Tag: Keelbox
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The keel is in. Pheew.
I didn’t admit it even to myself, but I was a bit nervous about this one. We’ve had so many welding deformation issues with the keel-box in the passed, so I wasn’t at all sure it would work. But it did. After a slight protest on the first attempt we greased it up with a…
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Keel Box Song
The story of the keel box is a little bit like Purple Rain by Prince. It’s always almost ending, but still goes on for ever… But now we are in the final adjustments to make the fit into the hull perfect:
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The Worlds Lowest Sauna?
Today the keelbox will be done. So I guess next week we can finally put it in. Soooo many other jobs are waiting for this to get done… The guy welding the inner side of the bottom plate has what I would think is the worlds lowest ceiling for a sauna. About 280mm. You can…
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Sunshine through the keel-box!
The WORKING keel-box, actually. Finally. After all sorts of troubles, and after throwing away the first failed attempt, we now have a box that works. The keel goes up and down with a nice snug fit while only taking a about one or two hundred kilos to pull. This is less than it sounds, the…
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First victory in the keelbox battle
The keel box, which has been a difficult nut to crack for the builders, is finally making progress: The keel fin now passes through the box with a reasonably good fit. One corner of the box became too loose, but we will fix that by making the slider sheet on the fin 3mm thicker in…
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If at first you don’t succeed…
…then try, try again! The second version of the keelbox is now up for testing. As you might remember, the first one was scrapped. I am keeping my fingers crossed, please cross yours too! A good sign of how long this has taken is that the keel has been laying around so long it’s gotten…
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Keelbox song: Rip it up and start it again.
I got this old song lyrics humming in my head… I think it was a British Eurovision Song Contest entry way back when. Anyone remembers? It’s all about ripping things up and starting over again. So anyway, two weeks ago the keel-box was almost complete. And then something went very wrong. And now it looks…
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Keelboxing
With a bit of violence it is possible for the welder to get inside. Good. We don’t need to get a robot…
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Tight fitting keelbox
We have started to build the keelbox. The keel will slide up and down this box, so precision and parallelism of the sides is very very important. To make sure we get parallel sides of the right dimensions we have made a template in steel for both the outside of the keel and the inside…