means making the seams between panels a varying width so as to make the sail like a shallow bowl. For more belly, add a bit of edge rounding to thebottom of the head of the sail.For less belly, cut it straight.

Step 4:Details - the four corners of the sailThe outhaul is left just the same as it was on the windsurfer.The peak is reinforced with a couple of patches and grommeted.The grommets were all brass plated crap, not brass. That was a mistake. They rusted and will soon break.There are a row of grommets along the head of the sail to spiral lace it to the yard.The throat is basically the same as the peak.The tack of the sail has a quarter riveted next to it as a cleat for the luff line.


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Step 5:HalyardI drilled a hole in the masthead for the halyard to run through.The halyard is tied to the yard with a slipknot. The location where the halyard is tied to the yard is important, move it around til the sail shape develops as you like.


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Step 6:Wooden Wishbone BoomThe sail worked well with the commercial aluminum wishbone boom, so I decided to make an "authentic" wooden one.

I laminated the front curved parts of the boom from some fir studwood.The straight tail part is redwood, attached to the front with a stepped scarf and a lashing.The boom has a keyed block lashed on at the front and simpler block lashed on at the tail to complete the teardrop-hoop shape.


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Step 7:LaminatingI dug through my woodpile til I found enough fir 2x4 and 2x2 sticks that were good enough.Then I ripped them into 1/8" thick strips on the tablesaw using the thinnest blade I had.Some of the source lumber had knots partway through or other problems. I only got a few laminations out of some sticks.

more steps:Mix up some epoxy and thicken it with an equal quantity of white flour.Lay out the laminations and paint the glue on one side of each one with a paintbrush.Stack up the laminations and lash them against a piece of a windsurfer boom I liked.

Use bicycle innertubes to press the laminations together and hold them to the right shape against the form.Shift the laminations to approximate the taper I want at both ends. That makes the wood overhang the end of the tube. Shove a pick head into the end to lash theinnertube around.Set the layups in the sun to cure. When it's tacky put it in a car in the sun with the windows closed to get hot and fully cure.When the glue was good and hard take the bandages off and shave the boom smooth.


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Step 8:Scarf the tails onI used a scarf joint to add a few feet of redwood to the tail of the boom.That saved me the trouble of laminating the full length of the boom and the trouble of finding long wood good enough to do it with.I used a Japanese pull saw and a knife to cut the scarves.Next time I'll cut a the easier straight scarf and add a key to keep the halves from slipping.As seen in this illustration from "The Elements of Boat Strength" P.138

Then I wrapped it with a lashing of innertube. It feels good ans solid.
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Step 9:Front Joint BlockFor the front I cut this keyed block from two layers of 1/2" plywood and lashed the whole joint with innertubes.

After some testing I'll probably drill holes and redo the lashing with polyester string and soak it with epoxy to make it permanent.

R+D on the venerable lugsail goes on around the world, as on thewoodenboat forum
http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58822


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Wade Tarzia says:Jan 5, 2011. 11:05 PM REP

Nice! Keep at that mechanical connection to the Victorian! The Victorian Age was confronted with an under-rated amount of ideological challenges -- afascinating time in history.

Crazzee says: May 16, 2009. 4:00 PM REPIs there any way the sail could be homemade out of trash bags and whatnot, or would that not hold together?

siggy_lxvi says: Jun 30, 2009. 1:51 AM REPA: Garbage bags wouldn't hold. Thick canvas or tarp would work. B: what the OP is referring to as "reef points" are actually telltales. They are used toindicate whether airflow over the sail is laminar or chaotic. Reef points are used to reduce sail area, usually in violent storms - the kind of weather inwhich you wouldn't be using this sort of sail.

TimAnderson says: Jun 30, 2009. 6:45 AM REPIn the diagram above, the things labeled reef points really are reef points. When using this sail with a kayak you need to reef down in just moderate

winds. I failed to do that in Costa Rica in a strong offshore wind and was capsized, blown out to sea, lost my water, and although we both survived,lost the girlfriend too.

siggy_lxvi says: Jun 30, 2009. 7:07 AM REPMy appologies, then. I've never sailed a kayak, just everything from a 15-foot dinghy to a tall ship.

Deutschmann says: Aug 10, 2009. 10:19 AM REPWith apologies to siggy_lxvi, I must respectfully say that certain varieties of garbage bag will work in at least moderate wind; I haveconstructed a windsurfer with them, and never had a problem. That said, I'm using some strange variety of garbage bag manufactured byKirkland Co., and I'm not sure how widely available they are. They don't, however, seem like they should be too hard to find.
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dontwealllovebuda92 says: Mar 17, 2009. 2:46 PM REPwhats so steam punk I KNOW IM NOT THE FIRST TO ASK THISSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

allen says: Apr 17, 2009. 3:04 PM REPA lug sail, the rig used in this instructable, is an old-timey rig. You won't see them on commercially-built sailboats. Luggers went out of fashion probablyhundred years ago. There's your "Steam Punk" aspect. The spars - that's the sticks to you land lubbers - are all pretty short and not under a lot of straiso they don't have to be real strong which all means they're pretty cheap. But even with short spars of inexpensive lumber it'll spread a lot of sail area.That translates into lots of pulling power on the cheap. I built a 16-foot sailboat, a Bolger Windsprint, that uses lumberyard 2x2s for the boom and yard its lugsail and the son-of-a-gun sails like a scalded cat. If you wanted to be super-authentic you'd have to use a straight boom rather then the wishbonebut you've got to draw the l ine somewhere. A wishbone boom makes the sail easier to handle on either tack.

