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 · 31. August 2017
It's time to install some pipes and hoses on board. One part of the refit consist of a new proper plumbing installation. The new fresh water pipes come with little clips to install them - which looks very neat. Unfortunately we have not found any glue that is easy to handle and keeps them in place. A new DYI project has to be created: clip support brackets
Boat Projects · 30. August 2017
Electricity on board a yacht is always a delicate topic as in our case weight, waterproof/splash-proof equipment is not always standard of the shelf available. Also the salty air can become over time an issue for certain equipment. To save weight and cable length it is preferable to have the controllers, breakers etc. mounted close by. As often standard solutions don't fit our requirements, we just made them ourselves, lots of DYI...
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.
Others · 20. July 2017
Time to time we come across some interesting boat designs or built boats. We noticed the following one at the beach at low tide in Brittany. Nice to see a different design compared to classic monohulls, catamarans or trimarans.
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.