Selasa, 29 November 2016

I am currently on a quest to figure out what the next build will be.  Requirements are:

1.  It is to be a sailboat to replace the 1969 Enterprise Sailing Dinghy that is too tough on my back and knees. 

2.  Able to carry a few guests but not too many!

3.  Can be built in a single car garage.

4.  Sails well and can handle Buzzards Bay and Nantucket Sound.

5.  Easily launched and rigged in 15 minutes so as to encourage using the boat. 

6.  Not too expensive. 

Some options:

Richard Woods Strike 18 - dont know much about upwind performance, total cost of build, and ability in choppy conditions.  (Buzzards Bay rivals San Francisco most summer afternoons). 


Michalak - Blobster (but dont know enough about sailing in chop and wind).  Like the ease of build and the simple, yet effective lug sail.
 

Welsford Navigator -  This boat seems to be the best fit, but need to finish research on the others.  rig options are endless.














Core Sound 17 (or 20) - Very promising. 
  • stitch and glue
  • handle wide range of wind
  • can take 3-4 for a ride
  • easy to rig
  • easy to sail. 

The 17.
The 20
will the 20 fit in the garage
How easy is it to lift these spars into place? 
How difficult to build is the rig? 

A lot going for this design as either boat will perform acceptably well!




Welsford Houdini - had to throw this in as a Blobster rival.  No cabin, but need to state that I have rarely used the cabin on any cabin boat I have owned! 
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Sabtu, 26 November 2016

Its a fortunate circumstance that we have no schedule for finishing this project. Instead of getting back to the boat itself, we once again spent another day adding one last pair of bunks to the trailer. Greg is now satisfied that the trailer adequately supports the weight of the boat.

During our last couple of sessions, Greg and I noticed a slight twist in the boats hull along the roll axis. While the stern is still straight, both relative to the trailer and to the floor, the bow is slightly uneven. So, were going to spend the next session re-leveling and re-truing the hull. This will make sure that we have quality workmanship when we really get back to work.

Hey, any work we do is progress, right?
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Flaw in the Rubrail
Originally uploaded by OzzyC.
In a continuation of "back to basics" week, I will discuss this rubrail in a bit more detail.

We purchased 10-foot sections of oak, which is obviously too short for the entire canoe. We compensated for this by angle-cutting the oak sections and joining them together with epoxy. We did the joints at port-bow and starboard-stern, for load balancing. This way if we hit something that would break one joint, they both wouldnt break.

This spring, my boat hit a rock in rapids, and popped the rubrail joint. I tried patching the popped joint with gorilla glue, but that was inadequate for the job, and the joint popped again, (on a much smaller rock, at a much lower speed.)

As you can imagine, I was starting to get a little frustrated over my canoe continually "breaking." I figured it was time to do the job right, so I decided to sand and re-epoxy the joint from scratch.

Unfortunately, my daughter wanted to help, and due to a perfect storm of circumstances, I didnt quite mix the epoxy right, and it never quite set. Growing even more weary of this ongoing problem, I sunk a couple of bronze nails into the seams, figuring that would do it. Thats when I sanded and painted the boat, and when I noticed the flaw in this picture. If you look VERY closely (not the best picture), you can see that theres no epoxy bonding the rubrail to the hull. Once the paint dries, but before I stain the rubrails, I will bond the rubrail to the hull with a thin line of unthickened epoxy.
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Jumat, 25 November 2016


More Shavings
Originally uploaded by OzzyC.

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Kamis, 24 November 2016


Mounting Frame Pieces
Originally uploaded by OzzyC.
Weve begun to mount the horizontal (port-to-starboard) frame pieces. There are six in all, and yesterday we mounted three.

We started by temporarily removing the stringers. This was Gregs idea, and I saw no need to keep them mounted, so they were pulled down. Next we measured the distances for all of the frame pieces, relative to the rear transom, and marked these distances on the building frame.

Next, we used the laser level to find the horizontal mounting point. We lined up the laser level with the reference point on the rear transom that we created a few weeks back. Next, we ran a piece of string down the bow-to-stern center line. This way we have the horizontal and vertical points of reference on each frame piece accurately measured. (You may remember that we drew these reference points on the frame pieces when we constructed them.)

Next we screwed 2x4 jigs into the building frame, in preparation for mounting the frame pieces to these same 2x4 jigs.

Next, we set the frame pieces on a floor jack, and lifted the jack to the correct height and center. This allowed us to make fine adjustments and get the frame pieces accurately placed. Once we lined up the horizontal points of reference with the laser level, and the vertical point of reference with the string, we screwed the frame pieces to the 2x4 jigs. This process went very quickly.

NOTE: Once we got the second frame piece mounted, we reset the stringers in place, knowing that it would be difficult to place them later.


Click here to see the video summary of what we did.

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Birth of Sword
Video Proses pembuatan Pedang Gaya Eropa



Video Birth of Sword (Proses kelahiran sebuah pedang alis cara membuat pedang) ini menjabarkan :
  • Pembuatan replika pedang-tipe Nordic swordsmithing menggunakan metode tradisional, dari pemilihan material untuk perakitan akhir pedang.
  • Tempa elemen individual pedang, finishing permukaan, pengerasan pisau dan tes kekuatan, membuat pegangan, dekorasi , perakitan pedang, membuat sarung dan tes melakukan pemotongan.
Penting nih buat mereka yang demen dengan senjata tajam.
 Harga Rp 50.000,-

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Minggu, 20 November 2016

I finally got around to snapping an updated picture of the boat. The color you see is tinted epoxy, not a finished paint job, but hey its progress. Either way this shot should give you an idea of what weve done since my last post with a photograph. The shape is a little more refined, and the spray rails are much more polished.

