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Jknight611

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  1. I built sn 2 (Southern Express) and live/sail on the Gulf of Mexico, you are more than welcome to come sail with us. We have had 4- 5 adults in the cockpit on a rare occasion, it will do it. We can rig in 10 minutes without much rush, it is reasonably dry, we have taken green water over the bow but that is as rare as us having 4-5 adults aboard. It is a delight to sail!
  2. That gives me an idea.........
  3. We have the same 2.5 Suzuki on our CS20.3, some days it will start with 1/2 pull, some days 156 pulls are required..... I try to do absolutely the same procedure, but with varying results. I currently have a chicken bone tied to the tiller. After it starts it runs beautifully, just those first few revolutions.
  4. I bought the Daisy AIS stand-alone receiver, it was about $40, and I hope it displays on the screen. We have a lot of push boats in our sailing area pushing black coal barges, you can’t see the barge at night except for the bow wake. We will bring ya some honey to the Messabout.
  5. I have an older Garmin 2006C that “somehow “ I have lost/misplaced the data card, a replacement is about $125. While pondering it I came across OpenCPN, a free open source charting software for NOAA raster or vector charts. So, I bought a Raspberry pi 4 with a 10 inch monitor, gps plug in thingy and an AIS receiver for just slightly more than a replacement Garmin chart. So far, it works brilliantly! I haven’t tried the AIS feature yet (too far inland) but for a extremely cheap chart plotter it is good stuff. The charts are free (well our taxes paid for them), they are current, and so far this has been a fun project. It took about 30 minutes to get it assembled and operational. I am going to try it on my Core Sound soon and if it works as good on the boat as my den, I may assemble another for the Matthew Flinders. Anyone have any additional advice or info on OpenCPN?
  6. I would 1. Clean the joint with a vibrating saw, thinnest blade, to get what ever “nonboat “ stuff in the open joint out 2. Blow out the stuff with high pressure air hose (dry air) 3. Inject it with thin epoxy, let it soak a few minutes then inject some slightly thickened epoxy 4. Clamp it with lots of clamps, without a lot of pressure, don’t want to squeeze the epoxy out. Just eliminate any voids. 5. I think I wouldn’t use screws, just my preference. it’s fixed....
  7. Nice idea with the bilge pump Steve, soooo much quieter than the Johnson ballast pump. How bout a 3 way switch to reverse the pump polarity, with a anti-siphon loop/vent in the fill/empty line. I will R&D your installation, (research & duplicate). Not sure if a centrifugal pump would draw water in but.... I outsmarted myself with the thru hull in the trunk, wouldn’t do that again, when I do a refit I will probably move it to an easier place to clean out.
  8. Boy, that sounds like a great sail..... and lots of fun. Whew we! I might have to let Mathew’s epoxy cure a bit!
  9. I made some air bags for a SOF kayak from a material from Sailrite called Shelter-rite. I glued with a contact cement HH-66. It is pretty easy, I just cut the material with a 1 inch glue seam around the perimeter, ya put the glue on as smoothly as you can on both sides, let it completely dry, place your seems together, get everything aligned as you want it then use a heat gun and a wall paper roller to stick them together. Found the air valves from a old pvc dingy but they are easy to find. I was amazed it was/is relatively air-tite. I had some tire slime that I put in to seal any leaks but I wouldn’t do that again, what a mess that stuff is! The whole project cost about $25 bucks, and it will stay airtight for 2-3 days before it needs a top-off.
  10. Some years ago I build a 2 Paws, we lived in a close knit neighborhood in New Orleans and had an elderly lady across the street that watched the build with some interest. When I got to the saw it in half stage, she saw that process and called Carol at work and said I had gone crazy, I was sawing the little boat I had been sanding so much up!
