Please show a lot of you making, preparing, Sanding, etc etc, getting the work done, as we enjoy seeing how it's done instead of so much talking and explaining... 😊 Not being negative but just some constructive crit. Doing a great job you two! 🎉
Hi mate, the standing rigging will be trying to pull the deck off the hull. Suggest glassing in some angles fore and aft of each mushroom inside the boat to beef up the connection with deck and hull. Right angle bracket. Wish I could draw on here!! Also, lashing the shroud to the cross tree ? Doesn't sit well somehow, can't explain myself, is the idea to keep it in place during fitting cos the fact you have a chafe sleeve there means there is some movement of tree against shroud so lashing it ... 🤔
The original that had lasted over 40 years was a custom bronze eye bolt with a tiny, two layer stainless backing plate. We now have huge FR4 backing plates epoxied under the decks, in the aft cabin we have full length epoxied plywood backing plates between the FR4 and the deck. All the backing plates fully cover the hull deck joint. The hull has a horizontal "shelf" that the deck is bonded onto, plus the bulwark is two parts (hull and deck) bonded together. So this is massively stronger than the original and the loads are transferred via the hull "shelf" from under the deck to the hull. The shroud lashing to the spreader is mostly to stop the shroud coming off when it's slack when putting the mast up. As the shroud will have some creep initially it will slip through the lashing. In big seas the lashing will be insurance that the shroud can't be shaken off the spreader.
@SustainableSailing nice maybe but simple would not involve crawling all over the boat emptying plastic cups. Great idea though, did you think of it or did you see it somewhere else?
We don't have to empty them very often, it won't matter if there is water in them. Apart from the one in the cockpit locker access is easy. We've adapted a whole range of ideas, not seen exactly the same anywhere.
Please show a lot of you making, preparing, Sanding, etc etc, getting the work done, as we enjoy seeing how it's done instead of so much talking and explaining... 😊 Not being negative but just some constructive crit. Doing a great job you two! 🎉
We know we should film more. Lack of time is our main reason we don't. Hopefully that will change over the next year.
Hi mate, the standing rigging will be trying to pull the deck off the hull. Suggest glassing in some angles fore and aft of each mushroom inside the boat to beef up the connection with deck and hull. Right angle bracket. Wish I could draw on here!! Also, lashing the shroud to the cross tree ? Doesn't sit well somehow, can't explain myself, is the idea to keep it in place during fitting cos the fact you have a chafe sleeve there means there is some movement of tree against shroud so lashing it ... 🤔
The original that had lasted over 40 years was a custom bronze eye bolt with a tiny, two layer stainless backing plate.
We now have huge FR4 backing plates epoxied under the decks, in the aft cabin we have full length epoxied plywood backing plates between the FR4 and the deck.
All the backing plates fully cover the hull deck joint.
The hull has a horizontal "shelf" that the deck is bonded onto, plus the bulwark is two parts (hull and deck) bonded together.
So this is massively stronger than the original and the loads are transferred via the hull "shelf" from under the deck to the hull.
The shroud lashing to the spreader is mostly to stop the shroud coming off when it's slack when putting the mast up. As the shroud will have some creep initially it will slip through the lashing.
In big seas the lashing will be insurance that the shroud can't be shaken off the spreader.
@SustainableSailing fuckin A.
Will you be running small gauge drainage tubes from each plastic cup to the bilge or directly overboard?
We plan to just wait for a dry day and then unscrew the plastic containers to empty them. Nice and simple.
@SustainableSailing nice maybe but simple would not involve crawling all over the boat emptying plastic cups. Great idea though, did you think of it or did you see it somewhere else?
We don't have to empty them very often, it won't matter if there is water in them. Apart from the one in the cockpit locker access is easy.
We've adapted a whole range of ideas, not seen exactly the same anywhere.