Dyneema rigging
New Video: Building new knees for our new dyneema cap shroud chainplates
Our latest video is out today 😁
Dave Warnock
Progress
A wild night
Well the wind and rain happened last night (Thursday 26th September). Our nearby boat neighbour, Nick, popped his head out with a handheld wind speed gadget and it read 60mph in one gust with 47mph in the lull. It started to increase from about 5pm but didn't fully
Dyneema rigging
Boat refitting during Autumn storms
Jobs are finished for the day as a storm has rolled in. According to the Met Office we currently have winds from the North around 25mph gusting 44mph (the gusts are always fairly continuous here as the wind funnels along the Menai Strait). The winds will get a bit stronger
Dyneema rigging
Knees progressing 😁
The knees (for the port main mast cap shroud) are progressing nicely. The forward and aft edges are fully filleted and tabbed in. I fitted a timber triangle at the joint to the underside of the deck to get a nice radius. Just the inside tabbing to do and these
Environmental
New video: "Are our views on Sustainability really shockingly controversial?"
Our new video has just gone live on YouTube! We have a conversation and are left wondering "Are our views on Sustainability really shockingly controversial?"
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Rain forcing changes to our plan
This week we were hoping to make real progress on the mizzen. Yesterday Jane managed 2 coats of primer on the repaired mast top and the main mast spreaders. Ever since then it has been raining on and off all the time. So we have moved to inside jobs. First
Safety
Video: Is our Mizzen base support strong enough?
We have released a new video: "Is our Mizzen base support strong enough?" Enjoy!
Dyneema rigging
New video out "DIY chainplates: Splicing, knotting and fitting"
This is how we make our dyneema chainplates. We are experimenting with moving our regular video release to Mondays as the upload is so much faster at home.
Dyneema rigging
Video: Stretching our DIY Mizzen Dyneema shrouds and chainplates
Our next video is live! We have finished splicing all 6 mizzen shrouds (technically 4 plus 2 forestays) plus the 2 running backstays as well as all 8 chainplate loops. Now all the shrouds & stays need to be stretched to tighten the splices where the weave was opened when
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Tensioning our mizzen shrouds
So far today we have tensioned 6 of the 8 mizzen shrouds. All of them tensioned to at least 1,300kg and leaving them at over 1,000 for at least 15 minutes
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Family focused weekend
No video from us this week. Been too busy to do the edit and now we are with family all weekend. Meal with our youngest son last night, big birthday celebration today in London and then onwards to Cornwall for 3 nights visiting more family. Too many miles for our
Dyneema rigging
New video "What do we need to do to get our Mizzen Mast up?"
Our latest video is published :-) Our next big task, one we need to do before winter, is to get our Mizzen mast up. We haven't touched it for a long while, so couldn't remember quite where we had got to and where everything was. Several