This week on Luckyfish We check out some very cool, low-cost multihulls
Find and repair a few problems with our rig Raise the foremast by hand
And get reminded why boat work can be one of lifes greatest pleasures.
We totally landed on our feet when Wayne put us in a space right next to Brandons Wharram
Tangaroa.
Brandon had a fully equipped woodshop under Element and generously made the use of his
tools available to us.
Without this amazing stroke of good fortune we would not have completed even half the
work in these next videos.
The girls are going over to Brandon and Danielle�s boat to have a boat tour.
Element is coming up really nice.
Yeah, a lot of space.
I wanted to really open it up Whatsmore, Brice from Sarasota loaned us this
car.
This was typical of the generosity Floridians extended to us.
And Captain Gerry from Tampa, Hello my name is Gerry, I�m Zaya
And we are going to show you some basic flies that we could tie by finding materials around
the boat that you could use for trolling off your sailboat.
who we first met at the Hui, spent his annual leave on Luckyfish on 3 occasions, working
on special projects.
We are going to make one possibly two video�s showing you these projects which made such
a difference to our cruising season.
Nice and slow Oi
Im just doing a little bit of maintenance on the aluminium masts.
theres a little bit of corrosion thats crept in in places probably a bit of electrolysis
thats causing this sort of thing.
a bit of bubbling to come up.
havent actually got an explanation for this one.
this is only in contact with wood.
but you can see the corrosion has got in the back there.
and weve got just the tool to clean it up. with the multi tool you can Im borrowing Brandons
multi tool which looks to be a must on every boat.
it does cutting into a blind side like that with a saw blade with a something like that
just fits on there and you can enter a piece of timber like that or a crack you may need
to open up to try and get some epoxy in that sort of thing and it vibrates from side to
side or you can use it as a sander.
its like a glorified dremel.
looks like my size of sanding.
yeah. buy it in the link below.
[LAUGHS] what are you working on? just cleaning the paintwork from the base of the masts.
there are just little cracks that are opening up in the glue joins.
its only minor.
little bit in here.but err, you just dont want the water creeping in there.
its a very structurally important part of the boat and we will try to keep it good so
Ill give them another couple of coats of resin and paint them again after filling the cracks
with some epoxy glue.
So this is Jeff of Mojo rigging. have I got the name of your business right? are yeah
Mojo marine.
St Augustine.
Just replacing the wires the strop that holds the head stay to the mast with some spectra
here the wire had some cracks at the thimble you cut a few strands off just to thin down
that tail yeah?
Arrr yeah, just to taper it a bit I will taper this as well.
This splice is locked on itself.
So it is kind of extra secure.
So right now, even though it is tucked all the way through it cant come out.
So the idea was to just check the length here.
So my idea was to go around one time and then over will be the best.
And then about six inches to the shackle pin.
Nicely done, yeah.
Its interesting you can cut that with scissors when you think kevlar carbon fibre you need
like um metal working shears right this umm yeah but dyneema is a different aramid than
you know the kevlar is quite a bit tougher to cut umm carbon is not too much different
than this some of the heat sets like the dynex is the same fibre but a different manufacturing
process so thats a bit harder to cut you think this will be about twice as strong as that?
which is probably what?
6 or 7 millimetre flexi stainless yeah.
I think that is 6 millimetre quarter inch thats probably in the neighbourhood of six
thousand pounds, five six thousand pounds and this is probably at least nine or ten
thousand when its new and if this were dynex the same diameter dynex is probably fifteen
thousand in this size so, you know, if I were to re rig one of these or a new Wharram I
would probably use all dynex, probably use nine millimetre dynex and then you know for
a furler you still have to go with wire, yes, but I would use 1 by 19 not this err 7 by
7 or 7 by 19 stuff that this is which actually works a bit better in the furler too because
its a rounder the outside of it ends up being rounder so it just runs a bit smoother.
Anyone rigging a Wharram sounds like 9mm dynex is the way to go its much easier on the hands
as well yes the fact that the Tiki 30 which does just have the single mast is what he
actually used on the Tiki 30 was quarter inch.
And here was the Tiki 30 in question Clay and partners homebuilt Whipper Snapper�.WE
like all the Wharram stuff.
yeah that was way cool.
OK.
No No Im not ready.
Nice work.
Yeah.
So this is your Tiki 30 eh?
Weve got a gas tank in the locker down there Yeah.
This is something we kind of came up with.
the engine cover the plans dont have this the table or the engine cover OK Or these
seats really.
they have nets. yeah, well Wharram sort of gives you the basic canvas Yeah, and then
you try and make it so you can actually use it.
Yeah right.
What is it? sixteen feet across?
Or 14?
Im going to go with 16 I really like the 30's, and the 26's and the 21's.
Any of those Tikis could give you adventure than you could wish for.
The next time we saw Whipper Snapper was 6 months later a thousand miles away in Guatemala.
Any of those Tikis could give you more adventure than you could wish for.
The next time we saw Whipper Snapper was 6 months later, a thousand miles away in Guatemala.Back
to the Spectra splicing, fortunately there are many instructional videos out there already,
as Bruce Matlack wandered by.
Alright Bruce, keep me posted on your getting out of here.
Yeah, I'll let you know Are you still trying to maybe get to the Bahamas by Christmas or?
Bruce is well known to many, being the first World Windsurfing champion, competitive Windrider
racer today, Yeah Woo Hoo dont break on my back!
[LAUGHS] Yeah going right Wooooo Oh Wow.
That was great huh?
Yeah! and new owner of Jim Browns famous Searunner 31 trimaran, Scrimshaw.
She�d taken a hit in Hurricane Irma, coming off her stands.
Most of her repair work was completed when we arrived, but we gave him a hand to get
sailing again.
you guys look like surgeons.
Two surgeons.
Thats looking good its coming through nice.
The next time we saw Bruce and Scrimshaw, was in Georgetown, Bahamas.
Back at Luckyfish, Jeff had finished the forestay bridle and left me with some instructions
to protect it before we could raise the foremast.
See how the quality of the job really dropped off as soon as the camera started.
Nah you cant see it from this distance.
Wait until I get a close up.
Jeff the rigger said wrap it in tape.
We had some silver tape and he said put the black tape insulation tape over the top.
Its really just to protect it from UV.
There is still supposedly another two inches of stretch left in
the spectra so it just pull through
the tape no problems.
And we will take up the slack as the rig settles in on the lashings on
the side stays.
At this moment the mast raising possy a rrived.
Curtis, Gerry, Chris, Tim and Lew dropped whatever they were doing to join in the fun.
We covered how we lowered the masts, and raised the main mast in the two previous episodes.
Working on our boat in this great community
of sailors, all helping eachother, was truly
one our favourite experiences.
Thank you to everyone at the hardstand
and we are looking forward to sharing more boat work with you in coming videos.
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