Shawn has been putting in lots of hours on the boat, and it is looking really good. We never seem to have a camera while there though, so I'll update progress here a little.
Even CNC-cut foils from Phil's need fairing. After 3 rounds of fill-and-sand (the point in the process where the pic was taken), I added 2 coats of primer and 4 coats of hard epoxy/teflon finish, wetsanding them all and buffing the last.
We need an emergency tiller, as well as an emergency rudder. This fitting allows the tiller for the emergency rudder (an aluminum tube) to be used on the primary rudder. More fun uses for scrap carbon!
The completed emergency rudder cassette. The emergency rudder from Phil's didn't have a shape conducive to a typical slide-in cassette, so we came up with this. The cassette part mounts to the transom like a typical cassette would, using J24 gudgeons already mounted on the transom. Then the rudder is held near the top, guided into the open cassette, an the top pivot/cross pin pushed into its slot. The buoyant rudder blade floats aft of the boat, and once the top is captured in the cassette, the rudder is pivoted on the top pin until the bottom pin lines up, and it all slides down and locks in place with the pins and a wrap of line, cleated.
We wanted to be able to sleep two bodies in the main salon, so we're adding a pipe berth to the starboard side. The 1 1/2" thin wall aluminum tubing is the pivot, attaching to bulkheads fore and aft, and the carbon U-shape makes up the other 3-sides of the berth. This isn't necessarily made of carbon because we're such hard-core racers that anything less would be spurned, but because metal working is not my thing and wood would be a little too heavy. Besides, it's fun to try new things...
Shawn is getting lots of mechanical stuff done this week- new motor mounts and exhaust water-lift and such, and with the new panel for the electrical bits almost made (the old one had a bunch of obsolete cutouts, and there's new bits to be cut in), we'll put the boat's electrics together next weekend perhaps, so Doug can come check whether his laptop plays nicely with the boat's instruments.
We may even go sailing on Wednesday, last I heard...
-C
