tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64580751121751107872024-03-05T20:03:46.337-05:00The world encompassedBecause this is<br>
just too much
boat<br>
for Lake OntarioRhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.comBlogger402125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-54156713979516175822021-01-01T17:06:00.000-05:002021-01-01T17:11:04.438-05:00Hauled and keeled<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggtZ5yaCpGlibDp2eZgE0qxQYiH31BcKo4kQIHK7OylJw5f12PZCpcuGiuISTP8x3xv5CXlh41tfG_ur-8_w7tfIRmmdXVNdErEviaFLe0oqcfAxvF5xFbkpAD8VWP3UBdsd5Oc6mJrXDa/s1600/Alchemy+hauled+20201014+by+Bradison+Boutellier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggtZ5yaCpGlibDp2eZgE0qxQYiH31BcKo4kQIHK7OylJw5f12PZCpcuGiuISTP8x3xv5CXlh41tfG_ur-8_w7tfIRmmdXVNdErEviaFLe0oqcfAxvF5xFbkpAD8VWP3UBdsd5Oc6mJrXDa/w480-h640/Alchemy+hauled+20201014+by+Bradison+Boutellier.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Alchemy </i>gets the straps at East River Shipyard. Photo (c) Bradison Boutilier<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Another long break in posts, our maintenance blog. This has been, due to the demands of living in rural Nova Scotia and the sheer amount of time it takes to get to the East River Shipyard (30 minutes) or the closest grocery store (65 minutes) under absolutely ideal conditions of a) fully functioning bicycle; b) weather of mild to moderate wind, above zero degrees Celsius temperature, and no ice or snow; and c) the short days mean when we work on <i>Alchemy</i>, now "crated" in a shipyard's shed in East River, Nova Scotia, we are focused on getting work done in constrained time segments, themselves dependent on limited daylight, limited cold tolerance and willingness to travel by bike on a secondary highway in gales of various intensity.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhElF4uwoL07TAfr9bWV0jvYKmcFwqTfHUr9yAx01LJG_4ToSCoWKU_AcUot1DWYyclaYrog-8vX9XbOEUybOXzCp5JST2RGraeesqv6NkBxYzhYBF6HeHvOmeKdrQH6v5Af4kdzsBYpOMt/s2543/20201026_133818.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="1236" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhElF4uwoL07TAfr9bWV0jvYKmcFwqTfHUr9yAx01LJG_4ToSCoWKU_AcUot1DWYyclaYrog-8vX9XbOEUybOXzCp5JST2RGraeesqv6NkBxYzhYBF6HeHvOmeKdrQH6v5Af4kdzsBYpOMt/w312-h640/20201026_133818.jpg" width="312" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Removing the rigging was fun...not. But it was necessary.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>So there's that. An example of this year's decommissioning involved laying the mast on the ground beside the boat and removing all the standing rigging, which comprises 12 15 metre or so lengths of 8 mm (5/16th) stainless steel wire and the 1.5 metre bobstay, as well as disassembling the Pro-Furl unit without damaging it, as it wasn't particularly worn out, but the furling function could be improved upon, and our model of furler was hard to get replacement parts for. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="1236" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihJsNpQrD4v0Y3oTDqlEj8DbhMln34gO9pDjYJP1S09IZPhJCUZp20S8CWNnHxGuMZx2bt-wuy15Itnni9McvRwaHAZjChH6oRcLPoC1U4PT45gYUpuebFFWKJF9LXWUv3276zUMfJAYtx/w312-h640/20201028_152231.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="312" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The unrigged mast on its way to the mast rack.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>All this careful removal was in aid of the complete replacement of the standing rigging and the recycling of the Sta-Lok terminals on new wire; the turnbuckles, forks and related rigging pieces are in good enough shape to continue using, but the wire, as far as we can determine, is original at nearly 33 years old, and we did not wish to go offshore, or even coastal in salt water, with rigging that old. While it looked in good shape and we'd had no signs of decay, we mostly motored to Nova Scotia and had not, arguably, stressed it overmuch in the more benign fresh water environment of the Great Lakes. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidd2cakVxNPISkBY0pDudFLXqbhYImxo_jABcsbD0znfgKZULrjWOr4GhPPQEKgc9YHcZc9OVb9En5fY75ypmT-AQ7Fq1zCZk-lH8yTjDScM-AbCDzP4RpTkgUcPT8UjBF83jswUXA0Odk/s2543/20201128_132251.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="1236" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidd2cakVxNPISkBY0pDudFLXqbhYImxo_jABcsbD0znfgKZULrjWOr4GhPPQEKgc9YHcZc9OVb9En5fY75ypmT-AQ7Fq1zCZk-lH8yTjDScM-AbCDzP4RpTkgUcPT8UjBF83jswUXA0Odk/w312-h640/20201128_132251.jpg" width="312" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Said mast, bereft of wires, racked. I would lash it more firmly later on: it's damned windy here.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This isn't <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2013/05/rigging-game.html">the first time we've rerigged</a>, but it's not a job for the faint-hearted. It's expensive, although The Yacht Shop in Halifax is cheaper than most Toronto shops and they understood my questions readily, and restoring the rigging in the spring will require even more work. We have the somewhat questionable presence of three out of the 26 mechanical terminals on our rigging, 23 are <a href="https://www.stalok.com/">Sta-Loks</a> and three are <a href="http://www.riggingonly.com/Norsemanmechanicalterminal.htm">Norsemans</a>. There's no discernable quality difference between the two: they both work the same way via the compression of an internal "cone", which compresses the splayed wire ends to make a durable friction fit <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vZjtEN39RY" target="_blank">in this fashion</a>, but the Norseman company changed hands some years ago and while parts can still be obtained, we feel that all the terminals, should they require service, should be of the same type. Same with <a href="https://www.harken.com/productcategory.aspx?taxid=3538">getting a new furler on the new forestay:</a> as we did with <a href="http://www.betamarine.co.uk/Templates/sea_going.html">replacing the engine</a>, there is much to recommend replacement over repair of mission-critical parts of the boat before they break and the crew learn that the needed parts are hard to replace or obtain. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMfJ6UVQao_lzsPfe2KfCxKPQ4pDRay6WycqMAFc9LePVRIKpls0kdQ5CeuqVzj7c6aWGAtVrKWphpEtj-KrrOt2cPPEJc4I9bJyZ1uT61oAWBEomvujqa3GvibxVM_bFpduqyVJoLir0G/s800/B+Boutellier+Alchemy+2021107+IMG_13851.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMfJ6UVQao_lzsPfe2KfCxKPQ4pDRay6WycqMAFc9LePVRIKpls0kdQ5CeuqVzj7c6aWGAtVrKWphpEtj-KrrOt2cPPEJc4I9bJyZ1uT61oAWBEomvujqa3GvibxVM_bFpduqyVJoLir0G/w640-h480/B+Boutellier+Alchemy+2021107+IMG_13851.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Alchemy </i>on the move and into her winter quarters, which keep the snow out, at least. <br />Photo (c) Bradison Boutilier</td></tr></tbody></table><p>After <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/north-sails-atlantic-ltd?originalSubdomain=ca">the nice fellow from the rigging place</a> came and took away all the old rigging for measurement, replication and recycling, and we had done the customary work of winterization of the plumbing and the raw water circuits, as well as the disconnection of the significant number of cables and wires from the mast and off the deck, we were put in our winter shed. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eastrivershipyard/" target="_blank">East River Shipyard is an exceptionally busy place</a>: it serves both recreational boaters and local fishing/lobstering vessels, the latter of which have short windows in which to make money and must be launched rapidly. In addition, the ownership of this yard changed hands earlier in 2020 and they've been on an expansion tear; since our arrival in the area on October 6, two vast boat sheds have been erected on poured rebar and concrete platforms and filled with boats. So we've been moved more than once out of the way of "ongoing building" as well as being moved around a bit inside the shed itself as more boats have been slotted into place. All I can say is that they know their business here, and I can see no scratches or dings I did not put on the hull myself. <br /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOnfvAk1irWuUkxb4qZRYYAcjwP94O0bhJ_OlQx-AINHvmd-soN_zsA5GRYTXYvM_Np6C39nIDlzJRdq8xZ7EbHkpdJ1goL0vAnrhyphenhyphenWy44qGwg_cvMM50ijgoRpOaAIvwkWHFi4C6sPta/s800/B+Boutellier+Alchemy+2021107+IMG_13861.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlOnfvAk1irWuUkxb4qZRYYAcjwP94O0bhJ_OlQx-AINHvmd-soN_zsA5GRYTXYvM_Np6C39nIDlzJRdq8xZ7EbHkpdJ1goL0vAnrhyphenhyphenWy44qGwg_cvMM50ijgoRpOaAIvwkWHFi4C6sPta/w640-h480/B+Boutellier+Alchemy+2021107+IMG_13861.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These guys handle hydraulic trailers the way Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>handles injured songbirds...gently!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The shed is pretty basic and unheated, but then we aren't paying very much to be "inside" and we can run from a 30 amp service any time we are aboard. This allows us to keep the batteries fully charged much of the time, and will permit an equalization in the spring. There's new LED floodlights overhead and if I really need more amps, we've left one of the Honda gensets aboard if I want to run 15 amps of heaters or extra lights.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm3GKzOAy8M1JJenHoBXwxn37c7qh8PsYi_t8DcrXDw3jRNwUo9CSn80rGw7nUhoag9JCMXahKZE6II4uDrO6muLF1XUbSNQs-JTwckXXOOYc2sHIDymaimZZv1uvmXctytUhrjJ1Rt3vp/s2543/20201108_140935.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm3GKzOAy8M1JJenHoBXwxn37c7qh8PsYi_t8DcrXDw3jRNwUo9CSn80rGw7nUhoag9JCMXahKZE6II4uDrO6muLF1XUbSNQs-JTwckXXOOYc2sHIDymaimZZv1uvmXctytUhrjJ1Rt3vp/w640-h312/20201108_140935.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />One of the jobs we elected to farm out <a href="https://cfmservice.ca/en/technical-services/nde/">is the sounding of the hull</a>. We are at the shipyard in the first place to have the bottom paint ground off to the bare metal and to have it coated with a galvanizing layer, then a two-part epoxy barrier coat and then a few coats of anti-fouling paint suitable for seawater. While it would be possible to do this oneself (and indeed, we are doing the topside painting for the various nicks and dings we've created to date), I lack the enthusiasm for the hours of grinding I would need to do and the equipment to spray the various coatings on in a fast (to avoid time spent in open air for the bare steel of the grinded hull plates) and efficient (to maintain an even depth of coatings) job. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj58M4df_C6T_ZfoaX4TBrWdezL80l3ob9sNu9cLpmRn1RglmNz18sXWglF-ODoE-ZlP1UDezPpw4cQE98cF-sJpN27C4LCfcomChRnzfHS3T2gqTAmoTaYATdI0xDquPUkjPgDjKeP25kG/s2048/DSCN3835.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj58M4df_C6T_ZfoaX4TBrWdezL80l3ob9sNu9cLpmRn1RglmNz18sXWglF-ODoE-ZlP1UDezPpw4cQE98cF-sJpN27C4LCfcomChRnzfHS3T2gqTAmoTaYATdI0xDquPUkjPgDjKeP25kG/w640-h480/DSCN3835.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reasons we were concerned: after 19 months in both fresh and salt water,
the anodes were pretty corroded...were the steel plates they were
protecting also in trouble? We had been in some pretty basic marinas with potentially dodgy shore power: the rather heavy decay of these anodes could be perfectly normal and a sign they were working as desired. But we had to know for sure.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Y15umjIJYvNorjLoagMskLIacJLUJKoXom61Q5UyUw_XxotDrR61jybvB3Cgk_xX32O0zSOh1mMcGJaEZANQnzvckBU5FoLIjvBDhvvvLyfzGOY9TLtMegbUm9C1ymFVAUd1ZgytGBz0/s2543/20201109_130634.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="1236" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Y15umjIJYvNorjLoagMskLIacJLUJKoXom61Q5UyUw_XxotDrR61jybvB3Cgk_xX32O0zSOh1mMcGJaEZANQnzvckBU5FoLIjvBDhvvvLyfzGOY9TLtMegbUm9C1ymFVAUd1ZgytGBz0/w312-h640/20201109_130634.jpg" width="312" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The father and son team of inspectors were fast and efficient, which is one of the reasons we decided Nova Scotia would be a better place to get work done than Toronto<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>But we had to get past the rather daunting hurdle of confirming the hull was sufficiently thick in the first place. Thanks to the purchase survey I had from 2005, I knew how thick the hull plates were at the time of building, and so had a baseline. I even had <a href="https://www.itm.com/product/reed-instruments-tm-8811-ultrasonic-thickness-gauge?gclid=CjwKCAiArbv_BRA8EiwAYGs23CNiub14g7moiCSxiqVX0x4vOrIRsTiV8Z3SeOohyHxPINuVgpfOLxoCregQAvD_BwE">a plate sounder with which I had done some initial investigation a few years prior</a>; what I lacked was the expertise to interpret my results, plus the experience to know exactly where I needed to sound, or determine the thickness of, the steel hull plates. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgmkbvilpw8ljCtA5YiyMzCjx87Xq12SJy4KAbrEHGfaYC5P7HbzanV6S2TZfDRESJUf-MkAaDAZgYI03RRnelHdda77-BkkHxMR2rMkduJXyMk5oan3Pnri2gZWhjU18gxMbAUc8cS3IF/s2543/20201113_093329.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgmkbvilpw8ljCtA5YiyMzCjx87Xq12SJy4KAbrEHGfaYC5P7HbzanV6S2TZfDRESJUf-MkAaDAZgYI03RRnelHdda77-BkkHxMR2rMkduJXyMk5oan3Pnri2gZWhjU18gxMbAUc8cS3IF/w640-h312/20201113_093329.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The process used by the pros was methodical as one might expect. A few square centimetres of paint down to bright metal was removed and sounded. Results were recorded and compared to the stated plate thicknesses I provided. The drawing the son made was pretty nice for a sketch on a clipboard. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWHQxrh1QKf2tcA03-EDwIjbQm3PYcZErV0CcRak3X_Z4g2KAk2U_NSqQmJNxzgst6WVVCX-G152grLOccUpolNFzCBNiCt2c-sOZqbU8Z-c6FiRPrtt_ZdUSzUhsUuXz9lsNCF_AKvZn/s2543/20201113_110920.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWHQxrh1QKf2tcA03-EDwIjbQm3PYcZErV0CcRak3X_Z4g2KAk2U_NSqQmJNxzgst6WVVCX-G152grLOccUpolNFzCBNiCt2c-sOZqbU8Z-c6FiRPrtt_ZdUSzUhsUuXz9lsNCF_AKvZn/w640-h312/20201113_110920.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice work, isn't it? I've kept the PDFs, which are equally pretty in the report.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqdZGNq_WWS1DCSQRWFjm1vZN1XSxZ8VtdxcEPZnvoKxKA6kree8k7Q2bTqQGJJFwID2x2Pd1q0Fr3YEVNAo7mXGdfk2WmvsWZCc4_oQqQrt96NwiGquXakgHFJgyh9QDRif4ZxClEgiYZ/s2543/20201113_110909.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqdZGNq_WWS1DCSQRWFjm1vZN1XSxZ8VtdxcEPZnvoKxKA6kree8k7Q2bTqQGJJFwID2x2Pd1q0Fr3YEVNAo7mXGdfk2WmvsWZCc4_oQqQrt96NwiGquXakgHFJgyh9QDRif4ZxClEgiYZ/w640-h312/20201113_110909.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The evidence of the rust-creating ability of seaside air emerged within hours. We had to spray two coats of Tremclad onto all the "test sites" after a manual sanding and application of "Ospho" to convert the rust after just one day. These polka dots will, of course, come off in the spring when the boat is hauled out of the shed to be grinded and sprayed. The good news of the report was that all the plates, save that on the bottom of the keel was actually slightly thicker than specified, suggesting that wastage of the hull over the years had been "none to minimal" As for the plate on the bottom, it was supposed to be 3/4" thick, but surveyed so consistently at 5/8" thick that I suspect the thickness reported in the purchase survey was incorrect. Regardless, plenty of metal is where it should be, and peace of mind on this point has been achieved.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS5yU7XZQeyn-u3MT4ZfKzPIa81_JthX_7A0W9KwPdD7zogeZe5WILlwHmJDmOZi98qj-2bLe5I06JC1dw3Iz7qPcQBY52SrYqBtUDTyLvS07vwbk4tiwJ6dKj-ilgbkZY984D3UUC2Lkb/s2543/20201120_112104.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS5yU7XZQeyn-u3MT4ZfKzPIa81_JthX_7A0W9KwPdD7zogeZe5WILlwHmJDmOZi98qj-2bLe5I06JC1dw3Iz7qPcQBY52SrYqBtUDTyLvS07vwbk4tiwJ6dKj-ilgbkZY984D3UUC2Lkb/w640-h312/20201120_112104.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The <i>second </i>biggest job is to fix the rudder to hydraulic ram connection, and to better keep water from getting into the boat where said ram exits the stern. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjanr1kKwYYGHpZT5Rtl2zsTh84nAiLEn8n5hulP4gI5P9v-pTfiWF2C8R0V1AqTll6KBQa5u6j1MAT6jcc-ziBYUB_NWkfx1BJQWoy6AIav3QDctF5K9zL_4lqOCRUpR5EnWNjYnvTSpWC/s2543/20201120_115035.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjanr1kKwYYGHpZT5Rtl2zsTh84nAiLEn8n5hulP4gI5P9v-pTfiWF2C8R0V1AqTll6KBQa5u6j1MAT6jcc-ziBYUB_NWkfx1BJQWoy6AIav3QDctF5K9zL_4lqOCRUpR5EnWNjYnvTSpWC/w640-h312/20201120_115035.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With the ram end "cuff" unbolted.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>But the disassembly was on us. I was given the good advice to record my steps.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEcCNO5vVvNrACMIfevEEzANEt3VwDaqlgrqJgaGeZdpPwS28Cf28iwfIyZlF_QhlM06y2w5ax7cI6I7lRRPqWms4aPlLYLE9qf4fJuLr9mKTnDDDerFSfI-GD8__wp4aaXTGHHOSO6Dl/s2543/20201120_115044.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEcCNO5vVvNrACMIfevEEzANEt3VwDaqlgrqJgaGeZdpPwS28Cf28iwfIyZlF_QhlM06y2w5ax7cI6I7lRRPqWms4aPlLYLE9qf4fJuLr9mKTnDDDerFSfI-GD8__wp4aaXTGHHOSO6Dl/w640-h312/20201120_115044.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With the HDPE "ram plates" loosened.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSCHpwshFtV6R3JgiLvAhYFdDKTDMw8V7MlKig9YohP98sBl4a0OKJBlwvXz1WT0wTJEsATIbi1kzb_Kjr1yz60rN08V5C8uG2kGWZqGzKKznPoRgD0-mxM2mi6wDkGtABg6x6RFqEaK06/s2543/20201120_124656.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSCHpwshFtV6R3JgiLvAhYFdDKTDMw8V7MlKig9YohP98sBl4a0OKJBlwvXz1WT0wTJEsATIbi1kzb_Kjr1yz60rN08V5C8uG2kGWZqGzKKznPoRgD0-mxM2mi6wDkGtABg6x6RFqEaK06/w640-h312/20201120_124656.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exterior plate off revealing the "gasket". We want to explore having a PSS-type shaft seal here. The grey goo is butyl tape,</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ1l0m_qNUsJ177NW1kE4VPRj1oRjbeDtgmnb5VRUnv3m76D7bczUJvFhj-o9y6Z8kAdiM1x-YimjYAAFStjHACc1S7hImiQ6-KmS7JUogzoxYIhxqVkRN6nTdwIgmzGJitVQyjUl_5pUM/s2543/20201120_124708.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ1l0m_qNUsJ177NW1kE4VPRj1oRjbeDtgmnb5VRUnv3m76D7bczUJvFhj-o9y6Z8kAdiM1x-YimjYAAFStjHACc1S7hImiQ6-KmS7JUogzoxYIhxqVkRN6nTdwIgmzGJitVQyjUl_5pUM/w640-h312/20201120_124708.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hole through the plate is angled precisely to let the ram move linearly in and out, pivoting on the rudder tab.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPv90V_0xPOl4fOmagP3dwl4uhEbAJStXbKW-svFp_kyD350QAdX2RM67ASmQbZzKYYgIsiEpKcvU4b0zwOfQifdoglnRwOTrgQkB3QMe-a76TXl9gQ_Gk51YBnwOE7DYHqh_NheBw0-6B/s2543/20201120_124819.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPv90V_0xPOl4fOmagP3dwl4uhEbAJStXbKW-svFp_kyD350QAdX2RM67ASmQbZzKYYgIsiEpKcvU4b0zwOfQifdoglnRwOTrgQkB3QMe-a76TXl9gQ_Gk51YBnwOE7DYHqh_NheBw0-6B/w640-h312/20201120_124819.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the "ram pin", which I think is a modified trailer hitch in SS. The threads are shot and that's why the nut originally on there failed. The hole was my attempt to do the job right, which proved impossible in water. The right way would be to have whatever nut is used to be <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqF7MWNuUWwIY31eWM7s99hcvw8_wcq2TSTcCGt79_lgFGnjS5UTTs1WAMYpUb4_HYencnL_XIrOp9AnGiSkB8rVcBQ-Ypku56yzJTBG1qqDFowNLUo2hZHJTM5ET5RpkaDEUSsHYECLU/s640/20200804_150757.jpg">cotter-pinned straight through the shaft </a>so it could never work its way loose.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What remains is to get our son down to the boat to help us remove the now-disconnected rudder from it pintles. It's made from aluminum, and I can grind it back and repaint it myself with a couple of sawhorses, leaving lots of room for the pros at the yard to do, once things warm up sufficiently in the spring, the bottom job.<br /><br />More to come as we soldier on.<br /></p><br /><p></p>Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-90948842737082421072020-10-08T15:24:00.001-04:002020-10-08T15:24:35.851-04:00Catching up and not coughing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif13fm_C-NpWR1w8OiOrQ7-Y9Sat1kj-hCIzga1u3064V5nCVtfn-OWxOGlDXL6fbP2FjSbmN1aDkhuP0EsCouEXG4wASSYrKpCwXRsJHf8eNr1RBu0zX8XKbuwFFrUrqKc4HnN_wNERSR/s2543/20200607_194453.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqXH7k7aQiT9xi1zD3PQ-9zX2W2IOMzIhZm4hXqsBh7BtEzhn_ep9swdaOiZJuecqiwIq4rYIzdGe3ElJ2MRc6jfujuuJK8FxlXyengiqciZ9P1DsPneTe6QxOw_knpW73JxOaP5eVcwVH/s600/20200606_223540.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not a bad moon rising across from the National Yacht Club back in June.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well, that was a rather significant pause in new posts. It's October 8, 2020 at time of writing and we started sailing on our voyage of discovery, COVID-19 and repair around July 15. The prep for leaving was retarded by the sense that, once the St. Lawrence Seaway had opened in late June, that we should prudently stand by for a couple of weeks to see if the dreaded "second wave" manifested. Alas, that didn't happen until we were in the Atlantic Bubble, but I digress. Digression will follow, trust me.<br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcvCTJi2efgRXG9SlQpn0Xyw-OPxpodzRbP5pGtD3i5w-5MnL8IZQVPT4i7Mhv9D0SIjH-jAEFj5aTFZqFZi71SmF8maxw5-N5NC6G563Yp1fgIBMJL0hRdT_tbc8aS81mrgvP65acxEcY/s2543/20200607_211123.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="1236" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcvCTJi2efgRXG9SlQpn0Xyw-OPxpodzRbP5pGtD3i5w-5MnL8IZQVPT4i7Mhv9D0SIjH-jAEFj5aTFZqFZi71SmF8maxw5-N5NC6G563Yp1fgIBMJL0hRdT_tbc8aS81mrgvP65acxEcY/s600/20200607_211123.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The end of June saw our boat club launch, finally, and our return to our dock instead of the convenient seawall<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The weather improved sufficiently to get multiple small jobs done and to plan out where I wanted to take this "repair and refit" blog in light of plans to debut a <a href="https://alchemyonpassage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">new, more voyage-focused blog</a>. Now, given the axiom of cruising as "boat repair in exotic places", this does not mean the retirement of this elder blog, but I will be posting more rarely and with a goal of showing what actually living aboard takes out of a boat and how to order the necessary labour effectively to continue moving and remaining functional...and what you can safely leave for winter.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhukmUsYeuem4EhHlbpuy_vhaYAGGlBnXPf7af1o8FKNqtf6ojbAlU46o-G05CetJH3Bt3z_mtP4g18Ac0F4UKOVbWMForEvYLnrXaemmT8YSNUqK8o1u77ig8PSldmi8foiMg_A72-zsw2/s2543/20200610_133615.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhukmUsYeuem4EhHlbpuy_vhaYAGGlBnXPf7af1o8FKNqtf6ojbAlU46o-G05CetJH3Bt3z_mtP4g18Ac0F4UKOVbWMForEvYLnrXaemmT8YSNUqK8o1u77ig8PSldmi8foiMg_A72-zsw2/s600/20200610_133615.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rooms with views and a mission attic probably aren't great for restoration purposes<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Speaking of living aboard, the vagaries of Toronto real estate were revealed, and I mean revealed, in our former house and its mate on the other side of the firewall. The person who bought first our side and then the other obviously has plans, likely of the "fashionable restaurant" variety, but leaving the roof off and the back exposed to the weather for months at a stretch seems counter-intuitive. Luckily, I am more utilitarian than sentimental on subjects like real estate, but it seems a little wasteful. But then I lack the <i>nous </i>of developers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXyvCfvqRJ_v8sZfy6pvwNtuRKZtmPKZkT5gtOYymreni4ZhuHgXa2bkYelSgjF55B-IofxePmi9QzmSO7jdmUZc0TgwUdquwzfy7y9RwgVcSLl-w72kZy7nsso3BwLLykQH-o7Yg6a_D9/s2543/20200613_094838.