With all my other projects going on I wasn't paying too much attention to my electrical system. But as a lot of my on deck and/or big projects...
This is why I am waiting on solar, wind technology has pretty much gone as far as it can go so first I will get a wind generator, later will add...
My boat was designed by William Atkin in 1936 as a knock about with a jib headed main. A friend of mine has the same hull but rigged as a gaff...
I have a wooden boat, with wooden mast and a rig that was designed 7 years ago (a "low tension" rig by modern standards) on this 7x19 wire is...
I have a 30' boat with 28" side decks and an 11' fore deck, takes alot away below decks, but makes walking on deck really handy. A lazarette big...
Some of the "old school" boat designers have wonderful things to say about ergonomics (a word that wasn't used much if at all in their time).
I spent most of my life looking at other yacht designs, what worked and what didn't, good ideas, bad ideas as well as different applications. When...
Does anyone know the article #
I never said the data doesn't go back far enough....it does through various types of sampling. What I said was the data used for the examples...
You have to go back alot further to find evidance of being cyclical, like the last "real" ice age, and the one before that etc....regardless of...
Dyna form wire (sometimes called "compact")is smaller in dia. for the same strength and stretches 30% less than 1x19
Global warming is cyclical, there is historic proof it happens on a regular basis. That said pollution caused by humans has sped things up a bit.
Because my boat is wood with a wood mast if I used the fancy expensive low stretch rigging and high tech sails, I'd damage the boat. Nice to know...
By its very nature every system on a boat should be expected to fail at some time. It is good to design in a few opportunities for failure as...
A more important question is how/why they design them the way they do. Boat interiors are designed around the "average sailor" which means husband...
Where you talking about a mechanical flemish splice [IMG] or a "proper splice" [IMG] finding someone to splice wire no a days can get...
My problem is not so much that of the swage, but rather the soft eye. I have a wooden mast and the standing rigging goes up around the mast and...
I would like more info on this so I can pass it on to my rigger. Because I have soft eyes I need to use 7-19 wire. I am also on a budget....I am...
I just relocated the water tanks (2 25gal)in my cabin after 30 years, no sign of vents anywhere. The water pump is a bronze hand pump....only...
7-19 on the other hand is flexible enough. On my boat where nicopress was used (copper sleeves) 7-19 1/4"wire was used, on the capstays and back...