SuperCoPilot says: Aug 1, 2008. 10:59 PM REPdon't really see the steampunk aspect of it

SuperCoPilot says: Aug 1, 2008. 11:00 PM REPthough i'm still gonna try it lol

Xellers says: Jun 18, 2008. 5:26 PM REPHmmm....... This is really very nice, and I will certainly try this (given that I can procure the required materials w/o spending too much money), but one thingthat I don't really see is how is this steampunk? I looks really cool, but I don't see it fitting in with anything else steampunk that I have seen previously. Goo

job anyways. 5 stars.

carpespasm says: Jun 23, 2008. 3:53 PM REPI'm with you there. Hopefully this gets a set of spoked wheels, an ornately carved deck, a brass u-joint, brass plated axles, and a sail with some Victoriastyle. Maybe replace the clear part of the sail with stained glass held together with hog clips? This looks like it would be very fun to ride around on, but not too steampunk at the moment.

Phantom5582 says: Jun 25, 2008. 5:18 PM REPStained glass? That sounds dangerous. It would be safer to use plexi-glass that looks like stained glass.

carpespasm says: Jun 25, 2008. 8:27 PM REPprobably so. certainly something would have to be found that could stand in for the clear plastic window though.

Phantom5582 says: Jun 26, 2008. 4:14 AM REPThat is true, but what... I'll have to do some thinking on this.

andygates says: Jul 4, 2008. 1:34 PM REPCraft stores sell clear paint, for use on glass, which would be perfect and strangely beautiful.

Phantom5582 says: Jul 4, 2008. 2:17 PM REPThats cool and good to know, but I wanted steer away from using glass in the first place. Maybe that paint can be used on plexi-glasIt would give the same effect.

andygates says: Jul 6, 2008. 12:38 PM REPI should have been more clear: clear paint on a clear PVC section sewn into the sail. Only an absolute maniac would actually usglass in a windsurfer sail! :)

Phantom5582 says: Jul 9, 2008. 12:20 PM REPI agree 100% with you. I see two problems with it. One, the weight could be to much and rip out of the bindings. Two, in acrash the glass will shatter and cause more damage then I would want in a crash.

Phantom5582 says: Jul 9, 2008. 12:22 PM REPThe problems above are with using real glass and not PVC
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Phantom5582 says: Jun 26, 2008. 8:19 AM REPOk, What about a thin and tight mesh screen like whats found in screen doors? One would have to make the sail alittle bigger, but it couwork.

EnigmaMax says: Jun 22, 2008. 11:09 PM REPpeople are starting to confuse steampunk with old fashioned, so bear with it.

MisterMissanthrope says: Jul 2, 2008. 1:16 PM REPtrucks on top, very cool, im living in the windy city right now, and Austin texas where ill be moving gets pretty windy, ill be sure to give this a try

skunkbait says: Jun 20, 2008. 8:45 PM REPI made an 'off-road' skateboard that looked a lot like that back in high school (20 something years ago). Now I think I'll swipe the sail and boom off my kidssail boat. If I could just get enough wind to sail it off-road... Oh wait, I'm putting wheels on the kids sailboat!!!

Grey_Wolfe says: Jun 18, 2008. 11:06 PM REPAnd the baseball bat is guarding the boom? lol

Grey_Wolfe says: Jun 18, 2008. 10:47 PM REPWhy did you decide to use the mountain board upside down? Was i t just to give better balance? I'd think it would roll more smoothly the other way. But, theI haven't tried it yet. Gonna be hard to find a mountain board cheap around here, I think.

GorillazMiko says: Jun 18, 2008. 4:30 PM REPIt must be so sad.... and lonely... at the oldHQ...

Phantom5582 says: Jun 18, 2008. 11:17 AM REPThis looks good. I want to make my own now. Something tells me that I'll be using a mountainboard with a hand brake as the base. I'm thinking about gettithis one. MBS Atom 95X I know its not steampunk, but I want some safety.

bumpus says: Jun 18, 2008. 11:13 AM REPhmmm, inner-tubes are the new duct-tape? awesome job!

Patrik says: Jun 18, 2008. 10:51 AM REPThat's some nice work on that boom! How does the weight compare with the modern aluminum one? Is there historical precedent for a wishbone boom? Iteasy enough to build one using modern materials, but I wonder if our ancestors wouldn't have used a different design if they had wanted to build a windsurfer or land rider... The laminated boom works well for a steampunk theme of course. But now I'm imagining a steampunk explorer in pith helmet, pursueby stoneagepunk savages riding even more "authentic" land windsurfers... :-D

legionlabs says: Jun 18, 2008. 10:46 AM REPTotally awesome. I may have to use this to make a wind powered robot... several anemometers (glorified fans) could measure the wind vector, and amicrocontroller would power a servo to rotate the sail to the optimal position. Combine it with a hall-effect sensor as a compass and a solar panel and youmight be able to get it across the Atlantic. Maybe. Eventually. I suppose that wouldn't be very steampunk though... I guess I could put a gear on the sail, atleast.

earnst2w8 says: Jun 18, 2008. 7:33 AM REPi was just thinking of making something like this and i thought why not look here and i looked at the front page and there it was lol thanks

photohippie says: Jun 18, 2008. 6:54 AM REPUmm for some reason I feel the urge to say "Tim Anderson"

Brennn10 says: Jun 18, 2008. 4:42 AM REPAwesome stuff Tim Anderson! It sure would be a sight to see taking this baby to work.

rimar2000 says: Jun 18, 2008. 4:34 AM REPWhat a good work, Tim Anderson!
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=SMART= says: Jun 18, 2008. 3:18 AM REPNice ! was the first photo taken at the old instructables/squid labs naval base ? i haven't seen any photos of the new location :(
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