Dyneema rigging
It's been a mixed weekend! We arrived just after midnight Thursday evening and found that the wheelhouse had been completely taken over by huge flies. When I removed the opening section of the cover the edge it clips to was invisible behind multiple layers of flies. When I
Dyneema rigging
Our latest video is out: "Fitting our DIY Mast Tangs for Dyneema rigging, + the mast foot + painting Mast bits". At last, we have fitted the DIY mast tangs We refitted the mast foot too! Also refitted the reinforcement plates for the mast tang bolts. And we finished painting
Dyneema rigging
Our latest video is out today 😁
Progress
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
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
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
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?"
Dyneema rigging
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
We have released a new video: "Is our Mizzen base support strong enough?" Enjoy!
Dyneema rigging
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
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
Dyneema rigging
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