More pics and new launching!

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!

More bow rollers and deck house windows

Some pics from yesterday:

Bow rollers platform.

It actually looks thicker than it is from this direction. High quality mahogany is a really really nice wood to work with.

Portlights cut-outs in the steering station.

See my Festo jig saw on the work bench. I really love that saw.

Bow rollers

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 need to use the lever. Now, let’s say the anchor is stuck around some old railroad track or something else that doesn’t move. (A railroad track happened to us once in Skagen.) The bow moves in the swell. How much strain will be put on the bow roller?

I have no idea, but it should be a lot. So, to be able to sleap without bad dreams on board, we decided to try to make the bow rollers as strong as the anchor chain.

This is what it looks like at start. (Guess how many people came up with the same joke: Are you destroying the boat?)

Holes in the Bulwark for bow rollers platform.

Bow rollers hardware.

The platform is made of laminated mahogany

Portlights again

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.

Casting window frames

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 but it warped)

In commission again… soon

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. (We’ll probably use it this year.)

- Fixed some problems with the deadwood and bulwarks.

- Finished the companionway hatch.

- Fairing the inside for painting (we don’t want no vinyl cover, this is not a car!)

- Bookshelfs in the kids berths.

- Higher sole in the cabin.

- Water tanks under settees in the cabin.

- Bought really really expensive LED navigation lights.

- Almost there with the navigation berth.

- Aft cabin almost finished.

So now we will:

- Windows, portlights, deadlights, etc. We need them!

- Bow rollers.

- Galley mock up.

- Paint and trim.

- Shower and water to the head.

- Braided halyard.

- New halyard block at mast head.

- New sheet blocks.

- Find a beat up cheap glass fiber dinghy that rows.

- Anything else?

yes

- Upholstrey (mattresses)

- Navigator’s berth (almost finished)

- Some electrical stuff

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Ordered portlights

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?

Interior construction and portlights

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 new support for it. We will probably put the sole on hinges for  easy access to batteries and liqueur and contraband.

Seems like Davys  portlights and deadlights have rasied their prices again… just before we ordered four of each. Does anyone have experience with these guys http://www.newfoundmetals.com/ ?

Aft cabin

 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!

The Pump

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, so if we put it in the deck box we might have a spare hose for the intake to run over the side to be able to pump water from the outside to use as a fire pump, to wash deck etc.

But it will take up almost one compartment of the deck boxes. (They have three each side.)