Tag: Equipment
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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…
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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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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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Will I regret the USB outlet panel?
So, in the spirit of “The list of things to do tends to fill the available time” I felt compelled to do a nice walnut outlet panel for the onboard computer USB outlets. Plus a standard 12V outlet. Maybe I will regret doing things like this in 4 months time when we have a total…
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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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Forward Thrust
Although in this final stage it seems no matter how you thrust forward there are at least a thousand things left to do. But anyways, now it’s one less. Having a propeller helps. And for those of you who remember this post, you now know the result.
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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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Steering work
Do you remember this picture? It was a little tricky designing the dimensions for the steering, without having the rudders in place. There is basically no straight surfaces anywhere to measure from… However, it seems that we were reasonably successful. Some angles are not 100% optimal, but this will not be noticeable in real life.…
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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…
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Massive Amounts of Solar Power. Too massive.
The solar battery is in place, all 800 Watts of it: In other news, we have a heatwave situation. The boat becomes a sauna at around 10.30 in the mornings. And it looks like it will last. So starting today we will be switching to working nights and resting during days. So the workday starts…