This stuff turned out to be very tricky. Today and the past saturday we worked for three hours. We glued a 3-mm thick layer of rubber to the mast base support, and then dry-installed everything.
Total work time to date: 800 hours!
Diary on the construction of a Seaclipper 20, a plywood trimaran designed by Jim Brown and John Marples. Our boat's Sail No. is 50. The boat has been named GEODETICA and was launched on september 28th, 2024.
Sunday, June 26, 2022
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Coating with epoxy, and more
Two hours of work today for coating the tiller, the mast base support and the hole for its bolt with clear epoxy.
Moreover, we managed to find an aluminum tiller extension, which we embellished with a clear plastic cork :-)
Total work time to date: 797 hours
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Tiller
Only one hours of work today. We had various discussions on how to install the mast base, and then we turned to the tiller and made the hole to bolt it to the rudder head
Then we made two holes to bolt the universal joint for the tiller extension. The photo shows it with a 15 mm diameter wooden stick, but we will use an aluminum tube.
Total work time to date: 795 hours
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Mast base installation (3), tiller
We worked for 4 hours between last saturday and today. I asked my friend Fanco Toscano (who builds beautiful astronomical telescopes here in Matera) to shorten and modify the original HC16 steel bar that fixes the mast base to the aka. Here's the result
The lower end screws into the aluminum mast base, while the top end goes trough the front aka.
The whole thing
Meanwhile, Cinzia finished the tiller ready for painting and installation
Now we must coat with resin or paint everything,
Total work time to date: 794 hours
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Mast base installation (2)
It's being an unusual March, very cold and windy. One hour of work today to complete boring of the 15 mm diameter hole in the front aka and in the mast base pad.
Next step will be coating the holes with resin, covering the pad with fiberglass and gluing the pad to the aka.
Total work time to date: 790 hours
Sunday, February 6, 2022
Mast base installation (1)
After a long hiatus due to several reasons, here we are again in the shop to invent a proper way to secure the mast base to the front aka. In this picture you see a temporary screw placed in the center of the aka. We then bored a hole through the whole thickness with a 12 mm bit, but the steel bar attached to the mast base has a diameter of 15 mm, but the bit we have is too short so we will need a longer 15 mm bit.
Total work time to date: 789 hours
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