Tag: Details
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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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Happiness is a warm and silent boat…
So now we are working on all sorts of insulation. The bilge, sail locker and transom area are painted in 6 layers of a sound damping polymer paint. This paint converts vibrations to heat, so it reduces the big “boing” when a wave hits the hull to more of a “thud”. The picture below is…
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Detail of the day: Hull integrated heat exchanger.
One of the top electric energy consumers on a yacht is the fridge and freezer. The efficiency of the machines that take the heat out of the cooled space is heavily dependent on how efficiently the heat energy can be removed from the cooling liquid. Most standard yachts use a cooling element with a fan,…
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Lord of the ring
In this case, the One Ring to Rule Them All is the deck ring. It sits around the mast in the deck, and all halyards, reef lines etc are attached to it. We have one of the best deck ring manufacturers in Sweden: Seldén. So I ordered their largest deck ring a while ago. Our…
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A (short) rollercoaster for the dingy
OK, maybe it is a bit hard to see what’s in this picture when you haven’t seen the boat in real life… The picture is taken through the transom hatch, and what you see is the dingy garage and the slide we put in the roof, to make it easier for a single person to…
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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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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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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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Creative Pump Design Department
I would like to publicly thank the engineers at Johnson Pumps for helping me come up with a solution to the trim-tank pump. The trim-tanks are very big and they should not take too long to fill. This can easily be done if you use a big, heavy expensive impeller pump. But besides being big,…