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXyvCfvqRJ_v8sZfy6pvwNtuRKZtmPKZkT5gtOYymreni4ZhuHgXa2bkYelSgjF55B-IofxePmi9QzmSO7jdmUZc0TgwUdquwzfy7y9RwgVcSLl-w72kZy7nsso3BwLLykQH-o7Yg6a_D9/s600/20200613_094838.jpg" width="600" /> </a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two <a href="https://powerequipment.honda.ca/generators/EU2200i" target="_blank">Honda 2200s</a>, for when you really need 27 amps of AC and there's no shore power.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Back at the lived-aboard, we were testing various systems for soundness. The Honda gensets worked like champs, and, now in our Nova Scotia winter digs, we've got one ashore in case of a power outage over the winter (a distinct possibility, we've been told, as is the need to bring in rum and <a href="https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/how-stormchips-became-a-maritime-phenomenon/" target="_blank">storm chips</a>).The other Honda is staying with the boat so we can have power at the boatyard to which we are going tomorrow morning...in case power goes out there... <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLxBgtgPwFJfjRm5Z2hhpypHJhgYHkICxyn0Z1W-ayos4fcJOePunccdiGww3qrAM1AXSxOrD7_9w85EKyDJczA24uPnl3IwwePc4zO2A6wCaADriY9VnywW5ESnQ85gqGm8m8gvMe5Lec/s2543/20200619_200714.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLxBgtgPwFJfjRm5Z2hhpypHJhgYHkICxyn0Z1W-ayos4fcJOePunccdiGww3qrAM1AXSxOrD7_9w85EKyDJczA24uPnl3IwwePc4zO2A6wCaADriY9VnywW5ESnQ85gqGm8m8gvMe5Lec/s600/20200619_200714.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiucZwyKifWa9jK7fDrxaCzjxqQkitlfB-1_iQNgfqjaEV6y_-j-f9gCiuuP_GA-UXm9nJyKnZJRZQdP3kf3MqwvnC09OfwJSfBYIkh9O6ZYsx5J0JbVSGcSBw0VNP3ztIx19N68749vr8i/s2543/20200619_200831.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiucZwyKifWa9jK7fDrxaCzjxqQkitlfB-1_iQNgfqjaEV6y_-j-f9gCiuuP_GA-UXm9nJyKnZJRZQdP3kf3MqwvnC09OfwJSfBYIkh9O6ZYsx5J0JbVSGcSBw0VNP3ztIx19N68749vr8i/s600/20200619_200831.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And it was moving steadily to the SE. GOOD JOB, BOYS!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Meanwhile, back in June/July before we left, we had time to observe the state of marine expertise far from the ocean. This is a warning buoy to delineate the crumbling end of the seawall. Note that it isn't actually <i>at </i>the crumbling end. We saw the City of Toronto workboat (or a subcontractor) screw around more than once getting this nav aid in place correctly and watched them leave bow paint on another part of the seawall on a dead calm morning. The further east we've subsequently gone, the greater the level of seamanship we've observed.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq3QSaz5D8YdYLKOXvLQ7bvz1mEIJ906GmRKcN6XMBk3iIEHoiuSVJolo71IqBnJRbzMn7zaUCD8gjVu2hoIAFzlkOrhPuoKndgW9TQn5aFNAybG41kf2tvLK12sRP6tVqngykEUayN8Ih/s2543/20200625_094829.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq3QSaz5D8YdYLKOXvLQ7bvz1mEIJ906GmRKcN6XMBk3iIEHoiuSVJolo71IqBnJRbzMn7zaUCD8gjVu2hoIAFzlkOrhPuoKndgW9TQn5aFNAybG41kf2tvLK12sRP6tVqngykEUayN8Ih/s600/20200625_094829.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yeesh.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzoe7MptvpB4Z_qVqvTQH5WkP5vAfelVBa1cF2vhA27Vq1006IniX3NrRic1ipGaVuyq9lHU4XK1Lg1uudUj4uYYMti7H4ODsMl9dUfFUiuOEpz46n1NGYj5j7E0CMKlT9azjcuL4j20kL/s2543/20200621_053533.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzoe7MptvpB4Z_qVqvTQH5WkP5vAfelVBa1cF2vhA27Vq1006IniX3NrRic1ipGaVuyq9lHU4XK1Lg1uudUj4uYYMti7H4ODsMl9dUfFUiuOEpz46n1NGYj5j7E0CMKlT9azjcuL4j20kL/s600/20200621_053533.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Solstice 2020, observed with a measure of social isolation, and a measure of rum.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYwAtqtTUcp-lxmS-5WI2m5ap0vSA4OAvFPS6aoAs5x21fOxkg3J0dqkE7XjL6Ollivftc8OMzuZEn75nj0xJzM06_dO22YmPNUgWAvVW77P2c7q5BJADaIX1OuzpvA8y-PPOintoFw2rB/s2543/20200621_060058.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYwAtqtTUcp-lxmS-5WI2m5ap0vSA4OAvFPS6aoAs5x21fOxkg3J0dqkE7XjL6Ollivftc8OMzuZEn75nj0xJzM06_dO22YmPNUgWAvVW77P2c7q5BJADaIX1OuzpvA8y-PPOintoFw2rB/s600/20200621_060058.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Huzzah! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer_is_icumen_in" target="_blank">Sumer is icumen in</a>!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Meanwhile, living aboard at a COVID-affected boat club meant we were left largely to our own devices until the launch process happened. Mrs. Alchemy and myself have enjoyed for many years "kicking off summer" by watching the sun rise after the shortest night of the year. This year, despite daunting circumstances and no guarantee we would dare to leave, was no exception.<br /><br />In the meantime, boat life continued. We got to see a lot of these sights...<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWuNZHwwgs8Nz-acERxINQ2t-fihpJk3zccx_OJDVehrWSCaVx40lvxhxg4DG9M2nW2ilvdkha3PuOL7_Mepeg3Q9YI0SLKyj_aycXqGnSJUeTqXOBau5GOe6ppf9DzGUbpg0cgmZYgnA/s2048/DSCN3576.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWuNZHwwgs8Nz-acERxINQ2t-fihpJk3zccx_OJDVehrWSCaVx40lvxhxg4DG9M2nW2ilvdkha3PuOL7_Mepeg3Q9YI0SLKyj_aycXqGnSJUeTqXOBau5GOe6ppf9DzGUbpg0cgmZYgnA/w640-h480/DSCN3576.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A cliche need not be ugly.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">...and a mother canvasback and her brood of curious offspring were a feature of morning coffee on the aft deck...<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX60AcUtfSrom4Zwengj6uMrpTHHaS_WruoXCW39d8YfKBdZ5UfpPr9H8lTDn_ljUrCAZNrfX0upTyywtCJjdCvkD1Jk2u7x6p6dwFZCwaoElVzmJljoijA2WasDvdadbKD1ASiF8IXI0_/s2048/DSCN3591.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX60AcUtfSrom4Zwengj6uMrpTHHaS_WruoXCW39d8YfKBdZ5UfpPr9H8lTDn_ljUrCAZNrfX0upTyywtCJjdCvkD1Jk2u7x6p6dwFZCwaoElVzmJljoijA2WasDvdadbKD1ASiF8IXI0_/w640-h480/DSCN3591.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Once there were eight, but my biologist wife suggested five was fine parenting.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDMk1Gs5mQyAbi2h5ATAOOCyWxaTR-ssxFNAoDC-VCCzi1afD29fwzWCC7xbTQjWSEvKhMtVA5OGFUrDVyXNUzN3oNXV9s6qnRbfshf4DjRu2g1DZn0o6DG7Ah0ZOK9cJJpiRkEqjY1K3K/s2048/DSCN3578.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDMk1Gs5mQyAbi2h5ATAOOCyWxaTR-ssxFNAoDC-VCCzi1afD29fwzWCC7xbTQjWSEvKhMtVA5OGFUrDVyXNUzN3oNXV9s6qnRbfshf4DjRu2g1DZn0o6DG7Ah0ZOK9cJJpiRkEqjY1K3K/w640-h480/DSCN3578.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The watermaker can't be really started in fresh water. This is no longer a problem.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Boat jobs accomplished included a partial installation of the watermaker, mainly to get it out of the portside seaberth. These RO tubes went over the port water tanks and the rest of the pieces, which are modular, will go starboard side.<br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpE-mCEWlFP2HLZysv57O-ZaKWL0C-MwS6h9zjDrO_2HuGIXuoay8U7hm_mtvATdHtylvk8PSJHWqlkeZaglQv9FBA7Jybxq6R8MDxSJAQLV6DL31VPPiMLMJ3tkqzPb90bCmxzX1o3XtQ/s2543/20200629_182730.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="1236" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpE-mCEWlFP2HLZysv57O-ZaKWL0C-MwS6h9zjDrO_2HuGIXuoay8U7hm_mtvATdHtylvk8PSJHWqlkeZaglQv9FBA7Jybxq6R8MDxSJAQLV6DL31VPPiMLMJ3tkqzPb90bCmxzX1o3XtQ/w312-h640/20200629_182730.jpg" width="312" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brown feet are inevitable in this lifestyle.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The liftraft, which I didn't like on the starboard aft deck rail for reasons of scraping while docking and the weight of the thing, went snugly on the cabin top a little in front of the mast and between the saloon hatches. This I greatly preferred.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTj3w8mqaAvA6IKIgtvdwo93CyVTz6_SEHjJViBlZr068YBB0UjMP_hXuAXLKz1bziH4BWWVQwmGs_OMHxkytkB0Y1u_oOvR761GdIlX61Fx3JzkGG9o6tQpmAfQeRvRFaTg8VoWOZj4lv/s2543/20200709_153407.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="1236" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTj3w8mqaAvA6IKIgtvdwo93CyVTz6_SEHjJViBlZr068YBB0UjMP_hXuAXLKz1bziH4BWWVQwmGs_OMHxkytkB0Y1u_oOvR761GdIlX61Fx3JzkGG9o6tQpmAfQeRvRFaTg8VoWOZj4lv/w312-h640/20200709_153407.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The drogue was repacked and stowed at the aft end of the sailing helm footwell, bagged against UV. It could work on the aft bollards, but the goal is to <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2020/03/salve-omnes-artifices.html" target="_blank">install chainplates on the stern this winter</a> and then never use it!<br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCyfKd9NYPmRG2_yftC2Dy6zQrZSXMRzAoG4BGgJClFbA4DZmj91RCnmIhJTYtT3tH-t6eTnmrEfchwmIRsEeGLCpaKYgkIwiQjHiu1RwStR3rhOICxDwUrqDTxAeso_UnbeOPRX_mitr/s2543/20200704_160034.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="1236" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCyfKd9NYPmRG2_yftC2Dy6zQrZSXMRzAoG4BGgJClFbA4DZmj91RCnmIhJTYtT3tH-t6eTnmrEfchwmIRsEeGLCpaKYgkIwiQjHiu1RwStR3rhOICxDwUrqDTxAeso_UnbeOPRX_mitr/w312-h640/20200704_160034.jpg" width="312" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nephew No. 2 Ryan Dacey<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Goodbyes were made and signals hoisted...<br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtXfqpS5oz5EbM229ZJNQ_8EmmPUFCT3BAz8Yfw4rsQgTsdtcrkHICqMfLpcJ7oUmmavMnrtIWUTSvBijX9x2qrU3fAq5gftkOkMZ2lySMK-R8DOMni18ejOPkAHTS8rj7TgfVagTFriq/s2543/20200714_211402.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="1236" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtXfqpS5oz5EbM229ZJNQ_8EmmPUFCT3BAz8Yfw4rsQgTsdtcrkHICqMfLpcJ7oUmmavMnrtIWUTSvBijX9x2qrU3fAq5gftkOkMZ2lySMK-R8DOMni18ejOPkAHTS8rj7TgfVagTFriq/w312-h640/20200714_211402.jpg" width="312" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thank you, everyone who helped us begin the voyage<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div>...and <a href="https://alchemyonpassage.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-matter-of-gratitude.html" target="_blank">we were off</a>! And I finally got the solar panels tied into the batteries. Behold, free amps!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dywFUeaDKe-QvET-fkhX3xOWhShdFTDRDjD1stJ3IedrgsiR9BexAjhy5Z0aciT7i6-ZSqk1FUGwMUUO4ZceA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtXfqpS5oz5EbM229ZJNQ_8EmmPUFCT3BAz8Yfw4rsQgTsdtcrkHICqMfLpcJ7oUmmavMnrtIWUTSvBijX9x2qrU3fAq5gftkOkMZ2lySMK-R8DOMni18ejOPkAHTS8rj7TgfVagTFriq/s2543/20200714_211402.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-35048096131425657872020-06-06T15:41:00.002-04:002020-06-06T15:41:38.958-04:00 Absolutely floored<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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As mentioned last post, the good ship <i>Alchemy </i>came with many desirable features, but nice flooring was not one of them. So we decided if time allowed, we would "refloor" in Halifax over the winter. Well, time allowed and, thanks to the pandemic, it very much has, we determined to do the job this spring, prior to leaving. <br />
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The Lonseal product is not cheap, but it looks very nice and has a reasonable quality of non-skid (non-skiddiness?) desirable on a sailboat. In other words, given a decent shoe, you can stand without slipping on a fairly vigorous angle of heel. It is applied to wood or metal decking with a two-part epoxy. Once on, it's unlikely to come off.<br />
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Which brings us to the prep. The saloon was done first, which involved a prepatory sanding and cleanup of the existing subfloor, which is 3/4" thick marine plywood screwed to framing, which in turn is through-bolted to the frames and stringers, and in some places, such as the area above the forward diesel keel tank housing the 350 kilos of batteries, has been reinforced by me, because 55 kilo batteries stoving in the top of a keel tank at sea is considered undesirable.<br />
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The previous floor covering was green indoor/outdoor carpet in the saloon and the floor was held down with coarse drywall screws. The latter would surely rust in the sea air and were replaced with slightly longer (1 1/2 inch), slightly larger (#10) <a href="http://www.boatcraftnsw.com/products/boat-building-materials/silicon-bronze-screws-and-nails/">silicon bronze </a>screws, which are far less likely to corrode in place and are often used in wooden boat building. So all that took time to prep.<br /><br />The template cutting, which involved both cutting out multiple hatch covers and matching the "holly" lines neatly, also took a lot of work, all credit to the missus, who did a fine job and now we can have people over without cringing, mostly. Where I came in was in the pilothouse.<br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You've seen these two photos before, but they bear repeating. To the left is prepped metal, to the right is flap-disked and <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Ospho-605-Metal-Treatment/dp/B000C02CDG">Ospho'd</a> metal.</td></tr>
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The former flooring was, in sum, metal decking over which odd, wide-headed self-tapping screws held down a quarter-inch of cedar ply, over which was glued a further one-eighth inch of cedar ply, over which was a sort of vinyl parquet pattern substance, also glued. <br /><br />Friends, to use sailor talk, it was a fucking mess. Parts of the floor were rotten, other parts were heavily worn, and there was evidence of mold in the wood. I took it up with a combination of prybars and a <a href="https://www.kingcanada.com/en/products/new-products/cordless-oscillating-multi-tool/8349qr-30-pc-variable-speed-multi-tool-kit">Multimaster knock-off</a> that is about the best $99 I may have ever spent...it's so reliable and useful in the more nasty jobs like this that I buy it actual Fein blades at great cost. But they work and they fit. Were I using this tool everyday, I would pay four times as much for the real thing, which appear indestructable. <br />
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The self-tapping weird metal screws were, of course, rusted in place, so I had to grind off about 60 of them. Makeshift curtains and rounds of vacuuming were made to keep the grit thereby made airborne out of the rest of the boat. The helm seat, which, as one might imagine, I installed particularly strongly, was unbolted, cleaned up and reinstalled. Acetone wipes, metal prep and protective paints were applied and there was much dryfitting upon the face of the waters.<br />
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But the results were worth all the odd smells, tiptoing around while things "set up" and labour and dollars expended. The boat is cleaner, safer and looks markedly better. We'll do the aft cabin floor, which is tiny, after we get to Nova Scotia, <a href="https://greatlakes-seaway.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/pcb20200605_en.pdf">which looks like it's going to happen, fingers crossed</a>, as the Seaway locks open to pleasure craft June 22. We will pause to see if a pandemic "second wave" happens that could affect marinas or our passage materially, so early July is our new "go date".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Held together and to the countertop with countersunk #12 SS screws, it's not likely to move.</td></tr>
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But back to further improvements: My wife has remarked on the disagreeable habit of the galley sinks not completely draining even at zero heel. While nothing short of a grey water tank with separate pump out could solve all of that, the simple addition of a two-inch HDPE sink surround has now raised the two galley sinks enough to permit full drainage, even if I can't take a decent picture of it.<br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rubber strips glued to the underside of the wind generator pole should provide a bit of cushioning and, we hope, sound deadening.</td></tr>
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I designed a simple base for a wind generator pole that fabricator pal Andrew Barlow knocked off in stainless steel with his customary skill. Before the wind generator is mounted, however, I have to make it more stable with struts at the rearmost solar arch and at the stern rail. I'm thinking <a href="https://www.keesafety.ca/products/kee_klamp/catalogue/76_-_hook">Kee Klamps</a>, but my friend Dean Muto is an actual rigger and I will see if he thinks that's a good idea. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pipe goes over this well-bolted stub and is cross-pinned. Wind generator is collared to the top of the pole and clears the adjacent panel by about 15 cm.</td></tr>
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So we've got a few more projects to go, but arguably five weeks to get them done in, which will include "family docking in cross-winds" lessons, anchoring setting and retrieval practice, and the relocation of both the liftraft from rail to foredeck and the mounting of the nesting dinghy ... somewhere...Enjoy last night's brush with a squall!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one had little rain, but over 30 knots of wind, always fun on the nose tied to a wall.</td></tr>
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<br />Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-70028404675491014992020-05-31T17:55:00.000-04:002020-05-31T17:55:47.645-04:00And we're back....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the pleasures of living aboard is the proximity to the great outdoors, which are greater now that air and land traffic are truncated.</td></tr>
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Well, it's been some time since my last post. And yet it's been an eventful month here on the good ship <i>Alchemy</i>, now tied to the seawall at National Yacht Club. We moved back aboard her on April 30th, having left our winter digs, amid the pandemic stop and start. Our club gave us and two other liveaboard boats permission a good 12 days before any members were allowed on the grounds to tie up and, for lack of much else on offer, bob in place. Even though May was a somewhat unseasonably cool month, appropriate bedding allowed a modicum of comfort and we've done a lot of boat jobs whilst waiting for an improvement in conditions that might allow us to get to the East Coast this season.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is now full of dishes and other galley gear. It's been a valuable addition.</td></tr>
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So far, there's been a slight loosening of the "go nowhere, do nothing" restrictions to retard viral spread. Our club, after a lot of debate, is skedded to launch those who wish to be launched (and a minority do not), in mid-June, and various Lake Ontario marinas may be open by then, although the policies on "visitors" are as yet unclear; the Murray Canal opens tomorrow, however, on June 1.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Alchemy </i>at her temporary dock; the power's off on the main finger at the moment, so we are on the wall with a glorious 1.5 bars of wifi!</td></tr>
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Our first two weeks here were, unsurprisingly, quiet, with only two other boats, both occupied by single men, and the spectral forms of the club manager and yard man making the odd appearance. But there have been repairs and upgrades done (at a proper distance) most days we've been here, and our son has been completing on online computer science course. Most of the time, or so he says.<br />
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Several jobs have been completed; one was the installation of a <a href="https://www.vetus.com/en/maxwell-anchoring-systems/chain-stoppers.html">chain stopper</a> on the foredeck. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ah, yes, steel boat skippers just love putting holes in the deck. Not.</td></tr>
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Because of the comparative heights of deck, windlass and anchor roller, I had to fabricate HDPE "risers" for the chain stopper, as well as calculate the most accommodating angle of offset from windlass to roller. The idea is that the stopper keeps the "yank" of the anchor off the windlass gypsy and instead transfers those loads to the deck. So this has to be well-mounted, to say the least. While we have a similar chain hook, and the usual bridle gear, this inline stopper seems to us to be a tidy solution.<br />
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The job went smoothly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Missing here is the lever and plate used to trap chain links in the groove just visible. Chain can come up, but can't be lowered or payed out without lifting the plate.</td></tr>
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As did the interior work.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backing plates and plenty of sealant, as was the case for the windlass, finish the job. No leaks detected since installation</td></tr>
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Getting all that chain out of the well and down the hawsepipe was an improvement.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doing what it's supposed to.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>decided that the more tender herbs needed a warmer spot in order to thrive. We didn't really see frost in May, however. Well, just a bit.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OK, snow.</td></tr>
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The weather was generally a bit discouraging, which probably reconciled a few sailor to a multi-week delay in getting launched.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, snow. In May.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The harbour is behind that squall.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, fabricator extraordinaire Andrew Barlow made me a beautiful SS wind generator mast and matching base. Well, beautiful to me, anyway. I had to modify it to take a 3/4" hole for the wind generators leads to exit the pole. And that meant cutting a hole on a curved piece of stainless steel. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Start with a pilot hole. Actually, start with clamps. The more, the merrier...</td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi27Mbr-97pAhUIm-AKHXlXABAQFjABegQIDBAJ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dkk-Yhcvp2Bg&usg=AOvVaw2yBBCvds0kRV7SVpwU2hqS">Cutting stainless is a bit of a trial at the best of times</a>. It takes slow drill bit speeds, and plenty of lubrication in the form of cutting oil or water to avoid the dreaded "<a href="https://www.harveyperformance.com/in-the-loupe/avoid-work-hardening/">work hardening</a>". But I must be improving.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The geared-down shop drill press helped here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As did plenty of oil. No smoking allowed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Done. I cleaned up the edges until reasonably smooth and we are ready to pole.</td></tr>
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Living in semi-isolation in a mostly closed yacht club means no waiting for the showers, but it also means encounters with various fauna. This is either a Peking duck escapee or some sort of partial albinism...friendly little fellow, either way.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I will call you "Quackers".</td></tr>
