To keep the water jerry cans in place and to have a place to fasten the lids subdivisions is being created.
The first one is a longitudinal.
Then there be more athwart ones.
one end of the lids have pegs that will be inserted into the side panels. The othe...
A question to my viewers.
It is about twin keel craft taking the ground and antifouling.
When a twin keeled craft takes the ground. It will rest on its keels.
Thats the idea.
But the keels like the part of the boat below the waterline is painted with antif...
Changing my route makes it advisable that I also change my boat. The much shorter route via Cape Horn means that I now can carry fruit. To create a place to put the fruit I have made the foot end of my bed more narrow. Before it was 80 cm vide, now it is 6...
Now comes a period of routine work. The accomondation is repeat. Today 4 subdivisions are tacked into position. More is to come. I have laminated one sheet of H 200 Divinycell 20 mm on its two sides with NM-epoxy and 450 gram 45°X45° glassfibre. I think ...
Today is same as yesterday. Added is fumed silica as one person asked what I use for fillet. I mix it with NM-epoxy. It works well.
Below is from Wikipedia:
Fumed silica, also known as pyrogenic silica because it is produced in a flame, consists of microsc...
How big is a boat.
Will your new boat be bigger?
Lenght is the number mostly given. It is easy to measure and most boats are similar so it kind of works.
But when boats do not conform no one number is good.
Here I compare my boat and Perrys boat. My boat i...
All the subdivisions are now done.
I have been more lucky than I rightly deserve.
The forward ones got squezed in just. No little margin left.
I will try to move the batteries to the back below the seat.
I am considering an electric motor for landfall use ...
All the subdivisions below the bed is now done. As said before the battery is moved to the dining room below the seat.
It will be lead batteries. Now with the twin keels I do not need the them as ballast but I do not trust lithium. I think lithium works 99...
There will be 2X6 = 18 hatches under the bed. Secured with pegs and screws.
The extra 30 mm Divinycell will give extra insulation below my back.
Previus boat did not have this useful arrangement. Up in the cold waters near Iceland condensation and mildew f...
The hatch covers will be secured and hold down by pegs in one end and two 70 mm long M8 countersunk skrews on tjhe other end.
To take the heads of the screws a long piece of Tufnol is added.
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As Henry Ford said:
Nothing is difficult if you divide it into small steps.
Here is the top of the bed getting laminated.
Also the first small step for the 24 pegs that will hold one end of the hatches. 100 mm long diameter 20 mm inserted about 70 mm.
Now I have put the Divinycell panel in its place. The bed is now as it hopefully will be except that the bottom piece will be cut into 12 separate hatches.
Plans for that are done.
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I have now cut the big Divinycell under the sleaping bed into 12 hatches. One end are reenforced with Tufnol to take two screws the other end have two deep pegs that will go into the sidepanels of the bed.
The things, water and other stuff in the 12 compar...
This is the beginning of the production of the 25 long M8 nuts.
I have chosen M8 screws becouse they have more pitch compared to M6. They need fewer turns to be installed.
They are also more robusts. The threads are less likely to get damaged.
There are qu...
There are many steps to make the 25 long M8 insert nuts. In this video Peter is showing how I do it on my Blomqvist lathe.
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The first hatches have now been placed in their position.
Holes for the pegs are drilled in the side panels.
It seams to work but some adjustments are needed to get good funktion.
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Textile strongpoints are light strong cheap and easy to adapt to specieal needs.
Working with composite sandwich construktion even wood and in general. A general rule is to spread out the forces as much as possible.
Here I use polyester rope in NM-epoxy. I...
More on hatches. The weight of the water in the bog hatches is about 17 kilos. This video shows how just one hole for the peg holds my weight at least 70 kilos with shoes and things in my pockets so no worries.
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The M8 long bronze insert nuts are ready to be inserted and fixed with NM-epoxy.
To prevent epoxy to get into the threads M8 screws are in the threads. To prevent that the screws get stuck they are sprayed with Teflon spray and the the bronze threads are s...
Today I unscruwed the bolts from the insert nuts.
It was the first time I was using Teflon spray. Previus for many years I have been useing Teflon tejp.
Teflon tejp works well but it is tricky to get it right especially like here with long threads and a sl...
Here are a few more steps for the hatches. Luckily Axel the flour board man arrived at the building today for a meeting. Despite he is only 22 years old he understand how to use the telephone as a camera. Brave youths of today.
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Ther...
Tonight the plans for killing once more a darling was drawn up.
Calculations were made and finally I decided to go ahead.
The victim was the side by side sails.
They will be replaced by in line masts. The main motiv was to be able to better change the cent...
One of the commentors said that my fillets were not strong enough.
My first reaction was to ansver that they were strong enough.
But after a secound of reflection I realised that I in fact did not know just how strong my fillets were.
And for once I kept m...
The original idea of the side by side masts was that they should not interfere with the accomodation. They proved excellent for downwind sailing also in combination with a bow centerboard.
Now the bow centerboard is replaced by ballasted twin keels. That m...
Wave Rover have suggested that I chose junk rig for my boat.
Here is is the text for those who have problems understanding my muttering:
Rigs junk, Ljungström balansed lug.
Wave Rover suggested the junk rig.
I have considered the junk rig.
In my case wha...
Today I was up early. Håkan my friend drove me to Lammhults Gjuteri to collect the cast bronze keel.
A very good job had been done. We loaded the keels in Håkans van. 75 kilo each within one kilo difference an excellent result. The surfaces was nice and ...
In a comment yesterday John Welsford, desinger suggested that I should increase the 2.7 sqare meter sail area of the three sails to 4 square meter.
I fact in the video of 6 April at 3:54 min I showed the model with three 4 square meter sails but then I got...
With the bed mostly done it is time for the side compartment. While it is still space to work I do the four strong points for the safety belts.
They are designed to be more than strong. They are designed to give peace of mind in a storm, like the rest of t...
Here is one more step on the construction of the strong points for the safety belts.
One commentator expressed the opinion that they were to high. For maximum safety that is true. But comfort have to be considered to if frequent use of them will be made.
I...
Today long video.
As I was working on the safety belts strongpoint a knock on the door.
It turned out to be more NM-epoxy. Much appriciated.
I also have the idea of replacing the bowline with the Carrick loop as. The Carrick loop is a bit more safe as it i...
The final touches on the safety belts are now done. One less thing to do. On to next thing.
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Work on the accommondation is much the same from day to day. It is boring to watch but have to be done.
One have to figure out future use of the spaces to devide the avaliable space into the most useful function.
I have been sailing for many ears in simila...
In the comments some asked how I intended to attach the twin keels.
1986 I buildt my first boat of Divinycell and NM-epoxy.
She had a bow centerboard and a 150 kilo bronze shallow keel.
she was 4.8 meter long 15 feet. I sailed her from France to Ireland an...
Peter wife have been baking a cake for me. The reason: I have been begging for a cake.
I am running out of money because due to corona I have had no work for more than two years (except for one single video that did not pay much) and no one buys my books a...
First I like to thank every one for the very kind respons to my begging for donations a lot of people have given a lot of money.
Lately I have been worried about my economy as for more than two years due to corona and that my publisher refuse my manuscript...
The for and aft bulkheads had hatches with hard lids. It did take to much place.
The new idea is to use canvas, PVC covered polyester textile. Now a friend gave me a piece with a nice blue color, strong and fine. I fix them with shock cord. Several turns, ...
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