A busy week in the workshops: The bulwarks are finished and getting some varnish; the rudder gets some glass; the lower companionway step is clad and takes its final shape; I make a bespoke drain fitting for the day tank locker; and my go-to tripod needs a repair!


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we see it all in black and white

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soon we'll see what it's about

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hi tony this is

we're building a cruising sailboat and

uh

yeah let's have a look what's been going

on um

and it's been one of those weeks with a

few sort of bits and pieces lots of

little bits and pieces around it about

and

i'll show you some of that very soon

another quick talk

first let me say out in the forest there

behind us

we're back onto a forest here and

there's a harvester out there

harvesting trees and it's it's a bit of

noise i hope you're not hearing too much

every now and again a tree comes

crashing down or fairly regularly

make sure sort of makes you think of

sauron deforesting amazing guard there

um anyhow it's going on it's been going

on for a week or so they've taken

quite a few trees out managed forests

are there so they'll be replanting

i hope so but here

going on i say lots of little bits in

many ways the boat's

nearing completion and that doesn't mean

we'll be launching next week or anything

there are still as i've said several

times there are still

several big items to build the keel

masts

hard dodger railings plus

a few a number of small finishing off

bits but but i'm sort of getting into

starting on some of those finishing off

bits now which is very pleasing on the

topic of keel i don't know if you

if you saw leo's video a number of you

will have done no doubt

leo's video casting lead last week where

he had a bit of a disaster

fascinating video great that he was you

know completely honest about what went

wrong there

and brilliant information for those of

us who are

preparing to do you know similar

let's say similar things ourselves i've

got

um one and a quarter of tons of lead to

be dealing with

coming up this winter um

yeah so big thanks to leo for his

honesty there and really useful video as

i say

uh anyhow this week

and last week you'll remember i was i

was working on these bulwark caps the

art board caps and

had most of it in position but um i'm

just going to grab the camera and show

you something so yeah around the aft

end here i've got the cap on top and

another

batten of black lucas around the inside

of the ball works

and up in this front corners there's two

front corners up there

as we go up to the raised deck i hadn't

put the inside pieces on

and it looked a bit tatty so

i thought it would be wise to put two

pieces on there so i've got those in

you may also notice i've got like five

coats of varnish on

on now and just been back round

and i've taken the masking tape off and

the next job will be to get the

paint the white paint tidy up to to that

cap rail

and then uh finish the varnish off after

the white paint is all done and tidy

but that's looking very nice i think

coming on well pleased with that

so

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so the rudder as i've said before is

not a rush item at the moment so it

means i can do a little bit now and

again when i've got a few moments

a bit of spare time and i'm working on

glassing around the

edges of the top end of it there

the goal of course is to get it all

glassed in sealed in

get these end plates in and finished but

i say

it's it's become a bit of a sort of

between

things job and there's no rush on it

but progress being made there yeah you

can ban your way

three component way steps maybe one

still waiting for some varnish but i've

got the

bottom step pretty much finished so i've

got the panel here glossed up

put this bit of serious mahogany trim on

which which trims and

widens the step uh got the step itself

played with the oak this is a lift out

panel here

which i can't lift down there we go it's

the lift out panel which will have

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also touched up bit of filler over that

side where it needed it

and so that's looking quite good nice

bit of storage motor batteries going in

in there the motor batteries going in

the air plus whatever else you've got

room for

and looking good also being in the

engine room thinking about the

wiring connections and whatever in there

so a lot of thought going on generally

it's time to get some varnish on this as

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i've got this locker here that's just

gives me access to the daytime filler

and

recess locker for the day tank as i say

uh diesel tank that feeds the stove

diesel stove um and i wanted to get some

kind of drain in there obviously if

there was any

water leaked in there it would collect

in there and that

wouldn't be ideal so i needed a drain

the flyer with this side out here

is four centimetres thick there so i

needed to build some kind of

bespoke drain fitting for this

i couldn't find anything off the shelf

so i took a bit of stock bronze

and turned it up turned it up with a

shoulder on it

and then with a hole obviously through

for the drainage

sort of shouldered hole through the ply

there

and epoxied that bronze in place and

it's come out really well

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lovely yeah

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hmm

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foreign

now

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this is where it comes through the

outside of the hull it's my little

bronze fitting and the idea is to put

one of these

clam shell fittings over the top like

that

just to protect it

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little chinese lathe has been in use for

a couple of things this week you saw me

making up the drain for that

that day tank locker and also

my sort of daily go to tripod

that i use for the small camera i use

when i'm filming

me working um gave up the ghost i

managed to break it from

years of abuse and uh

when i had a quick look at it it was

obvious i could mend it but if i made up

a little dowel it would slide down

inside the tripod and

accept that the cat piece that had come

that looked like it had been glued on

come on glued

so the old lathe coming into play again

took a little bit of oak doweling and

turned it down to the right diameter

broke my tripod and i think as far as i

can tell that part was only

glued on there so

i'm going to try and mend it

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so

so

there we go works well that's it for

this week

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