The centerboard mockup is nearly good but a bit of tweeking will can still be made. The real centerboard will be made of 10 mm G11 epoxylaminate. I like to try it in the real centerboard trunk. I do not have any plywood left but I do have some pieces of p...
I am trying to get the starboard side of the centerboard trunk int position. A lot more of shaping the side and the slot is required. To fit a three dimensional part is more difficult than to fit a twodimensional part.
many more small steps are needed.
If...
Today I have glued the top part of the starboard side of the centerboard trunk. I needed ny deep klamps. They are so heavy that I have to use strenght to handle them. Thanks to keeping fit I had the necessary strenght.
Also today you are in luck an extra v...
Thanking all the generous people for the donations yesterday as I was celebrating 83 1/4 of good life. Next begging will be August 22 when I will be celibrating 83 1/3 of good life.
Todays video is about the groowe in the centerboard trunk.
The groowe serv...
I am very grateful to everyone that have supported my project with donations via Pay pal and Swish 0706 200 550.
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Also on the launcing page of this channel.
Up to three years ago I was able to support myself via publ...
Here is about the excellent wear resistance of Tufnol. I am convinced that it will not let me down.
Also after many many iterations the centerboard mockup now works to my complete satisfaction.
In my wiev it is a good thing to spend several days working o...
I have now done some adjustments to the mockup. Things looks OK.
There will be more as I convert it to composite.
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I need to find the center of the Tufnol disk I will attach to the centerboard. If the chuck on my lathe was taking larger diameter pieces that would be more easy.
I can change the holders in the chuck and then change them back but this method is much quick...
Here is more on the mockup.
If you forget a detailj. The mockup vill tell you. He is honest. It was a little bit to short between the groove and the pully.
I decided to move the groove. Change the angle to increase the distance to the haul down. to get mor...
Here is a new idea for my centerboard. It solves two big centerboard problems.
That they cannot be removed like a daggerboard.
That the controling lines are very difficult to acces.
The solution is to use a 30 mm thick 120 mm diameter disc attached to th...
Good news. A book of mine is now in Russian language. Only the many pictures is understandable.
I think it is a good thing that my ideas about small simple boats is being spread wide in the big world.
It helps people to sail the deep blue endless eternal s...
Today I got two barometers from Navinmordic. For many years I have ignored barometers thigking like a stoic, weather I cannot do anything about it anywhy often not having a barometer onboard.
However now a change of wiuv my intention is to try to predict i...
I got nervous when so many people watched that I messed it up. I tried a short cut but the chain is to short to do it in one step.
It thus took much longer not only to do the video but also to get it out on internet.
You can speed it up and just look begin...
Today I got G 11 rod 12 mm and laminates 30 mm.
There is also rods of phenolic laminates like Tufnol.
Those are for the centerboard and its trunk. The laminates I will shape into U for the pivot to rest in.
They will be glued to the trunk.
The pivot will...
It was 1968. The year of the student revolution. I was cruising in Anna a 4.25 meter boat I had converted to a cruiser. I had met Martine a French girl she was helping me to translate Moitessiers books Une Vagabound de mer du syd and Cap Horn à la voile :...
To be one step ahead I already do the mock up for the beckhatches. Inspired by the bulkhead hatches I now intend to do also them circular.
Openings on previus deck hatches have been 45 X 40 cm starting with the first Bris I started to build Midsummer 1971....
Been cutting of the lower part of the square opening to making it circular and laminated the bottom part.
One more of those small steps that builds boats.
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I am now adding corners to the coaming. Deviding the task up into small jobs one step at the time.
Today the bottom ones are in place. Then I will cut out a bit of the middle stright and adding glassfibre to the Divinycell core.
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The...
I have now tested the fore hatch. I am pleased. It is easy to pass through.
A bonus is that the rim gives a good handgrip even better than expected. At sea I am crawling around a bit as one imagines a monkey.
My upper body gets very strong becouse I always...
I have been grinding the small coaming and tacking it into place.
The NM-epoxy should have cured enough by tomorrow to allow me to try it out.
The comes a bit of work to convert the square hole to a round one.
With composite NM-epoxy and Divinycell I see n...
Three reasons for the rope.
It gives the edge a bigger radius making it smother and thuse more kind to the canvas.
The flange on the coaming makes a very good handhold. On the big coaming I put the rope twice around to get an even better grip. Handhold goo...
Things goes well. The first coaming is released from its mold. I will shape it and add one more rope on its pereferi, the other side to structurally get the same effect as an I-beam making it stronger.
It will also make a softer edge as not to wear the can...
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...
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