With the duckboard braced to level it and the rudder tie rod glassed on and curing, I could not work on the boat for fear of disturbing the level set of the conduit. If the conduit moves and sets unlevel then the tie rod may stick. I have received emails asking me if I am […]
I have finalised my steering system ideas, at least the stern end of the system. I have long wanted 2 things in almost all of the systems on the boat, redundancy, that is, if one breaks there is a back up system that immediately kicks in, 2 masts but the boat can sail on one, […]
I finally got the steps sorted last month but I had the sort of month that not much seemed to happen. The reason for that was there was a lot of critical dimensions that needed to be followed and areas that had to be the correct size in order to clear the outboard, and of […]
After much back and forth on the steps and the careful use of the remaining duflex I now have the step material all cut and have dry fitted the port side (unfortunately I forgot the camera so no pics) I have now taken the parts back off the port side and have trimmed the mirror […]
The steps are a difficult part of the boat to build freehand. If I had stuck to the kit they would have gone together very easily. But there would be no way that anything other than a 9.9hp motor would have ever fitted into the bay. There simply would never have been room. I extended […]
The steps are progressing slowly. The model outboard that I am planning on Etec 25hp is not released here yet so I don’t have isometric dimensions of it so if you are reading this in the US and can get a drawing with top of cowling to tip of skeg for the long shaft I […]
Another 2 day Melbourne trip on Tuesday and Wednesday meant little work done during the week. The work I did get done last night was to clean up the glassing of the inside of the davits and to rout the outside and sand it ready for glass on the outside. This took a couple of […]
I had some visitors early so I got a later start to work today but I still managed to get all done that I had set myself for the day, I just finished a bit later than I otherwise would have. Today’s task was to set up the davits (screw the fronts to the sides) […]
Today was a really fun day. The task took all day but I was so enjoying what I was doing I didn’t stop for lunch and hardly stopped to keep my fluids up (It is still warm here) and started to get a headache around 4pm. What I was doing was setting out a dummy […]
The bottom of the davits will need to attach to the duckboard and because there will be quite a lever action of weight pulling down at the end of the davits I want to counter that by adding a foot to the davit that runs back along the duckboard to the bulkhead and for the […]
