| 30 Apr 09. Not much done....
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....in the past 2 weeks. Have been working on
passing a kidney stone so working bent over in the boat to secure all the
tube ends was not a lot of fun. I used the Clamp Tight tool to make hose
"clamps" out of stainless wire. I also build the bracket seen in the
picture for a mast head strobe light. And have been attempting to bend
aluminum tubing for new rails on the aft deck.
See Apr Pix. |
| 10 Apr 09. Down the re-tubes.
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Got the pump hole re-drilled and the pump
mounted. Found that the clear tubing I was using was too easily kinked and
would not work in the small area for the pump and valves. So off the the
hardware store to try the fiber reinforced stuff. That worked better but
it had to be soaked in hot water to get it to cooperate. All of the main
plumbing is done, just need to hook up the bilge intake and outlet. |
| 02 Apr 09. Down the tubes.
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So here is a picture of the tubing from
the aft tank to the manifold. About the only one that would behave. I'm
thinking that I should have just used rigid pipe as there would be no
expectation of being able to flex it. Had to add 90 deg elbows to hook up
the main tank. Also discovered that the hole I cut for the pump is too low
and the fittings on the pump interfere with the tubing for the tank. Arrrg!
so I plugged the hole and will try it again. |
| 01 Apr 09 Plumbing fun!
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Have I said how much I like plumbing....
Didn't think so. That has been my April fool's joke on me, trying to make
1 1/2 tubing bend in small places. The manifolds and valves are all glued
together and in place in the boat. Just down to hooking up the tubing.
See Apr Pix. |
| 25 Mar 09. Pieces, parts.
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Of plumbing. Sorted though all the bits and
tried to figure out how all of this will works. Cut the holes for the two
bilge pumps. Have been working on the fairing of the hull hole. |
| 19 Mar 09. Disaster or just a
slight setback?
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Well after all the tugging around with the
front wheels falling off the cradle has slipped back on the boat. I got
new wheels with longer screws on the front crossbeam and then I set about
to reposition the boat to the correct spot on the cradles, when the aft
starboard corner of the boat goes down with a loud bang. I look under to
see that caster has fallen off. So I jack up the aft crossbeam and see the
boat is still down by that corner. WTF? So I crawl under to find the
support pad has punched a hole thru the hull. *@^#%$$(@&@!!!. Seems the
pad lined up just right without being on either a stringer or bulkhead.
*&^#$!!!. After getting the boat on the right spot on the cradle and the
aft end jacked up so I can work on it, I cleaned out all the busted wood.
The good part of building your own boat is the repair is fairly easy. I
routed out sections on the stringers and made doublers and a patch.
Epoxied all this in place.
See Mar Pix. |
| 15 Mar 09. Stick up!
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The gin pole worked and we got the mast up.
And back down again. We had to stop the first time and make some
adjustments to the gin pole rigging, but the second time worked fine and
it was less effort then when we step the J/24 mast. We then set the boom
and bow sprit and took measurements for the sail maker. We then took it
all off and and started moving the boat back it the garage. Then the
wheels fell off. No really the wheels fell off. As we were pushing the
boat in to the driveway the wheels on the front of the cradle did not make
the bump. After 3 more stops to either put the wheels back on or finally
put a movers dolly under the bow we got it back in the garage. Thanks to
Craig, Paul, Walt, Georgia, Beth, Ethan & Wendy for all the help! See Mar Pix. |
| Past build progress
continues here.
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