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Aside from the expected sparrows, terns, grackles, starlings, mallards, red-winged blackbirds and gulls, we've also have had visits from trumpeter swans, cottontail rabbits and one fearless mink, who runs past our boat every morning, usually with an improbably large fish in her face.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The little flange turns sideways and the hawsepipe is sealed.</td></tr>
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Still on the topic of ground tackle and fabrications, it's customary offshore to bring the anchor belowdecks and to stow the chain low. This leaves a rather obvious hole in the deck, however, capable of letting in undesirable volumes of ocean. The solution is another Barlow-executed gasketed cap for the windlass's hawsepipe. The anchor end of the chain is attached to the wire lead and, if needed as land is approaching, the flange is turned sideways and the chain is hauled onto the deck for reshackling to the anchor. Neat, isn't it?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Us moved to the wall for that sweet 30 amp fix needed to run space heaters.</td></tr>
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A couple of recommissioning issues have surfaced. The March pump used to run water to the Marine Air heat pump/AC unit has blown a seal, which is leaking prodigiously. I have a spare, but it's a rather big effort to take apart the saloon stairs to access the relevant area, so I've been putting it off. While cycling about 10 days ago, I hit a curb cut badly and pulled a few muscles in my back going over the handlebars in a rather undignified, if strictly Newtonian, fashion. Every job on the boat seems to involve wrenching at arms' length, which, to be honest, isn't the sort of physio called for. But I am recovering even with daily doses of boat yoga.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A sign of better days was seen in the club parking lot.</td></tr>
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A more serious issue (we rarely use the AC in either hot or cold modes) arose when the fridge ceased working. The compressor is new last year, and I didn't think it was the problem, so I redid the power leads and remounted the 20 amp circuit breaker (less boat yoga now). Then I checked the power leads going to the module. All good and the customary 13.2 VDC was found.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dreaded module.</td></tr>
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I thought that the thermostat might be involved, so I took the old one I saved from The <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2019/07/good-grief-we-are-aboard.html">Time of the Flood </a>and hooked it up. Oh, ho, the fridge happily ran. So I pulled out the leads from the control module and found on the ground lead very little bare wire in the spade connector. I stripped it better, folded it over and crimped on a new spade connector. It's been running fine again for four days, and I deem "crisis averted".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's the little black wire at the bottom. The outages were intermittent, and therefore frustrating, but we worked it out.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, the club is awaking from its slumber. Dinghy docks are back and the various workboats are launched. Even the old and cranky Blue Barge started immediately. I can't recall the last time that happened in spring, actually. May it be a portent of things to come.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not sure about Junior Sailing activities this summer, though.</td></tr>
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I will also note that this May has featured a tremendous amount of strong easterly winds...I believe we had a five-day stretch of 20 to 30 knot E last week. And some pretty vivid weather along with it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But southerly this time.</td></tr>
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This has cramped our style regarding certain jobs, such as The Great Reflooring. Yes, we are actually getting to more "make the boat prettier" jobs, as opposed to the "don't sink" and "be capable of sailing" jobs. This has consisted of removing old flooring, prepping the surfaces and remediating them as needed, dealing with found rust, grinding, "converting" and repainting with rustproofing. After that laying down ruinously expensive, if very nice, vinyl flooring held down with two-part epoxy seems the easy part.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The silver part is rustproof-painted; the grubby part is rust-converter painted. It's technical.</td></tr>
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The saloon is fully done thanks to Mrs. <i>Alchemy</i>'s steady hand and art. The pilothouse will be completed on Tuesday and the helm seat and pedestal restored by then. The boat's looking good. Let's go sailing!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apply glue and Lonseal Teak and Holly as needed.</td></tr>
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<br />Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-13554113506348801212020-04-22T17:00:00.003-04:002020-04-22T17:00:52.118-04:00Earthed, wind and fire<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close, but not quite. Annoying, this.</td></tr>
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This is a replacement solar panel for the one that fell off the boat a couple of winters ago. It's from the same maker, Kyocera, and it is the same form factor as the other three, but the flange to which the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivet_nut">rivnuts</a>" (or "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swage_nut">swage nuts</a>", the terminology seems inexact) are mounted is about one-half inch more narrow than the older panels. The panel is otherwise identical, save that it delivers at peak output five more watts. Of course, the custom-built solar arch has hard-to-drill 1/8" stainless steel mounting tabs welded to the pipes, so I have been presented with a dilemma.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old bits of tape were used to indicate where the two backstays transit through the arch.</td></tr>
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Luckily, the man who is doing other fabrication jobs aboard, was aboard, and suggested we secure the outboard side with rivnuts as planned, and simply make up an aluminum 1/4" thick "tab on a tab" throughbolted to the existing stainless, and then rivnutted (that doesn't look right) from aluminum tab to aluminum frame. Pretty sure I can handle that job, and the galvanic isolation it probably wants doing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There can be many versions, and I left a phone message today with a couple of further refinement suggestions.</td></tr>
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Andrew was visiting the boat for an "as social as possible under the circumstances" reason, as well as further discussion on the fabrication of a pole for the <a href="http://www.reps.fi/datasheetsandmanuals/airx-marine-manual.pdf">Air-X wind generator </a>I am finally installing to complete our renewable energy scheme, at least from the "watt creating" side. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You don't have to put out the red light...</td></tr>
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Speaking of wind, I installed <a href="https://www.marineoutfitters.ca/index.cfm?category=10011%7C10429&product=43839910&code=062503748216">a Caframo "Maestro" 12 VDC </a>fan in the galley. This involved drilling, wire-stripping, crimping, heat-shrinking and circuit-chasing, this time in the galley's DC subpanel. The fan has a bright white LED and a dim, red one, good for evenings, and its speed is controlled by a simple rheostat that clicks off.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I put in a little rocker switch, seen to the left of the pair of wires. The mounting plate of the propane sensor with necessary 3/4" hole for the mass of its leads is below.</td></tr>
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Unfortunately, the rheostat appears cacked...it worked on the test run, in which I provisionally wire together the circuit to check for flaws before I dog down everything and drill multiple holes, and the light switch works fine, but it's "always on full" when attached to the terminal strips. I mean, I could turn it off, along with all the cabin lights forward, from the main DC panel, but that's just awkward. So I put in a little rocker switch from <a href="http://www.a1parts.com/">A1 Electronics on North Queen</a> (25 cents, probably) and it works fine now. Still full on, but now with added off.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, it works. I have a propane torch nearby for test purposes.</td></tr>
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Mounting the <a href="https://tridentmarine.com/product/12-vdc-marine-gas-control-detection-systems/">new propane sniffer/alarm</a> was a touch more involved as it required a hole through the cabinet (and cutting down some trim pieces and a hole through the bottom of the cabinet so that the sensor lead could go down to the front of the stove near foot level, where propane is likely to "flow" if we had a leak of it. Those wires will be cleaned up and mounted neatly later.<br />
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It's becoming a busy time. Eight days until it's home again.<br />
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Just a brief one today. As part of the Drive to Reboard, 2020, we do the annual Tightening of the Hose Clamps. This is an exercise in preventive maintenance, as it claps eyes on our stainless steel hose clamps that keep the hoses on the dozens of barbs...which keep the water out of the boat...and which aren't always as stainless nor as clamped as we would prefer.<br />
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This consists of issuing to my wife and myself two socket wrenches and three (7, 8 and 9mm) sockets and methodically crawling about the boat tightening and peering, sometimes with headlamps, to Suss Out Current Events. Special attention is given to below the waterline (BTW) points, where the stakes are a little higher (and the boat, lower) should a clamp or two fail to keep hoses in place before the crew notices an issue or hears the bilge pump cycling. We also have a chance to examine these areas for corrosion or even paint fatigue, and apply touch-ups before problems occur. <br />
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Apart from the obvious areas of standpipe-related seacocks and galley drains, there are quite a few points on the engine (exhaust fittings, waterlock muffler, fuel supply and return, oil filter setup, etc.) that need to be assessed and serviced. Some of those, like an oil or coolant change, were done last fall and the need to do them again will depend on hours put on the engine this season. Others are simply "as needed"...for instance, there's a "calorifier" setup whereby we can get hot water to a sort of wall-mounted kettle that provides us with heated water from our tanks...that's been a relatively low priority we can do at dock some time in the next month. <br />
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So, about a hundred clamps (not an exaggeration) later, we felt it was time to fire up the engine to clear out the winter coolant. Gratifyingly, the Beta Marine 60 fired up immediately and the cooling circuit worked as it was meant to. Huzzah! Please pardon the dusty helm...it's on the to-clean list.Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-12163434700817976402020-04-15T16:37:00.001-04:002020-04-15T16:37:55.736-04:00Cloth and copper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lee cloths on sail. Also seen is the small but intense future forepeak vacuum.</td></tr>
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Part of the preparation to move back aboard is in the attempt to make living aboard in actual sea conditions safer. That's why Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>is sewing up <a href="https://www.sailrite.com/How-to-Make-Lee-Cloths-Video">lee cloths</a> for <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2020/01/aft-to-future.html">our respective bunks</a>. There's nothing dramatically difficult about this: you cut them, hem them and put in grommets for the light line to secure them overhead. They keep sleepers from rolling out of their berths in a seaway when the boat might heel enough to impart motion. <br /><br />This was donated from the <a href="https://www.gencomarine.com/">Genco Marine</a> loft. A small boat owner never picked it up years ago and it was sitting in a bag, unloved and unused. Well, now it will (after the plague recedes) get to go on a nice trip snuggling sailors.</div>
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The dark and stormy nature of the day didn't deter me, although snow down the forepeak hatch was a little chilly. I completed (for now) the paralleling of the two Group 27 batteries dedicated for the windlass on deck. They are now charging as one bigger battery, and it will therefore be easier t<a href="https://www.victronenergy.com/live/drafts:battery_life">o keep them healthier longer</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wire of this gauge (2 ga.) is more than is strictly necessary for battery interconnects, but I have a fair bit of it and the rest of the forepeak windlass and battery bank setup is comprised of it. I can't abide line loss, I guess.</td></tr>
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As <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2014/10/lord-of-ring-terminals.html">previously discussed</a>, paralleling similar batteries is pretty straightforward: link pos to pos and neg to neg with same-sized "patch cords", and then put the charging wires on the positive of one battery and the negative of the other. Both batteries are pretty new and should charge similarly over time and taking care <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2018/02/equalization-right.html">to keep the electrolyte monitored</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not marine-grade, but a nice addition to the forepeak in that if I ever have a problem with inverting the main bank, I can run a power tool forward if I wish.</td></tr>
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My late sister did not know much about sailing or the gear involved, but she did give us some thoughtful presents over the years, and I've finally installed this one. It's a 2000W inverter meant to allow a car (presumably with its engine running) to supply inverted AC power to, say, a small, intense vacuum cleaner or other tool or string of LED lights when a regular outlet is not available. I'm under no illusions that this is marine-grade gear; for one, it's a <a href="https://www.canadiantire.ca/content/dam/canadian-tire/manuals/0112004P_EN.pdf">modified sine wave inverter</a> and probably not super-efficient, like, for instance, our <a href="https://www.boatandrvaccessories.com/informationcenter/resources/pure-sine-wave-vs-modified-sine-wave-inverters">Victron inverter </a>for the main bank. But it's comparatively sheltered and can use the windlass bank in a pinch to do quick jobs when we're on the hook and I don't care to fire up one of the Hondas. Besides, with three AC outlets and a USB slot, it's "nice to have".Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-15780973296254980462020-04-13T16:38:00.001-04:002020-04-13T16:38:02.946-04:00An outbreak of boat jobs<div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can't. About to move aboard!</td></tr>
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The above request is courtesy of Marina Quay West, which has several dozen liveaboards in residence and where the good ship <i>Alchemy </i>is being readied to being a floating home once again, and, it is most devoted to be wished, a sailing home by April 30th, which is when our apartment lease and our marina dock lease expire.<br /><br />There have been many, many changes since the last post. A major one was the offer of our boat club, National YC, to offer us a dock (good thing we never "cashed in" that dock right, right?) for the summer, which means going "up" the membership status ladder from "crew" to "senior"...which will cost us money. Given the <a href="https://greatlakes-seaway.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pcb20200326_en.pdf">extremely tentative nature</a> of our plans to leave Lake Ontario this season, even to get just to Nova Scotia and get our hull recoated and our standing rigging redone, leading to the possibility that not only might we cruise in circles this summer, but might also have to haul out (because the antifoul paint will be rather tired at that stage) in Toronto, our plans scuttled for another years, we decided to rejoin the club and get a dock, a course both providential in terms of timing, but a little bitter in terms of dreams deferred. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The underside of the wind generator "body" has a compressing collar and Allen bolts. I believe it is happiest with a 1.875 OD pipe.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Nonetheless, while there remains even a glimmer of hope of leaving on May 8th (the first day of what was the "suspended until further notice" aspect of locking down the Seaway for boats such as ours), we press on with the refit just because we should. One long-postponed project is the installation of an <a href="https://www.emarineinc.com/categories/Air-X-Wind-Turbine">Air-X wind generator</a> on the stern to <a href="http://www.reps.fi/datasheetsandmanuals/airx-marine-manual.pdf">supplement the solar panel portion</a> of the shore-independent power regime. This 12 VDC model is not necessarily the <a href="https://www.sailingtoday.co.uk/gear/gear-on-test/wind-generators-buyers-guide/">best </a>or the <a href="https://www.marineoutfitters.ca/index.cfm?category=11503%7C10776&product=43524148&code=Rutland%20914%2D12">quietest</a>, but I traded it for a 24VDC acquired at a yard sale from the people who sold us our solar panels, and it seems reasonably robust, although it needs a paint job. Andrew Barlow, fabricator extraordinaire, is going to make up a pole for it and a footplate on which said pole will be mounted, which in turn will be bolted onto the flange off the stern of <i>Alchemy </i>fit for the purpose. Its role is supplemental to the solar panels, and we'll see if it earns its keep in that regard on, for instance, night passages when we'll presumably want radar and AIS chewing amps on the night watch.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Because it wouldn't be a passagemaker without a load of gear off the arse.</td></tr>
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Other improvements include the resurrection of <i>Alchemy</i>'s original 20 amp charger, which I found was made not only for Westmarine, but in versions labelled by StatPower and Xantrex (as the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bhMwwOd8tE">Truecharge model</a>). <a href="http://www.xantrex.com/documents/Discontinued-Products/TC20_40(445-0050-01-01_Rev-A).pdf">Manuals are available still</a>, and this is a pretty straightforward unit suitable for keeping <a href="https://canadiantire.scene7.com/is/image/CanadianTire/0102792_1?defaultImage=image_na_EN&wid=160&hei=160&op_sharpen=1">two Group 27 deep cycle batteries</a> of about <a href="https://www.forestriverforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11597&stc=1&d=1333369606">210 Ah capacity and wired in paralle</a>l topped up. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Does the job and so did the 5200 in sticking the board to which it's screwed to the collision bulkhead.</td></tr>
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The idea here, which I consider not overly crazy, is that if the main house bank fails or otherwise requires service (or simply needs to be moved out of the way for access or repair of the tankage and plumbing beneath it), I can have two Group 27s at the ready to "become the house bank" or the start batteries as needed. After all, the windlass can also be worked manually, if onerously. Belt and suspenders thinking at work!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The energized windlass breaker and solenoid box: This is tidier than it looks.</td></tr>
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Part of the prep of moving aboard is sending things into storage. To that end occassioned a socially distanced visit from my nephew Ryan Dacey and his still-under-warranty missus, Alex. The two of them brought some of my late parents' records, old photos and other "treasures from the basement" of their mother, my late sister. Off to Trenton it shall go. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Try not to cough.</td></tr>
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Onward to the construction of the bed platform, which, being 90° rotated from the original, needed accessorizing to serve as an athwartship double berth. First up was constructing a crosspiece on which the hinged "bed flap" could land smoothly and capable of supporting the weight of two dozing admirals. This required an aluminum backing plate for the inside of the hanging lockers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Why, yes, the vacuum cleaner got a workout in this process.</td></tr>
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The flap itself is 1/2" marine ply, reinforced by stiffeners underneath and hinged with a stainless steel piano hinge and two SS strap hinges at either end. It will be held just past vertical when not in sleep mode by a peg set into the bookshelf surround, backed up by an eye-and-hook.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The underside is shimmed 1/4" to make the whole thing level. There will be a strip of gasketing material to keep those bolts and screws from chewing at the wood and metal. Stowage is below.</td></tr>
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The upper side will have, at first, thick closed-cell foam as a Velcro'd on base, with memory foam as a mattress. We will have to improvise to get the hinge covered for comfort, but expect to get fitted mattresses and a <a href="https://www.froli.com/en/bed-systems/">Froli-type substrate</a> sometime down the road. Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>is already planning out <a href="https://www.sailrite.com/How-to-Make-Lee-Cloths-Video">lee cloths</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prior to strap hinges and, you know, the bedding.</td></tr>
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Imagine, if you will, that we are on either starboard or port tack, at night, with Cabin Boy on watch. We can shift our head or feet to either end, and our weight is farther forward than it would have been. A simple movement gets us into the pilothouse (there's a new handrail just out of shot) and there's also new stowage (the rectangle cut out of the former port berth) for light items, such as fenders. We hope it serves us well. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moved logbook rack, restored 24-hour ship's clock and freshly repainted port-side helm area suitable for chartwork.</td></tr>
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John Cangardel was kind enough to give us some anti-chafe gear that wraps itself around line, such as our "cross-channel" bow spring to the docks opposite. Handy, this.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, our son finally cleaned the deck. Well, somewhat.</td></tr>
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Lastly, I spent a couple of hours yesterday tracing some wiring glitches and restored the radar's power circuit and that of the AIS. This involves taking down the pilothouse wire loom secured on the forward part of the pilothouse just below its roof and getting busy with the heat shrink. When I deselect the B&G plotter's internal GPS for that of the Vesper XB-8000 AIS unit, which has its own GPS receiver above the radome some seven metres up the mast, the positional accuracy was improved...the big scribble in the second slip was "before" and the boat running its forward-looking sonar was "after": we are in fact in the first slip of this pier.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But not travelling at 0.1 knots.</td></tr>
