My little piece of peace

I was hopeful of a 12 month completion but as one finds out, the best laid plans of mice and men...... Maybe around midyear? It will be my new permanent place of residence...

I am very pleased with the result, and expect comfortable performance from about 70 M2 of sail on about 4 to 5 tonnes of cruise ready boat... she will be set up for downwind mostly, I am not into banging my head into a wall and so, if the wind is wrong, may as well go with the flow... or sort of sideways on to it... or just wait and enjoy where I am at...

 

+1. Multi-hulls and fiberglass and resins and goop and etc. aren't really my cup of tea. But I've read through the entire thread anyway, and enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to the launch photos. Maybe even a u-tube video?

 

If you can get the Australian Multihill World edition #100 has just been released with several articles on electric power including "Schools Out", built in the same shed where I am building...
Editorial & advertising to Paul Lynch, 10 Rina Court, Varsity Lakes, Queensland 3227 - - - e: info@multihull.com.au - - - p: (intl+) 617 5593 8187 AEST business hours - - - f: (intl+) 617 5593 8973 the website is www.multihull.com.au there is not an on-line edition... distributed in Australia be Gordon & Gotch...

I will possibly make the boat available as a feature build there... and hopefully ATL will do some professional video recording... It will be quite innovative, as NO MAINSAIL...

 

Hi Mas,
Did you had a chance to chat to your pals with the solar panels for housing projects?. Theoritical you could make from your 8 x 200 watt solar panels = 1600 watt with mirrors to some = 3 kiliwatt with reflection. But when it will realy help is when the sun is low and you still want to get some energy drawn from your panels.

I wrote to a manufacturer, but needles to say that I did not get a reply. I have proven that it works. Look at the angle I position the reflector versus that little solarpanel. That little panel is only rated 17 mA, I got 42 mA out of it.

Your most important answer from your solar panel friends must be, to ask them to show you a broken panel and see how thick the internal wiring is. At 10 Ampere/mm2 you will be able to judge whether you are willing to push the current up to 8 Ampere = 3 Kw for your panels.

Bert

 

Bert, thanks for the thoughts and ideas but KISS is the objective and messing around aligning mirrors and the boat for optimum sun exposure is counter-productive...

Sanding and yet more sanding - The aluminium tressle represents the clearance for headroom on the bridgedeck and the "dust-lines" indicate approximately where the coach-house will fit... It would be fun if the vacuum cleaner could also deliver a good blow job - there would be sanding dust everywhere:!:

 

They say nothing sucks like a blond electrolux, but like you say probably too dusty...

I see you shuffeled some of the things around a bit Making lip sounds already or is there stil too much work

 

Just making sure that there is sufficient headroom in the "saloon"... and mentally visualising, - - as mistakes at this stage could be very expensive

 

Hi Masalai,
In your case, you probably are right. you have too many panels to worry about.
But one day in the future, after your boat is finished and you are enjoying life on the sea, you may sit down and consider about what I have said about reflectors and maybe even figure a way to increase your energy input from the panels. But you are correct, worry first to get the boat onto the water.

I hope to get my plans next week. New Zealand Postal service was shut down last week because of the festive season

 

Looking good
cant wait for the "dream team" to get back at it, as i am sure that Mas is as well
i just came back from spending a week at sea in a Beneteau 35 which was frikken great
i unfortunately am as misserable as sin, i hate the city and want to go to sea
time to set the wheels in motion
gotta get outa this frikken hell hole
Johannesburg seriously sucks - especially for an old fart like me

 

Is that what you go there for Manie

Why don't you put some pics up somewhere eh ???

 

Some images... Final undercoat on hull, waiting completion of the coach-house and internal work before the final fine sanding and brilliant finish of dazzling white "white lightning"?, next is the positioning for 6 x 25 litre tanks this to Port and similar to Stbd, mould for the rudders, mould for the hatchway and one hatch hole being prepared, and aft stbd view with some bog waiting to be sanded down...

 

Marinas are getting full of cats as thier popularity increases. Cost of berthing and hauling has all gone up round here as they take up 2 berths for 50% more.

I have yet to see a marina that is designed for cats and thier extra beam.

Cats are getting real popular

 

I agree with you Frosty, canal front homes, to park the cats, are gaining in popularity... As a cruising live-aboard, cats (power of sail), cannot be matched... - - - In a cyclone, the shallow draught allows the owner to sneak a cat up a mangrove creek, tie off to several mangroves and weather the storm... On sunny days, sneak inside the fringing reef, nose up to the beach and enjoy the good life... Inhibits collectors as, although there is lots of space and room on-board, weight is not something with which to burden a cat...

I aim to live aboard, away from marinas, except where convenient for refuelling... A cat makes good sense in Melanesian and many Pacific Island regions, where many anchorages lie inside shallows sheltered by fringing coral reefs, and still enjoy the deeper harbours with all the keel boats in the shallower parts with less distance to row to the shore...

 

Yep you can get away with a tiny dinghy also, I have a cute little fat one --as the missus calls it, errr the dinghy I mean and I tincy wincy 2.5 merc.

Its all I need when I have all but 40 feet to go ashore.

But the lies the dilema ,near to shore = mosquitos, rats,swimming drunks etc etc

 

Visit the adjacent yacht and offer a large hand of bananas tied to a long length of twine suggesting that hanging overnight - just caresing the seawater - will encourage ripening for eating the next day - the rats will go there...

Swimming drunks, You will need a good earth in the water and to electrify the ss handrails, which, when they are grabbed to lift them-selves aboard will impart an undeniable message of "GO AWAY", the fuses will eventually trip, allowing them to slip quietly back into the water... or just "shoot the ********".... see post 3033 in the "Global economic si....." thread

Mosquitoes etc - fit 'fly-screens' and run the air-conditioner/s at 24 degrees Celsius - this will also de-humidify the tropical air and reduce the impact of mildew on your clothes (hanging up on coat-hangers)... The genset will be running anyway... Which will annoy the f^#k out of anyone thinking of anchoring close by and cramping your style