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  • Dirt, teak and windlass

    Posted on August 3rd, 2007 matti No comments

    Some work on a wood/epoxy-boat is quite dirty and unpleasant. I am sure a steel boat is worse. Anyway, sanding the teak deck was such an unpleasant job. The teak itself was OK, but the graphite filled epoxy in between created a lot of black ugly dust. Fortunately the day was still and damp, so we didn’t contaminate our boat neighbors.

    Here am I with the belt sander:

    Teak deck sanding

    After maybe half an hour of hard work and two hours of cleaning it looked like this:

    Teak deck

    We also fastened the windlass. It looks good, even though we haven’t made the bow rollers yet.

    Windlass

    I am thinking about buying a handheld wind meeter to use to get some data during sail trials. I used to have one but it is broke. Can anyone recommend a cheap model? Are they acurate?

     

    1 responses to “Dirt, teak and windlass” RSS icon

    • Wow, I am very impressed, -your boat is really shaping up nicely!

      About handheld windmeter: this one: http://www.janett.no/storefront.php?pid=893 is very useful. It is sufficiently accurate, I would say.

      If you really want accurate data you need to log to a computer at very short intervals all of wind direction, windspeed and speed through water. I see no need for that, other than in extreme competition.


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