Archive for November, 2009

30
Nov

Masts have been started

   Posted by: TBurnett    in Building Tesha

Spent the week in Halifax, enjoying the warmest November I’ve had there yet. The primary purpose was to build the masts and spars, however the tubing didn’t show up till late Wednesday. But no matter, Ryan and I kept busy on other tasks.

Dingy Davits: Last July, Ryan and I started making some curved davit rails. This trip we tacked the up and Ryan will finish them we he can get some scaffolding to reach them.

Drive Shaft: We inserted the bushing into the tail end of the drive shaft tube and cut the drive shaft down to the correct length. We also go the propeller and drive shaft seal on and fitted.

Engine: After the drive shaft was properly cut, we were able to align the engine and mount it to the engine bed. Yeah! This allowed us to route and place the entire exhaust system. WaterLock, U-bend, and waterblock. We then started on the salt water intake for the cooling system. We got the filter mounted and the intake thruhole started before we turned our attention to the spars.

Spars: The spar tubing and all the tangs/tabs from the SketchUp cutfiles came in on Wednesday afternoon. We manage to knock out the booms and gaff in the next 8 hours. Ryan will weld the end caps on the spars and the buff them up. Ryan also started to teach me to weld, so I got a few seams in here and there.

Masts: The mast tubing didn’t come in until late Thrusday afteroon. However, Ryan and I had a good system going by then, and we managed to get all the tangs and tabs welded to the upper portions of the mast before closing on Friday. Ryan will still have to sleave and join the mast tubing to make them the appropriate length, but at least the tops 90% done.

Misc: Brian had picked up an bunch of miscellanous parts for me at a boat show this summer. He got a 3-burner Orego electric stove, a stainless bathroom sink, anchor chain stops and an assortment of roughly 20 lights.

In all it was a really good trip. Ryan and I worked very hard and very well together. Still don’t have any wood work I can work on in Austin, but I’ll continue working on the dingy until the next task.

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23
Nov

Ready for Halifax

   Posted by: TBurnett    in Building Tesha

As for myself, I only packed for next weeks trip to Halifax. Ryan finished cleaning up the bowsprit and took care of leveling the floor beams. Ryan also started putting in some plumbing traces through the engine room. He has been generally cleaning up the welds around the boat.

Olie, the YachtSmith fiberglass guy, built the black water tank this week. It looks really big and fills up an entire void between frames. It still needs an access hatch put in, but it is essentially complete.

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17
Nov

Yosemite

   Posted by: TBurnett    in Building Tesha

Spent the last 5 days in and around Yosemite, so was not able to get any boat work done, however Ryan welded the foremainsail traveler on the main cabin top. I’ve been told that the boat could be lifted by it.

Yosemite was incredible. We did a few of the more strenous hikes, such as the Yosemite Falls and Nevada Fall hikes. We had the sun shine, the wind blow, and the snow fall. It was an excellant trip, a greatly relaxing and invigorating time.

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8
Nov

Rails are on

   Posted by: TBurnett    in Building Tesha

Ryan put the rails on the boat this last week. I think they’ll do really nice and Amy has already mentioned doing some decorative ropework on them. Ryan also continued putting the rings at the shroud chainplates. We are going to use these for rigging the halyards.

On the dingy, Amy and I fiberglassed the inside seam of the lowest plank. Amy pretty much did the whole thing herself, and I am amazed how much better she is with epoxy than I. I added the cutwater afterwards and also installed a few seat cleats.

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1
Nov

Hatch Boards

   Posted by: TBurnett    in Building Tesha

Started the hatch boards this week. Got off to a rough start though. I had made templates of both the fore and aft hatch boards before I left last July. However, I had thought that I made the template of the hatch frame and it wasn’t till I finished the drawings twice before I remembered that I made the templates off of the temporary hatch boards. 4 hours in SketchUp blown. Bought the hatch board wood on Friday and started to cut them to size before I realized that I didn’t know which way the template faces, therefore I don’t know how to cut the gutter between boards. Suck. Guess I’ll bring them up to Halifax and finish them there.

Amy and I started gluing the lower planks on the dingy. Amy did a really good job with the epoxy, using a plastic spoon to do the fillets. The spoon is the trick. Anyway, the plank was a great fit and next I’ll fiberglass the seams.

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