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Monday, July 3, 2017
Fall is Not Far
We put in down by the sea and head up into the Neck, my usual route at high tide, which has just passed an hour or so ago. The smallest amount of ebb current is against us, but it is nothing to notice unless one stops paddling. It is a very calm day as far as birds go. The willets are few and the ones that we spot are inactive, plopped down on the ground as if they have not risen from their night beds. We find a greater yellow legs and two lesser yellow legs before reaching the first bend. Even the osprey are still with few in the air and not for long when they do fly. But, almost every one that flies has a fish in the talons, so they may have all had a successful morning hunt before we arrived.
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| greater yellow legs |
We pause on the upstream side of the stone arch bridge letting the stronger ebb current push us against the foundation while we take a break. Then, we paddle on watching the spartina dissipate and and the cattails increase as we leave the brackish waters. I collect a marsh wren nest from the phragmites. Their nesting is well over, their young are fledged, and if they are anywhere around they are certainly not showing themselves.
We spot a pair of kingfishers at the gravel flats (which are nowhere to be seen due to the water depth). We also spot a green heron. I spot green herons quite often here where the open marsh river meets the forest river. We end up spotting several and get close enough for a good view with the binoculars.
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| green heron |
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Where is the world is that
We've been trying to mark all of our stops on Google Maps. It sounds like it's working, so here's a link (it's also over on the left hand side of the blog under "Our fav links"). If you zoom all the way in on an "anchor" you can even see the marinas. We've started using Google Maps as a part of our route planning (and to get a tentative idea of the marina location and layout).
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zLIYOgFK_xh0.kRkTBlZlCMhU
Saturday, March 18, 2017
The Searay 370 Venture What you dont see is good
This is one the winners of the National Marine Manufacturers Association 2013 Innovation Awards, and deservedly so. I wasn't one of the judges, but I think I would have come to the same conclusion as did the BWI judges, but maybe for decidedly different reasons.
The Searay 370 Venture by design looks like a traditional express cruiser, but forward of the swim platform, and under the two aft facing padded seats are 300 hp Verado outboards.
Most of the reviews and articles about the boat extol the virtues of space gained by not having an engine room. This allows for a much larger cockpit, and a more spacious aft cabin.
In earlier versions of this genre of boat the aft cabin was a Hobbit's paradise with no standing room, and the master suite was always a forward V-berth. So eliminating the majority of the engine room allowed the Searay designers to create a very attractive floor plan, and in my opinion the best in its class.
The 370 Venture doesn't pretend to sleep a family of twelve. It sleeps a couple comfortably aft, and two additional guests can sleep in the dinette. The spacious and well lit dining area replaces what would have been the master V-berth in earlier versions.
But I believe what you don't see, creates tremendous value to the vessels owner, and is what makes it worthy of the NMMA Innovation award.
What you no longer see are two huge marine engines jammed into an almost inaccessible compartment. You also don't see two I/O drives, or drive shafts, and their stuffing boxes, transmissions, rudder tables, rudder stuffing boxes, struts, cooling water intake strainers with valves, halon system, propellers, exhaust piping and mufflers, and lots of green bonding wiring trying to keep everything at the same electrical potential to stop corrosion.
All of this now resides in two compact outboard engine systems mounted aft. What you now do see is a small bilge compartment with the VacuFlush system, generator, batteries, and some pumps. As if that wasn't enough, the motors tip up removing the lower units from the water further reducing corrosion potential.
But I think there are even more subtle reasons this is a good idea. As someone who has spent a lot of time working in the dark cramped dirty engine room pit of installer despair trying to fit in a rudder reference, transducer or the ilk, the true cost of maintainability is a factor few boat designers consider.
The typical engine room is built in stages. With the deck off, the factory minions start installing all of the gear. The Bennett trim tab pump is bolted on the transom. The battery charger is screwed onto the bulk head. The VacuFlush system, hot water tank, batteries, AC systems, rudder table are attached, generator is dropped in and then the engine crew places the two huge engines and exhaust system. After inspection, the deck goes on. From that point forward all maintenance has to be done by a skinny professional spelunker, and his crew of spider monkeys.
