Amy is in the June issue of Lattitudes and Attitudes magazine. Page 133. She submitted a recipe for Black Bean and Corn Salad which they very nicely printed with a large picture of Amy. She has two more recipes that she is going to submit once the fanfare dies down.
It gets to me time to time that I don’t have any wood projects for Tesha at the moment, but it does allow Amy and I the time to start building our tender. So, this weekend, we put together a build jig on which to lay down the Sherpa. I also started to cut out the Sherpa frames and spine from left ply from Henry’s boat.
Amy bought a Sailrite sewing machine. It showed up on Friday and seems to be a wonderful piece of equipement. We have yet to use it for anything except a few trial runs. Took me all of 30 seconds to break my first needle, but that was my fault. The DVD that comes with the machine is awesome and Amy and I were glued to it in a geeky way. We love Matt.
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Steve, Woodworker, paneling the engine room
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Steve, Woodworker, flooring the main cabin
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Amy building the Sherpa jig
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Cutting the Sherpa forward spine
Amy and spent some time this past week trying to layout the main cabin to change orientation of the galley. Amy wanted a more ‘L’ shaped galley, so we movee things around a bit. Head went this way and that. Ice box went long, then deep. Settee flipped sides and back. Wet locker disappeared, reappeared. We didn’t find a lot of options. Amy’s favorite was similar to the one we put together about 6 months ago, except the door to the head changed side which enabled the stove to move……. we shall see.
Worked on Henry’s optimist rigging and we are ready for a test sail. Yeah. One boat down. Since the Sherpa plans are now in SketchUp, I feel much more confident about cutting all the pieces out of before I start the build jig. I have some leftover plywood from Henry’s boat and laid out the spline to cut. Nice when the model all comes together.
The propeller arrived in the shop this week and will go out for some final machining soon. Steve put in some hours in the engine room and I am eager to see it all boxed in. Of course, I’ll make a SketchUp model.
The photos are of Ryan, welder.
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Ryan, Welder, fitting the starboard side exhaust
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Ryan welding the starboard exhaust
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Current main cabin model
Got back this weekend from another week in Halifax. I had intended to get the hatch logs installed on Tesha by the weeks end but the aluminum didn’t show up until Thursday. Despite this, I had a very good week in the shop with Brian, Ryan and Steve.
On Monday, Brian and I ordered a lot of engineroom parts. Fuel filters, raw-water intake filter, day tank, waste pump, fuel pump, 3 bilge pumps, waterlock, check valves, etc. All the parts showed up during the week. It was like Xmas.
Tuesday through Thursday, Ryan and I cut, welded and grinded. We got the mount for the depth sounder put on, two nice cleats for midships, fuel fills, fordeck hatch combing, fuel vents, water fills, battery rack, exhaust discharge on the boat.
Steve painted all the engine room ceiling pieces and put them back up. He also started putting in the engine room floor as well as the forward cabin floors. Learned a lot watching him go at it.
Amy’s parents showed up on Friday and got a tour of the boat. We toured Halifax and Peggys Cove for the rest of the day and I left early Saturday. On the plane, I managed to get all the Sherpa plans into Google SketchUp. All in all it was a good week and I was sad to come home……
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Depth Sounder Mount
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Fuel fill and vent
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Midship Cleat
Finished painting the rail and realized that I should have spent more time cleaning it up. It looks like, but there are voids that show through the paint. We received the “Sherpa” plans for the tender that Amy and I are going to build for ourselves. It is quite a bit harder to build than Henry’s optimist, and it won’t be a priority for us. Hoping to collect more Tesha projects while I am up there.
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Removing the painter tape
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All done
Finished painting the interior of Henry’s little tender and have started painting the gunwales red. Installed a port hatch in the aft locker and mounted the gudgeons for the rudder. We also received 600′ of 1/4″ dacron line from New England. I’ve spliced up the halyard and such.
As far as Tesha goes, the shaft coupling is out to be machined to fit the antivibration coupling. The propeller has not arrived yet. Hopefully it will before I get there.
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First coat on the gunwales