  11. Hi Don, for the batteries I am using Torqeedo’s new 24-3500 battery, it is a LI-N-MC battery with quite sophisticated BMS system, they “advertised “ 800 cycles to 100% DOD with 25% loss of capacity. I will very unlikely discharge to the BMS shuts the battery off. They weigh about 1/2 of AMG and 3500 watts @ 24VDC. Quite a lot of power, slightly larger than 2 27 series AMG. I did get a surprise, I was understanding that the BMS had an internal shunt that measured the total in/out and displayed it, not so.......so the house loads, though minimal @ 12vdc will go basically unmeasured.......I think. If that is the case, well still a lot of variables! Goal is to be able to motor 8 hours at 3 kts, unaided by sailing or solar. We initially discussed using several Tesla battery modules but I have/had concerns on a home brewed system when there are so many other concerns to deal with, so the ultra injuneerin of the Torqeedo looks to be the most conservative approach.
  12. Ken, the radar mount is beautiful, as is all your woodwork. Nice you incorporated the other items in your design, nice clean look! Beautiful boat, a heck of a “Great Looper”.
  13. My pump is a Johnson ballast pump used on ski boats, 4 years in mostly salt water still working good! Also with a 3 way valve handy to wash the grit an sand from the cockpit ( cleaning fish too). As I mentioned earlier, I plumbed mine with PVC, I think PEX would be better and if I were to do mine again I would use a stainless steel bulkhead compression fitting and PEX tubing. Be sure to mount the pump in some sort of rubber mount, when I originally hard mounted mine you could hear it 1/2 mile away!
  14. Best luck Scott, I think luck has a lot to do when steam bending! I have been fighting steam bending pecan for several days, with a pile of cracked pecan splinters! I have had excellent results with white oak, I may give up the pecan trim idea and use white oak! Mahogany will steam bend, I had done some in a previous project with good results, I fact I soaked some for 30 minutes/inch and used a heat gun to bend some mahogany, that seemed to work ok on larger radius bends.
  15. Thank you Chick!
  16. I would love to have a copy, not that I intend on designing anything, just interesting. Wonder if there is a digital version somewhere?
  17. Very nice, a “teardrop” style camper makes sense in so many ways! In Mississippi I have built several trailers, just go to DMV, tell them the s/n you assigned to it (we use C/J 1, 2 We are up to C/J 5) get your plate and you are done. You pay a small Road use tax but it is minimal.
  18. Interested in your boomkin installation, I can see Southern Express getting one. I think you will get a better sheeting angle and outboard seems to have an affinity to the mizzen sheets!
  19. We watched Alan demo the CS15 at the Messabout, we were super impressed! Really capable design and a cool boat!
  20. Thanks, that is a beautiful boat! I will spend some time tonight looking! The Torqeedo idea started as a passing idea, but I have really bought into it! I am excited to see how it works day to day. On initial inspection it looks like a quality piece. I like the integrated concept they have, and bone easy to install, except for the retraction mechanisms! I opted for the feathering prop understanding it is required for regeneration, which is a part of my energy budget. Solar and Honda 2000 will complete the requirements.
  21. Good video Alan, I have a GarmininReach system, are they approved for Watertribe events. (Not that I am a candidate).
  22. We are building the boat to use offshore, when we use our diesel powered boat (with solar) we would go 8-10 days not starting the engine. The electric option is probably 300-350 lbs lighter, maybe more, and if in time we find we need mo juice, another battery would not be out of the question. We will still be way ahead on weight/space savings. This is my first experience with electric propulsion so, the idea of no vibration, noise, smell and minimal maintenance excites me. I spent more than a few hours head down, butt up maintaining Mr Yanmar. There is plenty of room on Mathew Flinders design for a diesel if that was the builder’s choice.
  23. It does, I may put a doubler, but it is well protected (Aft of the stub keel) and not terribly heavy. It seems a lot of the newer European boats have adopted this pod system and I will R&D some of their installations. The hull is 18 mm thick where the pod mounts.
  24. Torqeedo pod looks pretty hydrodynamic! Sleek! The interior is primed and ready for the final paint, all the trim pieces are completed and we’ll go mostly where the blue tape goes. My “supplier” of the planned on pecan trim became a “guest” of the state, I want to complete the boat before he “is available “. I have enough pecan to trip the bulkheads and drawer fronts. The larger pieces are cypress.
  25. Been busy on Matthew, got the interior primed and the decks glassed from the aft end of the deckhouse to the pointy end. The Torqeedo pod, battery and all the charger stuff arrived.
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