dreamer: Grand Portage GL 40 Sections

Hello...
Fun isn't it - you can see all those pointless voids and how to fill them with FRP liners or drawer work in 'swells' up wood - FRP is better - clean vented and drained stowage is EVERYTHING...
Needs a self draining anchor well flat above the LWL - lower void becomes the 'crash' - NOT foam filled so it can be accessed and fixed if need be...
Sheet loads to that arch mounted traveller would make me crush my crystal tumbler and then have to dig about for the first aid kit...
I like the straight lift ability to install or repower the saildrive - where are the sump locations and bilge pumps - also main tankage...
Never liked keel mounted sticks below the floors in the corrosive bilge muck - I like to see FRP up to same and then a female to male 'peg' arrangment with a 'rain drain' to the bilge sumps - but what do I know...
All very nice work - I miss it - you are lucky...
SH.

Thanks for the feedback sean.

The keel needs a bit of a rework. I've been re-thinking the bilge area there. I'd rather not bury a fuel tank in there but I do need to reduce the amount of lead in the keel. Right now the fuel tanks are flat and wide. (the dark areas under the floor in the saloon).

The stick does not go all the way to the keel. It is about 3" below the floor, well above any muck that would end up in the bilge. There is a 'shoe' below the floor with a drain where the foot of the mast is captured, retaining the end of the mast.

Loads on the traveler are 3 to 1. Wouldn't be impossible to bump that to 4 to 1, so you won't have to crush (or even spill) your drink. I also have chainplates attached to the traveler arch below deck and bolted to molded in knees in the hull.

This is a prototype. If anything were to ever come of it, I would need some professional (boat) consultation.

edit: I miscounted. The mainsheet is actually 5:1 as designed so no major loads there.