tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32390456674804221242024-03-05T15:59:19.679-08:00Building TigerBuilding a Wharram-designed Narai MK IVMary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-9928126702708903162016-11-05T12:25:00.002-07:002016-11-05T12:25:27.474-07:00Lashing strakes and such<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Survived what, that's the question? Certainly this t-shirt didn't survive. Someone-or-other sent it off to GIRO (Gabriola Island Recycling) and then it met its fate -- doomed to become an oily rag, and thus spend some considerable amount of time hanging on the garden fence in splendid isolation. (Spontaneous combustion. It's a real thing. Oily rags do not get to stay in the boat shop!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The oiling in question was for the lashing strakes. They are rubbed with boiled linseed oil -- five coats of boiled linseed oil, applied hot with rags.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We found a most excellent way to keep the oil hot while we were working on the last hull -- a small rice cooker. It works really well, and holds the oil at a good temperature. No need to be overly-hasty, since the oils stays a constant temperature, and no need to worry about oil and open flame. (I would worry if we were heating it on the barbeque, and heating it in the house -- yuck.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Oiled purpleheart looks amazing. Here are the lashing strakes and the pads that go under them awaiting installation.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Robbie added japan drier to the last couple of coats of oil to hasten the drying process. Who names these things? According to Wikipedia:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"Japan drier</b> is a common lay term and generic product name for any oil drying agent that can be mixed with drying oils such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linseed_oil#Boiled_linseed_oil" title="Linseed oil">boiled linseed oil</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkyd" title="Alkyd">alkyd</a> resin paints to speed up "drying". The name refers to "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanning" title="Japanning">japanning</a>", a term for the use of drying oils as an imitation or substitution for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol" title="Urushiol">urushiol</a> based <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_lacquerware" title="Japanese lacquerware">Japanese lacquer</a>."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They're installed now. Here you can see the first one in the background. In the foreground you can see me getting the camera in position. (Glasses from Gabriola Optical!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not everyone seems as happy about the process as I am. Perhaps he does not appreciate having his view obscured by oily rags.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span>Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-16579808245988238372016-10-23T19:37:00.001-07:002016-10-23T19:37:19.332-07:00So much progress, so few posts!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I know, I know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But we are moving onward ever onward with the boat. Beams are now painted, lights (aka windows!) are about to be added to the galley hull, lashing strake is mostly attached which means many coats of oil have been added... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Progress is definitely happening. At least a couple of days' progress each week, which is actually a lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And this summer we had visitors! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Any Wharramites recognize these smiling faces? Robbie and I are on the right. </span>Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-26481486879391008672016-04-06T19:43:00.001-07:002016-04-06T19:43:46.307-07:00Another day...<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">Another colour!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">No more white hull! Trevor used the roller, Robbie did the brushed bits and took the pictures, and from today we have two blue hulls.</span><br />
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<br />Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-32011338445365027222016-04-05T21:36:00.000-07:002016-04-05T21:38:12.656-07:00Call me Ishmael<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because really, why not? I haven't posted for so long, you've likely entirely forgotten my name if you ever knew it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And, well, I do see a slight resemblance ...</span></span><br />
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Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-18819417187375895862015-07-03T06:29:00.001-07:002015-07-03T06:29:40.852-07:00Gak! <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Isn't it alarming and disheartening when blogs just go dormant? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"They've stopped," I imagine readers thinking gloomily. "They're just going to sit there with a half-finished boat project for the next decade."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But no! It is not so! There has been a good amount of progress since April, when I last posted. The galley is not only installed, it has the perfect shelf to hold our four travel mugs. And there has been a lot of painting, all of it white so far. And the appropriate chimney-cap has been discovered and purchased for the <a href="http://www.dickinsonmarine.com/" target="_blank">Dickinson Marine</a> wood heater. (For the first one at least; we are imagining that we'll have one per hull.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There are pictures, too, but, being an up-to-date individual, I haven't freed them from my phone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This weekend. Promise.</span>Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-10692021626106160632015-04-14T14:49:00.000-07:002015-04-14T14:49:19.028-07:00Bulwark<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="main-fl"><em>noun</em></span> <span class="hw-syllables">bul<span class="middot">·</span>wark</span> <span class="pr">\<span class="unicode">ˈ</span>b<span class="unicode">u̇</span>l-(<span class="unicode">ˌ</span>)wərk, -<span class="unicode">ˌ</span>w<span class="unicode">ȯ</span>rk; <span class="unicode">ˈ</span>bəl-(<span class="unicode">ˌ</span>)wərk; <em>sense 3 also</em> <span class="unicode">ˈ</span>bə-<span class="unicode">ˌ</span>läk\</span></span><br />
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<span class="pr"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Or is it bulwarks? One rarely hears of a single, lonely bulwark, yet it does appear to exist as a singular noun.</span></span><br />
