shaggybaxter said..

Thanks 2bish,
Great post, and put me down as another for hating hoses. Looking at the pics made my lower back start hurting in sympathy, even with what looks like pretty good access .

I agree about the hoses. I make my own fittings and connectors because I was sick of cutting and wrestling hoses in limited space. I find it a safety issue if you can't simply remove a hose. A lot of hose barbs you buy are made for gripping plastic hose and are too aggressive on soft rubber.

Here's a couple of pictures
Below,, the fitting on the left is a purchased hose joiner ( for my exhaust )with very aggressive barbs. Next to it is the one I use that is dead smooth and has a plug in it to drain the exhaust hose if I require, A smear of roof and gutter around it and a hose clamp and your in business. A bit of a pry and a twist to separate it.
The smaller fitting I made is for the raw water seacock Got into trouble with an off the shelf aggressive style barb having to cut the rubber hose from it twice,,,, leaving the hose too short and then having to replace the hose. The new fitting allows the hose to come off in about 10 seconds with a bit of a twist and no damage to the hose.



Below are just various other fittings for engine plumbing that I have made with smooth barbs for rubber hose.
Again on the left/ top is a purchased fitting with aggressive barb that I am replacing.

Hi Ramona.
I live in Sendai 35 kilos north of Tokyo.
Any chance of making int up here for a sail?


Gary

Gotcha on the conferring with the wife part.
Have a good trip.

gary

Planeray said..
Finished up most of my electrical refit over the weekend. I now have wind data, GPS & heading showing on a plotter. Only thing left is to build a small shelf to install the heading sensor on and finally attach the swingarm to the attachment point I epoxied on the other week (forgot a piece when I went out there). Oh, and tidy up the way the cables run, getting rid of the old stuff.

But I'm super happy with the new solar panels and controller being on there - it had been chugging along with a very old and damaged 40W panel with an eBay PWM controller, it's now got 2x30W panels in parallel to a Victron MPPT controller, so that's a pretty big upgrade alone!

Love the B&G Planeray!
Don't envy you, looks like a big job too. I spend more time trying to make wiring all neat and tidy than I do on the actual job itself.

Finally got the new solar controller fitted suppose to be Bluetooth via a app on iPad but couldn't find it! Turns out it needs to be the smart version at $500 not for $400 so had to re-order a blue tooth dongle to make it smart for another $79 ....grrrr I hate technology and waiting! Make sure it is the Smart version if you want the new blue tooth built in version. I can't monitor the solar at present but can see a good difference in my volts in this cloudy cold weather.

My job got delayed for a week so had the choice to go sailing for a week or pull boat out and paint topsides and antifoul.
Ended up painting one week turned into 2 weeks of long hard work. Ive done enough sanding for my lifetime, never again, but gee it turned out smicko

cisco said..
Nice work scg. She really looks the part.

What stamp of boat is she again??

Nantucket 31 with new poly u 400 on topside thanks to a few seabreezers recommendations
Now makes the deck look crappy, but that will be a job for another year.

Hi all

A big day on the slip today

We pulled her out at 9am and after 12 months there was lots of slime and only a few small barnacles on the hull but the prop and cutless bearing housing was covered with barnacles

Last time it was out used one coat of Hempel soft on the huill and a second coat on the waterline and leading edges and a hard (not sure what brand it was) that a mate had laying about on the prop and housing

We blasted her off, and scraped off the barnacles, gave her a scrub, acid washed the top sides, gave her one full coat, polished the topsides while it was drying, and late in the afternoon put a second coat on the waterline and leading edges, put a coat of soft on the prop and pressure washed the bird crap off the deck and dodger

Pulling off the masking tape and putting her back in the water tomorrow morning ready for the first race of the season on Saturday

All in all it was a good day with blue skies, a bit of a breeze and no drama's

Regards Don

termite said..
Looks great Don that is classic plastic! I didn't realise there was a H28 with a skegless rudder. Must be the fastest version going. Cheers Bill

Hi Termite

People assume she is a H28 but the Sailmaster 845 is a different boat under the water

In a newspaper article at the time Kahn Walker said he designed the Sailmaster 845 as a lighter faster alternative to his Walker H28

Regards Don

16 meters of window grinding started today. It took months of thinking and will take weeks of repairing but I think I have the right tool set up now and the plan in place.
I really don't understand why they didn't finish the cabin with frames around the windows , after glassing the ply wood cabin they cut the window size with a recess sika the window in and painted. Bad decision really on a ply /glass cabin with flush windows!
Problem is the weather gets into the laminates of eglass and delaminates glass from ply. So the plan is to fix what I can and I have a shipwright making frames that I will sika on .

The frames will be fully coated in epoxy and two pack And cabin sides will be in satin white aqua trim.and the kiwi grip decks.

Windows ground out , epoxied and sealed , under coated finally the cabin side! Next is the deck finished in kiwi grip and white satian auqua trim.

A good day to pull the oven out and give it a tickle clean up! I love boats!

It was supposed to be antifoul and go but..... Found out the exhaust had a small hole in the high rise 180 degree bend above waterline so replaced that . Tried to screw the mounting bracket back into the rear bulkhead , umm no bulkhead . Replaced rotted section of bulkhead . Now moving on to getting ready to head south ,check weather ....not yet

Jumped in the water at the Marina, scraped and scrubbed the bum, raced and had a win at the Thursday Twilights on the Gold Coast. Averaged 5.8 kts SOG, which ain't bad for a 46 yr old Compass 29