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June 6, 2025
Sven Yrvind – Page 11
An apology for the canvas
The canvas cover for the bulkhead hatch did not only recive applauses. Some comments even hinted that it was not such good idea. Me however thinks that consider everything it was a good idea. Most of the critisims was that it would take to long time and th...
Bronze screws for the bronze keel for compatibility
I now have good silicon bronze screws for the tin bronze keels. There is no galvanic difference between tin bronze and silicon bronze. They are compatible. Also the bronze screws are twice as long as the stainless steel screw I use for the test. In fact i...
Keels small and big and the effect of scale
Here is the text: KEELS ON BIG BOATS ARE BRITTLE Look up Swedish boat Sailing Aurora on YT and the playlist Grounding repair if you want some professional tips. The above is a comment by Sgt-Bond on my video on twin keels. He is suggesting that I would l...
Lids for 4 hidden hatches. Also problems with my bicycle. My mode of transport that keeps me fit.
The place just inside the bilges are difficult to reach but here they are with lids locked with ropes. Sardines and maybe even bars of chocolate will be stoved there. Corona have caused much problems. In December I went to Elisabeth the bike repair girl ve...
What I do when you get old. A killed darling reborn. Read the description. No Peter today I confused
Peter is not here today so the video is a bit confused. Luckily this description may clarify. SIDE BY SIDE RIG AGAIN JUNE 2022. The rig of Exlex evolves. The rebirth off the side by side rig. Planning ahead many years from now for the time after Cape Horn...
Petter is helping me to clarify next boat and tilting masts of the side by side rig.
I feel that I did not express myself clear enough yesterday. Today Petter came and he is helping me with a video to explain better. Also yesterday I misinformed you: The hull of the present boat is 160 kilo and I estimate that the hull of the next one 30 f...
They say a 30 feet boat is to big for me. I say my 30 feet is smaller than the other mans 24 feet.
Since I made a video about my plans to build a 30 feet boat there have been a few comments stating that it is to big. One comment mentioned Mingming a 24 feet boat and stated that the skipper Roger Taylor was of the opinion that bigger than 24 feet was no....
Multihulls my view on them. Not for me. Se the description for the text.
There are many comments suggesting that I should add a hull to make Exlex a catamaran. If there is more comments like that the ansver is this video. MULTIHULLS Why multihulls is not for me. I have been interested in multihulls for a long time and I have b...
Bronze rudder a neat way of transforming the keel profile to rudder profile and mowing max thickness
The twin keels from Lammhults Gjuteri pleased and inspired me to do a bronze rudder. They will be a bit more heavy than I like but other good properties outweigh that minor disadvantage. When the boat take the ground the rudder will also touch the ground. ...
Nice try but no cigar. I tried to make a hatch that can open left and right.
I am planning a big change, but the forward deck hatch interferes. I try to make a hatch that can open left and right. It have hinge 180°. I had a similar design on Aluminum - Bris that I built in the late 1970-s but it did hinge less than 90°. We see I ...
Failed to solve the hatch problem. I do that later now the rudder pattern
I tried my new hatch Idea. It did not work. Reason it will build to much height. Also hinges on each side with removable pins wont work either. For two reasons. One the center of the pins have to be outside the gasket. The gasket is 30 mm the there is the ...
More pieces on the rudder pattern. A new idea for the deck hatch. Video on that when Peter is back.
Now there are more pieces glued to the pattern for the bronze rudder. I have to hurry upp with it because I soon get a visit from the men of Lammhults Gjuteri, the foundry. Also this night I got a new idea for how to open the forward deckhatch. It uses the...
A maltreated darling is back. Now a bit slimmed.I have missed her.
The bow centerboard is back in a smaller version. I had killed her but I have made three ocean passages with bow centerboars, 1989, 2018, 2020 and 2021 in Amfibie - Bris, Exlex of 1.08 beam and Exlex of 2.22 meter beam. The bow centerboard is a tool I hav...
Einstein said: Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler.
Everyone did not applaud the video about the bow centerboard. Here comes more. Einstein said: Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler. Too simple for me would be to walk across the street carefully doing it on the zebra crossing t...
The keels will not fall off
Hi here I have glued a piece of composite to a piece of composite with NM-elastic epoxy. Progressivly I load it with 14 kilo weights untill it is thirteen weights hanging or 182 kilo a keel is 150 kilo. The glued area is 10 X 3 centimeter. The area of flan...
15 June 2022. Hjärtstocken the rudder axis it will be stronger than a skeg.
Today I recieved the ruddr axis in G 11 epoxy laminate from Elisolation Laxå. Its 11 kilos and have a diameter of 80 mm. I estimate it will be strong enough for 30 tonnes 1 meter leverage. Stronger than any skeg. In the same delivery I got a piece of 25 m...
16 June 2022 A mess and a succes.
There have been disorder in the workshop some are now arranged. The good news is that a difficult lamination went wery easy by just using my finger. a good surprise. It is the extended flange on the coming of the hatches in the bulkheads. The flange is n...
