Quick little video in light winds. Looks so much nicer than when I owned it. Seems to be impossible to place the url here, so below is the best I can get for now. Not on the YOutubes yet. “Engine is working again so we had some fun sailing on Oosterschelde.” In Face again.
Posted by Trimaran Gecko on Tuesday, October 13, 2015
I need to update my resources for east coast and gulf coast boatyards that can do composite and or wood/epoxy multis.
Any suggestions from people?
It turned out that after me running all kinds of diagnostics myself, Verizon had remotely turned off my modem, and activated another that I don’t have.
On Oct. 4th. Out sailing. Alex’s Aeroesque 45′ cruising cat. Those sails sure look carbony. Nice. I have not yet gotten to sail on it, but soon.
These bearings seem like a big improvement over what we usually have to do for the unstayed rotating masts. In the past builders have had to machine a bearing out of a giant chunk of slick plastic. Most of the plastic was ground off and wasted and the cost ran into thousands. http://www.glidebearings.com/
Spherical bearings like the Tides units would have been perfect, but were not nearly large enough. Bendy materials like carbon fiber require spherical bearings to keep from binding under load, or as Rob Denny does, have a very loose fit.
These kind of are of the loose fit variety. I see the bearing having a fairly close fit to the round mast, but deflecting with the mast. I have not detailed this yet but will. The bearing will need a fiberglass sleeve around it to protect it and keep it round. I see this whole unit captured in a looser fit.
Contact Tim Creighton at Glidebearings tim@glidebearings.com
We lost Ted Pike of Edensaw Woods and many other boatbuilding ventures, on the 24th. He was so enthusiastic and helpful on boat and even spaceship projects. He will be missed.
http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2015/09/fair-winds-to-our-captain-ted-pike/
Non-Metallic PEX Fittings
Pex piping was one of the discoveries I made on the Lunar Lander project. It is used in place of PVC especially since it can survive freezing. The plumbers used metal joint fittings, which must be destroyed for the piping to be revised.
At the IBEX conference I found these non-metal pex clamps. www.flairit.com www.iplumb.tv .They can be installed with only pliers instead of a crimping machine that resembles bolt cutters. An improvement on an improvement. Made in Chile. There, better pic.
And other items.
From the IBEX again. 20 years ago there were maybe 3 deck plate makers. Now there are maybe a dozen. These from THMarine www.thmarine.com are lighter than the typical Beckson and I assume cost less. West Marine carries among others.
I am so bored with this by now. Hopefully this is the last. I just came back to these gems.
Dude, get a life. I copied all your messages. I would be curious as to what you seem to think is libelous. Spend all this energy making your boat seaworthy.
“Love how Kurt leaves out half my message. This is not a Kurt Hughes. I used his shitty, incomplete plans to obtain proper connectives and hull skins. Nothing about this is a dated, ugly, undesirable Kurt Hughes shitbox.
One more thing, Kurt. I have begun the process. I highly suggest you think clearly and remove this professional libel from your site. This was the last warning. I am funded and will not back down until this is gone or you go bankrupt in the process.
You want to play hardball? Two can play at this game. Wait until you see the site I make that will appear at the top of the search engine rankings when looking up you, your designs and your business.”
I will post several of the other interesting finds at IBEX, along with the proper links soon.
I came back to cascading computer failures, so am running office off of cell phone mobile hotspot to the laptop.
Parts should arrive tomorrow. Crawling back to full strength.
