Recycling bilge keels from Yrvind Ten. Hard work but much saved.

March 12, 2022 by Sven Yrvind | Language: EN Play Time: 00:02:10 | SAILING YOUTUBERS

2015 about that time I realised that I could not be happy with Yrvind Ten so after about three years I scrapped her.
The bronze bilge keels I saved for a time they might come in handy.
Now is that time but they will be cast into a different shape and more bronze will be added.
I guess they are about 60 kilos each, 120 total. I aim for 200 -250 total for the new boat. To much might make her snappy and slow.
I did fasten them well to the old boat with good power tools I have been working the whole day to get rid of the composite. I am not even half way but now I have the Idea how to do it so tomorrow work will hopefully be more rapid.
The composite is very strong. Now it gives me hard work. At the same time I marvel of the strenght and it realy feels good.
I remember the first time I tested composite and could moulded wood. I had sailed many years made many ocean passages in the first Bris and always felt safe.
What a schock it was to see how brittle wood was compared to composite.
It is not so much that wood is such a brittle and bad material but that composite is so increabeable strong and good.
Words cannot convince that feeling but trying a whole day to take away the composite from the bronze, that is what makes belive.
I never go back to wood.
For more see Yrvind.com
There you can support my project by donations via Pay pal and Swish 0706 200 550

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Sven Yrvind

Hi My name is Sven Yrvind. I design, build and cruise small boats. 1962 I left Sweden in 15 feet converted Blekingseka. I soon found out that there was room for improvement. To understand the basic I began to study mathematics and engenering. 1968 I sailed to England via many contries in a converted 13 feet rowing boat. People told me I be more happy on a bigger boat. November that year I found a wreck an old steam launch build 1885 I converted her to a staysail schooner and sailed her to Rio de Janeiro. That voyage advised me that a bigger boat do not bring happiness, happiness is an inside thing. I designed a 6 meter doubble ender built her in my mother basement. Tried to sail around Cape Horn with her but was capsized and pitchpoled. Later I built an 5.9 meter boat in her I rounded Cape Horn in the southern winter June 1980. I have continued to design, build, and cruise small boats often in high latitudes. Please support me on my donation button on my site yrvind.com

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