Ava is here! We have had an awesome week working on Athena and showing Ava some more of Denmark. We managed to finish a few more sections of the structural members. Status on the structural repair: 37% done
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In this video I finish Athena’s new rudder by applying coppercaot and get started making new rudder bushings.
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I finally get to add the foam core in the new DIY rudder for my sailboat.
Electric motor fault finding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmjFzukDhqI
There was one more video. It was actually better than this one but I can't find it.
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I was so excited to pour the foam into the rudder this weekend. It almost happened but only almost ... dang it!
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I test a brand of expanding epoxy foam for my do it yourself (DIY) rudder project. Turns out to be very promising and something I might be able to use elsewhere during my sailboat restoration.
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Prep work for the upcoming structural repair aboard my 38 ft sailboat. I also build a box for heating epoxy and de-mold vacuum infused rudder shell.
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NB! I had some problems uploading this video (see pinned comment). I get started tearing out the interior aboard Athena and order a new sail for Obelix.
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I'm back! In this video, there's a short update on the structural members. Then I get back to working on the new rudder and the dodger.
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Join me in an attempt to turn the 40-year-old teak deck from my sailboat into solid gold.
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In this video, I get started building a new rudder for my 38ft sailboat. Vacuum infusion is used to create the outer skin of the rudder.
Making a mold of the old rudder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IjN9Sgm2qs
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Opening a 30-year-old rudder and applying primer to the fiberglass dodger. Come join me for some DIY fun restoring my 1987 38 ft sailboat.
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In this video, I finish the mold of Athena's rudder.
r-g manual (mold making see page 86-103): https://www.r-g.de/w/images/6/69/R%26G_Handbuch.pdf
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Oh, what glorious fun! This weekend I got started on the mold for a new rudder for a 38 ft sailboat.
r-g manual (mold making see page 86-103): https://www.r-g.de/w/images/6/69/R%26G_Handbuch.pdf
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This weekend I checked out the boat show in Dusseldorf. I would have liked more DIY and I lost a lot of footage because of very poor audio on my brand new DJI Osmo pocket.
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I head back to Denmark for my first welding lesson after having spent an amazing month with Ava in LA. Also in this video, you guys get a quick peek at the new workshop :)
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Happy New Years guys! This is a brief look at all that happened in 2018. Be sure to join the live stream a little later today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dknaeuo4CJQ.
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I open up my Cobra 4R steering pedestal to inspect it. Fortunately, it turns out that I only need to replace a single bearing and the plastic break cover. I dropped off the pedestal at a paint shop. Unfortunately, I didn't get it back before leaving to spe...
A quick run through of my favorite tools aboard Athena. Thank you so much to all of those who commented on last weekends video. Your support and creativity in finding possible solutions to "the joker" blows me away :)
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