Tag: Cockpit
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Fixing annoyances – big and small.
Today I got rid of a couple of things that have annoyed me for some time.Actually, I have a list of about 60 of these. And the only way of making the list smaller is fixing them…. A small annoyance was that the starboard side helmsman seat would gather a small pool of water on…
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More steering, plus a solution.
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 handle to the right of the wheel center. You can see two joysticks on the…
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Funky Door Complete
What makes a door funky, you may ask? Well, for example the fact that it is in three pieces. Two on separate hinges, to allow opening only the upper part, and keeping the lower in place as a wash-over protection. The third part is a small fold-able corner of the upper door part. It uses…
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Sandblast intermediate results…
The deck and cockpit is done. Tomorrow we start with the topsides. The untreated areas will be covered with anti-slip mat, so they don’t have to be done.
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Comfortable Steering
I think the first time I had the idea that I could actually build my own boat was when I met Peter Stuivenberg on his yacht Crossroads in the Horta Marina on the Azores in 2001. If he could then I should be able too, right? One mistake he said he made was not paying…
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Suppliers we like: Southco
I have to say a public thanks also to Markus and Henric at Southco Sweden (now Onmar Sweden), for going the extra mile in getting me exactly the hinges and locks that I wanted, even when it meant doing some custom modifications to their products. As a result, every single hinge and lock on Journeyman…
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Storing long things
The main large storage space in the cockpit is under the sofa seats. The forward part of the seats has the clothes closet in the aft cabins underneath, so there can be no storage there. This would mean that the actual storage box would be too short to store the long things you need in…
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First trial: The sofas are good.
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 tape measure, various pieces of furniture, cardboard boxes etc. I also had 3D models…
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Getting rid of ropes and inlets
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 put halyard ends and such in. But since you sometimes need to release the ropes…