Pretty productive day, installed the stub mast and paddle chair. A swivel cam cleat was also installed. This little device runs the main sheet line from the boom to the cam cleat and to the sailors hand. This is how you control the tension of the sail. We also laid out the yard and boom ready to install the sail on. Tomorrow we will connect the sail, yard, and boom to the stub mast, set up rigging, etc. We also finished installing our water containers, cleats, saddle bags, and decided to reinforce the centerboard mount.
The centerboard mount consists of 3 sets of boards bolted together with the centerboard which all connects to the pontoon flanges. Connected to the flanges is the tool box. We thought that all of it together would create enough tension to successfully withstand all the forces the centerboard may encounter. So we decided to thus reinforce the inside of the tool box so instead of the force being concentrated on the thin aluminum tool box bottom it is concentrated on a 2”x4”x2′ strut bolted to the bottom of the tool box, solid.
We are close to being done, were in the home stretch!
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How the steering oar fits on, tribal
snow
yard and mast together, yarg she blows!
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all together
the swivel cam cleat w/ fiddle block annnnd a miller high life. This is one of the most important pieces on the boat. New, this device runs over 100 bucks, we acquired this one for 20 by a random ebay listing, fate if you will
The infamous water bottle carriage. We should be able to hold up to 10 gallons of water, and maybe a gallon of rum too!
It got too cold today for this but tomorrow she will meet the vessel in which she will pull her captains to the glorious ends of the earth, or to Key West at least
“Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.” Good luck gentlemen!