Author: Jesper
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Holy Cow: One point sixty-one
The Swedish Sailing Federation just assigned the official SRS racing handicap rating for the Journeyman 60: 1.61 …which means that according to them the Journeyman is one of the fastest monohulls in Sweden at the moment, less than 10% below the TP 52 (Here is the official list) Which makes me smile of course. But…
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Bringing order into chaos…
I have a few items on the todo-list which starts with “Organize cables in…”. But at least one less today! Before: After:
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After major cabling work, we have an autopilot!
This took a lot longer than I expected it to. The autopilot is connected to almost every corner of the boat! One sensor on the targa, one sensor, pump and control unit in the transom, both the NMEA0183 and the NMEA2000 instrumentation buses, control panel in the cockpit, follow-up remote at the nav station, and…
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Necessities of life
I am continuing my quest to make a boat that “takes care of the crew instead of having the crew take care of the boat”. Unfortunately I can’t make the boat do the dishes. But I can at least try to improve the situation a bit for the crew member who does them. Most yachts…
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Meta photo of climate measuring
Photos of people taking photos are always fun! In this case it is significant: What you see is well know meteorologist and climate researcher Martin Hedberg from the Swedish Weather and Climate Center taking a snap of the just installed weather sensor on the top of Journeyman’s targa arch. One of his projects includes using…
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Funny suppliers…
Everybody knows that marine hardware suppliers tend to charge a lot of money for their products, right? Like just putting the word “Marine” on something instantly doubles the cost… I just had a rather funny example of this: As part of the climate monitoring sensors we are putting on the Journeyman we are also mounting…
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Updated Planning Page
This is just a quick heads up: The route planning page has been updated and now features a better overview, plus crew space availability information.
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Veggie Store
All long distance cruisers know that you need to store vegetables high and dry with lots of air circulation. Everyone I know uses a piece of netting that forms a hammock in the salon ceiling for this. Now being the stubborn designer I am I naturally had to try to improve a little bit on…
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Gearing up for climate monitoring
And it’s a lot of gear… We just finished this piece of equipment which will be responsible for the water analysis part of the Ocean Search climate monitoring project. The unit will be mounted in the bilge of the Journeyman, and run water analyses every hour. There will also be corresponding unit mounted for air…
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Interior Design Images
I just uploaded a new set of images from the interior. To see them, click “Interior Design” in the “About Journeyman” menu above. Or click here.