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After a long time I am now 83 Years old for real. And I ask for donations to continue my building.
Sven Yrvind
After a long time I am now 83 Years old for real. And I ask for donations to continue my building.
After a long time I have now reached 83 years of age. Many things have happend during thosen many years. Here is an appeal. I ask for donanations that I may continue the building of Exlex. Ordinary I get money from talks and books. Corona have put an end t...
  • Apr 22, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:21
Day befoere birthsday much feast, not much work. Reason tomorrow many of my friends are elsewhere.
Sven Yrvind
Day befoere birthsday much feast, not much work. Reason tomorrow many of my friends are elsewhere.
We have had feast today because tomorrow many of my friends are at work elsewhere. A bit work on the hatches have been done and thats good. for more see Yrvind.com. There you can support my project via Pay pal and Swish 0706 200 550
  • Apr 21, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:17
A sea chart showing my planned landfall in Chile hava arrivied and important Peter in uniform
Sven Yrvind
A sea chart showing my planned landfall in Chile hava arrivied and important Peter in uniform
Originally the plan was to sail to NZ eastabout south of Africa and Australia. however after much thinking a new plan Falkland Islands Cape Horn and a landfall in southern Chile was decided on. The ordered sea chart for the possible places in Chile have ar...
  • Apr 20, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:25
The screws for the hatch in the dining room are now in place after a bit of drilling and filing.
Sven Yrvind
The screws for the hatch in the dining room are now in place after a bit of drilling and filing.
The two screws for the hatch are now fitted. There is mostly some filing to do as I can newer get it precise from start. But good enough. Also a few more subdivisions are made on the side compartment below the sliding hatches. I am also preparing for the t...
  • Apr 19, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:04:15
Subdivisions and preparing for the screws that will secure the seat hatch
Sven Yrvind
Subdivisions and preparing for the screws that will secure the seat hatch
Mainly today I have worked on preparing for the two screws that is going to hold the hatch in the dining room. One screw would have been plenty but I like to have redundancy so two screws there will be. First I put the long bronze nuts in place. Then I scr...
  • Apr 18, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:12
Not much, just a few small steps.
Sven Yrvind
Not much, just a few small steps.
Today I have been working with the dining room, to secure the hatch lid for the stovage below the seat. I have fastened two long bronze nuts. Screws into them will hold the lid. The are fixed with screws and NM-epoxy and glassfibre. To prevent epoxy from e...
  • Apr 17, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:01:47
Miscellaneous, the mock up boom, the real rope hinge, locking nut for the seat stovage, rig on model
Sven Yrvind
Miscellaneous, the mock up boom, the real rope hinge, locking nut for the seat stovage, rig on model
HI friends. Today I have done different things. During my evening walk I realised that to get most force from the reefing line to the sail the lines must be parralell. Easy to understand if you are familiar with vectors. Vectors is a concept useful to sail...
  • Apr 16, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:35
Balanced lug slab reefing. Here a 2 meter long rope represents a 2X2 meter, a 4 square meter sail.
Sven Yrvind
Balanced lug slab reefing. Here a 2 meter long rope represents a 2X2 meter, a 4 square meter sail.
Peter is not here. But try to imagine this rope representing the bottom of a 2X2 meter square sail. In the fromt eyelet I put a loop with a loop. I peg it on a peg. That way the bottom fromt of the sail is attached. In the back I use a line as an outhaul....
  • Apr 15, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:04:01
The seat and the boom. The seat feels fine, the boom more later.
Sven Yrvind
The seat and the boom. The seat feels fine, the boom more later.
Now the dimensions of the seat is determined. It feels fine. It is going to be a pleasure to sail a boat with such a nice seat wathching all around everything that can bee seen through the windows. The boom is just experimental. It is a wooden one and is n...
  • Apr 14, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:04:19
Starting on the seat that is the lid for the central dining room storage.
Sven Yrvind
Starting on the seat that is the lid for the central dining room storage.
Not much done today, but got an idea how to proceed. Did some gluing up for tomorrow. I am working on the central storage below the seat in the dining room. I have also got an idea how to do the reefing in a simple way. On Exlex 2018 and Exlex 2020 I messe...
  • Apr 13, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:55
Rods for the dining room vertical hatch lockers and more fillets.
Sven Yrvind
Rods for the dining room vertical hatch lockers and more fillets.
The hole for the rods to the vertical hatch covers is now done. Here is a test with a wooden rod. I might use metal pipes, 8 mm diameter. I have copper. I might even get stainless steel. Piece by piece the accommodation is getting in place. This is a job t...
  • Apr 12, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:48
Not much just a few steps towards the accomondation.
Sven Yrvind
Not much just a few steps towards the accomondation.
