Tag: Details
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Every yacht should have one…
I clearly remember the day I realized that my next yacht should have a workshop. We were hanging out in Ponta Delgada on São Miguel, preparing for the crossing over to Ireland. Next to us was a brand new Swan 65 that was just finishing it’s first season and heading back home to the UK.…
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You’re in a maze of twisty little passages, all different.
The aft cabins are really fun places to work. There is basically not a straight surface anywhere. The frames and hull curvature changes rather a lot in quite small distances. And there are lots of corners and boxes protruding into the cabin from all sides, because of various installations around them. So it wasn’t easy,…
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Details Coming Together
This post certainly qualifies for the “Details” tag. But anyhow, I distinctly remember one of the first things I ordered after arriving at the yard in Estonia (that was 21 months ago!) was a set of water tight cable through-hulls. Today we finally mounted the ones that take all cables from the aft watertight compartment…
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(Too?) Crazy Dressing Room Mirror
Here’s the answer to last post’s quiz: Right as you descend from the deck-house, just outside the main bathroom, I have placed a wall of small storage compartments where each crew member will have his/her own. For gloves, glasses and other small items you usually find floating around the boat. I wanted a mirror on…
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Let’s do a quiz!
OK, it’s simple: Guess what part of the boat this is: Hint to those of you who are new visitors: We are currently working on the interior. First one to get it right wins a glass of the special “Journeyman Caipirinha” cocktail. (And the few of you who knew beforehand are not allowed to spoil…
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Next Milestone: Salon Finished.
Things are moving along nicely. The salon interior has just been finished and work has moved on to the forward bathrooms. There is comfortable seating space for 9-10 people with this layout. I have also implemented the bar, as you can see in the upper right corner. (This is an extreme wide angle shot, so…
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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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Floor safety
One of the most common causes of small injuries on an ocean crossing yacht is crew members slipping and falling. Your typical “luxury” cruiser has nice shiny floors. Shiny, however, is not so nice when you have wet shoes and the boat is heeled. The Journeyman 60 has a high tech floor material made for…
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Fridge and Freezer, pro style.
I know the list is long, but another thing that annoys me on many yachts is the fridge/freezers. An ordinary cupboard style fridge is very difficult to deal with when the boat is heeling, you open the door and everything falls out… Sometimes designers replace this with a box opening at the top, but since…
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Lots of Work-In-Progress…
The last 40 hours I have been sleeping three times, between 3 and 1 hour each time. This makes life slightly weird before you’re used to it. It’s just like starting an ocean crossing and going on a very irregular watch schedule! Today’s best news is that the rudder bearing problem is solved, thanks to…