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A few fuses blown last year (perhaps during the October "thrashings" we administered while racking up sailing hours) were replaced; some legacy circuits at 2 amps or under have glass inline fuses, which is a better solution in some ways for small draws than endless five amp circuit breakers. So back on came the helm reading lamp.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maybe too many pens, pencils and loose cable ties? Can confirm.</td></tr>
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Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>is prepping the saloon floor with a vigorous belt sanding so that our freshly purposed roll of <a href="https://lonseal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marine-Brochure-web.pdf">Lonseal Marine teak and holly flooring </a>can spruce the joint up a bit. It had better: it was impressively expensive, even for something with the word "marine" in it. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wiring to be confined better before we actually leave, which could be in either May or 2021...sigh. The boxes are full of watermaker parts.</td></tr>
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More to do, of course, but we are clipping along nicely, despite the dour circumstances. More to come soon as the seacocks are opened for business...after it snows this week.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That Chelsea clock is keeping near-perfect time now, thanks to <a href="https://www.manta.com/ic/mtq0pbb/ca/cg-watch-clock-repair">Mr. Del Rosario's ministrations</a>. </td></tr>
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<br />Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-59901114673971593112020-03-31T19:17:00.000-04:002020-03-31T19:17:08.807-04:00Peak flooring<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If it's going to be upside-down, who cares if I use a grinder to groove wood? NOT I!</td></tr>
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A short one today, as I am a very rough sort of carpenter. A failed windlass battery, accompanied by the installation of an old but functional 20 amp battery charger,meant the removal of everything on the floor of the forepeak workshop. And a needed vacuuming to remove workshop debris and dust.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Irony: This is a job I'd normally do in the forepeak, which has loads of clamps and vises.</td></tr>
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The "floor" of the workshop is just four planks sitting directly on the stringers. They are capable of movement, and this is sub-par on a boat. So I decided to replicate the stringers' angle and width at the places I wanted the floor. They won't move out of these "grooves" so easily, but can be lifted up for cleaning and inspection. I was going to take them to my club's workshop, which has a table saw capable of up to 45° of "tilt", but I soon realized that correcting on the fly and making the plank grooves with a big grinder wheel was going to be less pretty and accurate, but faster. This was a job that called for faster, as it was cold and blowing 25 knots from the east today, about my least favourite way to usher out the month of March.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That first plank is one inch thick and supports the anchor chain bucket.</td></tr>
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The results were pretty good for a hack job, I thought. As can be seen, the stringers (the fore-and-aft metal "ribs" to which the hull plates are welded) tilt inward. The grooves are therefore a bit "grippy". Grippy is good in this application.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seen below are the battery box tiedowns and the several 50 kilo "trim ballast" lead ingots.</td></tr>
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A repurposed Zodiac thwart seat is the new support for the battery boxes. The foam is durable and will insulate them from hard knocks once tied together. That wide plank is where I step off the ladder; the batteries for the windlass fit under tidily. There's more wood and wind to come...stay tuned.<br />
<br />Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-63130868248212926912020-03-29T21:02:00.001-04:002020-03-30T12:59:02.397-04:00Salve omnes artifices<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You may think "oh, a brutal metal strap with holes in it", and you'd be correct. But there's more here than meets the eye.</td></tr>
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"<i>Salve omnes artifices</i>" means, in Latin, "all hail the makers". Refitting a boat over more than a decade from a baseline of near-total inexperience in any of the industrial arts has meant I have had to learn a great deal about materials, devices, techniques and get to at least a broadly competent skill range in four or possibly five trades, because I still dislike painting, but I can weigh two-part epoxy and soak out FG tape like a near-pro, but I digress. I'm pretty good at diesel/gas marine engines, hydraulic steering repair, various forms of plumbing, fuel system layout and troubleshooting, props and their operation, an increasingly wide range of electrical and electronic repair, all sorts of heavy-weather sail tactics and I mix a mean rum beverage.<br />
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Most skippers can say the same, I suppose. My sailor buddies Matt Phillips, John Cangardel and Jeff Cooper have all been enormous help, but none of them, save Matt, who is the son of an electrician, practices a trade.<br />
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But over this long (and <a href="https://greatlakes-seaway.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pcb20200326_en.pdf">probably getting longer</a>) journey of Getting Off the Dock, I have had reason to resort to professional help when I have either lacked the necessary skills, or my skills existed in too rudimentary a form. So we pause today to salute the craftspeople who have built, either from my design or from a mutual agreeement as to the best way forward, various parts of the good ship <i>Alchemy </i>to make it the vessel she is today. Some of 'em I never met; others are good friends. The "Hungarian guys" at "Treblex" who, for instance, built the Beta 60's <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8iieV3pNDJf79SMRm3a3grObtXTRrR3vrddeQ18sv9cL50qez4N5e-4AxNG7_caT6pBTWGJQ0iT31mWnpS0JTW1dkXHyk23idY6QFPGmUQzn8zeuSWXIV9yYROY5icmtdqhrqJvzfHBM/s640/Engine+mount+riser+dry+fitting+180+CW+130213.JPG">motor stringers and thrust yoke</a> I didn't meet, but "Jeff the Welder" came by and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLjl7HaJLEcRUqOB3Yq2d5cDji8IC03naFvEjLexUZcGr3kGToOPStYL-fnCBJ0jQExJ90RT28eSoQP-FBZjFevEbrbGI8Keg9xiMSsFQqv3LbCIGhtIghs3Yd8AlVXzIoG3A6AtqZ6_A/s640/DSCN0841.JPG">applied heat</a>. "Greg the Other Welder" had <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/fiat-lux-baby.html">done as much with the original solar arch the year previously</a>. <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2015/09/plotting-hatch.html">Tony Johnson</a> has given very helpful advice in many instances, as has <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2019/05/getting-properly-hosed.html">Brian Luckhurst when I had to puzzle out the arcana of helm pumps</a>. Brian Mackey, who fabbed up <i>Valiente</i>'s anchor roller years ago. Fred Blair, <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2020/02/cabinet-shuffle.html">who recently dadoed together our excellent galley cabinet</a>. And <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2020/01/last-of-toronto-boat-shows-we-certainly.html">Genco wizard Mitch Kitz</a>, who has been an invaluable source of knowledge over the years. <br />
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Fabrications have continued apace over the years, with millwright/welder/fabricator of fame Andrew Barlow's work on the <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2016/12/plotting-hatch-redux.html">companionway hatch</a>, the <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2017/04/gas-spring-hatchling-and-unsound-methods.html">engine bay hatch</a>, the <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2019/05/stand-by-your-pipe.html">replacement standpipe</a>, the<a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2018/03/through-hull-and-back.html"> replacement seacock and exhaust nipples</a> and, lately, the Jordan Series Drogue chainplates seen above. And various other jobs...he's been great and, as the sharp eye may discern, has very good habits of mind when it comes to fit, finish and those little extras, like the <a href="https://www.sandvik.coromant.com/en-gb/knowledge/drilling/pages/step-drilling-or-step-and-chamfer-drilling.aspx">chamfering and deburring </a>on the shackle pin hole, I've come to recognize as Good Stuff. And he did a lot of these jobs while being a Vice-Commodore of Marine Operations and Free Stick Welding at our mutual boat club and therefore pressed for time.<br />
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My point is that working with these craftspeople has helped me to understand some of their techniques and concerns that really make the difference between "OK, I suppose" and "fit for purpose". Skippers don't always know the difference, or, sadly, don't care enough to know. If I can't do a job, or, due to lack of real experience, can't do it well, I will forgo <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2016/04/stepping-up.html">the fabrications I can't (yet) do well </a>and farm it out. And attempt to learn from the skills thereby revealed. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This used to be part of the previous iteration of saloon companionway stairs. Now it's going to be a charger holder.</td></tr>
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I like to recycle things from the boat for sometimes unusual purposes. This was part of the old companionway stairs. The revisioned foredeck "workshop" needs a) weight aft when possible; and b) a way to mount things on the collision bulkhead that is both tidy and which doesn't put fresh holes into the saloon forward bulkhead unless strictly necessary.<br />
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Enter <a href="https://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-5200-10-oz-Marine-Adhesive-Sealant-PN06500HC/202258948">3M 5200</a>, the <a href="https://www.morganscloud.com/2016/08/08/goop-and-goo-and-why-i-hate-5200/">devil's toothpaste</a>. "5200" is disliked because it works as advertised. It's a tenacious, goopy glue/sealant suitable for adhering keels to stubs and takes either a special chemical or brute force, such as <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2013/01/amazing-what-you-can-get-done-on-sunny.html">I exerted to remove the pilothouse roof</a>, to break its grip. We don't actually use it much, because less sincere goop will keep the sea on the outside without requiring sabresaw blades and vivid swearing to undo.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An old Westmarine 20 amp charger will hang here to charge the windlass pair of Group 27 batteries.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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We'll see if it is as keen on gluing wood to metal as it is on, say, gluing fingers together. This bit of salvaged board will hold a recycled charger, a small inverter and a couple of lights...probably.<br />
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Meanwhile, irrespective of plagues and fear, spring has sprung. We continue in hopes of leaving, despite grim portents.<br />
<br />Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-76357261590111106882020-03-22T17:17:00.000-04:002020-03-22T17:17:14.085-04:00Refitting in the year of the plague<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The windlass battery bank is in place, and so are the new Honda 2200 gensets, which are making us look prescient in some respects, despite the fact that I've wanted a new pair for several years so we can fully charge at anchor...or weld things.</td></tr>
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A realistic review of our situation has to allow that we <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/6711194/canada-us-border-closes/">may not be able to leave Lake Ontario this summer</a>. This is because the situation at the American locks (and indeed, the Canadian locks on the St. Lawrence in regard to "non-essential travel") is at present unknown, and if I even bothered to ask some official, events unrelated to the toxicity of our boat's crew could overtake and alter policy quicker than we can whip out valid passports. I know we have to identify ourselves to the operators of American locks as Canadian boaters, but is chucking a line to a lock staffer crossing a border? If we never leave the boat? Can't say right now, but it's waking me up at night.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mrs. <i>Alchemy</i>, who stopped being a wildlife rehabber last week, thinks she recognized the trumpeter swan in the foreground. We were measuring the templates for the chain plates for the drogue bridle when these two rolled up.</td></tr>
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We are in our apartment until April 15, at which point we expect to be out of the marina and on the wall at National Yacht Club for a few days to finish up some jobs at the club workshop and generally prep for imminent passagemaking. There's a few personal matters to attend to, but we may be out of luck when it comes to any services or docks available on the trip down, which could make things...well, not impossible, but difficult in some respects, particularly given that it's still very early in the season to live aboard. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Found the prop puller! Now I want to stow it, greased up, in the <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-ghost-tank-haunting-my-bilges.html">Ghost Tank</a> just because I hope not to need it for some time.</td></tr>
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For instance, our club, due to the "social distancing" aspect of the current pandemic, is considering delaying the club's boat launching, scheduled for April 25-26, until...who knows? The club is already largely closed for business, although the washrooms and the workshop is open and people are roaming about doing the usual commissioning jobs, but with no sure outcome that the crowds and the cranes will arrive at the end of April. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another U-bolt firmly placed through the pilothouse roof...it will also serve as a tie-down for items such as the whisker pole.</td></tr>
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Of course, we hope to be in Kingston or so by the end of April. We have to continue to work as if that's going to happen, if for no other reason than we will be living aboard, come viral hell or Lake Ontario high water, which, naturally in this year of the plague, <a href="https://ijc.org/en/loslrb/watershed/water-levels">is totally also a thing</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The keen-eyed will note that the current water levels of March 18, 2020, are at the same height as those of April 21, 2019, meaning "high, indeed" and potentially record-breaking. </td></tr>
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This adds several considerations to our departure plans: 1) High water levels may threaten yacht club and marina operations severely: fuel docks may be shut and electricity turned off to docks still clear enough of the water to use. Our early start may get us past (if we can clear the locks to more or less sea-level past Montreal), but we can't count on even marinas being open for business if the pandemic is cancelling boat launching plans; 2) The high water is <a href="https://slgo.ca/ocean/">increasing currents in much of the St. Lawrence river and estuary</a>. While this is not necessarily dangerous, it is a consideration that may make getting in and out of marina and YC facilities tricky.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Took a trip by train out to our chandlery of record last week. Had no problem getting a seat as I am <i>The Last Sailor on Earth</i>.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, things are getting altered, improved or fixed. The "outside" throttle shifter was very balky and eventually seized in the shifter part for reasons that remained unknown even after a forensic review with the manufacturer's service tech via phone in Florida. So, not wanting to plate over and redrill fresh holes for something different, I invoked the warranty and got a replacement. So far, so good, but I won't actually hook up the Morse cables of the outside throttle shifter until we "dewinterize" circa the end of March and move the boat to a finger-end for coming and going, which will be after we remove the gradually failing boat cover this coming week. As will most boat things, creating an orderly action plan is part of the deal. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New shifter is identical to the old, save that this, you know, shifts.</td></tr>
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Another job of some import is to fabricate and install c<a href="https://www-morganscloud-com.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/JHH5_100915.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&quality=85&resize=400%2C244&ssl=1">hainplates for the series drogue</a>. <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2020/02/drogue-therapy.html">As discussed earlier</a>, this involves cutting and <a href="https://www.metalsdepot.com/stainless-steel-products/stainless-steel-flat">shaping stainless steel bar stock</a> and through-bolting the resultant plates to the hull at the stern. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1946/2733/products/G209A_crosby_alloy_screw_pin_anchor_shackle_specs_1400x.png?v=1551551041">Crosby G-209A 3/4" shackles with 7/8" pins and a seven-ton working load</a>. I was told that a pair of 5-ton shackles would serve, but the size of these goes nicely with the closed thimble of the Dyneema bridle.</td></tr>
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Because the five-inch wide, 1/2-inch thick SS plates are awkward to hold against the sternquarters on a windy day, I hit upon using some much lighter alu stock at 2 1/2" wide, which is what the SS will be cut down to, to measure out where the various holes should go. The idea is to actually make four 2 1/2" wide chainplates out of the two five-inch pieces and to drill all of them with matching bolt holes. Inside the boat, the "spares" will be rotated 180° and will serve as backing plates. The two will sandwich the hull and will be bolted together with six 1/2" SS bolts and locknuts per side.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apparently, I was holding my phone upside down. The shackle end will be rounded off smoothly to lessen the slight chance of damaging the bridle. The dotted line represents the angle of the stern just below the pipe gunwales.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, back in the boat, I've started to saw this and reinforce that to swing the bed platform in the aft cabin athwartships, as described before, but I also did a small job to aid and abet the new shifter. That was to cut the compartment top for the hydraulic ram area so that the Morse cables for the outside throttle shifter, which also wend their way through there to get back to the engine, could have as few curves and therefore as little opportunity for friction or related hang-ups, as possible. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This involved some fun measurements and a hole saw to make a decent-looking slot. I've saved the cut-out and may tidy this job by restoring it so the cables just emerge from the hole and go straight to the shifter body.</td></tr>
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The bed platform will feature a hinged portion that will "go up in the daytime" and will give us about four extra inches of width. More to come on that project as I do some more reinforcements.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The swans persisted. They were curious and unafraid, <a href="https://www.trumpeterswansociety.org/swan-information/faqs.html">suggesting the dreaded bread supplement to their diets</a>.</td></tr>
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Every day is busy now, and last week saw the arrival, courtesy of a friend driving down from Barrie, of a <a href="https://hespv.ca/kyo-140sx">replacement solar panel </a>for our solar arch, which I will install once the plastic's off and I have easier access to the aft deck.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now with five extra watts than its predecessor!</td></tr>
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I've given my opinions on the somewhat dubious odds of self-rescue, in my opinion, at sea <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2012/02/self-rescue-more-reality-checking.html">before</a>, and while we've invested in items both <a href="https://www.viking-life.com/en/yachting-/liferafts-/liferafts-/4848-l000u006-viking-rescyou-liferaft-4-8-persons-hi-vis-yellow-6-persons">expected </a>and slightly <a href="https://oceansignal.com/products/mob1/">exotic</a>, including the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTP6NQUNI87weaYfmjZotXv2FBKzui_-brHI7oPfy5_2b-AbuQUCFoxwPTn8YJD1tPdNiX7hGF1JmFrqCe2CGg0ZWS-65up_mDo4ZiuSgBEt6UkEcZuwTrvYusQHl8P4gqfBstCwNmIZoo/s1600/20190716_121322.jpg">EPIRB route</a>, the best way to not drown, as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dDGkT5cQ4g">better sailors than us contend</a>, is to stick with the boat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and after. The red tape of shame is doing a fine job, despite the abuse.</td></tr>
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The best way to do that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNcdxb2MRTU">is not to fall off</a>. Sounds obvious, doesn't it? It takes, however, some planning and, more importantly, the habit of clipping on. Even then, one has to be careful in assuring that if you do "stay with the boat", it isn't in <a href="https://www.pbo.co.uk/seamanship/is-it-safe-to-use-a-tether-25125">an attitude of potential drowning</a>. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Irises in Toronto on St. David's Day (March 2) suggest both spring and our departure are coming on fast.</td></tr>