17 June 2022 Sloppy work. Can not live with it. Have to do it again. Have to do it better.
The pattern for the bronze rudder looked very nice. Then I started to do some measurment. She was to narrow at the bottom for the 80 mm diameter of the axis. Also she was not symmetrical. That did not matter so much as a sailboat is only symmetrical in fla...
18 june 2022. Start of tthe new pattern for the bronze keel.
Thanks to an extra shift yestreday today the pattern was ready fo be shaped and faired. The first layer of NM- epoxy fairing compund is now on ready to be worked tomorrow. The new pattern do have a bigger area and are thicker to take the rudder axis deeper...
19 June 2022 Secound fairing and a big change.
Today I have been longboarding and applying a secound layer of fairing compound. Also a big change, a new idea for anchor and sea anchor. The aft hawse havse pipe is gone. I have to plug the hole. The main reason for the hawse pipe was the it eliminated th...
20 June 2022. Celebration. The cause is 15 000 subscribers. It is a huge number. I feel very honered
Toaday we celebrate that the number of subscriber on my Youtube channel have reached 15 000. We celebrate, not to be confused with celibate, with two cakes, being thrifty I got them secound hand. The price was reduced because the cakes were from the day be...
21 June 2022. A most stupid thing. The solution is to reduce the distance to zero.
Fairleads causes chafe. Chafe destroys ropes. In a storn the surge keeps chafing the ropes for sometimes day after day. The problem is that boat builders separate the fairlead from the cleat or bitts. It is much better to put the cleat or bitt at the rail ...
22 June 2022 Big and less big CB. Before and after a big change.
It was in January I think I decided on a big change to get rid of the solid hatches and the bow centerboard. Painfull att the time but now a good thing. The canvas replacement was a good idea, the twin keels was a good idea and the reborn bow CB also was a...
23 of June 2022. Lammhults gjuteri visits and gets three new patterns. Enjoy.
Today is an important day. The founder Mikeal from Lammhults Gjuteri viseted and inspected. He took delivery of two of the three pattern for new castings. The third pattern I cannot do before the aft and for deck is done that I get a precise fit ffor the b...
24 June 2022 Improvements on the blue canvas.
Some more work on the blue canvas. It is getting better and better all the time. Now with the top end fastened with Tufnol it will be much quicker. Some people say this will be much more difficult when the boat moves. Why do they say that? I belive that th...
25 June 2022 Bow center board , New pivot function. Internet is back and now there is a description.
Internet is down today so their will be no description. Petter is helping out but thats why video is late. Internet is now back. The idea is to be able to get the centerboard out standing in the fore hach clean it and put it back just like you can do with ...
26 June 2022 One more solotion and bonus Yrvind in Petters stravberry field.
Close to the bow centerbord is a deck hatch. So they try to interfere with each other. In calm weather no worry, but when the seas are breaking the deck hatches have to be tightend down well. The Exlex I sailed 2020 and 2021 had hatches I had done a bad j...
27 June 2022 Trying to concert my raincoat to a hatch cover.
The blue canvas was much to stiff. I cut up my big raincoat to try to use it as a hatchcover for the bulkhead opening. It was a great succes it nearly worked. Encoraged I search the internet and found Friluftstyger. They seamed to have a lot of choises. Ja...
28 June 2022. Captain Grahn visits and helps with a video on the centerboard control lines
Today I got a visit from Captain Grahn. He was 19 years old 2007 when we met and sailed his 27 feet Albin Vega to Florida to visit Matt Layden. Today he is older. The centerboard evolves. Here is the arrangements for the control lines. I feel that I got a ...
29 June 2022 Preparing for the elliptical coamings by grinding away the retangular ones. dusty work
A painful decision is made. Grinding away the rectangular coamings. Much work have gone into them including making the hard hatches and making it waterproof with ratchet starps. But my mind is stoic. No use thinking about whats done in the past. It is from...
30 June 2022. A warning the 22 of each month there will be no content just me begging for donations.
My ecconomy is bad. I have a plan that hopefully will make it possible for me to continue to build and do short videos. Every 22 of each month I will beg for money. See Yrvind.com There you can use Pay pal or Swish 0706 200 550 Do not watch this channel th...
1 July 2022 Evolution of my boats.
1962 I left Sweden for the first time in a 15 feet converted small workboat that that I had converted into a small floating home. It was not my first try but the first one that worked. It worked well still it did not take long for me to come up with ideas ...
2 Juli 2022. Here is canvas for curtain for the bulkhead hatches from Thelin Outdoor.
Thelin Outdoor sent me different samples of canvas for the curtain for the bulkhead hatch. Very quickly I realised that 2 mm neoprene was the way to go. The hard hatches took way to much space. Then the idea was to elliptical coamings. However making a moc...
3 Jluli 2022 Circular coaming. The experimental start of the fore one.
The old coaming is gone grinded away. I have made the molds for the two other ones, the one for the fore bulkhead and the one for the aft bulkehead. I have done the lamination of the fore one. I always learn something. Now I know a bit more for the secound...
4 July 2022 Aft coaming I did much faster and better. I am learning.
Today on 4 of July independance day I did the coaming for the aft hatch. I did it in shorter time and the work became better. Practice makes perfect. Perfect is to a big word but the meaning of the phrase I like. It was the summer of 1975 that I first st...