I still cant wait to get this thing flipped, but the picture helps me visualize the progress weve made over the last couple of months.

To put things in a little more perspective, Ive been looking at other builders boats. Today I did a check-in on Andrew Luckings boat. Andrew started a couple of months before Greg and I did, and it looks like were progressing at a similar pace. Of course Andrew is a one-man show, and has a shorter season because hes in Canada, but it still helps keep the perspective.
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Sabtu, 19 November 2016


Drilling Small Holes
Originally uploaded by OzzyC.
Were overcoming our problem by drilling small holes where the epoxy bubbles are. We will then inject epoxy into the holes and weight down the area, so the fit is as tight as possible in the end.
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I didnt even bother to find a title for this post...
comes directly from Harpers Bazaar August Issue!

I was browsing through magazines last night 
and I was delighted to see that my favorite leather material 
- SNAKESKIN - 
is every where. 
Not only on Harpers Bazaar there is a whole page dedicated to it, but every other page, there is some snakeskin "sneaking" out ;)

L.O.V.E.


(1) Prada (2) Lanvin (3) Reed Krakoff (4) Proenza Schouler
(5) Giuseppe Zanotti (6) Gucci (7) Giorgio Armani (8) VBH
(9) Chloé (10) Giorgio Armani (11) Chloé (12) Jimmy Choo
(13) Dries Van Noten (14) Céline (15) Gucci (16) Chloé 


I happen to be a proud owner of a small selection of snakeskin items... I wish they could last forever!
Last year I cleaned up my closet and I had to through away a pair of pumps,
you know me, if they were put in that thrash bag means that they really couldnt been saved!

my python babies...



the pointy black shoe at the bottom used to be bright orange...
I dyed it black after (believe it or not) Ive got tired of the brightness

uh, and do you recognize the bag charm?

In one of my last trip to my fabric store, I found ... for 10 bucks a 4 ft long snake skin in black... needless to say, the baby came home with me!
Its still there in my craft closet, intact, but Im having few ideas of what to do with it... stay tuned!! 


xox, d.

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Jumat, 18 November 2016


Heating the Glass I
Originally uploaded by OzzyC.
We ("we" being Greg for the most part) thought about possible solutions for our problem on how to get the partially-wetted fiberglass to properly adhere to the hull. After a week or so, Greg found the answer. We used a heat gun and softened the epoxy in the areas where the fiberglass was bubbled up from the hull.
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Rabu, 16 November 2016

is grey the new black?
well it is for me!

8 years ago (day less, day more), I took a decision that I was pondering for a really long time.

... Stop dyeing my hair and let it go grey.
mmmhh. Not an easy decision.

I was always attracted by women not yet very old, proudly showing their grey hair.
But when I had my first greys... I covered them up.
I started quite young, but got into the dyeing routine every 3-4 weeks when I was 30 +/-.

After so many years I was thinking to go grey, but wasnt sure, then I couldnt handle the (literally) grey area between brunette, brunette with lots of roots and grey.
Finally, decision. I would do it!

I believe this is the only picture I have of the "let the roots go crazy" period:
I spent probably more than a month in a pony tail!


My hairdresser was pushing me into this direction (hes a good hairdresser, not very good if you look from the marketing point of view!!) saying that I had the right features to look good in it.



Well, if youre leaning toward this direction, I can tell you few things that I love and hate about going grey.

? GREY TO LOVE ?

1- No dye. Means no chemical, and your hair gets stronger-er-er.
2- No roots. No needs to comment!
3- Time saving. Whether you are a diy dyer or a hairdresser one, you dont have to do it. Considering 45 minutes if diy or 1.5 hr if you go to the hairdresser every 3 to 4 weeks, youll have at least 9 extra hours/year to do other things than dyeing your hair.
4- Money saving. A lot. Again... need to comment?
5- When Im tan, or with make up on I LOVE the look, its so stylish and sophisticated.

GREY TO HATE ?

1- You do look older, a little. Lets not get in denial: guessing age gets easier... grrr...
2- Pick the right haircut. Not all the haircuts look good in grey just like with a full color. Play around until you find your right style. (this is not a real hate just a tad annoying)
3- Youll be asked why. But I do hate other kind of stupid questions not hair related that people ask.
4- Some change in color choices in clothing. But again, we all look better in one color than another.


I cant really think of anything else, overall, I passed the "7 years itch" and still love my grey hair.

I changed different styles, and length, and so far in my case, short works better.


WAY TO GO GREY... HOW TO ?


1- In my opinion, the best and fast way to go grey: once your roots are lets say 1" long... get a short haircut and youve done with the past!
2- If youre scared of very short hair, you can let your roots grow and when you have figured out the shade of grey youre in, ask your hairdresser to do grey highlights (this is an extra chemical process) - and consider a good haircut
3- Go at you hairdresser appointment with make up on and clothes in a deep, rich color: going from dark to grey will make you like youre fading and wearing light beige or light grey or pastels will look weird at first (see #4 in things I hate)
4- At the time, I tried to camouflage the roots for a while with some coloring shampoo. White hair absorbs much more color, and this technique didnt work for me. Even if the shampoo isnt permanent, the white hair will turn yellow-ish and as a result, made my process of going grey a little longer.
5- After youll turn grey, use a shampoo which has a deep purple pigment: it keeps hair silver preventing the yellowing

If youre trying to make up your mind and take a decision, I hope this was enlightening and helpful!

Are you pondering the idea of grey?

xox, d.
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