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There's no secret here. All crew must, in all but the most benign, all hands on deck situations, wear fully functional tethers that hold them to the boat, either at a <a href="https://www.suncorstainless.com/pad-eyes">padeye </a>or on a jackline. Now, there's <a href="https://www-morganscloud-com.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/JHHOMD1-9291617-350x518.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&quality=85&ssl=1">plenty of ideas about jacklines</a>; a typical setup can be found <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS06AKfIkIk">here</a>. But best practices of running them port and starboard with sufficiently strong webbing suit us; the existence of the pilothouse means we want them to run from the aft end of the pilothouse to the forward <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSjRmOCZNMwuZtumF8LjxyHajr7UNgtvtG2BbrC2c1YRWTJLa9EDDAp81z_gaZ28Tijp_Z8DJkFPah-PAetFUfIJbSZzPdg_a2Ym_OAb7wUwe7ZZqBC1_zBunSUBWYxzxCXkYE9Le59OIu/s640/20190604_193511.jpg">bollards</a>, The tethers come in three-foot and six-foot (1 and 2 m., respectively) lengths, which will allow us to go forward to the nearest padeye or other suitable anchor point to safely work on the foredeck for anchoring or sail adjustment purposes, even in heavy weather. Which will likely be neither comfortable nor dry, but if there's <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/nothing-like-real-thing-november.html">one thing I've learned at sea, uncomfortable and wet beat waving at a rapidly shrinking stern every time</a>. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The super-beefy Wichard folding padeyes, through-bolted and backed to the aft part of the pilothouse. And yes, those shavings and drill dross have been removed.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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I put in two <a href="https://www.defender.com/search.html?q=615430++&x=36&y=15">pretty massive Wichard folding padeyes</a> for where our webbing will start. These feature breaking loads of 9000 kgs, so I can't imagine a force that would break them without killing anyone attached to the jacklines they carry. These will be lashed as tight as I can make the to offer as little deflection (and therefore a chance to pick up speed or add to the tether's length) as we can manage.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tethers we have include strong and simple webbing ones, and <a href="https://marine.wichard.com/fiche-A|WICHARD|7064-0203010200000000-ME.html">these double ones</a>. </td></tr>
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In the above photo is seen the elements of getting out on the aft "sailing" deck at, for instance, watch change. The tether's smaller silver hook goes on the <a href="https://www.spinlock.co.uk/en/categories/lifejackets/product_groups/deckvest-vito">D-ring of the PFDs</a> we have. Ascending the companionway, we clip on the shorter tether to the<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That propane tank will be better secured shortly, I know.</td></tr>
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Once on deck, the longer tether will be clipped onto one of two stainless-steel U-bolts, backed with 1/2" SS plate, around the solar arch at its strongest point.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Obviously, that plastic shrinkwrap will soon go, too.</td></tr>
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The U-bolt isn't pretty, but that's not that kind of boat. Being capable of rotation, it can follow the tether into the footwell in which the watchstander/helmsperson stands. Once clipped on, the short tether is released, the crew moves into position, clips onto one of the two U-bolts and releases the longer tether which can hang from the PFD. Reverse order to get back into the pilothouse.<br />
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I'll put the jacklines on once the boat cover is off in a couple of weeks. There's a bit more to do in bolting on padeyes to either side of the mast tabernacle to allow safe working at the mast, and perhaps the addition of <a href="https://www.kong.it/en/2-products/items/f1-carabiners/p57-tango">further carbiners</a> and Spectra loops instead of hard points to make everything run smoothly, but this is, I hope, a prudent start to a complex topic.</div>
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When last we gathered, I had had welder/fabricator Andrew Barlow make up one of his simpler efforts, a three-piece steel frame for the starboard side of the forepeak "workshop", so I could better allocate spares, tools and other items, such as line, cable and wire.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What Mrs. Alchemy gets up to whilst I am swearing at the bow: a much-needed repainting of the pilothouse interior.</td></tr>
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Given the size of the forepeak, however, construction within is largely a solo effort; besides, given that I have a touch of tendonitis in one shoulder (which is better than a torn rotator cuff, according to my "tough love" physician), no one needs to hear that much vile <a href="https://www.ozy.com/flashback/how-to-swear-like-a-19th-century-sailor/91031/">sailor talk</a> when I am bearing down on a Makita drill.<br />
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Moving a couple of toolboxes elsewhere on a boat is predicated in large part on keeping things from moving. To date, I've relied on <a href="https://www.westmarine.com/eye-straps">eye straps</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungee_cord">shock cord</a>. And certain mechanical aids, such as the chunk of wood meant to confine the spares box.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The box is cheap, but fit for purpose. It's half spares storage and half tools I want to hand in this work space.</td></tr>
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The lashing down of fairly heavy boxes is provisional at the moment. I may put further chocks or hold-downs to keep said containers in place should the sea prompt quick action. Or if I have to access something while we are flailing about. The point is that the above toolbox, which weighs about 18 kilos, is now about 30 cm. aft of where it was on the port side. Which, from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_ballast">boat trim point-of-view</a>, is desirable. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This box contains a couple of sanders and some hardware odds and ends. It's light and can therefore go forward without much penalty.</td></tr>
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There's a small work area left free of stowage. A bigger area now exists on the "heavier-duty" port side. Beneath both workbenches are <a href="https://www.e-rigging.com/eye-bolts-eye-nuts-and-eye-screws">eye bolts</a> for stowing line, anchors and any appropriately sized gear capable of fitting in the space. Should this gear amount to significant weight, I can remove or reposition trim ballast (<a href="https://5.imimg.com/data5/WP/PB/AP/SELLER-15941232/50-kg-lead-ingot-500x500.jpg">lead ingots</a>) off the boat or further aft. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where the eye bolts go. There's a fair bit of space here in which spare/<a href="https://www.morganscloud.com/2020/02/22/retrieval-of-dyneema-spectra-series-drogues-solved/">specialty lines </a>can be kept neat and ready.</td></tr>
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Clearly, I'm not finished yet. Some sort of coating to preserve that fresh plywood would be advisable, but one calm, warm day this coming spring can see that completed. Also, there's a foredeck full of gear and line wanting stowage in this currently unstowed space. This, too, shall pass.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The underside. Lines/gear can hang on carbiners or just via loops on these eye bolts. If I need <a href="http://commutercruiser.com/tips-for-chafe-gear/">chafe gear</a>, I'll install it. </td></tr>
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There's room at the end for sail stowage. Currently, there's a spare main, which will go in newly made space in the aft cabin (yes, more on this shortly); a <a href="https://www.sailboat-cruising.com/storm-sails.html">storm jib of ridiculous heaviness</a>; a smaller staysail than the one rigged, just acquired today; and a cruising spinnaker. The last three sails are light, or rather, lightish, and at perhaps 12 kilos in total, can sleep in the pointy end, especially if I move several dozen kilos of chain down and aft.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Behold "the closet". It's where pointy, light things will live.</td></tr>
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The last portion of the new construction is "the closet". You'll have to visualize that worklight cord and the anchor windlass conduit cleanly secured on the outside of the little length of wood on the hinge. The reason for the hinged wood? I have a lot of pointy, awkward objects, such as oars, plastic Portabote thwarts, Alchemy's 2.2 metre tiller, nesting dinghy mast parts, and mostly et cetera, which, while not particularly heavy, take up some space, particularly vertical space. Being tall and not alive, they tend to fall down, even more often at sea. So I need a place to stow them, either on a series of hooks and loops overhead, or in this snug spot seen above. That little piece of wood is not strong enough to keep anything truly set in motion in place, but it is enough to stop things from tipping out of that space, especially when lashed down.<br />
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Or so I hope. Like most of my ideas, "provisional" is the keyword.Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-7020835773282872212020-02-20T17:47:00.003-05:002020-02-24T22:12:05.726-05:00Workshipping (1)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's possibly too many lubricants.</td></tr>
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Four years back, <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-three-sided-garage.html">I sketched out a vision of what I wanted to do with the workshop in the forepeak of <i>Alchemy</i></a>. The first seven feet of the boat is a a snug, utilitarian room forward of the collision bulkhead that is reached by ladder beneath a strong steel hatch on the deck. I had ideas of putting a bicycle seat on a post in there, and having a fold-down cot for extra crew on the starboard side, and of having the windlass over the anchor well. I even wanted to cut a <span id="goog_1880767135"></span><a href="https://www.zhiyoumarine.com/Content/upload/2017172525/201706280949219416403.png">big, doggable hatch</a> <span id="goog_1880767136"></span>(above the waterline) into the saloon with an eye to ventilation and even working on the boom down there.<br />
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Well, a lot of that thinking has gone by the wayside. The ladder down into the forepeak is not a big deal and it is a compact solution to egress and the thought of engineering a square hole into the saloon...without compromising the deck support...seemed unnecessary. So did the idea of a folding cot down there. We've determined that we can stow storm sails and the light, if voluminous, cruising spinnaker in the available space if it's better laid out. The <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2019/07/good-grief-we-are-aboard.html">windlass was ultimately positioned farther aft</a> so as to drop the anchor chain farther aft (better for weight out of the ends). The batteries powering the windlass are at the foot of the ladder (covered, of course) and on the centerline. The charger is on the bulkhead and there is now 12 VDC and 120 VAC (20 amps, too) outlets in this little compartment. Little bright lights to follow. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The heavier things are now farther aft and the tools and spares aren't all on the port side now. Trug is still misspelled.</td></tr>
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This is the new look going forward. Experience actually sailing with a bunch of long/tall bits of gear have persuaded us that a sort of "rack" in which to stow the tiller, oars, <a href="https://thefloatinglog.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/suspended-thwart-seat.jpg?w=825&h=510&crop=1">PortaThwarts</a>, and the sailing rig, rudder and centerboard of the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEi3POZCa9sdj209ukaYT0qt-6hyphenhyphenlfHn2OvQ7R3FEs4qP5faRQBEZBJgGi9QfGSnwONoGD1a0VgLkm0DmQj2w65-G5Ma-26l0VxT-sH6lagWtao6-sgVByx7t4LJokxGuHhd_MfQmJbKEpGUIijPOssOnks8uTpF6TwyVladej185MUZ=s0-d">nesting dinghy</a>. Most of this gear is light and will, if restrained by shock cord, stay put even in rough seas, but the keyword is "restrained". The rest of the starboard side of the workshop space is now ready to have another 53 inches of working surface. This is, on most boats, an unheard-of luxury. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working the grinder meant putting a fire blanket over the batteries to even nod in the direction of "to code"</td></tr>
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Once again, welder/fabricator Andrew Barlow was enlisted to weld together three lengths of 1.25 x 1.25 x 3/16th inch L-bar mild steel into something strong enough to take a marine plywood top (that's my job to obtain and cut). The foredeck is covered in boxes of line, shore power cords, a few sailbags and other bits and pieces formerly loose on the starboard side and bungeed into lumps. As soon as the weather crests freezing, Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>will coat the exposed metal and the weld beads I've now ground down to keep this stuff from rusting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As can be seen, some of those tools and spares on the left would be better on the right.</td></tr>
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I discovered, too late, that there was no 15 amp outlet on the marina's power posts. We've used 15 amp service successfully in the past via one of my 12 ga. contractor-grade extension cords, but this time, I had to take power from the 15 amp outlet inside the boat, powered from the 30 amp shore power service.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stick around, you'll learn something.</td></tr>
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Unfortunately, this circuit breaker kept tripping, and the irony is that I knew I was receiving two <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-823DfT-sE">Honda eu2200i gasoline generators</a> the very next day. Combined, these two beasts could have easily supplied Andrew's welding rig with enough juice to get the job done. <br />
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So I spent quite a bit of time waiting for the breaker to trip and then flicking it back on. Andrew started to do shorter beads and eventually got full penetration of the welds, but it was an annoying few minutes and I was feeling the AC breaker board for any signs of warmth. There wasn't any.<br />
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So we paint, and then I cut the plywood top to fit and then I bolt said top to the metal and rearrange the tool boxes and spares stowage. I have SS eyebolts so I can hang spare line more neatly, and eyestraps to keep everything lashed down. Lastly, I'll add a few more lights down there and get a larger "<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Tubtrugs-SP42G-Large-Green-Liter/dp/B000A63M04">trug</a>" for the anchor chain. <br />
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More fun to come soon as we ramp up to moving back aboard.Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-13992247749369792952020-02-16T19:05:00.001-05:002020-02-16T19:05:19.413-05:00Cabinet shuffle<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Behold! Custom cabinetry. That microwave is actually a dead version of the one we currently use and which is "right-sized", at a mere 700W of draw, for occasional use aboard.</td></tr>
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What is <a href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/storage+or+stowage">stowage</a>? More than just a mispronunciation of "storage", stowage is specifically securing items on a boat so that they can't fly free on a seaway, which would be comical were a rubber spatula involved, and fatal with a large, full can of paint or "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0RrWJiybec&lc=z23svlgzirzxuh5py04t1aokgui204gtlpmst5vzhgemrk0h00410">Big Bertha</a>", your favourite motor mount persuader.</div>
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The stowage lacking on the good ship <i>Alchemy </i>is has been centered in the forepeak workshop (more to come soon on that topic) and in the galley. As discussed in the latter half of<a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-great-cover-up.html"> this post</a>, there was a big empty space above the sinks just crying out to be filled with useful stowage, and to do so in a way that was functional and didn't look like treefort-grade crap was beyond my skill set.</div>
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Enter Fred Blair. Fred is a pal of my father-in-law, Dave McMurray, who designed boats and ran a Pickering, Ontario-based chandlery in the 1980s. Fred and Dave connected via that work and presumably found common cause as Fred is a "Shipwright, Cabinet Maker, Custom Woodworking" person held in high esteem by Dave. So we met in January and he took the job, which was good for us as we had had poor luck to that point getting this particular task fulfilled.</div>
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As can be seen, the cabinet we wanted was, design-wise, pretty basic, but had to be of undisputed strength, given the motion of the ocean and the prospect of jamming it with not-entirely light cookware.<br />
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Early on, we decided against the five-inch-tall "mug rack" below the microwave "nook" in favour of taller cupboards on top. This allows a more logical arrangement of wide, short things, such as barbeque tools and our electric grill, up top, and pots and/or bulk food supplies below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fit and finish with the hinges of wonderment. Photo (c) Fred Blair: Shipwright, Cabinet Maker, Custom Woodworking</td></tr>
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The interiors are beautifully finished; the only alterations I've made, save for the mounting holes drilled earlier today, are to put a series of vent holes on the underside of the dish storage area. If dishes are stowed still a little damp, they can drain over the sink closer to the centerline.<br />
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In addition, the internal shelves and separators can be moved about and independently secured as needed, and the rear of the microwave compartment is well-vented to lessen the chance of overheating.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The finished product at the shop. Photo (c) Fred Blair: Shipwright, Cabinet Maker, Custom Woodworking</td></tr>
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The hinges are something else. They close almost hydraulically and once I install the magnets Fred provided, I suspect they'll need a fair bit of force to open, which is desirable on an ocean-bound vessel as we hope to sail.<br />
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Installation of a cabinet made of 3/4" marine plywood means some tricky maneuvering. I'm not sure what this cabinet weighs, but it feels similar to our <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2017/08/calling-spade-anchor.html">30 kilo SPADE anchor</a>, Naturally, one item is made for dropping and the other isn't. After measuring out and drilling some mounting holes (note the big and torquey Makita drill I trot out for whipping through steel bulkheads), I had to fab up a sort of strut to keep the cabinet, which at one point had all three of us positioning it freehand over the sinks, supported while I drew drill marks on its future home.<br />
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A quick blast of epoxy paint on the bare metal, which still took, Makita enthusiasm notwithstanding, three drill bit changes to get up to the desired 1/2 inch bolt hole sizing, and we were ready to dog down.<br />
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And here's the result. The internal partitions were removed for reasons of access.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fits like a charm. Picture a spice rack in that space above.</td></tr>
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The mounting bolts have washers either side of the bulkhead and the cabinet, and are secured by heavy Nylok nuts. Picture also some sort of 12 VDC pointing directly down into the sinks.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There is not a huge amount of clearance here, but I can see to wash, and Mrs. Alchemy, at a foot shorter, likes the ease of access to the cabinet contents.</td></tr>
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This cabinet solves a lot of problems for us. That open area on the side-mounted cabinet held the microwave before, and is now freed up to hold food or bottles. The cabinet is strong enough and well-bolted enough to have on its side a handhold to make the transit to and from the pilothouse safer. All in all, we are well-pleased, and will be even more so once it's filled with our kitchen stuff. Thanks, Fred! And thanks to FiL Dave for connecting us with such a talented craftsman.Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-55719508164243037852020-02-16T11:43:00.001-05:002020-02-16T23:21:57.953-05:00Drogue therapy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a<a href="http://jordanseriesdrogue.com/"> Jordan Series Drogue</a> as built by Angus Coleman of <a href="https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/sailing-skills/learned-deploying-series-drogue-gale-66085">Ocean Brake</a> in the UK.</td></tr>
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There's a surprisingly long list of items, some quite expensive, one hopes never to use as a sailor. These include obvious ones, like a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dnxQZXXsv4">SOLAS-grade flare</a> and the <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2019/07/good-grief-we-are-aboard.html">liferaft</a>, to more cryptic items, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drogue">drogues</a>, <a href="http://www.sailtrain.co.uk/seamanship/weather.htm">warps </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_anchor">sea anchors</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amusingly, the drogue, which weighs about 18 kgs., came wrapped in two very big IKEA bags.</td></tr>
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The idea of a drogue is to slow the pace of a boat <a href="https://www.liveabout.com/heavy-weather-sailing-2915502">running off</a> in <a href="https://www.northsails.com/sailing/en/2016/09/heavy-weather-sailing-techniques">heavy weather</a>. Running off is the opposite tactic to that of <a href="https://asa.com/news/2017/03/24/heaving-to-steps/">heaving-to</a>, in which the jib, main and rudder are all set so as to sail the boat slowly upwind. Heaving-to as a tactic is largely passive: one can tie off the wheel or tiller and essentially doze, if not entirely comfortably, as the storm passes over or even to delay a harbour approach until daylight reveals potential complications. Heaving-to is something some boats do more readily than others, and requires practice to fiddle with the sails in order to balance the desired slow forereaching that keeps the boat slowly "crabbing" forward.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The forces of the sails and the rudder nearly cancel each other out and the wave train is therefore met with "the pointy end" and at a low speed. Expect a twisty ride, but not a dangerous one. Diagram (C) Sail Magazine</td></tr>
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To run off in a gale or a storm situation is a more active strategy requiring active steering, but it also allows more options in terms of reacting to worsening weather. Running off means to steer downwind at a slight angle to the wave train and (usually) the wind aft in order to make more speed either away from the storm or gale, or away from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buys_Ballot%27s_law">dangerous quadrant </a>of the storm or gale. The problem with running off is essentially the same as the problem with heaving-to: eventually, the winds and wave heights may exceed the usefulness of the given tactic and at that point, the transition has been made from "heavy weather sailing" to "<a href="https://sas.cruisingclub.org/survival-sailing">survival conditions</a>". Not good.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The IKEA bags reveal the drogue elements of bridle, leader, cones and tail. And the bag (black mesh) in which to store the lot.</td></tr>
