Shes (Driftwood)getting four days of my attention starting tomorrow morning early

andy59 said..
Stage 1 of the new cockpit floor, raised 6mm so it falls towards the drain, 19m marine ply with 600g double bias epoxied on top.

Raising that 6mm is an excellent idea Andy, no more wet socks!

captainyanti said..
i have filled my sink with empty stubbies today

Ive added a couple in my fridge for tomorrow so there you my friend have run out ha ha and will have to set sail back to get some more unless you run into Brizzy Dave he is always fulled loaded

captainyanti said..
i haven't run out yet hg, just been through a huge week, from romance to no romance, police called, wtf, id love to have a beer with brizzy. i was born in brisbane long ago

Remember one door shuts and another opens
Oh forgot I did take this photo the other niight to see how the gages light up at night

Yes Yanti...hearing you...the sound of that door banging closed does ring in your ears a long time

LooseChange said..

Dunedinite said..

Saw one for sale here in Langkawi yesterday.
6,000 Ringet. So a bit over $2,000 Aus.
I got mine during a Honda special. Had a $300 cash back off $2k

6000 Ringgit is not exactly cheap, especially in duty free Langkawi. Make sure you drop into the Royal Langkawi Yacht club ........ 5 Ringgit for a tall glass of cold Tiger can't be all bad and good food too.

I agree Loosechange. Not cheap at all.
Just thought I would let him know the current price on the shelf here....

That was the ticket price.. I'm sure it could be haggled down.

Couple of bars here in Telega are doing two glasses for the price of one during happy hour. Same same price!!
Or you buy a can of Carlsberg from the shop for 2RM (about $0.70c). Laughing

Well I have reached a major milestone today with the successful installation of 56 cm of new sail track [my design] on the mast.
This will allow me to put in a reef correctly.

We actually went sailing today on the mooring when we had the mainsail up!

My sail maker will now fix the boom bag and make a new bag for the inflatable dinghy which I have decided to carry
roped to the starboard rail just forward of the mast.

Tomorrow night or Sunday I will spend the night on board to sort out the wiring to the mast head lights. They work, just not with the right switches!

I will also be having a final sort out, during that time onboard, to remove the last of the unnecessary gear.

The horizontal wind vane I'm building is now at the painting stage with only one support bracket to be fitted to Seaka
and a small weld when I do the final assembly. Its looking really good.

On the 23rd I go up on the Laurieton slip for 3 days for anti-foul [4 coats this time] and a polish. Then I'm ready to go around!

Sailing date is still around the middle of March.

HG02 said..

Like to see a photo of your dingy slashed down if you have spare time NSW

His dinghy slashed? You're a cruel bastard, HG.

NSW, weren't you going to do a thread on making the wind vane?

I read you all,

Just trying to get it to a stage where you can see how it works and a parts list plus cost.

Plenty of photos!

Lets just say about the end of next week I will post the full story up to sea trials.

Don't worry HG)@ I will be posting [I have put up the above] on this site, sailblogs and Tophatyachts.

www.sailblogs.com/member/seaka and www.tophatyachts.com and 52.65.175.107/where-is/currently-cruising/

I will be posting photos on the sailblogs site and a small selection on this and the Top Hat site.
I'll indicate when extras are on the sailblogs site.

No photos yet of the dinghy but will take one when I get the new bag.

Yesterday
I wired in the oil pessure gage and volt meter I have over 3 bar at idle (engine slightly cold) which I am happy with I ran lots of Tycab twin core on the starboard side for all my lighting and entertainment set up speakers yet to do with 3 mm Tycab double insulated ( an over kill but I don't want to have to redo it before I drop dead )which I used for all my LED lighting.
I also made a ply under bench top for my fridges one yet to be purchased . photo below is my tempo mountings




I have put this up if any one need it below




I then started fitting my throttle/gear shift to where I wanted it away from the cockpit locker forward from the original placement and ahd to relocate my cables
to suit had it all pretty much done then disaster struck the throttle cable came off the engine end and as I moved the throttle handel forward it went to far so I now have to disassemble and hopefully repair it. I hate forwards backwards land
It reminds me of a time when I was building a small PC and dropped the CPU onto the pins on the mother board I have it on my bed room in a draw so when I open it it reminds me of that stuff up

Could it be qld maple

HG02 said..

Hard to know as I'm not a real wood person its a possibility . Most Ive seen are cedar but these arent they were sold to me as Teak shutters but who knows
Ive not had much to do with QLD maple and not sure what shutter timbers were available years ago other than cedar




same piece of timber just the other side . When I compared it to the acrylic hatch cover handle yesterday on one side the grain look the same but after oiling the hatch cover timber and a little of the shutters the shutters looked a little bland compared to the hatch

It's not Teak R2D2, more likely it's Meranti which also goes under a variety of other names depending where you are eg. Lauan or Philippine mahogany plus other names overseas. The tree is native to SE Asia and is very commonly imported into Australia for exactly the kind of thing that you have there.

It looks like silky oak to me.

No way is it Silky Oak, have a look at what Silky Oak looks like ....

www.google.com.au/search?q=silky+oak+timber&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=H1TXVMLlAYvs8AX_84D4CA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1920&bih=984

C3PO, is the timber you are using porous with large open grain and pores? Teak is very tight grained and also quite boring to look at, Silky Oak while it is not a true oak has the same rays visible that true oaks exhibit, neither of those timbers would usually be used for such a utilitarian piece such as louvre doors.

Very hard to identify a piece of wood when you don't have it in your hand to feel and smell, looking at the top piece, it now doesn't look like Meranti. The picture at the top of this page the two doors now look like Kalantas, but as you say it is tight grained it isn't Kalantas either .......... Buggered if I know, call it what you like, It won't make any difference to the bit wood.