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| Interior of the Cabin, photo taken 3/29/2014 |
Sunday, March 30, 2014
More Cabin Progress (Outside)
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| LOOKING AFT TO THE STERN The cabin top has been laid in over the beams, epoxied and screwed into place. The next step is to add two layers of fiberglass and epoxy, then paint. But this will happen much later on. |
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| LOOKING FORWARD TO THE BOW OK - I don't make it into many of these photos. So it's time for a cameo. I've been working behind the scenes taking pictures and updating the blog. So, about the cabin. The height of the cabin was carefully planned. Two cool features are 1) plenty of headroom inside (about 4" more than usual) and 2) the sitting height is just right, outside. |
Storm Sail
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| CAI: Yes I did a small “napkin” to start with (a
small sail). Yes it is a 10 square foot trysail for the mizzen. That’s what
you use in storms. I am hoping that it
can double up as anchor sail and reduce boat swing. That keeps the boat from moving around when
at anchor. Storm
sails can have bright colors
so they can be seen more easily in bad weather. The sail is made in the old style. Sown rope, rope edges and so on. “Lifted tables” is the method used for hemming the sail. There are lifted tables, folded and taped. Lifted is the strongest and the most labor-intensive. There are straight corner patches on both sides, a roped luff and foot with rat-tails. Gentle broad seaming is used for sail shape. There is more sail-shaping on the edges. It’s topped off with nice sewn-in bronze rings with leather. I have a small portable walking foot zigzag sewing machine, a Reliable Barracuda 2000E. It is a Thompson clone from Taiwan. It’s noisy , finicky and amazingly strong. It does 8 layers of 9 oz Dacron sail cloth with V-138 thread. That’s 21 lbs in tensile strength. I hope that I will find place for the machine on the boat when we are sailing… So now I am on to the next one. The main trysail (about 98 square feet) and then a storm jib.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trysail
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The First Steps of the First Sail
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| The first sail design is a mizzen trysail. This would be used for heavy winds or storms. So it's also called a storm sail. 'Starting small and doing the sails old school style. |
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| This is the second loft, hollowing and shaping the edges of the sail. |
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