Sustainable Sailing

Tag: boat-building

  • Decision time about our DIY carbon fibre stanchions

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    We have been working with the assumption that our stanchions should be removable. Thinking about it that’s probably because nearly all the stainless steel ones we see are in two parts. The base with a socket for the stanchion to drop into. As we have been fitting ours we accidentally ended up with one that…

  • More visible galley progress

    More visible galley progress

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    We can really see how the galley will look and work. The cooker box is ready for painting. It even has a sliding bolt to hold it steady when we don’t need it gimbled. We have stainless steel tubes coming to fit as sleeves to protect the wood from the pivot bolts. We know how…

  • Stanchion and Solar progress

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    We are really excited with the progress on our stanchions and what we have learnt means we have redesigned our aft solar “arch” yet again (I’ve lost count, this might be the 10,000th version). Stanchions and Gates This was our first stanchion base. The carbon fibre tube is 250mm long with an external diameter of…

  • Sailing UMA scary delamination. Are we ok?

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    This video from the lovely Sailing UMA is scary. It does end on a cliffhanger. We see that the test model they built failed catastrophically. They built a small section of GRP intended to replicate the original hull. They added a foam core rib, covered it with GRP and then a foam core stringer, also…