Building and sailing the Journeyman 60
2006 – 2014
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Lots of things are happening right now. Mostly machinery installations. But since most of the inside of the boat looks like a complete mess you will only get a picture of the outside: The bow thruster has been install (the…
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One Point Fifteen Kilometers
This is the total length of the running rigging ropes that I ordered today.
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Some things fit through the door, some don’t.
Actually the parameter that determined the width of the deck house door was exactly this one: The engine. I wanted to be able to take it completely out for repairs if that should become necessary (actually there are quite a…
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Beautiful Lifelines
We just put the lifelines in, and in the middle of all delays and small setbacks they are making me very happy. Everything fit perfectly, and the welding work on the pull-pit is absolutely superb. This image also shows the…
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Darkness inside, light outside.
As you can see from the image below the deck is looking bright and nice (even if it is still full of building garbage). The inside is becoming very dark as the black insulation progresses. I did a very important…
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Happiness is a warm and silent boat…
So now we are working on all sorts of insulation. The bilge, sail locker and transom area are painted in 6 layers of a sound damping polymer paint. This paint converts vibrations to heat, so it reduces the big “boing”…
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Deck shaping up after some setbacks
We have been operating in a two steps forward / one step back fashion the last days, after some mistakes, some parts missing, and some being delivered broken. But it’s starting to look pretty good, so tomorrow some guys will…
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Work In Progress
Someone said that I was boring just publishing images of completed work. So here you are, without further ado. Work in progress:
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All Hands on Deck
Well… most hands, anyway. The first patches of anti-slip was a bit disastrous, but now the team has a good hang of the technique. We might end up redoing the first one, it was the sail-locker hatch which can easily…
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Detail of the day: Hull integrated heat exchanger.
One of the top electric energy consumers on a yacht is the fridge and freezer. The efficiency of the machines that take the heat out of the cooled space is heavily dependent on how efficiently the heat energy can be…
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