Tag: Tanks
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Oysters, anyone?
Found these guys hanging out in my water anti-airbubbles tank. They’re about 50-70 mm i diameter, looking very oyster like. But somehow I didn’t feel hungry…
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Tanks done and tested. Time to put things together again.
I remember when the tanks were pressure tested in the yard. As the pressure increased there were plates going “Boooink” as they adapted to the pressure. I should have taken that as a sign that something was wrong, but at the time I was thinking that the tanks would never be exposed to that kind…
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Tank work coming along. Slowly but surely.
All sorts of factors are adding themselves on top of the Bahia tempo. The local Military Police are on strike. This totally screws up traffic in the city. Takes hours for my welder to get here in the morning. The army is trying to secure things but they are not very good at it. There…
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Interior dismount depression.
Now about half of the interior is completely dismounted and the boat is a complete mess. It took longer than I thought to do due to the massive heat. I simply had to go out and cool down pretty often. And now I am in a bit of a depression because I keep thinking about…
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Teardown started
I have started to tear down the interior to clear the way for welding reinforcements to the ballast tanks. The forward starboard toilet is now done. So far I only had to saw one wall panel apart. There were some spots where the Estonian builders had actually followed instructions and not glued everything together. And…
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Finally something goes right…
The last 3 weeks have been slightly too troublesome for my taste. Progress on the final to-do list has been very slow and sometimes almost backwards… Especially since I am trying to get some sailing done every now and then. But today I got a nice verification that at least I am not completely lost…
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Two steps backwards: Tank cleanout
We have not been able to do as much sailing as I would like due to continuing engine problems. I have changed filters in for the engine fuel so many times it is not even funny any more. So I decided I had enough. And ripped the tanks open to see what was going on.…
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Funky Door Complete
What makes a door funky, you may ask? Well, for example the fact that it is in three pieces. Two on separate hinges, to allow opening only the upper part, and keeping the lower in place as a wash-over protection. The third part is a small fold-able corner of the upper door part. It uses…
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Remembering 9/11…
At 5 o’clock in the morning on September 11, 2000, I arrived in St Johns, Newfoundland after a rather difficult crossing from Qaqortoq on Greenland. The following 30 hours were some of the weirdest in my life, with a complex set of personal events intermixed with the approaching hurricane Erin and the terrorist attack that…
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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,…