Tag: Deck
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Back in action: Deck collar casting.
Sooo… After a lot of time spent doing other stuff that fun (=boat) stuff, I am starting to get to the bottom of the piles of cruft that have gathered since I left for Estonia. Today I did the casting of the mast collar. The old method of inserting rubber wedges between the mast and…
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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 chainplates for the stay-sail, solent and code zero (actually I will have more of a…
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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 thing today: Put the cockpit loudspeakers in. (Actually this is not as pointless as it…
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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 be moving on to the interior.
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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 be redone. At the same time, a good part of the deck equipment is ready…
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Sand. 7 tons of it.
The parts of the decks that have already been done are now forming a nice sandy beach!! Talk about foredeck sunbathing :-) I really like the surface the sand creates. It’s very smooth, completely matte and yet shiny somehow…
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Toe-rail or foot-rail?
Whatever you call it, it’s an important part of the looks of the boat, so it’s nice to see it go on!
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Bachman Turner Overdrive…. not.
OK, maybe the pun in the title was kind of far fetched, but anyway: Our turner has been getting busy: These are the attachments for the lifeline stanchions. Making the stanchions in aluminum is not a good idea, since they become very soft. I have seen enough other alu yachts with bent stanchions after some…
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Deck being laid…
Yesterday the team started to lay the deck. This is a rather simple operation, except it is difficult (with a flat deck) to keep the 4mm thin plates straight after welding. But still, it is going quite fast. The skill of working with these thin plates was actually one of the reasons why I selected…
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Longing for a deck…
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 reasons there are still only 2 people working, so progress since the hull roll-over has…