Mast making. Reinforcing an aluminium tube spar with a birdmouth inner plus solid blocking. I’ve been given a mast blank, a 5m long x 75, od, 5mm wall thickness chunk of T6 temper aluminium tube. It was bought to be the main mast for a Pathfinder, but life got in...
Long Steps is coming along. Progress, a little at a time but progress nevertheless. With the hull and most of the internal structure all sorted, its getting down to smaller pieces and the small but time consuming jobs. Todays was to grind the edges of the...
With some of my other commitments dealt with and the weather warming a bit, the start of spring being just a week away, I’m getting a bit done on Long Steps. Some friends came and we flipped her over, ready for work on the bottom and I’m getting her...
Wow! I just noticed that this blog has hit half a million page views, thats a lot, a lot lot! In spite of my having been very erratic in my posting for a while, the views keep accumulating, thank you all, thats very encouraging, with the new season coming up and...
With spring just around the corner, warmer weather and the promise to myself that I’m going to be doing a lot more sailing this summer, its time to sort out the small annoyances from last year. One of those was “how to charge up my phone”. The phone...