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If the skipper and crew have opted to run off in heavy weather, a problem that will soon be made apparent is that of too much speed. Even in conditions of reduced sail, or even bare poles, a boat can travel faster than its hull speed, at which point the rudder can lose its effectiveness and/or the hull can "surf" and be prone to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broach_(sailing)">broaching</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsizing">capsizing </a>or <a href="https://www.yachtingworld.com/features/paul-larsen-advises-avoid-pitchpole-76119">pitchpoling</a>, all dangerous outcomes at sea. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bridle "legs" are shackled to the chainplates bolted to the stern and meet at the drogue leader, after which the cones deploy.</td></tr>
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The best option, once running off has been decided upon, is <a href="https://www.morganscloud.com/2018/10/13/just-get-a-series-drogue-designed-by-don-jordan-dammit/">to ready a series drogue should the sea state intensify to the point where the boat may become uncontrollable</a>. While this will vary from vessel to vessel and depends on hull type, design and less quantifiable aspects such as windage, the outcome desired is to <a href="http://jordanseriesdrogue.com/D_12.htm">slow the forward progress of the boat to allow the waves to roll beneath it</a>. The boat is still sailing actively and is still moving, presumably away, from the worst parts of the storm conditions, but its speed has been reduced by the drag of a long, trailing line with fabric cones that act like a large rubber band to retard forward movement smoothly and which, thanks to a weighted end, will stay submerged in the advancing wave faces.<br />
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Now, this doesn't mean a carefree ride. Note all the complexities of retrieval of the drogue in a chat between sailors Randall Reeves and John Harries in the video above. And even the drogue won't necessarily keep you dry: The aft part of the boat can still be smacked by a <a href="https://www.pbo.co.uk/nautical-almanac/glossary-of-nautical-terms/pooped-to-be-8789">pooping wave</a> and the motion inside the boat can still be considerable. But if the boat is sailing actively, even in heavy conditions, the odds of not only surviving, but of preserving the rig and gear and avoiding injury or worse among the crew increase. <br />
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Series drogues exert great stresses on themselves, which are transferred to the hull. We therefore ordered ours with Dyneema cores, which made the drogue both lighter and more compact and stronger than the nylon-line alternative. Angus Coleman, the amiable contact at Ocean Brake in the UK, actually dissuaded us from buying the drogue last year as he was on the verge of introducing all Dyneema-core drogues and wanted us to have the opportunity to order that style. Of course, the Dyneema aspects makes the drogue less stretchy than nylon line, but I suspect this is not going to be a particular problem with our steel sailboat. Nonetheless, I am mindful that the attachment points must be engineered correctly so as to transfer all the shock loads that may arise non-destructively. So <a href="https://www.morganscloud.com/2013/06/01/jordan-series-drogue-launch-system/">we are going to have chainplates fabricated to accept the estimated (by Coleman) nine-tonne working loads on the stern</a>. We actually have beefy bollards that can likely handle these loads, but outboard chainplates throughbolted to the hull won't have anything to chafe on, nor will they have much of a chance to catch on the windvane or the transom-hung rudder.<br />
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So this is another piece of the puzzle of preparedness. While we will do a practice deployment or three, let's hope, as with the liferaft, we need never use the thing.<br />
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I've spent the last two weekends (and Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>eight of the last 10 days) working at the Toronto International Boat Show at the <a href="http://www.gencomarine.com/">Genco Marine</a> booth. The missus worked there when they had a harbourside store for a few years when our son was but a nipper instead of the hairy young man he is today, and she has come back to help (wo)man the till for the January event.<br />
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This year, I was asked to work weekends as a human filter for Mitch Kitz, who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of marine electronics and can be considered the Ken Jennings of Salty Jeopardy. Which doesn't exist, but if it did, rum would be involved.<br />
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I've been attending this boat show since 2000, right after we bought our first boat <i>Valiente </i>on August 31, 1999. Due to the possible fudging of press credentials, volunteer work at my boat club's booth, and now getting in as an "employee" of the most transitory type, I count with pride the fact that I have never paid to shop at the boat show.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All that pink fluid is plumber's antifreeze for the winterization of various water feeds. The strut is being removed and replaced with stronger models for that "ssssh" effect I enjoy.</td></tr>
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I have, however, shopped. Search this blog for "boat show" and examples abound of engine and prop purchases, lights and tank bargains, and the inevitable "consumables" of boat hooks and fenders, of which the missus says we have too many and too much. And plenty of sarcasm about dodgy sailboat designs...I didn't even bother with the few examples of dock jewellery present this year. I did get a nice LED 10 watt-equivalent light, however, which is one of two now brightening the engine bay at a "cost" of just 0.0833 amps, times two. <br />
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The boat show, alas, is not what it used to be, not that it ever was this far from the ocean. Most of the boats and most of the visitors, of whom I spoke with dozens and dozens in my "may I help you" role, are orientated toward power boats of various kinds and it was nice, if fleetingly so, to chat about sailboats. None of the sailboaters appeared to be below 50, a grim little factoid about the demographics of those who prefer wind to fuel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There were several of these and they proved popular. Apparently, <a href="https://forums.ybw.com/index.php?threads/rocna-is-the-problem-now-confined-to-the-past-nm.373860/">the PR disaster has passed</a>.</td></tr>
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But any boat requires an anchor, and so I was deemed "the anchor guy", despite a relative paucity of, you know, anchoring much yet on <i>Alchemy</i>, though we did drop the hook a fair bit on the previous boat. I was a little disturbed at the general poverty of knowledge of ground tackle and how to use it, but this is partially due to nearly half of the visitors to Genco's anchor corner stating "I just bought the boat and it's got a rusty Danforth and no windlass...let's talk." The generational transition proceeds apace and new people are learning that boats remain cheap: it's the fitting out with better gear that costs money.<br />
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A lot of barbeques were sold, and I did get a little cross-eyed relating in excruciating detail the attributes of what is essentially a propane mantle in a steel box. But the focus around here is on the beer, the cottage and combining the two with meat on or beside a lake. The ocean is far away and probably cold.<br />
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Which is why I bought this otherwise impractical item. It's a <a href="https://www.wavelinesurf.co.uk/shop/gul-profile-mk2-rigging-jacket/">Gul neoprene zip-up 'rigging jacket</a>', thick and a little heavy, like a bondage blazer. It looks like I would have heat stroke in it in any other place than where we are going, which is the North Atlantic via the St. Lawrence in 10 or so weeks. Ice, snow, sleet and wind may be factors, and this I deem the watchstanding jacket to do it in. Besides, it's discontinued and was very cheap.<br />
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The biggest purchase was that of two <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=honda+eu2200i+specs">Honda eu2200i portable gensets</a>, which can be linked together to produce 4000-odd watts, or 30 amps, which is suitable for light welding or running our whole boat in most situations. Our existing 12-year-old Honda 2000, the predecessor model, will be pickled and stored in Trenton as it is not done yet by a long shot, but it can't be hooked together with a "companion" model like the newer, somewhat more powerful models as they weren't CSA-approved when I first bought it. The new ones are. I saved about $300 and the sales guy will deliver them to <i>Alchemy</i>.<br />
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Lastly, in terms of notable purchases (aside from upping our total of Spinlock Deckvests to four) were the trio of Gul helmets suitable for sailing, kayaking, getting a glancing blow from a boom, surviving a short fall down the mast, or smacking a hard part of the boat falling over. They were also a good price, about half that of MEC, and I remain persuaded that a helmet in a good blow is a good idea.<br />
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The boat show, however, is but a shadow of its former self and I am having trouble reconciling words like "Australia is on fire" and "carbon tax" and "impeding doom" with the massive powercruisers, wave riders and pontoon boats with giant outboards I saw casting wicked spells on middle-aged men and bored-looking spouses. Nonetheless, working on the retail side was interesting and I have yet to manifest the 'flu. And <a href="https://gartsidemarine.com/">Ben Gartside, the man from B.C.who sells me my Beta Marine spares</a>, gave me that rather fetching door (deck?) mat at the top of the page. I will both treasure it and wear it out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The slight bit of corrosion on that frame will be converted chemically and recoated with two-part top paint.</td></tr>
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Behold the underside of the bed platform we've removed in the aft cabin. The black hoses are excess hydraulic feeds for the autopilot and hydraulic actuator that steers <i>Alchemy</i>. The bed platform, more or less two pieces of surfaced marine plywood cut to fit the the hull shape, was on the port side (looking forward). We typically slept (at dock or underway) with our heads at the forward end.<br />
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Anyone who has been to sea in proper sea states can figure out the problems with a <a href="https://www.practical-sailor.com/issues/31_10/features/5119-1.html">fore-and-aft berth </a>that lacks a) <a href="http://www.windtraveler.net/2013/05/snug-as-bug-in-alee-cloth.html">lee cloths</a>; and b) sleeps two. The function of a lee cloth is to keep the sleeping sailor in the berth; a boat on any kind of a heel is likely to throw or roll said snoozing crew out of the bunk and onto the sole, a situation unconducive to rest. The old-school sea berth therefore featured a wooden half-wall of sorts, but this, which functional on larger sailing vessels, did not easily allow said berth to be used as a settee when it wasn't a bed. Fore-and-aft double berths, meanwhile, required a bunk board (see photo), plus a lee cloth, so that two people could be kept still, or at least, could roll only so far, and remain safely asleep.<br />
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The fuss and yogic exertions to leave that hull-side berth in a lively seaway aren't worth picturing. Similarly, the 19th century solution of a well-secured hammock takes up a lot of room and can be problematic on a small yacht in terms of rapid swinging.<br />
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<a href="https://www.pbo.co.uk/nautical-almanac/glossary-of-nautical-terms/pipe-cot-8838">Pipe berths </a>have some advantages in that they can fold or roll up in the day watch and can either be locked into a safe angle of heel or, via rope tackles, can be secured at any angle. And this might be a future project for the saloon, although we already have proper sea berths above the settee seating only requiring lee cloths to be made up to be fully usable in a seaway. Lee cloths, by the way, are commonly bolted to the berth platform and folded away when not in use. We also have two pilot berths in the pilothouse itself, but these are being used for gear and tools at present.<br />
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We've decided to move our sleeping platform across, or, in nautical terms, athwart the forward part of our aft cabin. This will accomplish several objectives, including a) gaining us about 15-20 cms. of bed platform width; b) moving our body weight forward, which is desirable for trim and comfort purposes; c) freeing up a fairly impressive amount of otherwise "dead" space opposite the hydraulic ram suitable for large, if light, stowage, such as fenders, while at sea; and d) meaning we can sleep "head on the high side" irrespective of whatever side the boat is heeling. Lee cloths would still be needed for the aft side of the newly angled double berth, however, in case the boat was to pitch uncomfortably in the off-watch.<br />
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Lastly, it puts the sleeping crew mostly out of the way of the footwell on the aft deck, which is about one centimetre lower than my crooked knee, as I found out this summer while living aboard.<br />
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In the above crappy, rushed diagram hacked from my "electrical layout" schematic, note that the bed extends right across the hull from the port side to the hanging lockers on the starboard. The depth of the lockers here plus the narrowing of the hull aft of the pilothouse means all that width aft of the cabin's built-in bookshelf (and future SSB installation) is needed for adequate sleeping length. However, this means using up all the floor space in the aft cabin, which, when it is deployed, will be under the bed's "flap". Stowed when not in use, the flap will be on a sturdy hinge and will be supported by cross-braces and beams through-bolted to the existing lockers and cabin furniture.<br />
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The present clothing shelving for socks, underwear and T-shirts will be shifting to fore-and-aft stowage in heavy-duty plastic drawers on a platform under the flap. Further stowage space will be "liberated" under the platform and some wiring will be more easily routed under here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those wooden "floors" are actually two triagular access ports to the aftmost bilge through which the prop shaft runs.</td></tr>
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I'll post up further discussion as this project, which I hope to finish before the end of March and our move back aboard.Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-60799646051125450782020-01-12T11:00:00.000-05:002020-01-12T11:00:37.561-05:00The great cover-up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The heaviest snowfall to date (January 11, 2020) was two months ago. We've had nothing like it since.</td></tr>
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The last post described the decision to stay in the water over this winter here in Toronto to get a jump, if a cold one, on next season's sailing, which we hope will see us get to Nova Scotia for a bottom-paint job and a redo of our mast's standing rigging. In the meantime, however, there's a number of jobs aboard to complete before we toddle off down the St. Lawrence River, and our insurance firm informed us that "in-water storage required a boat cover, tarp or enclosure."<br />
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The reason for this is (reportedly) to avoid ice and snow buildup on deck that could a) melt, flood and freeze the interior, causing damage and b) cause the boat to become top-heavy and unstable. Presumably, c) would involve slipping off an icy deck and smashing through the ice, but who knows? We were obliged to extend the policy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good news: the pilothouse roof hatch gasketing doesn't leak!</td></tr>
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As discussed previously, while I had had a frame and a waxed canvas cover for <i>Valiente</i>, our now-sold 33-footer, I had not worked with shrinkwrap and fellow steel boat owners, along with the practised liveaboard community at Marina Quay West, were generous with their advice. I was able to exchange, in the time-hallowed manner, six-packs of Moosehead for a <a href="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jjYAAOSw9z9cQAZR/s-l1600.jpg">propane-burning torch</a> that was both dangerous and useful. <br />
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But first we had to build the thing. The need for it was obvious: November 12 is pretty early here for a big snowfall, so getting the frame together became a matter of some urgency. We took measurements, passed them to our friends on a bigger boat for vetting, and my father-in-law kindly drove me to a Home Depot to acquire the necessary lumber, PVC bits and screws, tape, etc. The tab was about $500. <br />
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The general idea was to cut PVC pipe hoops over much of the deck (about 30 feet out of 40 total, or from the windlass forward to the end of the boom aft). These would be seated in wooden "feet" consisting of a block of wood screwed to a second block in which a hole matching the diameter of the PVC pipe. Said pipe would be stuffed in the hole and cable-tied to the pipe <a href="https://www.marineoutfitters.ca/index.cfm?category=10582%7C11686%7C10148">stanchions </a>welded to the deck. The block would stabilize the pipe and keep it from damaging the paint.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early stages, before the suppprting frame for the door was put in.</td></tr>
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Once lashed to the stanchions port and starboard, the PVC pipe could be bent to fit into a coupler piece at the center, forming an arc or hoop. The forward and aftmost hoops had a T-fitting coupler in order to run a straight pipe as a ridgepole, which itself was lashed to the mast.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The doorframe and its supports, screwed to a sort of collar</td></tr>
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The ridgepole was cable-tied and "anti-chafed" with bubble wrap and tape so that the plastic sheet cover would fit smoothly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Layer 1 of the "tarp battens".</td></tr>
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The next job was (on a calm day) circling the boat in a tender to screw on just above the gunwales (the "toerail" where the deck meets the hull) a series of 1 x 2 inch little lengths of planking to which the plastic cover would be stapled. This took two runs to achieve as a second length of batten was screwed over the first, making a secure "sandwich"; staples alone would soon see the plastic fret and tear free.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">..and after.</td></tr>
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The job took about three afternoons to complete. The idea was to get a moderately snug fit over the hoops and framing and then to "shrink" the plastic to a more aerodynamic tautness. Had we proposed to live aboard, I would have done a better job, particularly as I was coming up with improvements to the process while I was doing it. But really, this is slightly half-arsed as I'm just appeasing my insurer and avoiding shovelling. I've never covered <i>Alchemy </i>on the cradle, and she's had a metre of snow on her decks at times with no ill effects. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh, dear...</td></tr>
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Alas, two 45-knot gales in the same week "sprung" a couple of hoops and poked holes (or widened the necessary ones, as in the gaps for the stays and shrouds) and repairs had to be made.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hoop ends could've poked bigger holes, but didn't, which was nice.</td></tr>
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I drilled holes in the couplings at the apex of the hoop "arches" and used small screws on the underside to better keep them in places. The rest was mostly "the red tape of shame", as Rob Lamb, who came up with this methodology of covering, calls it. I can live with shame.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">People living aboard tend to go to greater lengths than we did. </td></tr>
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The young couple living aboard in front of us did a more elaborate job of tarping their unusual 50-foot steel powerboat, which actually acts as a partial windbreak to ours, and we are rarely the smaller vessel. Also seen in this shot is the 100 foot 5/8" "lock and tidal" line, one of four, we now carry, going forward to a dock opposite from our starboard bow bollard.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The agitator at rest is hung from a convenient spot. The left side is tied to the stern and both lines have anti-chafe.</td></tr>
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Another factor to consider when overwintering in-water in Toronto is that the lake may freeze around the boat, possibly to the point of damaging it. While this is less a problem for a steel boat such as ours is, we still have a transom-hung rudder and a hydraulic ram off the stern that could be damaged by ice pans, so the solution is to suspend an "ice-eater", <a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61og%2B%2BJk24L._AC_SL1000_.jpg">a small electric motor turning a plastic propellor</a>, beneath the boat. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whee!</td></tr>
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The draw of these agitators is about seven amps continuous, but with a capacitor-mediated surge at start-up. I'm drawing 30 amps (24 amps of which are "useful", according to the marina), meaning that I can still keep my battery bank charging all winter and a couple of lights on when needed. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those large fenders would actually save the rudder were the dock lines to part.</td></tr>
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I took some time to tweak the positioning of the agitator to direct the above-zero water from the depths (which is how the ice is kept away from the hull) both at the stern and down the starboard chine of the hull. There's a single protrusion there amidships for the <a href="https://www.panbo.com/simrad-forwardscan-bg-too-a-breakthrough-even-in-beta-testing/">FLS tranducer</a>, and while it would be a very ambitious chunk of ice to get that far down, I might as well keep the area ice-free. To date, there's been little more than a "skin" of ice in the marina basin, however, and there's not the immediate sense of a week-long deep freeze in the next week or so, so all this prep has not been tested as of yet. The marina insisted on me having one of these, strangely, and not the insurance company.<br />
