S/Y Linnea

Think that you anchored at a place where the swell builds up and you need to leave. You let go the snubber line that holds the anchor, motor up to the anchor as you take in the slack on the windlass. Then you need to break the anchor loose, so instead of the crank you […]

Time to show how it looks installed:
Looks good.
And we also made a fold down companionway door:

We will never have to stow that loose hatch.

So, casting the window frames in bronze might work out as planned, if we get really lucky.
Anyone can give advice about the best material for creating a plug (?) for the casting flask? We are talking about something like 1/2 inch thick frames for the big windows in the deck house.
MDF?
Plywood? (we did try that […]

Ok, it’s time to launch Linnea today after a winter on land. Hopefully I’ll put up some more posts here after that. It is more fun posting when the boat is in the water. Some short notes on what we are up to:
- Ordered thicker bamboo from Germany.
- Made a mock-up of the cabin table. […]

After much head scratching we finally decided to order eight of these:

We bought them from Toplicht in Hamburg. Still no progress on the big window frames though… Casting bronze anyone?

Yesterday we started with a mock up of the cabin table, to be able to make the lay-out of the cabin sole segments. This is a big table. Might cram in eight for a drink and easily seat six for a three course meal.
We also rasied the sole in the cabin a bit and built […]

 Some images from the aft cabin. (Sorry about the horrible quality of the images, mobile phone cameras are really really bad.)
Transom
Under the aft cabin bunk
Bunk
To make access easier we put hinges to get under the aft cabin bunk.
Companionway ladder used for climbing…
… converts to a nice seat!

About the bilge pump I mentioned briefly yesterday, what do you think about this?
Either we will put it under the navigators berth, so it is possible to stand at the steering station and pump from the inside. Or we will put it in a deck box to use when on deck.
It is a big pump, […]

At least a little bit. This weekend we ripped out the settees and the sole in the saloon. We are going to make the sole slightly higher, since we were redoing it anyway. The first one was more of a mock up.
The grand lit in the aft cabin is also almost finished with a tank […]

A couple of days with a dehumidifier and proper limber holes in the mast step did the trick.
Some pictures:
Bye bye mast.
Joel actually only calls boats with their sails up for sailing boats. When the sails are down he calls them “mast boats”. When boats don’t have any masts he gets confused.
Offending mast step.