The accomondation consists of a lot of small pieces panels subdivitions and so on to keep track of things and to keep things in place out on thebig waves. Little by little progress is made. The difficult things is to arrange so that the boat functions and ...
  • Apr 11, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:01:55
Tacking up panels. Not much to show.
Sven Yrvind
Tacking up panels. Not much to show.
HI friends. Today I have been tacking up panels as subdivisions and part of the food box I will sit on in the dining room. Time is mostly spent on deciding where to cut and where to place the parts. As time passes there will be less and lesss choises, easi...
  • Apr 10, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:01:14
Work on the sliding hatch lids for the lockers in the dining room.
Sven Yrvind
Work on the sliding hatch lids for the lockers in the dining room.
Here is more work on the lockers in the diniong room. I am trying to get it good. I started with the port side. If it works I do the same on the starboard side. Work brings surprises every day. That makes it eventful. I do not need other entertainment. In ...
  • Apr 09, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:01:43
To wedge the tilting mast or lash it. Thats the question. + Bonus
Sven Yrvind
To wedge the tilting mast or lash it. Thats the question. + Bonus
Yesterday some people suggested that I should use wedges for the tilting mast. That would keep it in the desired position sequerely. The new problems arose. How to unwedge the mast. That is certainly possible but most likely a tool is needed at least occas...
  • Apr 08, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:35
The case for the tilting biplane rig.
Sven Yrvind
The case for the tilting biplane rig.
Some people say that it is complicated to tilt a mast. I say thats not so if the mast is small on a small boat and if it done in simple way. A freestanding mast stands in a prismatic socket. However if one end of the socket is larger than the other the mas...
  • Apr 07, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:04:54
A bit about a big change and some more.
Sven Yrvind
A bit about a big change and some more.
One thing leads to an other and often the cause is not obvius. Here the Putins war lead the idea of visiting Falkland Island and Isla Chiloe. Falkland and Chiloe lead to twin keels. Twin keels lead to the decision to go skip the modified Ljundström rig a...
  • Apr 06, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:06:14
Today back from Lammhults Gjuteri, the foundry, not much done, but a start of a few.
Sven Yrvind
Today back from Lammhults Gjuteri, the foundry, not much done, but a start of a few.
Curius about my new destination, Isla Chiloe I ordered a chart from my The Admiralty catalog that I got for the millenium 2000. Seams that time has passed and changed have been made in the elapsed time. The chart number was OK but it was from a place in In...
  • Apr 05, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:04:56
Lammhults gjuteri Delivering the pattern of the bronze keels. Important day. Casting soon.
Sven Yrvind
Lammhults gjuteri Delivering the pattern of the bronze keels. Important day. Casting soon.
Today an other worthwhile drive. Håkan lent me his van and with the old bronze keels to be recycled and the pattern I have driven to Lammhults Gjuteri in Lammhult not far from Växsjö Småland. I was shown around seeing a lot of patterns. Most of the pro...
  • Apr 04, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:29
More on the dining room stovage. A subdivision. Also model work. Also a bonus.
Sven Yrvind
More on the dining room stovage. A subdivision. Also model work. Also a bonus.
Work proseeds nice and slowly. Today I have added started on a subdivision on the shelf. It is important to keep things restricted on a boat that is mowing. To keep the lockers small is a GOOD IDEA. Also a bot more on the model, now the beginning of the de...
  • Apr 03, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:01:37
A shelf and some work on a new 1:20 model.
Sven Yrvind
A shelf and some work on a new 1:20 model.
The work in the dining room continues. Today a shelf have been added. But mostly I have been busy with a new 1:20 model. The old one have had to many changes. It have been the centerboard, the rigging have been moved several times and twin keels added. As ...
  • Apr 02, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:01:40
Work on the storage in the dining room. Also sensational rumors of a navigational tunnel.
Sven Yrvind
Work on the storage in the dining room. Also sensational rumors of a navigational tunnel.
I am working on the storage in the dining room. They are in two etage. An upper with sliding locker and a lower with lids from the side. The space is also divided into smaller parts. There is also rumors of gigantic project. A navigational tunnel below the...
  • Apr 01, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:01:25
Today advice from a master racing skipper and boatbuilder
Sven Yrvind
Today advice from a master racing skipper and boatbuilder
Today Göran Marström did visit my workshop. I asked him many questions about my planned rigging and upcoming voyage. I got the impression that he did not disapprove. Things are moving along. For more se Yrvind.com Here you can support my project with don...
  • Mar 31, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:10
Not much today, just taping fillets in the dining room.
Sven Yrvind
Not much today, just taping fillets in the dining room.
This is not very exciting just taping fillets in the dining room, but it makes progress and makes the boat stronger. Things are going well. Before the plan was to have water in the dining room below the seat. Now water is mowed to under the bed. That way I...
  • Mar 30, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:00:51

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