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Barely visible in the above shot (and please ignore the rubbish in the winterized sinks) is the vast, empty expanse of the galley bulkhead. We lack proper storage space for dishes, a means to dry them underway and a place to put a small microwave. So I designed something...<br />
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My father-in-law, Dave McMurray, worked building boats in the 1980s and has maintained some friendships from that time. He suggested a man named Fred Blair, who is building us this design in marine ply with a formica-like veneer. Fred came down to the boat and asked a lot of questions, as did we. We are expecting results better than I can do, meaning I can assemble strong, but fall short on pretty. We've taken down the slats covering the steel behind this side in the pilothouse and will mount it on four M10 bolts and load-spreading fender washers. I will likely bolt on a handhold on the companionway stair side to increase stability in motion. <br />
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Creating this galley stowage cabinet will allow several good things to happen: 1) the dishes will be stowed where they can dry, but not easily move; 2) less accessible lockers currently holding small pans can migrate closer to the centerline; 3) much of the cabinet over the stove can be liberated from loose things such as cutlery, funnels and cups; and 4) the former microwave cabinet can be used for bottle storage, freeing up a large shelf on the starboard side for various foodstuffs.<br />
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Behold the deepest bilge, aft of the diesel and beneath the thrust-bearing yoke of the Aquadrive. Keen eyes can just make out the absence of any ingress of water, as one would hope with something called "dripless" on the shaft. I need to service the Rule 3700 bilge pump and will be changing to a beefier hose. In addition, I am considering getting a second 3700 and float switch just to have it handy as a spare at the upcoming Boat Show. More on the Boat Show in a future post.<br />
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Lastly in this round of winter prep came The Running of the Genset. This Honda 2000 is about 12 years old, but likely has less than 100 hours of running on it, and is still trouble-free. So I believe I will drain it and stow it in Trenton for future land-side use as <a href="https://www.kijiji.ca/v-tool-other/edmonton/honda-eu2000i-inverter-generator/1481759722">they certainly seem to hold their value</a>. It's getting upgraded to two Honda eu2200i models, one of which will be the "<a href="https://powerequipment.honda.ca/generators/ultra-quiet-2200i-companion">Companion</a>" version and which can be hooked together to form a 3600 w continuous genset which will run (combined) for about 2.5 hours on a litre of gasoline. That's enough to weld with on a minor basis, and exceeds what I can produce with the Victron inverter already in play. Total weight will be about 40 kilos for the pair and they can be stowed under cover on deck or in the forepeak down low.<br /><br />A brief review of our power provisions aboard <i>Alchemy</i>: We have a large battery bank of six L-16 6 VDC batteries wired in series-parallel to provide 1185 Ah at 12 VDC. We also have a 400 w wind generator and four fixed 135W solar panels. Lastly, there's the stock 75 amp alternator that we plan to upgrade to 150-200 amps for quick charges AND to make water while motoring with our on-order watermaker. So if all these systems fail, we'll have the means to replicate shore power. More importantly from our point of view is the reduction in time spent inverting power from DC to AC, which is a somewhat wasteful transformation to run "house power" from DC batteries. If we want to vacuum the boat, for instance, at anchor, or to use a terrestrial power tool with a six-amp draw, it's more logical to use a genset for 15 minutes than to invert power from the ship's batteries. The same can be said for charging the forepeak windlass battery bank (two Group 27 12 VDC deep cycle batteries): an hour on the Honda can put them to 100% and "cost" a teacup of gasoline, which we carry in any case in small amounts for the Honda outboard motor. In addition, if we want to make friends in distant places, lugging one or both Hondas in one or both tenders to, say, fix a lagoon-side structure is generally considered a friendly act.<br /><br />More to come shortly, as there is more to tell.<br />
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Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-75639279338380657782020-01-09T18:18:00.002-05:002020-01-09T18:18:53.677-05:00The winter of our content rent <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He's got a fine head of hair, my nephew. And a very nice wife, too.</td></tr>
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Time certainly flies when one is having boat. It's been a rather busy time aboard, abroad and ashore, with blogging updates deferred...but no longer! First up was nephew Ryan's wedding to Alex. Despite a bit of drizzle, a very good time was had. Logistics were tricky for us, however, what with retrieving dress shoes from Trenton and me needing a smaller suit thanks to The Boat Diet Plan: Eat less, move more, preferably on a 32C vessel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A rare shot of <i>Alchemy</i>'s two skippers, not giving conflicting orders.</td></tr>
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After that pleasant duty came a scramble to secure a winter berth; to secure insurance for said berthing; to secure shoreside accommodation; and to feel more secure about some neglected sailing skills. So we buggered off to Niagara-on-the-Lake, as one does.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Foofy wind, however.</td></tr>
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...and to Port Darlington for dinner with sailing pals Matt and D-L...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset and rum, a good combination.</td></tr>
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On a rainy day, I even fit in another trip to see <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2013/08/my-creator-and-his-destroyer.html">HMCS <i>Haida</i></a>, of loving memory...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In case one wishes to construct a WWII destroyer.</td></tr>
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But other needful things beckoned. Our friend and agent for our now-sold house Suzanne Manvell found us a boat-club-proximate flat in late 2018 in which we stayed for 11 months until we moved aboard in June, 2019. Faced with an unexpected winter stay-over here in Toronto, and not Halifax, we asked her again if she knew of a downtown apartment in which we could stay short-term (we expect to move back aboard Alchemy at the end of March, 2020 with the goal of [finally] leaving Toronto circa April 15).<br /><br />Unexpectedly, she said "how about my house?" Suzanne had a tenant leaving a first-floor flat and we could start renting October 1, which suited us perfectly. Her house is only slightly farther away from our winter berth than was the last place, and there's a corner of the garage suitable for sailbags, bicycles and dinghy sail rigs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From stair to door is sufficient for clearing out most of the forepeak, plus bikes.</td></tr>
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The place is spacious and bright. We'd best enjoy it as it's likely to be our last "house" for some time.<br />
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Even the Cabin Boy got his dungeon, suiting his slightly Gothic bent.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He eventually got a bed, firm not cruel.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, we had to wangle insurance. Our carrier insisted that "floating, non-liveaboards" needed a canopy, tent or other covering to cast off snow and ice and discourage top-heavy turtling. Now, we have never done this for <i>Alchemy</i>: we've just shovelled off the decks when needed. But I knew where to go: the good crew of the steel ketch Goshawk, Jay and Rob, who live on Frenchman's Bay and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax8wM5SBqg8">who know their business</a> as they are winter liveaboards.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is from where I took my design cues, but, as will be seen, I didn't go to quite these sturdy lengths.</td></tr>
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Jay and Rob do an impressive, generally bulletproof job because they would know right away were it to fail and because a proper covering makes for a warmer boat.<br />
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They run PVC tubing to the decks and packing tape as transverse supports. Then they shrink the cover on with a propane torch both impressive and, if not wielded carefully, destructive. See next post...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Everyone has the approach that works for themselves.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This "boom attachment point" I pretty well copied directly.</td></tr>
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Having received the collective boat-cover wisdom while we were still at National YC (we moved gradually into the apartment during October as we wanted to sail as long as we could)...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cobourg looking like a mill pond after a fairly gusty passage and a decision to bail out of a straight shot to Waupoos.</td></tr>
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...we learned we weren't going to get approval to stay in the water at our club (it was a longshot) and so confirmed our berth at a nearby marina. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The weather held until late October, save for some weirdness.</td></tr>
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Our slip was wide, but short. Good thing we had plenty of lines.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was actually helpful when constructing the boat cover. I put together the Portabote and worked around the perimeter.</td></tr>
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We also had an unusual 50-foot powerboat in steel from the 1960s opposite, cutting the breeze somewhat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't see many steel boats on Lake Ontario larger than ours that aren't on the job.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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After some exotic maneuvering, we were ensconced.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note the sails, bagged, tagged and garaged for the winter.</td></tr>
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This was Hallowe'en. The next post reveals what came next.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Have you never seen a horny teenager?</td></tr>
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.And it was scary!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-83435183893949851152019-08-31T13:46:00.001-04:002019-08-31T13:46:43.504-04:00A slight change of plans...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apparently it's a popular place these days.</td></tr>
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This is Halifax. At this point, the last day of August, we had expected to be near or nearish to it and booking interesting activities like apartments and hull treatments. But we've had a very busy last six weeks or so, and while frustrating and sweary in parts, it's also been productive. Two weeks ago, circa August 15th, we decided to overwinter here in Toronto, leave the boat in "layup afloat" (mast in, at a slip, covered over with a frame and plastic and with agitators breaking up the ice) so we can go down the St. Lawrence in spring 2020 without rushing and having honed some rather rusty sailing skills.<br />
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Also, there was this factor:<br />
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We didn't want to rush to the Maritimes chased by fall gales and not lingering in nice places because we were racing bad weather.<br />
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Nonetheless, we've now sailed some and repaired or installed a great deal more. The boat's in good, serviceable shape and we have a good game plan for doing here in Toronto what we would have done in Halifax in less familiar surroundings. We've even got a land-based apartment as I do not propose to sleep aboard the "job site".<br />
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Some refitting highlights follow. Amazing what living aboard does for one's productivity!<br />
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It's been a hot summer and we tend to skip lunch. Dinner, however, makes up for it. My belt's needed five new holes since May. Hmm.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So many parameters!</td></tr>
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After a rather steep learning curve with the hydraulic steering, we got the autopilot sorted and properly installed. And attractively mounted, if you ignore the previous generation of gear's mounting and conduit holes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rudder feedback sensor took a day to mount correctly.</td></tr>
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We are at the point now where the AP steers better than we can, so we let it. Basically, we input a true compass heading and correct to conditions. We derive that bearing by putting a cursor with generous offing near our desired destination and just keeping a watch on events. It's clear that a lot of local sailors are going to some waypoint very close to, say, a buoy or other nav aid. That's not so prudent when two or three of 'em do it at once, we feel.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lazyjacks took effort: the irony did not escape me.</td></tr>
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Lazyjacks and two separate Dyneema-core reefing lines are now on the main. That's a safety improvement, as are the preventers we can now rig for downwind sailing in blows.<br />
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Fact is, prior to actually leaving, we haven't needed reefing lines. <i>Alchemy </i>can carry a full main well past 20 knots apparent wind, and if we encounter more, we've just gone to the staysail. But all is different now.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The secondary fuel filter: Not, evidently, guilty.</td></tr>
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We had a big delay around August 1, when, while on a test sail in light air, our engine basically sputtered and died and only started again reluctantly and at very low RPMs. We made it back to our dock with difficulty and an odyssey of troubleshooting commenced.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And goat sacrifice to the Dark Diesel Lords.</td></tr>
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Basically, we were:<br />
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<li>1) starved of fuel, and</li>
<li>2) the fuel was old and grotty, and</li>
<li>3) we needed to change it all, which involved moving all the batteries to access the tank tops to vacuum out crud, and</li>
<li>4) we changed all the supply side fuel lines in case of said crud, and</li>
<li>5) we installed an inline fuel pump (a Walbro FRA-1, for the intrigued), and</li>
<li>6) we changed out all the filter elements, primary and secondary.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And don't forget the goat.</td></tr>
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Very long, laborious story short, the problems seem solved. We've done about 50 hours of rocky and calm motoring without issue, but it took a very long process and a lot of questions strewn about to the helpful people at the club (and elsewhere, thank you!) to solve Why Won't Beta Purr? I feel we were fortunate not to bugger the injectors and we will be cycling thrugh the fuel...and the biocide for the fuel...moe quickly in the future.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ahctual crap sailing!</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, there's life aboard. Frankly, it's pretty nice.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sleep schedule's changed.</td></tr>
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There's a lot of sky watching...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nothing's ripped!</td></tr>
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...and practising sailing in various modes...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scored an end dock. Sweet.</td></tr>
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...and travel to exotic places. OK, this is Trenton, jewel of the Bay of Quinte and where we keep stuff.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An actual exotic beverage, this was. The brewery was micro, indeed.</td></tr>
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We plan to sail as deep into the fall as weather and insurance allow, to see what breaks or falls off. Best to know here than 1000 NM eastbound, I think.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cobourg, a harbinger of Trenton.</td></tr>
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A happy side effect of deferring our departure is that we get to attend my nephew Ryan's wedding. That required some collective sprucing up ashore and the acquisition of more formal duds.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cabin Boy, soon to be Cabin Man.</td></tr>
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Lastly, I put the AP controller on a "helm extender", because just having the thing sticking out of a hole on a NMEA 2000 cable wasn't a long-term game plan. It looks about as nice as I can do with a piece of scrap teak.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The answer was "more helm".</td></tr>
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More to come and sooner next time!<br />
<br />Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-49656864077695958612019-07-17T13:24:00.000-04:002019-07-17T13:24:48.453-04:00Good grief, we are aboard!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Had to come down at dark o'clock to secure this on deck during a gale: Thus is boat life.</td></tr>
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My apologies for the long delay in blogging, but boat jobs, moving jobs,
the appalling need to downsize and a severe time crunch involved in all
of the above have hampered my "free"time and, ironically as we are
supposed to be in semi-retirement, I have <i>never </i>worked so hard in my life, and I suspect Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>would concur.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Replaced the fridge compressor. It's doing well.</td></tr>
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Rather than list my domestic horrors trying to ship half of our possessions into storage and realizing the remainer equalled three boats' worth of stowage, I will simply list the jobs done, approached or best avoided.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hatch strut for forepeak. Stayed up in 25 knots.</td></tr>
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Some jobs have manifested on the basis of deliveries or even weather. In the inevitably severe "culling of the gear", a few items were obviously and quickly done, like putting handholds in tricksy spots.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Needs further protection, obviously.</td></tr>
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Other jobs relied on outside contractor enthusiasm. These welded-on SS bars make the three-inch bollard horns four inches...a small but real improvement suggested by Mrs. <i>Alchemy</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Barlow's Bollard Extenders"</td></tr>
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Other mods/additions were literally a decade in coming. I acquired these Lewmar 44 winches in 2009 or so. They required very precise measuring to get them in place where they would a) not interfere with each other and b) could be effectively bolted onto the deck. They are the new primaries, with the Andersen 40s relegated to staysail heavy weather sheeting and/or drogue retrieval. I spoke to Angue of <a href="http://www.oceanbrake.com/" target="_blank">Ocean Brake </a>who suggested their switch to all-Dyneema leader in the fall means I should defer a drogue purchase to the winter. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brought to you by trig and ADD.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Biggest winch handle versus working clearance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's down a bit, but not more than six inches. There's a shallow beach on the seawall beneath the waves.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, flooding proceeded apace. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He's usefully taller now, about three cm. shorter than me, which makes him able to reach pretty well everything aboard.</td></tr>
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Cabin Boy completed his secondary school education.<br />
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The water tanks were measured, ordered and prepared for.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Huge pain in the ass, this job, but necessary.</td></tr>
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The pilothouse roof was hoisted, strips of electrically isolating HDPE were secured between the mild steel flange and the alu roof, butyl and sealant and bolts restored and rubber leak-stop was sprayed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bonus: It holds the hatch open for brief, calm-wather egress.</td></tr>
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The Lofrans Tigres windlass was installed. Still facing some wiring issues and a hard short to find, however. If it wasn't raining today, I'd have it apart on deck today instead of blogging about it!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bit of a saga choosing 2 ga. wiring.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every journey needs a map, right? Most of the jobs I do are first-time for me. The windlass is more like rewiring a starter motor, so not completely weird or novel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So many holes in the steel deck makes me nervous....</td></tr>
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The job took a couple of days and a couple of hole saws. I've gotten pretty efficient at putting holes, however, in steel decking, by necessity. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HDPE standoffs insulate the windlass body from the steel deck, as recommended by the Italiate instructions.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looks good, but I have to trace a short.</td></tr>
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Other ridiculously varied tasks followed. We had a custom table support made for the saloon. It lowers so that the table forms a bed platform if one is not overly enthusiastic.<br />
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Windshield wiper finally found. I had to fab the link in the shop...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And wire it up...later...</td></tr>