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<span class="pr"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Plural or singular, it (or they) are now attached to the hull. The port hull. The bulwark (or bulwarks) run full-length on the outboard side, and cover only a small section forward and aft on the inboard side.</span></span><br />
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<span class="pr"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And here it is glued and clamped. It's a relatively large glue job. We're into the reasonable weather again, so we don't have to worry much about temperature.</span></span><br />
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<span class="pr"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The most amazing thing about all of this is realizing that it's the last time we'll be doing it. The project felt endless at the beginning -- all very exciting, because we were seeing things for the first time -- but really endless, since we knew there was another hull to go. Now it's getting much more real. It's becoming easier to believe that at a point in the reasonably near future, we will stop having a boat project and start having a boat.</span></span><br />
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<span class="pr"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mind you, there are many, many layers of paint to apply first. And there's a deck to build. And the rigging. And the masts to finish. And the sails. And and.</span></span>Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-9944368129164290462015-03-24T19:49:00.001-07:002015-03-24T19:49:49.921-07:00Boatbuilding. It's like the tides.<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yesterday, the galley was complete. We sat at the table (about which more later), ate pancakes, drank coffee, and ignored the dishes in the sink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today the table is but a memory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well, okay, that's a bit melodramatic. But everything's removed now, so that it can all be glued in. At which point it will be back. Coffee will return. Who knows, there might even be pancakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here's an aerial view of one of the benches, and a view with bench and wet locker.</span><br />
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Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-46311984361605151232015-03-24T19:41:00.000-07:002015-03-24T19:41:06.883-07:00Galley dry fit<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">No pictures survive of yesterday's pancake breakfast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The pancakes were coconut, the maple syrup was genuine, and the whole thing was cooked in Tiger's galley. Sunday lunch was black bean noodles with peanut sauce on a base of salad -- likewise cooked and eaten in the galley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yee haw! We have been talking about this for such a long time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For the dry fit, Trevor screwed a lot of components into position, and clamped some others. Here are some views.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Hot beverage to helm attendee."<br />It's a port light to the cockpit.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-23099709440176819142015-03-15T19:41:00.001-07:002015-03-15T19:41:47.596-07:00Mysterious!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kind of like what happened to the time between last October (my last blog post) and now (March).</span></div>
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<br />Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-55297794807669452542014-10-24T18:19:00.000-07:002014-10-24T18:47:00.424-07:00A bicycle built for Mom<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Indeed, the boat is progressing -- in a "yet another coat of white paint inside" kind of way -- and it is exciting -- in a "yet another coat of white paint inside" kind of way. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why? Because a couple of years ago, Trevor heard her say that she had never had a bicycle. "Now you do," he told her when she opened it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The pedals turn, the "chain" drives the back wheel, the handlebars turn, and yes, that is a hand-carved seat. It's about an extended hand-span wide.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sometimes people leave you speechless.</span>Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-61871952474340988892014-08-31T15:02:00.001-07:002014-08-31T15:02:03.038-07:00Framing the hatches<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Every time something new is added to the boat, someone says, "Wow! Now it really looks like a boat!"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I will spare you. I do have a particular fondness for the frames around the hatches, though. It makes it look... well, you know.</span><br />
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Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-13223722673190415652014-08-23T15:34:00.001-07:002014-08-23T15:34:27.097-07:00What's a boat without a rudder?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For the moment, at least, there's no need to answer that question. Here's the rudder temporarily installed. Yes, it will need another coat of paint, won't it.</span>Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-9066351571458011752014-08-23T15:32:00.000-07:002014-08-23T15:32:00.601-07:00Top this!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once a cabin top has its sides, and its holes cut for windows, and the frames glued in, there's nowhere to go but up. And up the top went, earlier this week.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">However, while the replacement isn't quite as complete, it will ultimately be a good bit more useful. And lasting! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In other less photogenic news, Robbie has been experimenting with a low-volume, low pressure paint sprayer, so far just in the aft hold. There is A Lot of painting on this boat -- two coats of primer and two coats of top coat for the interiors, and three of each on the exterior. That's a lot of brush and roller time, and we'd be delighted to speed things up a bit.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So far the sprayer seems quite useful. Even if we end up using it mostly for primer, or primer plus first top coat, it should save some time. I haven't included a picture of the mostly-white aft compartment -- we'll save that excitement for next time.</span></div>
Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-49861263475959126512014-08-04T14:52:00.000-07:002014-08-04T14:52:28.015-07:00"It's like déjà vu all over again." Yogi Berra<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As baseball's master of the appropriate comment said, "It's like déjà vu all over again." Once again, decks cover the formerly-open hull. Light in the berths is reduced, but the potential for water-tightness considerably improved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> At this point, things seem to be going really quickly. I think this is partly because everything that is being done is being done for the final time. We don't have more decks to add after this. Today Robbie and Trevor are working on the final cabin top. We need to get glass cut for it -- but only once. This is too wonderful a project to use phrases like "light at the end of the tunnel" for -- it's a happy build for us, and it's all light. (In fact, as you can see in the bottom picture, it's actually happening in a nice, light tunnel!) But we are getting a sense of the arc of the project aiming towards completion now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of course it's easy to ruminate philosophically at this point and ignore the reality of ten coats of paint (four inside, six out) to go! </span><br />
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<br />Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-5811521970263186502014-08-04T14:40:00.003-07:002014-08-04T14:40:45.479-07:00Three cheers for our vacuum!<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Festool sander we have connects to the Festool vacuum. So we've almost forgotten how dusty sanding is when one doesn't have an integrated system.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The other day Robbie was sanding outside, while Trevor was sanding in a compartment. Seemed only fair for Trevor to use the vacuum, the better to enjoy the pleasure of overhead sanding on a hot day with. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here's Robbie after some sanding on deck. Good reason to use the vacuum! And the mask, of course, the outline of which you can see on his head. </span></span><br />
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Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-35427230387341086412014-07-24T10:28:00.000-07:002014-07-24T10:28:14.147-07:00"Sink" is a noun<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Planning the galley has been a challenge. It seems spacious to us, sort of. (Remember, we are comparing to a Nordic folkboat with a modified cabin that provides hunching headroom, but at 25 feet gives little scope for gourmet efforts in the galley.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We're delighted with the position of the table, and satisfied with the layout (stoves for heat and cooking opposite the companionway, counter space in a U with access to the pantry through a removable countertop, and a sink opposite the stoves.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But what sink?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One decision we made early on was that we did not want drains through the hull. In fact, our current stance is that we don't want holes through the hull at all. We are expending considerable effort, after all, to keep water out. Through-hull fittings are counter-intuitive at best. This meant there was no particular reason to think about plumbing the sink in. We discussed having it drain to a bucket, and then in a spirit of parsimony thought, why not just use a bucket?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well, there are reasons, chief among them that the depth of a bucket relative to its width gives you a very deep and narrow sink indeed, and makes it hard to imagine washing anything larger than a teacup. Since we don't expect to travel with teacups, this seems like a limitation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's a canning kettle, and we got it at the Home Hardware store in Nanaimo for around $25. A similar-size marine sink lists online for about ten times that, but lacks the handle. Admittedly, the marine sink typically would be permanently installed in the counter-top and wouldn't need a handle. There it would be, glowing in all its stainless steel glory, fed with water by its $60 foot pump via an $80 faucet. And in most cases, plumbed in to a through-hull fitting.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our sink will be installed in the countertop, with a cutting board to fit over it when it isn't in use. Identical systems will provide salt and fresh water -- that is, we'll put either salt or fresh water in it. Carrying it up and down the companionway won't be onerous. It has a good strong carrying handle, and a single side handle for emptying. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We are pleased. </span>Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-42727609888763953672014-07-24T10:09:00.002-07:002014-07-24T10:37:38.957-07:00Decks and beam supports<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">July is great weather for glueing, and that is an excellent thing when there is much glueing to be done.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The first big project this week was glueing on what we think of as pads -- pieces of wood that support the beam, and other pieces on the side of the hull that stop the pressure of the lashings from prying up on the lashing strake. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The masks are to protect against the additives, not because of the epoxy. Silica adds strength to the glue, but it's a fine, white powder that plays havoc with lung tissue if inhaled. (Never breath anything that has a disease named after it, I say.)</span><br />
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Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-52505356645255255482014-07-16T23:32:00.000-07:002014-07-16T23:32:08.140-07:00Really? Not since May?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh dear.</span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There's been a bit of time away from Tiger, too, as Robbie and Trevor do a few things for Penna. Here are a couple of images from today:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There has been lots of progress on Tiger. A lot of it -- things like the beam chocks -- are exciting for us to see but don't make such lively blog images. Nonetheless, here's a few images of what has been happening on the boat.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's Take 2 on the galley table, made to fold down and allow access to the berth. Note that the wonderful glow of natural light apparent in the berth is only there because there is as yet no deck. It will be, sadly, dimmer in the future -- no skylights. And no deadlights. We're thinking cozy.</span></td></tr>
