Tuesday 27 November 2012

Hi

Going to be a quiet winter for the boat. I am bulding two seats from aluminum tubing and open mesh. The frames are complete and painted, the covers are cut and sewn, now I just need to make one more fibreglass seat platform and I can put them together. I'm going to make a few changes to the frame as well to streamline things a bit.
I had the whole boat assembled in the driveway and was running control lines through plastic housing to main control centre between the seats (or beside the seat if I am going solo). I made blocks to attach to the deck that were the correct size for the tubing, and I used tie wraps on either side of the block to stop the tube from sliding under load. This worked when things were dry but slipped when they got wet.  Steering was easy and moved smoothly but the force required to raise and lower the rudder was much higher than I expected. About this time I decided to pull the plug for the year........Get back at it in March I guess!