The lid is a bit more delicate because it have to mate with the gasket and there is a bit of estimating to do as the lid is a composite product with an inner and outer skin. Those join each other and form a lip that closes against the gasket.
I will do mor...
The rim is now succesfully laminated with many pieces of glassfibre in and outside. Everything was covered with peel ply to get a good surface.
Mow I put a rope on the outside wetted in NM-epoxy.
Its function is to act as a deflector for water also to atta...
Here is some videos from before that a friend helped me made.
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I am now shaping the coamings. Working without a mould using sandwich construction means that each bit have to be shaped by hand. To get a goood result I chose to do it in several steps. There are commercial hatches for ocean goaing boats but they have sev...
Today I have been laminating the inside of the coamings. The surfaces have compund curvature. That takes longer time. The good thing is that I did not have to worry about leisure.
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I...
I have now shaped the bottom of the inner coaming.
It is the best starting as the top will get close to the hatch.
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Now I have glued 8 wedges on each hatch bringing the octagon to hexadecagon.
This is on the inside.
The outer side will rounded to approximate a circel.
The main reason for the wedges is to make the thermal bridge longer. Condensation on a small boat with...
One more step on the inner coaming is completed. A wedge in the inner corners of the inner coaming will shorten lengt of the cold bridges or themal bypasses created by the epoxy joints. That will reduce condensation when sailing in high latitudes.
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Here is the first step on the deck hatches. To make easy I divide work in small steps.
Also considering lithium batterys, they seam to involve a lot of more complicated electronics like regulators and one commentator wrote that I had to use a bus. Now I do...
There have been many comments on the 5 September video on how absolutly safe the Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePo4) are.
I am still sceptical.
I had planned to get my batterys now but what I will do is to wait. Maybee I can do sea trials next year 2023. Duri...
In general, not only on boats there is a fight for the same place. Things interfere with each other.
Here I solved it by making a grove below the solar panels for the oar. Its a good place for it much more better than on the previus boat.
A bounus is that ...
Today I try out the diameter for the deck hatches.
It is a balance.
In port and in good weather and in warm clomates it is very desirable to have big deck openings. The intended cruising ground for my boat ranges from the equator to the high latitudes.
I ...
Now the bottom part of the two mast holders are strong.
Nex step?
I will think a bit before deciding.
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It is the ends of the mast holder thats doing the holding. The middle part is just their to orient the ends.
It is the ends that have to be strong. Here I make the lower part strong with 3 extra 450 gram glas in NM-epoxy.
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The two mastholder is now fixed in their final position with plenty of NM-epoxy and thickener.
Later it is going to be made more stong with glassfiber.
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This is just a small step. I am making the bottom of the mastholders stronger.
The top strong point will be at deck level and will by its nature, having a very large diameter be very strong.
Much stronger than the mast anywhay.
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Here are details of the mastholders bottom part. A kind of vedge is at the hull side to get the desired 11° outward angle to the masts.
Also I have added a bottom consisting of 10 mm Tufnol.
Mow the mastholder are ready to be glued to the corner of the hu...
Racing boats are prestigius thats why builders of production boats copy them.
But racing boats are limited by rules and regulation especially concerning speed.
In other words the speed of a racing boat is limeted by racing rules.
Cruising boats are not rac...
This method of wrapping the male mold in plastic film is excellent fast and quick release. If you want a shiny surface its not for you. If however you are a 60 grit man like me. Go for it.
The second mast holder came out as easy as the first one.
Now I am...
I had been worried about etting the first mastholder out of the mold. There was releise angle only at one way. Lenghtwise the sides was parrallel. Not a good a good condition.
It really went so easy that I did not even have to use force.
Today doing the se...
I was apprehensive about the laminating of the first mastholder. There was several ways of doing it.
One idea was to have her horisontal and turn as I did laminate. Gravity would temporarily help.
An other way was to have her standing vertical. Gravity wou...
I did only roughen up the PVC close to the wood/ PVC joint. That was a mistake. The epoxy did not adhere well to the part of the PVC not sandpapered. The glassfibre liked to peel of.
I may have saved it by wrapping the hole thing in glassfibre.
Tomorrow we...
Here is a bit of my thinking making the mold for the mastholder.
It will be made of glass and carbonfibre.
It is an experiment. We will see how it works out.
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I like to thank everyone for the kind donations.
They are truly appriciated.
They give me the means to continue to build and do short videos.
When I had finished the centerboard to my satisfactine and that had taken some time.
I told myself now I will stra...
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