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    Picking away at it.

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    Didn't realise until I started profiling the rudder blade that I'd grabbed the 10mm ply instead of 12mm.
    Not all bad - I already have templates for a 20mm foil, scaled off MIK's plans for OZ Racer.
    A few minutes with a belt sander had them very close to profile.
    Some unidirectional CF strips across the join between ply & ally core, some threaded 316 rod to ensure core &
    ply don't separate, some fairing filler & final sand by hand... not perfect but within 0.5mm across most of its area.
    Good enough for my purposes.
    To do - neaten a couple of edges, glass & paint.

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    Decided to do T-pieces & string to connect tiller to rudder.
    Figure a push-rod comes with inflexible adjustment / geometry issues.
    String has some 'give' in it. Also much cheaper.
    The timber is a couple of bits of wood I salvaged from a dead lounge suite.
    Looks like it might actually be teak ! Lovely to work with sharp blades.
    Will set up rudder pintles inside cockpit. Too hard to access rear tank to reinforce a deck mounted tiller fulcrum.

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    Dry fit of what it will look like on the boat.

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    Gratuitous pic of new CAFS tanker.
    Alan J

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    How's it going, AJ? On the water yet?

    Cheers,
    Alex.

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    Hi Alex
    Finished the rudder assemblies & fitted them to the boat.
    Gave it a trial sail on a day that blew up to 30+km/h instead of dying down to 10-15 as forecast...
    Track attached. 38km in 5hrs, which included about 1 hr almost becalmed, and 2 hours of being barely in control out near Pt Sturt...
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    String system unsatisfactory. Have replaced it with a wooden connecting rod (as yet untested).
    Have now sanded off most of the deck. Just some fiddly hand sanding to do.
    Only one small nick in a varnished mast collar while belt sanding - easy fix.
    Masking varnish highlights nearly complete.
    Waiting for 3 or 4 consecutive days under 30C AND on which I'll have time to paint.
    Plan is for a non-skid matt cream from Norglass.

    Haven't taken any pics for a while - little visible change.
    cheers
    Alan J

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    I see by the route map that it wasn't a real trial - just a Claytons . How did she handle the 30+ wind? .
    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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    Waaaayyyyyyyy over canvassed.
    While the wind was in the high teens around Rat Is & Mundoo Channel, I hung onto the main waiting for it to die down.
    Behaved ok although occasionally a bit of a handful.
    Took the opportunity to drive her as hard as I could on different points & different fore & aft trim.
    This is absotively, posolutely NOT a planing hull.
    Dug holes of different depths all over the lake & couldn't climb out of any of them.
    Managed to set a 40' cruiser rocking wildly in my wake at one point in Mundoo Channel.

    On the way to Pt Sturt, the wind kicked up out of the teens & stayed there. White caps.
    Intermittent gross weather helm. Lots of flogging sail & a couple of near dunkings.
    Was concerned heaving-to in the chop & wind under cliffs off a lee shore would be even more risk of an unhappy ending.

    Coming home, the southerly kicked up even stronger.
    Figured I was definitely going swimming if I didn't drop at least the main.
    Hung on until the lee shore was a more distant beach rather than nearby cliffs.
    Raised the rudder & sheeted in the mizzen and instantly iron-clad head to wind.
    Not as tippy outy as I had feared. Will heave-to a LOT earlier next time.
    Wrestled the main off the mast & stowed below.
    WILL be replacing 3mm luff ties with snaphooks before I go out again... cold finger fumbles..
    Drifted backwards a good 400-500M.

    Took a bit of fiddling to get out of irons.
    Sounds simple - back out then drive forwards.
    Controlling a sail at each end AND the rudder proved more complex than a beach cat.
    Especially as the mizzen sheet is located on the far side of the cockpit.
    Or rather, was.
    That was the first thing I fixed on return...
    Next time I might try manouvering on the sails & drop the rudder later, once moving forward.

    But from there on it was all fairly anticlimactic.
    Up until a rotting plank on the jetty tried to dunk me, anyway.

    Rethinking the idea of a single main on a mast up in the bow, despite the vastly quicker rig/de-rig time.
    I could get the current main down kneeling in the cockpit.
    Reefing a cat ketch main would mean balancing on that foredeck.
    She's not *that* stable I think...
    Alan J

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    Hello AJ,

    Sounds very hairy! Glad I wasn't with you, although two hands on deck might have been better than one (albeit someone more experienced one than I). Glad also that you got back relatively unscathed, rotten planking notwithstanding: at least it wasn't a boat plank ;).

    I used Norglass marine enamels (without sand) on the 'Duck Boat Roof, and I was amazed at the ease of application and the quality of finish, using a 250 mm 10 mm nap roller. Knocked that 'orrible "Brightside"that I painted the 'Duck with (shudder) into a cocked hat. Tossing up whether to use Norglass enamel or Bote-Cote's water-based PU when (if) I repaint the 'Duck after possibly replacing its lite-ply bottom (I've had enough) in the off-season. I have a sample bottle, which I will test on some offcut or other in the fullness of time.

