Journeyman 60

Building and sailing the Journeyman 60

2006 – 2014

  • We have started to build the keelbox. The keel will slide up and down this box, so precision and parallelism of the sides is very very important. To make sure we get parallel sides of the right dimensions we have…

  • One thing that’s REALLY hard when you are designing a virtual 3D yacht in your computer is getting the measurements of the spaces for people right. When I did the design, I was building weird models at home, equipped with…

  • A lot of work on the mountings for the machinery happened the last days. The engine mount is completed: An advice to others planning to build stuff like this: Never ever trust the manufacturers drawings of the equipment they deliver.…

  • If the bow-thruster fails you can maybe try kicking your way :-) Actually I am not a big fan of bow-thrusters. I usually consider it an unnecessary weight in the bow, where you really want to minimize weight. And a…

  • You know what it looks like in the cockpit after hoisting the sails, right? Rope everywhere. And nowhere to put it away. I though I could at least try to improve that situation a bit by having two boxes to…

  • Somewhere under all those clamps there is an engine mount. And it needs to be in the right position. Even after it has been welded, with all the thermal forces that the welding introduces. So Olari has created this artistic…

  • There is a classic humor sketch in Sweden where a guy goes to the newsstand to buy an evening paper. We have two nation-wide evening tabloids to choose from, and they guy spends forever arguing about which one to choose,…

  • One of the design faults of most modern cruisers that annoy me is the positioning of the water inlets. I don’t think I have ever been on yacht where there hasn’t been problems with some water inlets being above water…

  • Today work started on the engine mounting bracket. We unpacked and assembled the engine to make sure its dimensions matched the drawings I was given 18 months ago. It didn’t, of course. The engine is just one of many many…

  • In the beginning of this week the Alunauts delivered a great looking powerboat targeted at handicapped people. I was glad to see it go, because I was hoping that there would be more people for Journeyman work. But for various…

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