New year, could it be….nah lets just move on for now. I have moved my blog to a new host/server and am having a few issues with the migration. Some of the pics have not migrated properly, I will have to reload them. Hopefully all will be back to normal in a few days. Ok, […]
The last couple of days I have been lazing around not doing much (reading my Christmas present book and tv Sydney to Hobart/cricket, a boxing day tradition), but today I started the prep work for hanging the rudders and hanging the ladder. To help me visualise how this will all need to look Jo transposed […]
Working on bits that hang out over either end of the boat. The davits hang far enough out over the stern that sanding them after they are glassed in would be very difficult if not impossible given their curves and edges. I have run bog over them and sanded it back a couple of times, […]
Poured bearings are easy to do, so easy I got mine done on just my second attempt, well third if you include the practice one I did. Terry’s method of aligning the bearings on the shaft before pouring both, worked very well on 3 of the 4 bearings. We had the incredible situation where the […]
Well, pouring rudder bearings is dead easy. So much so, I will be doing mine twice. What’s not so easy is using spacers to centre an uhmwpe bearing on a post in order for the poured bearings to be aligned. That’s not quite so easy. So much so, I will be doing mine twice. So […]
As mentioned in previous posts, the bearing surfaces of the rudder shaft are poured epoxy with graphite, poured into the plastic (ultra high molecular weight polyethylene) bearing. In order to pour the bearings on the shaft I need to centre the shaft in the opening of the plastic bearing and seal the bottom opening by […]
Nearly 2 months ago I ordered rudder bearings and was told a week. They finally arrived this week. So over the next couple of weeks I hope to get the rudders hung in the boat. I had hope to have this done last month so I could spend December finally getting the rear steps into […]
This post picks up exactly where this post http://yikes.com.au/2012/09/16/catwalk/ September last year left off. You know, some stuff happened in between but we are picking up where we left off on a number of these unfinished jobs. As the Sept 12 post mentions, I made the rails and rungs for a ladder that will sit in the […]
Pretty soon, the rear steps will go in and before they do I need to have the davits glassed in. The rear steps are currently held up waiting for the rudder bearings. So I cant put off finishing the davits any longer. They cant be properly glassed in if the rear steps are already in […]
First a warning to readers, the following blog post is not boat related in any way. But is boat build related. It may seem a bit of a ramble, bear with me. A few people have asked what happened to us over the past year, and many emails of encouragement not to give up, that […]
