Results 2,191 to 2,205 of 3020
Thread: Your latest project
-
10th Dec 2018, 07:20 PM #2191Most Valued Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2011
- Location
- Australia east coast
- Age
- 71
- Posts
- 2,713
7 Tonnes of boat leaving the premises
Been a long time coming but baby has left home.
PDW
-
10th Dec 2018, 07:36 PM #2192Senior Member
- Join Date
- Dec 2013
- Location
- Sydney
- Posts
- 201
Wow! That makes any of our machine moving challenges look trivial.
Graham.
-
10th Dec 2018, 09:02 PM #2193future machinist
- Join Date
- Mar 2008
- Location
- nowra
- Posts
- 1,598
Have you named the Boat yet. Looks like a nice vessel
BETTER TO HAVE TOOLS YOU DON'T NEED THAN TO NEED TOOLS YOU DON'T HAVE
Andre
-
10th Dec 2018, 09:32 PM #2194Senior Member
- Join Date
- Oct 2010
- Location
- NSW
- Posts
- 181
I've been waiting for this.
MORE pics.JPG
-
11th Dec 2018, 08:58 AM #2195Most Valued Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2011
- Location
- Australia east coast
- Age
- 71
- Posts
- 2,713
Marina arrival
This was last week - boat is now afloat and needs its trimming ballast to bring her to her design waterline. I kept some 400kg of lead in reserve for this.
-
11th Dec 2018, 04:41 PM #2196Golden Member
- Join Date
- Dec 2011
- Location
- Sydney
- Posts
- 505
Good looking vessel - looks fit to smash ice, or survive an encounter with a reef. Who was the designer?
Cheers,
Bill
-
11th Dec 2018, 10:18 PM #2197Most Valued Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2011
- Location
- Australia east coast
- Age
- 71
- Posts
- 2,713
Crane lifting in the main mast. They fit into tabernacles welded to the deck/cabin top and are located with 2 M20 bolts per mast. Not going anywhere. Standing rigging is 8mm 7x7 galvanised wire and I did all the terminating swages for the thimbles etc in situ after careful measurement. Lot of sweating on getting things right over 3 long days.
-
11th Dec 2018, 10:39 PM #2198Diamond Member
- Join Date
- Oct 2008
- Location
- N.W.Tasmania
- Posts
- 1,407
Looking really good Pete, hearty congratulations and I hope that you're savouring the moment and enjoying the relief with her being out of your shed, with all the tall bits installed and very nearly ready to get her bottom wet. Does that cradle she sits in just drive down a boat ramp into the water or will you have one more big crane lift into the briny? I can't make out any signs of a radar unit, is it hiding, coming later or not coming at all in the foreseeable future? Cheers,
R
-
12th Dec 2018, 07:17 AM #2199Most Valued Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2011
- Location
- Australia east coast
- Age
- 71
- Posts
- 2,713
Radar can wait, don't really need it around Tasmania. Not enough fog. I'm fitting an AIS unit.
The travel-lift picks the boat up & puts it in the water.
ATM baby is actually in the water and floating nicely. Still trimming her to get her to float level on the design waterline. Or as close to it as possible - weight distribution is a bit hit or miss in amateur builds.
Lotta work, quite a relief seeing her float right side up. Plus I have all my shed space back at last.
PDW
-
12th Dec 2018, 06:46 PM #2200
Hi Pete
happy to see you in the water, launch day was an emotional day for me, so I can guess how you felt, just reading about you adding
weight for trim, not sure if your going to live onboard, I was, and when I had loaded everything on board like anchors & chain all personal
belongings sails gas bottles 800lt of fuel food I had to raise the water line so just a thought not to add all the trim until last,
congratulations boatbuilder.
Leroy.
-
12th Dec 2018, 10:05 PM #2201Most Valued Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2011
- Location
- Melbourne
- Posts
- 4,779
Nice work PDW. If I was to have a stab in the dark, I would guess it was a design by Bruce Robberts?
Perhaps the Spray.
SimonGirl, I don't wanna know about your mild-mannered alter ego or anything like that." I mean, you tell me you're, uh, super-mega-ultra-lightning babe? That's all right with me. I'm good. I'm good.
-
12th Dec 2018, 10:34 PM #2202Most Valued Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2011
- Location
- Australia east coast
- Age
- 71
- Posts
- 2,713
Nope, it's a custom variant on a Tom Colvin SAUGEEN WITCH design. 12m length on deck, 3m beam, 1.2m draft. Long shoal keel and a junk rigged schooner rig.
As far as I know it's the only Witch ever built in Australia. It's certainly the only 12m one with a junk rig. Tom did the sail plan and other custom changes for me.
A Spray by comparison is a barge. Far more roomy but a pig as a sailboat, more of a motor-sailer. Mine will sail rings around a Spray, but different intended purposes, a Spray is a palace inside. Depends on what you want, this is intended to take 1 to 2 people anywhere they want to go and accommodate up to 4 for shorter periods.
Still playing with the systems, loading anchor chain and stores. Water tanks are now full. Engine is running, got some trivial leaks in the cooling system plumbing. Some tighter fitting T clamps needed as they're at minimum radius.
PDW
-
13th Dec 2018, 06:43 AM #2203Philomath in training
- Join Date
- Oct 2011
- Location
- Norwood-ish, Adelaide
- Age
- 59
- Posts
- 6,561
For us non-sailing types - a long shoal keel I can understand, but what is a 'junk rigged schooner rig', and what advantages does that give?
Michael
-
13th Dec 2018, 07:06 AM #2204Most Valued Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2011
- Location
- Melbourne
- Posts
- 4,779
I understand what you mean about the Spray, she is a very beamy boat. You sound really happy with your results. Congratulations PDW!
SimonGirl, I don't wanna know about your mild-mannered alter ego or anything like that." I mean, you tell me you're, uh, super-mega-ultra-lightning babe? That's all right with me. I'm good. I'm good.
-
16th Dec 2018, 03:40 PM #2205Member: Blue and white apron brigade
- Join Date
- Feb 2006
- Location
- Perth
- Posts
- 7,189
SWMBO has decided she wants to get into wood carving things like spoons after she visiting a woodworking shop with a few mates and they all came away with an almost complete wooden spoon. In addition she wants to be able to do this while we are camping. This means any portable vice arrangement needs to collapse to be able to fit into the remaining tiny nooks and crannies available in the Van.
So her Xmas present is a lightweight carving vice and adjustable height vice mount that attaches to the car's towball as shown below.
The wobbliest link appears to be the lower part of the Unistrut attachment point - might have to add an additional bit of angle welded to the Unistrut and connected direct to under the ball.
Vicestand.jpg
Similar Threads
-
latest little project
By wayno60 in forum WELDINGReplies: 3Last Post: 12th Jul 2008, 03:40 PM