S/Y Linnea

We will use LED navigation lights from Lopolight. Expensive, but seems to be worth it. 2.1 W power consumption, waterproof, works for 50.000 hours, certified for ships up to 50 meters long.
This is what they look like:
Lopolight navigation lights
And this is how the sidelights will be mounted:
Lopolight mount.
Tomorrow we will connect the electrics to see […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

Today we made a hole in the hull. It is always scary. But looked much better after we put a shining new portlight in it. Two pictures of the hole:
From the inside
And from the outside.
Quite often people want to see pictures from the interior. I normally come up with a really bad explanation that I […]

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?