IdeesfixVIII gets a new second hand 3Di main !

Here is our second hand square top 3Di main name MRoss, she looks great and the twin backstays do their job. IdeesfixVIII also does not feel unbalanced at all, in 10Kts she sails great, the leach also seems right. A bit of tweaking needs to be done but she fits real well.

Here is the crew at the first MRoss main 3Di trial, David did a great job of getting it, Ross was also instrumental at getting us there.

Linux Mint 18 on Lenovo Ideapad 110S

Here is Linux Mint 18, "Sarah", running on Lenovo Ideapad 110S. The installation was a bit tricky due to UEFI versus legacy BIOS. I disabled UEFI and secure boot for the installation but then enabled UEFI again which caused UEFI to not detect the bootloader. UEFI is EFI V2.31 from Phoenix Tech. Refind solved the problem. As of now I boot using a refind USB flash drive. The 110S is a great little notebook and at $166 no complaints. This makes a great little system to play around with arduino. WIFI is RTL8821ae which Mint detects fine. Cinnamon is new to me but is a very nice and sleak desktop, Linux Mint in general is very clean and easy.
The plan was to install Debian which I normally use but somehow got Mint running. WIFI RTL8821 must be loaded as separate driver to be copied on a seperate USB flash drive, the installer will prompt for it.
Regarding arduino I used the arduino-mk package and could compile and upload via the command line, this requires a correct Makefile. Also sudo usermod -a -G dialout marc for arduino to detect /usr/ttyACM0.
ACM stands for abstract control model which supports ITU V.250 (Hayes).
The 110S is great, a little small for heavy usage, for Linux installation disable secure boot but keep UEFI on, do not start the installation in legacy BIOS.