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| 23 Aug 10. Got the lead out.
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Cut stainless steel all-thread to make the
bolts to tie the lead bulb halves together and tie into the keel strut.
Set up the 2 halves of the bulb to fit the keel strut to the bulb. Managed
to get one braced on the skateboard and the other high enough off the
floor to slide the other under it, with out dropping it on my fingers or
toes.
See Aug Pix. |
| 10 Aug 10. Where's the boatshop?
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Between having to work the overnight shift and
taking vacation time, not much has been done this past couple of months.
After prying the truck out of the garage and setting the boatshop back up,
we are slowing getting back to work. Now were was I? |
| 08 Jun 10. Paint the pole red.
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Primer painted and final paint coated the
jockey poles this past week. While watching the paint dry, I installed the
sheaves in both ends of the boom and lashed on the the mainsheet block and
traveler blocks to the car.
See Jun Pix |
| 23 May 10. More rotisserie
carbon.
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Got out the rotisserie and sanded the jockey
poles in prep for paint. |
| 17 May 10. Spreader stuff.
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Have been working on the spreaders. Put on a
couple of coats of clear coat and then fitted the inboard ends on to the
mast tangs. This was a pain as the tangs were already drilled and I had to
line up the new holes.
See May Pix. |
| 15 Apr 10 Tax Day
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Got the Porti-a-Potie in. Finished with the
floorboards and cooler/step. Worked on putting a hinge in the inboard end
of the bowsprit.
See Apr Pix. |
| 13 Mar 10. More odds & ends.
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So I got the mast wiring completed, crimped on
the pins on the wires and inserted them in the connector then mounted the
connector. Worked on the supports for the head base and epoxied the cooler
base in place, then got a coat of epoxy on all that. Finished with filing
off the lifeline tabs off the bow rail and then gave the rail a coat of
paint. |
| 11 Mar 10. Stuffing the Mast.
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I have been working in what little free time
I've had on the base for the cooler and porta-pottie. Today I put a coat
of epoxy on most of the parts. Then I took all the bits of blue foam that
I had cut out and stuffed it in the mast. I cut the holes for the mast
wires and put the connector on the antenna cable.
See Mar Pix. |
| 13 Feb 10. A pile of rope.
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We got most of our running rigging and the
solar panel mount this week from our friends at
Third Coast
Composites.
So I have been climbing in and out of the boat for the past 2 years by
stepping on an overturned milk crate, with the plan that the cooler would
go there. So I put the cooler in place and realized that I will need to
make a platform for it to sit on. So it's time to break out the saw,
scraps of plywood and get creative. I also worked on a fix for the Windex.
I pounded off the fitting from the rod and epoxied it to a piece of carbon
fiber rod I had left from the keel lay-up. Not only is it longer but it
weighs 4.2 grams less.
See Feb Pix. |
| 01 Feb 10. Has it
been a month?
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Since the last update? It's been a busy month,
but not so on the boat. I did manage to find time to run the mast wires
and anchor them at the top. I then attached the all the stuff ( nav lt,
strobe lt, windex, vhf ant, wind sensors ) to the top of the mast and
hooked up the wires. All went well until I stuck the windex in place and
found that it would not clear the strobe light. I had made sure it would
clear the antenna, but forgot how high the strobe sticks up.
See Jan Pix. |
