S/Y Linnea

OK, just so you understand why people are intimidated when they ask if the bamboo is a mast and we answer that we use it for battens. Ida got this offcut for making mugs of. But it says something about the size.

Batten waste

Today I snapped some pictures of the progress.

The Deck with sail and dinghy.

Steering station portlights

Bow roller and sail.

We haven’t adjusted the lazy jacks yet, so the yard and sail bundle has a little drooping angle. Notice the new thick bamboo. We put it only on one side of the sail, used no keep battens. Let’s see how that works out.

Tomorrow we are aiming for a trial sail. A bit nervous about that.

My hands are oh so sore. Tying battens to a junksail (actually with these battens it’s the other way around, you tie the sail to the battens) is bloody business. If you can stand the swollen fingers it is great fun to walk around with the bamboo, thicker than my over arm, until someone asks “what is that? a mast?” Then you say, “no, it’s a batten”, and they think you are making fun of them and walk away quietly.

Hoisting the red sail is a lot better.  People were actually shouting over the bay how beutiful she was.

I took the camera, but had no time to take pictures.

Tomorrow we will rig the lazy jacks, sheet, etc. Will we sail on friday? It would be fun.

Forgot the crappy digicam, and the mobile was out of batteries after some work related e-mailing and chatting, so… no pictures today on the finnaly installed steering station portlights. They are actually a bit too large to be called portlights. More like windows. 200 machine screws. Each window hade five rounds of Sikaflex. Used up over two tubes. Two fingers on my right hand feels numb after squeezing that Sika…

These windows look bombproof.

Tomorrow we will start rigging the sail again.

And maybe wire the navigation lights. Don’t really know where to put them. Was thinking about the deck house roof first. But the bow will obstruct them. Any ideas?

I promise. We will only use this mock-up this year. Later we will build a new table out of mahogany and make it really sweet. I’m looking forward to it. But this mock-up tells us the real thing will be great. We haven’t decided where the pull-downs on the kerosene lamps will be fastened yet though.

The saloon table folded.

We will extend the back to enclose all the folded table top. Perfect for a heeling meal. Or just to put some stuff in it while sailing.

The saloon table, unfolded.

A clean table top for harbour use. Remember, this us ugly. This is a mock up. Yes, we will eat on it this year.

Other things that happened today: My father worked on the water system while my mother painted the aft cabin.

Today we made the last fixes to the starboard 220 liters water tank. It is a Vetus flexible tank that sits in a compartment under the settee. Seems to be working fine, except for the grommets in the corners. One was ripped out when the tank was full. I suppose it was there only to use on an empty tank. Maybe when the tank was hanging on a pin in the shop.

Anyway, it doesn’t really matter. We will use a couple of seat belts to secure this airbag.

It was good to finally being able to use the sink.

Some pictures of the progress:

Navigators bunk

This is a good illustration of how hard it is to take photos of the interior. Everything is covered in tools, and unpainted surfaces are ugly.

Steering station port frame.

8 mm stainless steel. 200 M5 machine screws. 13 mm thick polycarbonate. Will it hold up to the furious waves of the outer skerries of the Stockholm archipelago this summer. Probably.

The dinghy on deck.

The good thing about flush deck. The dighy takes up no space at all. Maybe we are going to take down the work bench while sailing, though.

Foredeck.

The bow rollers will be bolted to the mahoghany. We will need some sort of pulpit as well to be able to climb up the bow.

That’s all folks!

A picture of Fenix, a junk rigged boat we met in the Summer Isles, west of Ullapool some years ago with our old boat. We were heading north up around the Orkney islands and Ben was coming south from the Faroes. Funny thing is that he lent out a cruising guide for Orkney to my parents earlier that summer when they met him, so we could return it, since we made some copies. Anyway, the boat seemed to sail real well. When we got to Ullapool some kind of border police interviewed us for quite some time about if we met some other boat in the Summer Isles. We didn’t give you away Ben!

Junk rigged Fenix

Sawed out the windows in Makrolon. The same polycarbonate as Lexan but the Euro-version. Interesting material to work with. We have quite a lot left but no idea of what to do with it. Here is a good source of all construction methods. It also tells how to make that cool looking dome. I see no use for it when we have an inside steering station, though. Maybe I could make an astronaut helmet. I could have that when driving my Vespa. Should be better than an ordinary helmet, no? More ideas about what to do with the left overs?

Fun material. Makrolon.

Routing rabets in glassed over plywood for the steering staion ports itch. Spread dust all over the neighbor boats as well. Anyway, here are some new pics on the bow rollers and the kids in the dinghy:

Anchor trial in bow roller.

I really like our new dinghy. It can take a lot of people, and I could haul it up on deck alone if needed. And it sails!