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Setting off around the world!

p.gazibara

Member III
Cool bit of history! Are you going to do Leo-ish videos along the way?
There seems to be a void in wooden boat project channels, might be a niche for us. Though I highly doubt we would be in the same class as Leo if we do go that route. I’m not a trained boatbuilder!
 

Prairie Schooner

Jeff & Donna, E35-3 purchased 7/21
There seems to be a void in wooden boat project channels, might be a niche for us. Though I highly doubt we would be in the same class as Leo if we do go that route. I’m not a trained boatbuilder!
You could make that a feature of your channel, highlighting what you learn along the way.
 

Mark F

Contributing Partner
Blogs Author
Oddly, two OceanVolt motors may have just bounced into my orbit. Apparently the control system was problematic and the trimaran where they were fit has gone to combi motors instead.

My thoughts have been two (3?) parallel motors belt driven spinning a common prop shaft. The regen from the larger prop in theory should work better.

The word is Halcyon could steam along at 10kn with the Perkins 4107, which made a whopping 26kw continuous. Twin 12kw motors should get us to the ballpark and keep the system at 48V without needing crazy wire sizes.

I have 32 300A LiFePO4 cells waiting for the project too. That should be enough for afternoon harbor tours and maybe run a small espresso bar.
If you haven't seen the Sailing Uma episode about the dual motor setup check this out. The discussion starts at 11:30ish.
 

p.gazibara

Member III
Two days of great exercise and I have one side of the hull scraped back to glass and the other about 1/3 the way. The tungsten scraper really makes paint disappear. Way faster than sanding, took a boatbuilder to show me the light.

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An old timer with a nearly 60’ carvel planked ketch (hand built by him he even cast all the bronze fittings!) came by and told me some history of the boat.

Apparently they added 800kgs of lead to the bottom of the keel after her first race to New Cal as she was a bit too tender. He showed me the casting line in the lead.

He also mentioned she was one of the first boats in New Zealand that was epoxy sheathed with peel ply. Didn’t realize they were doing that in the 60’s. The roving has adhered very well to the wood. I only managed to peel one section off that was not adhered well.

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Once I started peeling things back I actually found the hull to be in better shape than I expected. I’ll have to scarf in a new bit of wood around the shaft log, but aside from that and a bit of worm damage near the sounder, the wood is in great shape.

Cyclone Tam just ripped down the Tasmin and gave us lots of rain and great kiting wind. Had to take a break from scraping the hull. I organized a small crew and we got to work removing the old Perkins. Until now I have not been able to access the main bilge because the engine has been sitting on the floorboards.

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Huge success! Now for lots of water and soap to clean out thbilge.

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I had to set the hatches in place temporarily and cover all the portlights in PVC tape as she was pouring water in after the cyclone ripped the tarps off.

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Ah, that’s better! Starting to look more and more like a potential art venue .

I know it’s not Ericson content, but I don’t really have a place to put this progress at the momentso I hope nobody here is upset that I’m sharing here.

Cheers,
-p
 

Angel D.

Member II
Love the Perkins, my previous boat ran 4.108 . Finding parts has a problem. But found rebuilt kits and that keep me going. Got to be handy when running a Perkins.
I remember my Dad , every time I work on the engine. The day he saw my first car , a 1973 Volkswagen Type 3 fast back that I bought for 300.00 he says...
( This is great , I see you are now committed to learn mechanics ) Lol .
 

Prairie Schooner

Jeff & Donna, E35-3 purchased 7/21
I'm so impressed you are taking this on. Glad you're finding mostly good news with the wood. Your young mechanic looks like a natural. Keep her on the crew! - I'm also a big fan of scraping to remove paint. Thanks for sharing!
 

p.gazibara

Member III
Love the Perkins, my previous boat ran 4.108 . Finding parts has a problem. But found rebuilt kits and that keep me going. Got to be handy when running a Perkins.
I remember my Dad , every time I work on the engine. The day he saw my first car , a 1973 Volkswagen Type 3 fast back that I bought for 300.00 he says...
( This is great , I see you are now committed to learn mechanics ) Lol .
We are asking $500 for it and the velvet drive gearbox locally. I was hoping that was cheap enough that someone would come take it away, but nobody came out of the woodwork and I needed it out of the cabin. and nobody. The cruising club we live next to has a manual crane we can use to get it out of the cockpit after we launch. Then hopefully someone will come take it away.

They may be nice engines, but I don’t want to deal with the complexity of an engine. Especially ann old one and all its legacy systems. It’s already a pain to clean the oil sludge it leaked into the bilge!

In its place we will have space for a couple hundred gallons of freshwater and a hot water tank.

I was happy to see that the floors are ideal for mounting the thrust and pillow bearings required for the future belted electric drives. They will take far less space and provide a much quieter experience aboard.

Now that the rudder is out I’ll get the naval architect to come by and recommend the new rudder tube location and top bearing support construction. Hopefully we can get the new tube in prior to launch. We are upping the shaft size to 3” of 2205 stainless for the new spade and might move the rudder aft a bit.

I noticed that a Peterson 44 esque skeg was added to her at some point. And I’m guessing it was to combat wandering in a seaway. The idea is we can solve that issue and increase maneuverability with a modern rudder. So we removed the glass over foam skeg that was added leading up to the steel skeg.

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Notice the skeg and rudder here in the
launch photo.

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Notice the swooping skeg leading up to the rudder location here. This was the launch after a refit in Portsmouth, UK I’m not sure what year.

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Back to her original lines. That foam had water in it. When I hit it with a hammer it started weeping water out, it was already on its way out.

Hopefully I can get the fresh wood scarfed in and glass patches on next week.

We also need to remove the prop shaft, scarf some wood in and rebore the hole for the shaft. I plan to leave it out for the time being and glass over the hole after it’s bored.

When we are ready to put the rudder in, I’ll haul her back out and put the appendages back on. In the meanwhile, less holes under the waterline the better.

cheers,
-p
 
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