Tag: Mast
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Sailor speciality: Solve the problem.
Just to give you a small insight into the work going on: Besides finishing the interior, we are also working on a long list of to-dos. One to-do is the need for the mast foot to be moved 20mm to aft in order to make the mast bend curve perfect. Unfortunately the old mounting holes…
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Sea Trial Trails
Wow! First day of REAL sea trials is done. The wind was around 20kts, with gusts up to 28kts (14 m/s). Perfect wind for really seeing how the boat behaved. First of all, the balance was superb!!! We did not yet have the reefing lines installed, so we sailed with a full main and the…
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Back in action: Deck collar casting.
Sooo… After a lot of time spent doing other stuff that fun (=boat) stuff, I am starting to get to the bottom of the piles of cruft that have gathered since I left for Estonia. Today I did the casting of the mast collar. The old method of inserting rubber wedges between the mast and…
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Disaster strikes … a spreader.
In the picture below, the keen viewer will notice that there is a spreader missing… It was damaged by a falling furler swivel during the hoisting of the mast. Hopefully the Marström team will be able to repair it over the weekend, but it still means that we won’t be able to move out of…
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We’ve never been this close…
Unfortunately we are STILL waiting to get the mast put on. Seems to be taking forever… Everything is waiting next to the boat.
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Walking the mast
This afternoon we finally took the mast the short trip down to the dock where it will be lifted in place. Hopefully this will happen on Thursday morning!
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Carbon Galore…
I am currently moored at Marström Composites in Västervik. Of course, if you are a company dealing in carbon composite manufacturing, you can have even the garbage bins made from carbon: But I am actually more interested in my mast, which looks pretty good even if there are a few small details that was forgotten…
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One end of a long tube.
Mast foot. Shiny, so it must be expensive… :-) I’ll write more on the rigging later, but I just got the first images from the maker, so I just had to write a teaser blog entry about it. Today I should actually write about the first big designer mistake I have discovered I made. But…