Month: March 2022

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Secret 3M adhesive film revealed!

My first DN Tech Talk was about shimming runners. I used 2 different double sided tapes. One of them was very special because of thickness. I received a lot of questions about what type of tape it was and I was not able to answer them because simply it was not written. Now I had to reorder this product again and the name is there!!! The magic product is 3M 467MP. If fact it is not double sided tape because double sided tape is core material covered with ahesive film on both sides.  467MP is adhesive film, no core. Therefore it is 0.05mm in thickness only!

3M 467MP adhesive film for ultra thin shims
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Preps for Swedish Championship 2022

I am going to say good bye to 2021-2022 season in Swedish Championship. There is no more sailable ice in Poland and the only opportunity to enjoy icesailing and racing is in Sweden next weekend. 

Prepareations for Swedish Championship

If you thought that there is no motivation to sail in last event of the season you are very wrong.  I am working on my runner program to change couple of things. Main goal is to apply shorter crown to most of my runners. 

This picture was taken on our way back from Worlds/Europeans. This was first stop overnight at random parking in Sweden. We cooled down runners in snow to measure Robert’s winning runners and compare them with mine. 

Cooling down the runners

We measured couple of other sets as well. The conclusion was simple: I have to shorten the crown on some of my runners down to max 20in. And I completed this today.  Waiting for ferry on Wednesday.