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Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-53496289297803673022014-05-14T17:17:00.002-07:002014-05-14T17:17:23.960-07:00Aft hold access and shelving<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Another clamping extravaganza!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-48741570480267030082014-05-14T17:13:00.000-07:002014-05-16T06:32:06.462-07:00The galley mockup!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Trevor mocked up the galley last week.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I say this in a plain, bare sentence, just as if we haven't been talking about doing this for well over a year. And just as if it was a perfectly ordinary thing to do, which for me at least it certainly was not. I was finding it very hard to think about the space, and had spent considerable time sitting on the companionway steps staring about and trying to imagine things as they should be.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You may remember that a few weeks back I suggested that we go with a diet entirely composed of Cliff bars -- hence simplifying galley construction.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Can't say Trevor doesn't listen!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There's a bit more of a mockup than that, though.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Since we're currently thinking of installing a wood stove for heat sailing around the Salish Sea, there has to be a chimney.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And of course, if there is a chimney, it has to be clearly labelled.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We're thrilled with the height of the table. Following the suggestion of our friends David and Neila, formerly of the SV Wind Chime (also a Narai Mk IV), we're experimenting with raising the floor in the seating/table area. This gives more storage space beneath, but more to the point raises the seats to the point at which the hull is wider. This means that four people can sit at the table, and also that when they are sitting there, they can see out.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The table is really spacious. At this point it's a trestle table, and we're just sliding it back and forth. We're thinking about options for folding up, taking down entirely, hanging from the ceiling -- any one of a number of possible ways to get it out of the way to create access to the aft berth. (The entry to the forward berth is under the table from this angle.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking aft, you can see the companionway steps on the left. The counters facing each other will hold stovetop and sink. We don't plan to include refrigeration so there's no space built in for that.</td></tr>
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Next steps? Living with the galley for a while. We've had coffee in it repeatedly, eaten lunch there, and will soon be entertaining dinner guests. Once we're sure how it works, the building-in process can happen -- much more easily before the cabin top is built.</span>Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-50407500261193693292014-05-14T16:45:00.003-07:002014-05-14T16:45:56.516-07:00How many clamps does it take to build a Wharram?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mary Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05361060699600952710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239045667480422124.post-23452207527586867162014-05-14T16:42:00.000-07:002014-05-14T16:42:24.426-07:00Moving on up<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Deck structure began appearing in late April, the week after my April 19 post.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Canadian readers will be aware of something else that happens at the end of April. April 30, to be precise -- the Canadian deadline for filing income tax. It is a wonderful thing to know that this coming year is the year that I will be organized, and that the whole process will only take moments. Note the future tense and please do not look back on last year's April entries -- I fear I may have had this idea before.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Clamps: Study # 452 on this blog!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Adding the deck beams is a transformative moment. There's a sense of a boat emerging, instead of just a large open shape. </span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last week began with ripping. First Robbie and Trevor planed all the 1x6 from Westwind. Then Robbie ripped it into 1x3s. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He used his Festool guides and skill saw on the long workbench (in the right in this picture) to do the ripping, and it worked beautifully. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Next step is decking, and the sheer strake goes in first. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You may be wondering, "What happened to the galley?" We have been threatening to mock up the galley for over a year! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well, so far nothing has happened to it. We do need to do a mockup, but to do a mockup we need to figure out exactly what we want it to include. We've been thinking a lot about the things we do not want. We don't want refrigeration, we don't want a sink with a through-hull, we don't want an oven at this point anyway... and while it's helpful to eliminate the things we don't want, we aren't quite there on what we do want yet.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I did suggest that we wouldn't need a galley if all we eat are Cliff bars, and while there was enthusiasm for that suggestion it has not yet won the day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While we dither, construction on the deck is underway. Fortunately dithering can happen mostly during coffee breaks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Next up? More decking, more gluing, then likely the cabin top. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's an interesting time in the project. With the other hull complete, it feels like we are moving closer to completion with every step. This is the last sheer strake. The last deck over the last forward berth. Of course it was always true that any successful step forward moves the project closer to launch, but with a catamaran there was a sense of going uphill on the first hull. Now we're over the hump and on the downhill side.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And yes, I haven't forgotten the deck. And the masts. And the rigging. And the sails. And the galley mockup!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Trevor installed the shelving at the end of the berth this week, too. And I (Mary) made a singular contribution to the project, finding the book on the shelf at GIRO for less than a buck. </span></td></tr>
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