Tuesday, September 20, 2016

More hardware, Systems and Various work


Busy with may jobs now. It is not just woodworking anymore but jumping from mechanical to electrical to plumbing to hardware and even more woodworking. Many hours spent at the workbench researching specs, figuring things out and on the phone ordering so that various items arrive or are made in time for work to progress without delay. A lot of jobs are 90% done but waiting for some last item or me to get to it.


 Soldered some 2" copper pipe into the through deck outlet for the the bilge pump. Made the strap clamp from bronze.


Bilge pump outlet installed and tucked under the taffrail. Fits perfectly between the knee and the boomkin.


Tucked out of sight behind the bulkhead aft of the galley stove is the bilge pump handle  for the Edson Bronze 30GPM pump in some black locust brackets.


Needed a clam shell vent but could only find one in stainless steel. Made a male-female mould by carving the shape in a piece of hardwood and making the mating piece with thickened epoxy. Squeezing a piece of copper between them in a large metal vise and then some trimming made a perfectly serviceable vent cover.


Tank vent copper tubing passing through the boom gallows base. A series of 1/8" holes are drilled in the gallows tubing a couple of inches below the top of the vent tube as seen in the picture below.




Bronze water deckfill set flush to the deck.


The RC Plath windlass was drilled for 3/8" bolts but I wanted to install with 1/2" bolts. I filed the holes bigger but favouring the inside so to leave the maximum amount of metal around the outer part of the base.


There is a bronze deck plate that is bedding to the deck and the 1/2" carriage bolts come through the deck as four mounting studs for the windlass. That way it is easily removable for greasing and maintenance.



The quarter inch thick bronze backing plate with copper chain pipes. I can clamp 2" bilge hose to the copper pipe to direct the chain and keep splash to a minimum.



My patterns and returned castings from Achinback Foundry. Pintle and Gungeons, misc backing plates, dodger hardware, dinghy chock cleats, taff rail block pad eyes.


Drilling the 6" Herreshoff cleats. I needed cleats for the dinghy chocks but had trouble finding some so instead had some cast from a old cleat I had servicing as a door handle to the workshop


Dinghy chocks installed and also serving to tie the lanyard for the backup oil nav lamps. Cold bent some 1/8" bronze for the oil lamp retainers.


Davey oil lamp in place. They are bright and effective.


Cockpit drains installed.


Cockpit drain though hull with a rubber flapper attached.


Schatz Royal clock and barometer. I like the clock chimes.



Main Blue Seas 10 position  Distribution panel and Victron battery monitor. The bronze switch plate on the side of the panel box controls the two lights here in the port quarter storage area. One on the side of the cockpit and one under the cockpit floor in the equipment area. I positioned the panel here right around the corner as you come under the cockpit so it  is has easy access, is out of sight and well protected.


The Italian lights that are used on bulkheads and deckhead (Davey lamps on cabin roof) came as a project like I need another thing to do. Had to take apart and drill mounting holes and drill and wire for a Cole Hersee toggle switch. 


On both side of the boat are two deckhead lights that take a LED filament bulb that is a very warm lightand as good as any regular bulb but only draw 0.5 amp.


Side of cockpit as you enter the storage and equipment area.


Same type of guarded vapour proof light on forward side of sail locker bulkhead. In these exposed areas I used asphaltic loom and copper straps for a traditional look that is also durable. More on wiring later.


Finally got to making the ice box insert. Made from 3mm marine ply stitch and glue epoxy construction and filled with 4" of blue styrofoam. Glassed over with cloth and epoxy and painted. Very light to lift.


The handle is a piece of tubular webbing held with finish washers and screws. I put a 12mm ply backing plate under the 3mm plywood for the screws to have something to go into before putting on the lid and glassing over.


The insert has a hollow gasket that sits on the teak flange. Seems like a lot of photos for such a simple thing but it did in fact take some time to make!




PropaneSystem


The two 17lbs propane bottles are stored in the lazarette locker with direct drain overboard through the transom. The system has a single stage regulator so you know when one bottle is empty and thus have to manually change bottles and hopefully filling the empty one. There is a manual shutoff valve and the supply line passes through a bulkhead seal and travels through conduit to the stove.

 

The manual shut off passes under the cockpit and is operated next to the galley.




Shaped some 3/32nd bronze plate into a handle and fit to some 3/8" bronze rod and soldered it together.
Required some careful filing to get a nice slip joint.



Borrowed my friends metal lathe to make a coupling to join the 3/8" rod to the valve key. Also necessary to take apart and pass through the bulkhead.


Here is the rod passing under the cockpit through some oak bearing blocks. The hose barb you can see coming through the cockpit floor will be for the diesel tank that will sit under the lazarette.

Rudder Part I

The rudder work has been spread out as I have to multitask a lot to keep things moving in other areas of the build. First I glued up the rudder blank and made the casting patterns and put it aside as I waited for the castings to be done. The rudder is made from Sapelli, silicon bronze and Black Locust cheek plates and tiller.


Laying out the boards and the template


Drilling the drift holes on the drill press. Could not drill quite through the planks so...


Finished off the holes by hand. Then I would clamp this board to the next one and using the first board as a drilling guide drill into the second board enough to mark it. Then take that to the drill press and start again.


Gluing surfaces prepared with a scratch stock 


Gluing and driving drifts.


Rudder glued up with G2 epoxy. The saw horses are leveled and two clamping cauls made sure the rudder was glued up flat.


Sunny day for the hard work of shaping. First power plan, then hand tools.


Shaping the aperture. A lot of water passes over the aperture so needs some attention.


Mostly shaped. Some final faring and edges left.


Castings ground and now back from the machinist who bored the gungeon holes and made bushings. He also used an offset boring bar on the milling machine to true up the pintles. Because I cast the pintles horizontally there is no draft angles to fuss about when fitting them to the rudder.


Fitting the pintles. The straps are let in half depth. I won't bolt them yet...they all have to line up.


Rudder shaped and pintles fit. Next hanging the rudder and tiller and cheek plates.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Lyle Hess 34ft Falmouth Cutter ASTRID For Sale


Astrid is listed with Custom Yacht Sales in Sidney BC. Price has been adjusted to $375,000 CAD.

https://www.customyachtsales.com/sail-listings/

Also NEW is a  3D video of the interior and deck that can be seen on the webpage of Custom Yacht sales. The link above.


Details can be seen at Falmouth Cutter ASTRID For Sale.  She is nearing completion and is absolutely pristine. A rare opportunity to own a new and very special custom boat built to the highest standards in material and workmanship (Launched Nov 30, 2016).

ASTRID is a boat for a person who appreciates Lyle Hess's very capable and seaworthy traditional designs executed with the finest workmanship and detail. The 34ft Falmouth Cutter was the last of a line of cutters designed by Lyle Hess. He counted this design as one of his best and made a number of refinements to the lines.  ASTRID has been built as a cruising boat for a couple who appreciates simplicity and beauty in life and sailing. She has a very comfortable and roomy interior and is built to accommodate taller people with 6ft 7in headroom at the centre line and longer and higher bunks and counters. She has the interior room of most 40 footers. Throughout the build the emphasis was on quality of materials, strength, function, longevity, understated elegance and fine workmanship. She was built without compromise.

ASTRID has been built from a bare fiberglass hull from Channel Cutter Yachts. The decks and cabins have been built using cold-molded building techniques which combine traditional aesthetics with a watertight and strong construction.

Please only serious inquiries can be directed to FC34ASTRID@gmail.com

$375,000 CAD  .