Archive for April 2023
With Sail Port Stephens coming up some photos from the the journey there and during the event 10 years ago are below and Here.
The weather has been kinder the last week and with sailing in recess for Easter I have made good progress on the internal fit out of Passion XI.
Over Easter Elaine and I spent a day on Passion X cleaning and preparing for the trip to Newcastle and Port Stephens. The water pump impeller was replaced just in time as a rubber blade on the impeller fell off as I extracted it from the housing. Otherwise it was a pleasant day with drinks in the afternoon with fellow sailors also doing post season cleaning on their adjacent yacht.
Back at the building site the head components have been painted and mostly installed. The partial bulkhead is bogged to the hull and secured with the vanity shelves and the hanging locker front. The vanity shelves are bogged to the hull skin and all that is needed is to paint the bare patches adjacent to the glue joins. But there is more. I still have to install the head pedestal platform which is a bit tricky as it is wider than the adjacent vanity wall so I need to install the vanity front across the base to have a place to land the pedestal platform.
Both the quarter berth locker fronts are installed as of today with just some painting needed to finish that area.
Forward in the quarter berth ante room a partial bulkhead has been installed separating the hanging locker from a set of shelves. These are all bogged to the hull and as solid as a rock with just some epoxy paint needed over the shelves to finish the job. I have a sheet of 6 mm plywood picked out from which I will cut the fronts for these two lockers possibly tomorrow.
Forward of the Quarter berths is the galley where the partial bulkhead has been cut and fitted. Cleats have been added to this and to the adjacent bulkheads to take the side and floor of the fridge compartment and the floor of the oven recess. I ran out of mixed epoxy primer today so did not get to prime this bulkhead so that is a few days away from completion. The same 6 mm ply sheet will give me the fridge base and the stove base.
There is just one more partial bulkhead to cut and that is the small chart table seat. I have cut template and am waiting for the right size offcut from the above 6 mm ply sheet to put that in train.
With all the bulkheads cut I sorted through my large array of cardboard templates and earmarked them for the rubbish bin.
An important task to complete before turning is the boarding platform and today I cut the platform and also the doublers for under the centre where the boarding ladder will be secured. The full thickness will be 36 mm so that should take 32 mm screws quite safely.
I will try to insert a few photos in a separate post.
Since the site was hacked I have had multiple problems with posts. One of the issues was that my phone started saving photos is a hjgh definition mode that was not recognised by WordPress. That has been fixed by setting the phone to JPEG only.
Another issue is the appearance of the photos on the site as they do not present as consistently as before. I am not sure if this is a WordPress issue or an update to the Photo app on the computer which rezises photos in a different way.
So this is an attempt to get some photos up and learn by doing.
