| 01-03 Dec. Hardware Store?
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Looks like I was running a Hardware Store from
the back of the boat, but I was just digging though all my collection of
5mm & 6mm stainless screws and nuts to mount the winches and mainsheet
cleat. Of course I was 2 bolts short to mount the 2nd winch. I had
previously epoxied in the G-10 tubes in the holes. Also final sanded the
keel, rudders, and daggerboard and all are ready for the final paint.
See Dec Pix. |
| 25-27 Nov. You call that a
rudder!
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Not really. That is the test rudder, to check
to be sure if the rudders can be moved from one side to the other.
Important if something should happen to one of the rudders.
See the Nov pix to see if it
fits on the port side. Spent this week remounting all the transom brackets
between the final coats of primers on the rudders and keel. Also drilled
the pilot holes for the mainsheet cleat and the cockpit winches. |
| 21 Nov 08. Figuring out where
to put....
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...the cockpit hardware. Long time crewmember
Craig stopped by today and we sat in the cockpit and determined where to
mount the winches, clutches, and main sheet blocks. We also were looking
and where to put the motor bracket. I quick made up a test rudder to check
clearance of the prop when I discovered that the rudder brackets on the
transom do not line up well enough for the pins to go in. So I will have
to loosen all the bolts insert the pins and bolt it back together. Arg!
And the primer I put on yesterday came out looking better, so I gave the
foils another couple of coats of primer. |
| 20 Nov 08. Fair and paint.
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I'm really getting to like this sanding thing!
*&^%^*$. Faired the rudders and keel again. Then coated with primer. We'll
see how it looks this time. |
| 19 Nov 08. Spotted rudders
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Filled the bad areas on the rudders and keel.
Drilled the holes for the battery disconnect switches.
See Nov Pix. |
| 13 & 15 Nov 08. Nothing much to
show.
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For 2 days of work. Its amazing how something
that looks pretty good, when after painting looks like shit. So more
sanding on both rudders and on the keel slot. I'll have to fill some areas
with more fairing compound, then more sanding. When bored with sanding I
loaded the 2 batteries in the boat and figured out how I will hold them in
place. Also drilled the holes for the battery cables. |
| 03 Nov 08. A forest of foils.
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Faired the rudders today and then primer
painted them and the keel strut and the bottom of the boat by the keel
slot.
See Nov Pix. |
| 28 Oct 08. Cherokee!
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We were in Newport RI for the Mini Class North
America general meeting and stopped by the Museum of Yachting new build of
the 6-metre "Cherokee". Wow what a boat. Pictures do not do it justice.
See the Web site here. And follow along with the build on
Tom's Blog. More pix here.
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| Past build progress
continues here.
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