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We had to get out of our rental apartment by June 30. June 27, a truck with three burly Bellevillians showed up and hauled our "stuff" to the Trenton rental property. Said stuff filled a basement bedroom and about 60% of two sheds. We should have, in retrospect, given away even more, because too much crap came aboard and we are still culling, although the sole is visible in places now and other club members are benefitting from our compelled largess.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So many...heirlooms?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>questions the logic of materialism.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The older, wooden, more tool-orientated shed features limited electricity.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Books, beds and toaster ovens?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That Pelican cooler is great, but too big for the voyage. We brought the beat-up Koolatron as an auxiliary fridge.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Behold the spare main...at least it's not stuffed into the forepeak.</td></tr>
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Once again, despite having significantly reduced our belongings last year, we gave away/Freecycled/curbed a vast amount of surplus things. Apparently, one is richer than one thinks!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ubiquitous "Billy" bookshelves. Six of these were successfully curbed in the alleyway.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well, that's nice.</td></tr>
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We got aboard, although it nearly broke Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>and made us uncordial at points, and started to experience life aboard. But more was to come...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another case of loads of measuring and planning and interior alterations to get this, pun intended, in gear.</td></tr>
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Behold the second, "outside helm" throttle shifter. This allows us to correct a real shortcoming of <i>Alchemy </i>and to operate the engine from beyond the pilothouse.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I did not know one could purchase a 2 3/8" hole saw a close match for an Italian spec. Now I do.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Took some adjustments, but it works as advertised and we've practised docking with it. A fine mod.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mast, moon and mainsail.</td></tr>
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The "sundowner" has become a fixture of the day, but so have very early nights (2130-2200h) and rising with the dawn. Mainly due to exhaustion. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wait until you see the plumbing this requires...oy!</td></tr>
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There's doings on the autopilot front, but I will save that for a later post. Needless to say, it's deferred our departure (again) and I'm doing it myself.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Foot plus switch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, that's a fused negative. Buy me a pint and I'll tell you why.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This seemed a reasonable spot, semi-protected yet near the end of the vessel.</td></tr>
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Lastly, or rather, lately, as in yesterday, I mounted the EPIRB, the emergency beacon designed to alert search and rescue folk we've got trouble aboard, or no board at all.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goes off both in water or if buttons are pushed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Belt, meet suspenders.</td></tr>
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<br />Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-71280672774487195382019-05-27T08:01:00.001-04:002019-05-27T08:01:36.246-04:00A flood of infinite labour vs. finite time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The above shots show the progression of the rising waters at our club between May 6 and May 14 this year. <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2017/05/looking-forward-to-sounding-interesting.html" target="_blank">It's a rerun of the destructive flooding of 2017</a>, and while our club, by virtue of having floating and not fixed docks, and the building itself built on a low podium of sorts, is in less trouble than many other lakeside operations, <a href="https://waterlevels.gc.ca/eng/Station/Month?sid=13320" target="_blank">things remain tense</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bridge over excess waters.</td></tr>
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While our previous experience has given us as a club some expertise, even a mild breeze from the wrong direction can send waves against the lawns and brickwork, much of which is now sporting algae and waterfowl and even small fish.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Why, yes, this has made getting masts in problematic.</td></tr>
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Trouble is, there's <a href="https://waterlevels.gc.ca/eng/Station/Month?sid=13320" target="_blank">no evidence that this will stop soon</a>. At its exit to the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario's outflow is controlled by a series of dams, but there's a hard limit to how much water can be sent downstream to Montreal, which has had arguably worse flooding this year. So the rest of the Great Lakes in a very wet winter and spring continue to gush, via Niagara Falls, in our general direction.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trenton shed number 2: Oh, this was annoying.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, work proceeds on the time-honoured labour principle of "you can sleep when you die". The newer of the two sheds in Trenton was, at some cost to temper and knees, completed by my father-in-law and myself despite some clear issues at the plastic shed plant. Never again. Wood and planks for me, or steel. Yeah, steel's the ticket.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't even know what will go into this yet. But something will</td></tr>
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The new tenants are working out fine, despite their discovery of some house-flipper mischief that dogged their enjoyment regarding certain plumbing and electrical half-assery. So bills have been paid.<br />
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The mainsail is on, and the lazyjacks (including a bosun's chair rereeving by Mrs. <i>Alchemy</i>) are lazyjacking. From a distance, <i>Alchemy</i>'s starting to look functional.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those empty slips are now occupied.</td></tr>
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Beneath decks, improvements continue. The new hydraulic lines are installed (autopilot to come) and "anti-chafe" applied. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's not the rub.</td></tr>
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In the same vicinity, I chopped the floor in half and added handles to make the "aft bilge" accessible. It's not a huge space, but it's dry and awkward objects, such as the <a href="http://www.cruiserlog.com/forums/f43/provision-for-storm-shutters-6136.html" target="_blank">storm shutters</a>, can nestle there comfortably.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's the propshaft log down there.</td></tr>
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The anchor's on again. Yes, I need to "borrow" the swim deck of the powerboat ahead of us to safely do this job.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rustier chain is to the Fortress "lunch hook"; the main anchor chain is partially in the lashed black bucket.</td></tr>
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The arrival of the <a href="https://loosnaples.com/how-to-use-pt-series-tension-gauges" target="_blank">monster Loos Gauge </a>permitted a provisional tuning of the rig.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We hired three labourers at short notice to help us hump this thing into place. Never have I paid cash so happily.</td></tr>
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One of my tenants is a contractor and very kindly drove our ridiculously heavy boat cradle off the club property and to the somewhat damp Trenton backyard "depot".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Padeye through-bolted for <a href="https://www.morganscloud.com/2014/03/02/rigging-a-proper-preventer-part-1/" target="_blank">preventering</a>.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, back aboard, some long-standing safety matters were in play. We've never had reefing or preventers rigged on <i>Alchemy</i>, but that's changing. The reefing's pretty straightforward: we're going with<a href="https://www.liveabout.com/reef-the-mainsail-2915473" target="_blank"> two-line "slab" reefing</a> for simplicity and because it's easy to work at the mast for us. Another advantage is that dacron-covered Spectra/Dyneema line means less weight aloft with no loss of strength. String theory in action.<br />
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The padeye above is the terminus of the Spectra-core line that goes on starboard side about the length of the boom and which is secured on a horn cleat near the gooseneck by a loop of shock cord. Running from the cockpit to beefy blocks either side of the bow and then outside of the forward shrouds are two 1/2" Dacron lines, which are stretchier than the Spectra-core. Tying or shackling the boom line to the bow line and cleating off means that downwind work is made safer (and easier on the rig) by <a href="https://theriggingco.com/2015/01/22/boom-brakes-or-preventers/" target="_blank">"preventing" crash gybes</a>. We are still considering a<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcYwwinFO4U" target="_blank"> boom brake</a>, but our mainsheet tackle, at 6:1, is already good at controlled trimming, so we'll review later on.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I call it "Frasier".</td></tr>
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The stern was adorned with the remounting (after the SS base finally turned up) of the deck crane, which is used to bring aboard dinghy motors and provisions of unusual size, delivered by tender.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stairway to heaven.</td></tr>
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I "fabricated" (using a length of wood, a shop vise and main force) a third tabernacle step for Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>to be able to reach the top of the mainsail cover, the mainsail halyard shackle and other areas a little too out of reach for a 160 cm. skipper. Don't let the size fool you: that little tab can take my weight. The angle is on purpose...it just needed a quick filing of the edges.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lexan, stainless steel: two things tricksy to drill.</td></tr>
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A salvaged sheet of 3/8" Lexan shall serve as storm shutter material for the aft cabin portlights and the pilothouse windows forward. We really don't need them elsewhere.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shifty, if you ask me.</td></tr>
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A long-time ambition to have an outside throttle-shifter is about to be realized this week as the existing Morse cables to the engine will be paired with two more similar to special Teleflex fittings which allow either the aft deck throttle-shifter or the pilothouse shifter, assuming both are left in neutral, to operate the diesel. This avoids having to purchase <a href="http://www.boatpartsinfo.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/sep.jpg" target="_blank">"yokes" for 2 into 1-style cabling,</a> which saves money for us and reduces complexity inside the boat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like to keep the engine clean, it's a clean machine.</td></tr>
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Measuring up the preventer geometry, I found the existing mainsheet was too short to allow the boom to get fully "over" in order to be preventered. So I sewed a second line onto the first to see how much more I'd need. Turns out 25 more feet was the answer. Remember, at 6:1, that gives me only four more feet or so extra swing. I took the opportunity to reduce the mainsheet diameter from 1/2 inch, which was binding a bit when wet, to 7/16": the loss in ultimate breaking strength was tiny in such an otherwise robust setup, and while my hands prefer 1/2" (which are the diameters of the halyards and sheets), this is easier to coil down in such a long length. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full and by.</td></tr>
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We had the Dacron cover of our spare halyard fray off for a number of feet: turns out that some of the necessary clearances of our busy halyard configuration allowed some chafing to occur. I (again) sewed a new line onto the old and rove it fairly easily over the sheave. The former halyard will become spare docklines of unusual strength once the cover is lashed back into place and whipped.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is less confusing than it looks.</td></tr>
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Lastly, our old Easyblock double block, used for the portside combo leading aft of the port jib sheet and the furling line, was taken off active duty in favour of the HARKEN DOUBLE BLOCK, in all caps because of its expense and terrifyingly competent appearance. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Block apps.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, it's getting Biblical out there. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yesterday (May26, 2019) on the access road to the club.</td></tr>
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The storm drains are reversing and lake water is creeping onto the road. We've heard rumours, which Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>wisely discounts, but still...that the massive current in the St. Lawrence seaway system may complicate locking down this summer, as is our intention. So we will keep out the customary weather eye. I'm glad I pushed the masting as fast as I could at the beginning of May. Seemed prescient.<br />Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-42568568881949593872019-05-13T11:23:00.001-04:002019-05-13T11:23:06.378-04:00Lurch, launch and all before lunch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Amid frankly appalling (see wind-driven sleet in the tiny clip above) conditions and a case of skipper's jitters regarding the soundness of the standpipe thread sealing...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;">When access was straightforward, no problem...<u><br /></u></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...but with this much lead in front of it, a concern.</td></tr>
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...thanks to the restoration of the house battery bank, seen above minus tie-downs and lids, we launched on April 27. Second boat in, in fact, in the East Yard, winter lodgings of the behemoths of the first row. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Always be cinch-belting!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;">There's often a touch of ambiguity about our sling marks, as the movement of internal ballast over the winter can be significant.<u><br /></u></span></td></tr>
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So we requested, and grudgingly (because launch waits for no one) received "a minute hanging in the slings" to check the integrity of our multiple valvings, tapings and pastings. Luck and, I certainly hope by this stage, skill prevailed and we had no ingress at the many threads in play. That meant I could leave the engine cooling water valve open, fire up the iron jenny (already tested in the cradle as being good to go, the harness and battery connections fully restored) and proceed to our dockline-festooned slip. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back where she belongs...until July.</td></tr>
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As I was on towboat duty, and, inexcusably in my view, a <i>lot </i>of boats this year needed tows (the ones with dead engines/no engine get a pass, of course), I couldn't linger and admire our handiwork, or tapework: Mrs. <i>Alchemy </i>and myself resumed "helping out at Launch". <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;">Shot from mid-morning, this gives an idea of the scale of the cranes employed at launch. Ours is not, in fact, the heaviest boat in the club, an alarming stat for a steel boat owner.<u><br /></u></span></td></tr>
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The wind, at times gusting past 25 knots (borderline for crane operations and enough to make <i>Alchemy </i>"shiver" in the slings a few centimetres off her cradle), gave us in the club workboat Storm King plenty to consider. I lost count past 20 tows, but it was near-continuous and increasingly cranky duty. Why can't people ensure their motors work (and have batteries and tillers) on the day? It's not a surprise if you can work a calendar!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alas, my logo was rejected in favour of cheaper Mac-Tac</td></tr>
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After my shift concluded, I got a picture of the effect of <i>Alchemy</i>'s winter on the substrate...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No wonder I felt pitched a little for'ard.</td></tr>
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This subsidence was, perhaps, aided and abetted by the rising levels of the lake, which led to a group decision to get the mast in as soon as possible.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two weeks ago. Today, the bricks are partially awash. The lake is 1.6 metres above chart datum.</td></tr>
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I had to sort all the wires, cables, strings, stays, shrouds, halyards, etc. and bolt on the spreaders. I'm getting about as fast at this as I think I can. Kudos to the club members who helped with my notoriously massive mast.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's only confusing if you think about it.</td></tr>
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Some chafe-type repairs were needed and the usual "keeper wire" sorting, but it went well and the masting, while heavy work, went without blood sacrifice.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looks good even boomless, we think.</td></tr>
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So, for a multitude of reasons, launch came and went to our satisfaction, even though we needed every minute in the run-up to it and many minutes since. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Postcard-grade, really.</td></tr>
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The boom is on, and the new lazyjacks can be seen. More to come shortly as the Drive to be Live in July continues. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I rigged the lazyjacks by copying a picture I saw online. Ah, modern sailing theory!</td></tr>
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As a postscript, our former boat <i>Valiente </i>is now sporting a new, stainless steel rudder. We are vicariously anticipating great things of it for the new owner!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;">Anode goes where? As she's on a mooring, not such a big deal...<u><br /></u></span></td></tr>
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<br />Rhyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458075112175110787.post-23723848497592926782019-05-13T10:12:00.000-04:002019-05-13T10:12:01.931-04:00Getting properly hosed<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helm's deep: Mind the hobbits.</td></tr>
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I alluded to the <a href="https://alchemy2009.blogspot.com/2019/01/why-new-year-is-hopefully-last-year.html" target="_blank">rehab of the hydraulic hose setup</a> in a previous post. This was accomplished by biking a fairly ambitious distance from downtown Toronto to the north of the suburb of Brampton, home of <a href="https://www.greenlinehose.com/" target="_blank">Green Line Hose and Fittings</a>, a well-regarded hydraulic specialist. Because I was not entirely sure if my fittings were metric or Imperial, I removed all the old, starting to weep hoses and handed them over the counter, saying to the compentent fellow there "please replicate these". And they did.<br />
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While I have two seal kits for the two helm pumps, they looked in pretty good condition, and so become spares for the future. While onerous to replace and reroute these hoses, it was a good learning experience. We have the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjVc5lvuVqVdEHV7GpQpaQq3mtblKERRu9i8E8ADts17_I37XPn-x-1jPjg3qw1H61VItR2nz2kaDGPKvqOIviHH_6E2uulnHHT0Zw2lNkk_TYbA4dQrVus6U2uR3M5sNxeRNite7Qk-_Xe8FmvZJYCOlB3GVtuor8ec5dtka5o2iRsQOFpqwyj=s0-d" target="_blank">autopilot pump in hand</a>, but ran out of time to fabricate and weld in a stainless steel mounting plate for it, which I hope will be done this week, after which I can piece together the new and wonderful autopilot. However, we were able to launch with restored steering that is properly pressurized and is clearly needed fewer helm wheel turns to go chock to chock, so to speak. In fact, I may have to take a more subtle approach as it's that much more responsive.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shiny is good.</td></tr>
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Restoring the hydraulic oil was interesting. Firstly, my hose runs are long: nearly 25 feet each from the pilothouse aft to the rotary actuator pump in the stern, plus a pair of 15 footers from the aft helm on the "sailing deck". Even with the tiny cross-sections of the hydraulic hoses, that took about three litres of oil, all of which had to be bled to purge the air (using cryptic translations from the Japanese I would have run through a native speaker's brain before printing, personally). Still, can't argue with success.<br />
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The aluminum anodes are on, all 16-odd kilos of them. I had a bit of trouble with Nautilus Propeller's fulfillment from the VariProp factory in Germany; having been promised the aluminum prop hub anode I ordered at the boat show months back, they sent zinc instead. No good to me at their price, as I could get zinc at a fraction of that from the U.S.-based Boat Zincs. com. So I have a zinc prop anode on the prop and aluminum plates on the hull and fingers crossed, this will suffice (the two metals are cathodically close) for the trip down the river until haulout in October in Nova Scotia. Had I left the magnesium anode on the prop, it would've potentially bubbled and fizzed after Quebec City and the introduction of salt water...not a good look!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Better than nothing!</td></tr>
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We switched to <a href="http://www.pettitpaint.com/products/antifouling-bottom-paint/canadian-antifouling/horizons-canada-only/" target="_blank">Pettit Horizons bottom paint</a>, which went on thicker and more expensively. Looks good, however, and, as in the past, we changed the colour so that paint failures will reveal the previous iteration, should that be a data point worthy of note<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready, aye, ready.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anode what you did last winter.</td></tr>
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The next step was launching for 2019 into an already swollen lake. </div>
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