well good morning and welcome to setting vessel seeker and junk rig sailing 101 because we're
learning this and there's a line that attaches to the forward part of the batten goes back around
the mast and then back to the bat and i just got a hose clamp there because it's an adjustable
line right now i need to figure out how long they need to be that line has to slide up the mast and
that may be a point of problem because there's a lot of friction between that line and the mass
so we're looking at how much friction there is to decide whether we need to put some oh ball
bearings in there and when i say ball bearings i mean golf balls because they make good rollers for
this thing and that is an issue because there's a lot of friction on that purl there against the
uh the mass and it's holding the sail down and you know which it makes it harder to crank it up
and it's already heavy enough so we don't want to make it any more difficult than it is if i can do
it with just a winch back there and don't have to use block and tackle then i get an advantage i can
do the work with what i have because every time you add a pulley you gotta calculate in about ten
percent of your energy goes into just making that pulley turn so if you put like a six pulleys in
you get a lot easier pull but most of your pull like more than half of it is going into a bunch
of pulleys so you're actually doing more work and we've got no sheets on this sail at all yet
because what it's going to have is a line tied to there and tied there then they come together
and then they tie into other batons the ends of them rather and that comes down to one sheet
it's going to go on back to the pilot house parels come first sheets come next this is
a strange little tug i saw this one go by the other day the pilot house see how short it is
it's on hydraulics they can lift it up when they have a tow in front of them to get a bird's eye
view then and there he is with his pilot house up this time i kind of think it can actually go
higher than that all right today in the ship's galley we have a beautiful piece of osage orange
in the hands of a master woodworker this would be a fantastic project in my hands it's going to
be a couple of you froze you know you know what those are and i'm rather new to him myself and
it's hit 100 degrees now this week and mark sims has chosen this week to come back from the cool
mountain air of where he flashes black stuff yeah he's still alive okay but we are working in sites
that's the afternoon now there's only 60 percent humidity it's only 60 humidity that's not so bad
okay there's 20 dollars worth of wood
i picked this up the other day it's a vacuum cleaner battery operated or
corded wonderful machine it's not too bad
yeah yeah that's nice i don't think it has enough meat there to be sturdy enough still
yeah we actually all the pressure's going to be this way anyway
yeah yeah maybe we want a little more friction than that
so we step down to a smaller bit because we want a little more friction there we
want the rope to be able to go through but not easily we want to be something that we
rounding over do edge so it doesn't cut the line you want something softer
well i discovered an advantage of this over ipe
yeah osage orange actually floats ipe is the wood we use down below on the tiles it sinks
oh that that feels good this feels nice it's cool down below
working on perils and lazy jacks and sheets kind of all simultaneously okay
okay i think we need to tighten that parallel up a little bit a parallel is a line that goes
from the batten around the mass and keeps the whole bundle from going forward so that red
line dripping down that's our peril so we want to shorten that so the whole thing doesn't go forward
so this is the first batten underneath the yard look up forward on there that's where we put our
rope grommet and then we have the purell tied to the rope grommet it leads back and around the mast
if i take up some slack here i'll stop this
batten from moving further forward oh what do you think try right there
okay well we got our first sheet in the sheets come through our sheet clutch goes up around
the sheave and then down to that piping out and up here on the roof so it comes outside
and up through the roof and it hits our tulip sheet which is just a sheave that's really wide
so it can angle out a lot once there it will go over and hit our sails now we just got one
batten tied in right now just keep it under control because the wind is blowing today
she does want to sail a little bit but this will just be a whole bunch of them and when it
reached down and sits in the lazy jacks this is it all you got to do is lower the sail down
most of the sail is down in the lazy jacks and we're still flying the sail because we've got
the hazard pulling it up to the mast and every baton will have a sheet attached to it so there'll
still be a sheet attached to this batten the rest of them will just be laying down here and
we're going to be double sheeted so it'll be other sheets over here that are going to go back to that
rig and go back down inside from the other side and what they're going to do when they're relaxed
is we're going to have a pulley on them basically and some bungee and we're going to pull them back
or out of the way so they don't get tangled in our edges of our solar panels all that is to come but
this is kind of cool to see thanks to steve for bringing me out a piece of steel we're going to
try and straighten our mast out it just needs to rotate a few degrees did you put plenty of lube in
never have enough fluid never have enough lube that's pretty good you think it'll be all right
let's try it i just got good contact with that buck in there okay go ahead crank away
okay it's shifting a little bit now the whole pipe yep the whole nest how much
seriously yeah that's just too easy yeah it's coming around that's about as far as we need to
stop right there let's go look at it yeah see i can line it up with the edge of the
roof so it needs to go more i want to step here you go down and crank some more okay
all right stop the tractor seat looks perfect and yes that is a tractor seat that's
good enough for us we'll call that done and i know there's plenty of people that live for
perfection if that's what you want to do go for it hey i like being done moving on to the next thing
alex release the clutches on the sheets for the mainsail there we go
keep going
so this is going to be a lot of trial and error so we've got some lines here
for the sheets that are going to be too long as we get the sail going up we'll
start figuring out how long they really need to be
a little bit make some adjustments we'll go a little more
foreign
well we're making barbarians and i found them all just laying out
on the field there's a bunch of people out there just abusing these things so i
waited till dark and went out and saved them actually you can get them for a quarter piece
yeah that's gonna be fine a little hard to get started with the end yeah all right okay be sure
and get them clamped on tightly because uh you can get a marshmallow skewer going on that may
be the problem i hit one that's made up of a whole bunch of little rubber bands
okay
i see it's got rubber bands in it i was going to screw up
all right so we came up with a way of testing for rubber bands
all the rubber bands were like brown
ah it feels cool
every once in a while the wind comes up a little bit she heals
it's nice not much which is really good she's not healing much
that's surprising i thought she'd go over further now because she is tender tinder means that the
the boat rolls easily and a lot of that has to do with the twin keels and we could do the stability
test i haven't done them but you know what let me just get out there and say that that's really
the best way to figure out how tender she is well the sails are coming along nicely we've got a lot
more to do on them yet because there's just lots of lines and everything but we're getting ready
to go on down to lake kerr and that will give us the ability to sail around a little bit and we can
figure out where the sheets and things go because really there's no plans this boat is it's a one
of a kind and we're not building from any set of plans it's being put together as we go along
we built the whole thing like that from first piece of steel on up and i think you know a lot
of people forget that the best characteristic we have of being humans is the ability to
create something new and if that scares you then keep watching us because we do it all the time
and we're getting kind of used to it yes a lot of times it fails but you learn something along
the way and while you're doing something in your shop take some pictures of it send those photos
to us we want to see what you're creating in your shop because that's inspiring to us thanks guys
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