Boat Projects · 10. May 2019
Time for some "carbon" - recently we had a carbon bracket fail. The "sheave" was mounted in a carbon U-shape bracket with a stainless steel pin. The alignment of the rope was "crooked" and the whole assembly failed. When you have nobody on hand to make you a new bracket - best option: dust it yourself...
Boat Projects · 30. July 2017
A friend is building a Carbon rudder and to save some time he asked us to CNC cut the foam for him in the shape of the rudder.
I can already smell the Dust.
Boat Projects · 27. July 2017
Composites, in our case mostly carbon & fiberglass with epoxy resin, are all around us (on board the performance sailing yacht) but this time we went onto unknown grounds - Bio-composites. Our friend Erwan got us "hooked" up and there was no way around, we had to try it ourself. The idea of using natural fibers for a composite structure was just too appealing for DIY and we love the result.
Boat Projects · 24. July 2017
An other DIY project - this time it involved some sanding (dust) & painting. Our rudder blades needed some repair after five years of loyal service. Some parts of the outer skins got stripped and new layers of laminate added, we than took over for the painting and antifouling. It's time to make them look pretty again...
Boat Projects · 23. July 2017
A small composite DIY project that consist in making a cover for the tracker installed on board. The tracker itself doesn't mind to be outside but it fades with the UV of the sun and can't be painted. To keep it look nice over time - we have decided to make a snug fitting fiberglass cover to protect it.
Boat Projects · 22. July 2017
The boatyard decided to mount our ceiling panels with a system of tubes and clips, but in tight places they have difficulties to fit their components. Therefore they found a smart idea on how to do this and they asked us for some help cutting the frames with the CNC. This is now time to make a lot of Dust!!!!
Boat Projects · 21. July 2017
Brackets and mounting plates are great D.I.Y. projects and depending on the materials, some are more dusty than others.
Lots of equipment that needs to be mounted on a boat. In our case as the hulls and superstructure are carbon sandwich - we don't want to screw anything into the hulls or bulkheads.
18. July 2017
Today we are starting a new D.I.Y. Project. This is a fairing plate that goes around the rudder and do the junction with the boat hull in order to minimize turbulences and drag. More performance due to our custom boat parts...
Boat Projects · 17. July 2017
This is our latest D.I.Y. CNC project and a "dusty one" - the goal is to fill the "empty" space inside the new rudder bearing bucket system on board Moonwave with lightweight foam blocks. This will cause additional lift and buoyancy at the aft of the boat. We are custom making foam blocks that snug the shape of the rudder buckets. As the foam prevents water to fill up the space, this is improve the performance under sail as it will reduce drag induced by the transom.
01. July 2017
This is time to replace the front fender. The rear one has already been made in Carbon fiber. On top of this the original front fender is damaged, heavy, therefore it does not have any more reason to stay on the bike. This is a D.I.Y project.