Journeyman 60

Building and sailing the Journeyman 60

2006 – 2014

  • First of all: I still do not have the correct stuff to get photos from my camera into the ship computer. But you can find a lot of images taken by a local newspaper photographer here: http://foto.saartehaal.ee/thumbnails.php?album=181 And here is…

  • Sorry, lack of computer resources, so no image today, just a text report.  Event though we had extended the road, getting around the first bend took a full hour. But from that point on it was smooth sailing. The trip…

  • She kind of looks like an old fashioned street car, but in fact these bars are meant to move the power lines away. There are at least a couple of places where we know we will need them, and probably…

  • The trailer that was built for the Journeyman is designed for yachts up to 20 tons. We noticed before the bulb was put on that it had some problems lifting the hull, which was then about 9 tons. Now it…

  • OK, we are officially launching on Thursday. I have been complaining sometimes over the passed year that the Alunaut team has been busy building other boats and Journeyman has been delayed. But I can’t complain about the number of people…

  • We had to redo the threading on most of the bolts. They were damaged from the manufacturer, the guy who grinded the bulb probably was drunk or something… We also digged out some parts of the mold that had fallen…

  • I didn’t admit it even to myself, but I was a bit nervous about this one. We’ve had so many welding deformation issues with the keel-box in the passed, so I wasn’t at all sure it would work. But it…

  • Standard thing to do before launch: Painting anti-fouling. Well.. actually not for me, since my last small boat had so many layers of paint on the bottom when I bought it that I just grinded some old off each spring,…

  • This afternoon the team went into mass production mode with the floor panels: Here you can study the technique we use. The panels are made from aluminum honeycomb as described here. The edges of the panels are vulnerable to point…

  • So this is what the steering position looks like. In the picture you can also see the now solved winch collision problem. You can also see the steering control valve I talked about in yesterdays post, it’s the small silvery…

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