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New traveler car for the whisker pole
There was no rain last weekend so we managed to do some outside work, an done of them was to add a new traveler car for the whisker pole. The old traveler car had lost the ring you use to move along the traveller. We have tried earlier to remove the end part of the traveler so that we could change the traveler car, but the screws at the end is stuck and we haven’t been able to loosen them. So instead we decided to remove the entire traveler from the mast, in order to get the new traveler car in place. We also got took the time to climb…
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New mainsheet traveler (and some other stuff)
During the weekend we have done some work on the boat, we have attached a new mainsheet traveler, the last solar panels and some other small tasks. The first thing we did was to glue the final solar panels in position, we glued them on using marine sealant. With the 2 final ones we now have 5 solar panels in total. They are specified to 60W each, which gives 300W in total. On a good day they will probably give 200W, because of shadowing etc. Next up was to attach a new mainsheet traveler we have bought second hand. The solution on our sailboat from before was that the mainsheet…
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Our solution to reef the main sail
We have mentioned earlier that we hadn’t a good way to reef the main sail and that was something we wanted to fix. Our boom can be rolled, so it can be used to reef the mainsail using a rolling reefing, it is an old way of reefing and what we have read it doesn’t seem to be very good since it changes the shape of the sails. With a rolling reef system we can’t have a kick for the boom either. We choose to go with a reef line solution, and for that we needed some improvements. For our reefing solution we will have a hook at the gooseneck,…
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Mast track gate improvements
Last weekend we didn’t only work with the fresh water system (see previous post). We also worked a with fixing a mast track gate on the main mast, continued with the electrical system and other small jobs. One thing we wanted to fix was an opening we had in the track on the main mast. The opening used when removing/inserting the slides. We haven’t found a piece on the boat that fits here so we decided to make one our own, by bending a sheet of aluminum. Some of the screws for the windows on the boat have some pretty sharp edges which we wanted fixed. They can easily damage…
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A new kick for the boom on the main mast
On our boom for the main mast we don’t have any kick. The reason for that is probably that our boom can be rolled around to reef the sails. What we read is that this was used a couple of years ago and that it usually doesn’t work very well, since the shape of the main sail changes. But we haven’t tried this function yet so we can’t really say anything about it. We decided to mount the kick so that we could remove it and try this rolling function of the boom and see for ourselves if it is something to continue use or if it is better to…
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