Rigging
One of the projects this year is replacing our forestay and rebuilding the furler. I’m not gonna go through all the steps because there is a very good YouTube video from the “Living for Sail” YouTube channel which you can find here: https://youtu.be/vc3DQJPHudg I didn’t
Rigging
These units are so-called “lubricated for life”. the question is what their idea of “for life” is… ours is from 2006 so 20 years old and very little use so shouldn’t be worn out. The sound it made however indicated major trouble. Investigation showed water ingress due to
Electronics
Now that we have all the parts, we can decide on how we will set it up. We already have the 1-meter high vertical pole for the sensor with a mount for the masthead. We hope that we can use the old B&G cable in the mast.
We did this project to become familiarized with the Shaper Origin handheld CNC router and their plugin for Fusion CAD. modeling for CNC is very different from modeling for 3D printing so it took me some time to make that switch as well as learning to use the Shaper Origin
Please note that the text below was written by my AI sidekick using data generated by me doing the actual testing of the wind sensor. I supplied the logfiles to ChatGPT for analysis and writing the report. Calypso ULP Standard: Testing 2 Hz Filtered vs. 10 Hz Wind Data I
This is a first test of a concept that I came up with: use a Bowden tube with a filament to operate a micro switch remotely. That micro switch activates the solenoid that powers the winch motor. I selected a waterproof 3A micro switch with stainless steel lever that can
We are replacing everything at our mastheads and every item is painful because nothing is as it should be. Take this expensive lamp… it’s beautiful but it expects you to splice the cable inside the mast?! Really? I don’t want the weight of the cable hanging off a
We have completed all the projects required for an update to the engine room high power 12V DC circuits. These projects were the new LTO battery, check the old AGM battery and design, test and build the cradle mounts for the BlueSea Systems Remote Battery Switches. We designed that to
We have this old battery, which turns out to be seven years and two months old. For good brands like Lifeline and Odyssey we count on an 8 year lifespan, so when I noticed weakness during engine start, I had assumed the battery was nearing its end of life and
The new Bosch Colt battery powered palm router is great. I tested the dust extraction and with the Festool extractor it’s perfect. plugging the screw holes is very easy with just the on-tool functions. I simply draw a 6mm circle and using a 1/8” bit, either cut
I have about 30 simultaneous projects going on but this week found some time for the teak foredeck seat again. After finishing all the joinery I glued it with epoxy, then did a rough sand with the belt sander. The picture above shows the setup after that where I just
Woodworking
After cutting all 11 pieces (zero straight cuts), we have to make mortise and tenon joints, all of them angled. The picture above shows the work holding for cutting an angled tenon using the Shaper Workstation. There’s the vertical clamp face where I have attached the angled fence. On