Tag: Equipment
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Power needs to be regulated
In governments and in sailing yachts…. Since the Journeyman aims to be an environmentally friendly yacht in all respects, I have decided not to fit any generator. At all. Not even a shore power charger! Well… that’s maybe also because shore power is a dangerous thing to have in an aluminum yacht to start with.…
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Too much equipment?
It doesn’t matter how many times I have said “I don’t want a lot of equipment and machinery, it is just things that can break”. There is still a lot of machines. And I’m sure they will break at one time or another! Anyway, most of it goes on a shelf that sits above the…
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Bottoms Up!
(Sorry, cheesiest entry title so far, probably…) Since the Journeyman has a rather pointy bulb, there is always the risk of catching stuff on the point. Fishing boys, anchor lines and such. But if we do, at least we will be able to see what the problem is, and how successful efforts to remove the…
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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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Targa model
You know, all sporty vehicles need a “Targa” version, so of course there is a Journeyman 60 Targa too: The targa will be home for the radar, an lot of different antennas, the loudhailer, cockpit floodlights, a webcam, lifting ropes for equipment and so one. Very useful thing… We had to make the radar mount…
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Only the best is good enough for a Journeyman
I am very happy to welcome Nexus Marine as partners in the Journeyman Project. The NXR Instrumentation System comes with outstanding precision and in my opinion clearly superior ergonomics, especially at night. Plus it has the Steering Pilot, an instrument which is invaluable when you are sailing with inexperienced helmsmen. So I would have chosen…
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Tricky steering cylinder problems
The nice Australian steering system that I wrote about earlier (in Swedish) did surprise us by being larger than specifications for all components. Actually the guys at HyDrive changed their mind in the last minute and said we needed stronger components than originally specified, but they forgot to tell us that they had different dimensions…
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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,…
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Deck Layout Brain Damage
After two days of brain burnout trying different alternatives to the deck layout I have arrived at what looks like a simple solution. Since I think I have stared too long at this to actually see things clearly anymore I am hereby asking for feedback. The actual layout drawing is available for download: Deck Layout.PDF…
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….a small taste of sailing!
OK, this is I think my first post of something which looks like it will become a sailing yacht, not just lots of aluminum. We have started to position the winches and build the reinforcements for them.