Tag: Details
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Avoiding small annoyances.
Sometimes really small issues get annoyingly large. Like this one: The drawers in my galley have locks that are pretty good. But sometimes when we are in choppy seas on the port tack there is too much weight sitting on the locks and they snap open from the force and vibrations. Not a big problem.…
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Handles on a rainy day
Another day with 150m cloud base and a drizzle. Good day for working in the galley. One small issue has been the opening of drawers when heeled over on a starboard tack. If the drawer is full of stuff it is to heavy to lift in the small locking knob. So now I have added…
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Micro small carbon work
Sometimes it’s fun to try something just to see if you can do it. One of the zippers in my mainsail cover had broken, and I had new zippers from the sail-makers to replace the old one. But I decided to see if I could fix it instead, rebuilding the broken part in carbon fiber…
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Polishing some of the experiments
Many details on the Journeyman are experimental. Most are working very well, some not at all, and some need some refinement. I have written before about the de-bubbelizing tank that the Journeyman has in the salt water inlet. The pipe that lets out the air after it has been separated from the water used to…
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Very long-in-the-making action item getting done.
Some tasks in the Journeyman project have been stubbornly resisting getting done. The fridge and freezer installation is one of them. As I wrote about earlier, I have done a special version of the heat exchanger integrated into the hull bottom plate. Now the story about getting this finally connected and running involves several different…
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Necessities of life
I am continuing my quest to make a boat that “takes care of the crew instead of having the crew take care of the boat”. Unfortunately I can’t make the boat do the dishes. But I can at least try to improve the situation a bit for the crew member who does them. Most yachts…
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Veggie Store
All long distance cruisers know that you need to store vegetables high and dry with lots of air circulation. Everyone I know uses a piece of netting that forms a hammock in the salon ceiling for this. Now being the stubborn designer I am I naturally had to try to improve a little bit on…
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Sleeping late…
The mornings are getting lighter, and we are doing the seasons first sailing this coming weekend. This prompted installation of the window blinds. On long ocean crossings a lot of the sleeping will happen during daylight, so good window blinds are actually essential for comfort.
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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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Vacuum Cleaner with Safety Belt
It seems the closer we get to sailing season and the closer Journeyman get to completion the higher the interest from people in joining the sailing activities. Which is nice. But with lots of people comes lots of food making and eating, which produces lots of crumbs! Crumb fighting with a cloth is not so…