    Speaking of the 'Duck, I bent the new Storer sail that I've had lurking under the couch for the last almost two years onto the spars the other day, but trying it out has been curtailed by a nasty ding in the lite-ply bottom of the boat, caused by a ratchet strap (see above). A small but annoying amount of patching with the 'pox/glue powder required.

    Looking forward to seeing more of the Ethel III's re-fit in due course :D.

    Cheers,
    Alex.

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    Saw you'd bent on that sail Alex.
    Didn't think it had been two years...
    Been a Norglass convert since the first kayak I applied it to.
    Kicking myself around the room ATM.
    Calling for BWC driver for 7 day Tassie deployment & I can't get a substitute lecturer for my classes...
    cheers
    AJ
    Alan J

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    Oh no...good luck with finding someone! I haven't enough experience to be "invited"...

    Current thoughts re 'Duck paint are Norglass "Opal White" gloss (same colour as the Roof framework, "Teal" used for the external roof). We dropped a cheery branch on it the other day when doing some pruning outside the F-i-L's garage - and it bounce off without a scratch in the paint - or a ding in the plywood (so proof-of-concept :).

    Cheers,
    Alex.

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    G'day AJ,

    I hope that you manage to find a stand-in soon!

    Having some downtime waiting for dust to settle, and power is off on account of our old kitchen being ripped out today, so have been re-acquainting myself with the CB 144 layouts, building fixtures and construction advice. It took a little bit to reorient my head, but I think I've got it.

    Once I get some space again, not to mention time, it will get built at my father-in-law's place. I have a build thread for it somewhere on this forum: I will have to go looking*.

    Cheers,
    Alex.

    * Found it :)

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    Progress, after many weeks stoppage.
    Been picking away at sanding the deck in that time, but no real impetus due to hot weather & general malaise.

    Sanded deck & high-build Primer/undercoat.
    Last we'll see of that dark plywood.
    I think the white looks quite smart.
    Reminds me of Bolger's comments and Payson's model in BWAOM about Snow Leopard.
    White was one of the colours I considered before deciding on cream. Rejected due to too much reflected glare.
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    The deck edges hadn't been sealed very well at all under the gunn'ls.
    Lends more weight to the idea that Pete was trying to get this boat onto the water before he couldn't.
    Soaked two coats of pox into the end grain, plus a little bit of pox putty smeared along the edge (but not enough).
    Two coats hi-build & now two coats of gloss enamel wrapped around the corner.
    All overlapping the original bottom paint. Hopefully that seals it.
    Tempted to bed the gunn'ls in sealant when I reattach them.
    Open to arguments why / why not.
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    Sometimes it feels like I've been incredibly slack & not done much at all since I bought Eth'l.
    Here's my list I stuck on the shed wall above the work bench.
    Most items ticked off.
    Still to build mast & spars for OzRacer sail, but might not now do so (see earlier posting).
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    Now remains to put 2 coats enamel over deck then top coat of non-skid deck paint.
    Hoping to do this over the next 3 evenings before the next hot spell.
    Then fit all the bits back on the decks. Should get some use out of her this autumn
    (best time in SA for cruising - not too hot, not too cold, most consistent modest winds, etc, etc.)
    Alan J

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    I've always been a fan of the timber deck/painted hull look but I think you're right with this one, it seems to look better in all white in the photos.
    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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    Wasn't really sure whether to go Opal White or Cream, so I bought both.
    Unfortunately (?) Norglass don't do cream and opal white in the same product.
    Opal white: gloss enamel
    Cream: non-skid matt enamel deck paint.

    Painted it opal white first.
    Nice but a bit too pale.
    Also the gloss highlights the facets where the deck camber isn't a smooth curve.

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    So I painted it cream deck paint.
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    Much more betterer.
    The facets are hidden, but this stuff dries nearly before it leaves the roller, even at 23C in the shade.
    Tried to keep a wet edge but failed - especially when cutting in (badly) with a brush as I went..
    The now sticky edge grabbed most of the grit out of the next roller load, leaving a very patchy grit distribution.
    Hope to even it up a bit tomorrow with a second coat. Applied earlier in day while temp still in teens.

    Then just need to reattach all her bits.
    Faint possibility of wetting her bum again next weekend.
    Alan J

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    Using yesterday's semi-hardened roller cover & a brush, I've improved the paint job from a 10M finish to a 2M finish.
    Happy with that.
    Will remove tapes in an hour or so (touch-dry).
    Scalpel at the ready to handle tearing...
    Alan J

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    Quote Originally Posted by b.o.a.t. View Post
    Scalpel at the ready to handle tearing...
    I can picture it now.....

    Scalpel raised, wearing surgical mask and green gown embroidered with "Doctor Al", SWMBO standing by with sponge to wipe the sweat from your brow.
    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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    Looking very nice, AJ :). I'm sorry that I couldn't see her pre-paint, but things were rather difficult.

    What was the high-build primer that you used? It looked a bit too white to be AquaCote, which is a very light grey-ish beige-ish sort o' colour.

    Cheers,
    Alex.

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