Tag: Welding
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Bahia tempo. Get used to it.
Actually I am having a problem with this. Being Swedish and used to efficiency. Here everything takes 100 years by my standards. Over a week ago we got an OK from the Bahia Marina management that we could do the work at a spot on their service dock. I tried to actually go there starting…
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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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Bad hair day in Journeyman land
Today has been full of bad news. Leak testing of the deck showed that ALL of the hatches were leaking. In the same spot. Not in the mounting, but through the hatch itself, due to a manufacturing error at the supplier. The leak in the ballast tank pumps that I wrote about yesterday was not…
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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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Lord of the ring
In this case, the One Ring to Rule Them All is the deck ring. It sits around the mast in the deck, and all halyards, reef lines etc are attached to it. We have one of the best deck ring manufacturers in Sweden: Seldén. So I ordered their largest deck ring a while ago. Our…
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Deck being laid…
Yesterday the team started to lay the deck. This is a rather simple operation, except it is difficult (with a flat deck) to keep the 4mm thin plates straight after welding. But still, it is going quite fast. The skill of working with these thin plates was actually one of the reasons why I selected…
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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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Creative Clamping
Somewhere under all those clamps there is an engine mount. And it needs to be in the right position. Even after it has been welded, with all the thermal forces that the welding introduces. So Olari has created this artistic forest of bar-clamps to keep it in the right spot:
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Major bloodshed? Or just leaktest…
Leak testing was started this morning. All welds are tested for leaks before they are grinded down to the final surface shape. Two different sprays are used. The inside of the hull is sprayed with a very fine white titanium oxide powder. The outside with a strong color agent. If there are even the smallest…
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On the importance of being protected: The keel.
The keel is made from the SSAB super-duper Hardox 450 steel (remember the funny commercial about it?). Now this steel is not stainless, so it needs to be well protected from salt water. Usually you do this by painting it in epoxy. For the Journeyman keel this is probably not so good, since the steel…