I have seen many engine rooms so congested that most owners physically can't really inspect, or do any day to day maintenance in them. Batteries are hard to get to so the water levels don't get checked as often as they should. Accessing the AC strainer outboard of the engine stringer and under the V-Drive requires climbing aft over the manifolds and exhausts, and then slithering forward in between the engines to get at it.
The point is that if you can't easily get to it, you often don't to the boats detriment. So if it's hard for the owner to get at things, it's also hard for the installers and mechanics increasing labor and repair costs.
It doesn't have to be this way as you can see with the engine room below, but all to often this is the exception, not the rule.
Now for the argument inboard vs outboard? The Mercury Verado outboard costs around $20,000. It appears at first blush to be much more expensive than the equivalent horse power Mercruiser engine that sells for around $12,000. But when you add the costs of the items "you don't see" above, and the labor to install the gear the numbers get much closer together.
The Searay design team I think made a superior, and clever decision in using the Verado. Fewer holes in the boat, much easier to maintain, less components exposed to salt water corrosion, and did I mention it's quiet? Very very quiet. Excellent job Searay, I won't miss single of those things "you don't see on this boat."
The Searay design team I think made a superior, and clever decision in using the Verado. Fewer holes in the boat, much easier to maintain, less components exposed to salt water corrosion, and did I mention it's quiet? Very very quiet. Excellent job Searay, I won't miss single of those things "you don't see on this boat."
The bottom line is outboard, I/O, and inboard units are all good solutions, if they are accessible, and that's often the rub. The time and effort required to access and do repairs is really a notable long term cost factor.
I'm tired of hose clamp cuts and ripped clothes. The spider monkeys are also eating me out of house and home, and riding the greyhounds.
Thanks to Marine Max Sarasota for letting me take pictures of the boat.
The first photo is from the Searay image library, the balance were taken by the Installer.
I'm tired of hose clamp cuts and ripped clothes. The spider monkeys are also eating me out of house and home, and riding the greyhounds.
Thanks to Marine Max Sarasota for letting me take pictures of the boat.
The first photo is from the Searay image library, the balance were taken by the Installer.
Saturday, March 11, 2017
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Thursday, February 9, 2017
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017
The Easter Goose is in the House
It has been windy for several days and I am anxious to be back in my canoe. I start my portage to the big lake, think better of the wind, decide to head to the south lagoon, and decide to put in on the big lake after all. A good wind is blowing from the SSE, and while there are waves, I don't feel much of the wind once I'm on the water, but I can hear it singing in the trees. Once I leave the shallow cove where I put in, the waves grow to be one to two feet high. I stay within 100 yards of shore and while the wave echo from the fortified beach walls makes the paddling more difficult, the risk of a swim from here, in cold water, is more palatable. The bay is relatively calm and I head first to the big lodge to check on the goose nest.
They have finally settled on a good protected spot high on the south side of the beaver lodge and the female is working some down into the structure as I approach. This spot will take in the warmth of the sun while the brush overhead and on either side will provide some shelter. The missing male comes honking from behind my shoulder as two geese fly into the area. He tags one on the butt in mid-flight and resumes his watch on me. OH! the female has just got up - she has eggs already - and she moves them around a bit and sits back down.I head over to the railroad islands to check for nests, but find none and instead tow a drifting buoy out of the marsh and over to my preferred illegal dump site where it will be easily and properly disposed of. The west beaver lodge nest looks fine, although I can't see eggs and while I am there, a large otter swims by. It's quite likely the same that I have been seeing over the past couple weeks.
Monday, December 12, 2016
Paper Jet 001 is for sale!
Words below are by the boats designer, Dudley Dix.
This was the first such boat ever cut, CKD Boats cc cut it!
Now for sale at only U$8000. Contact Dudley direct on dudley@dixdesign.com
I designed the Paper Jet to be an exciting junior trainer, capable of taking a young sailor through multiple skill-levels, from a basic free-standing una-rigged dinghy through to a high-performance trapeze skiff with asymmetric spinnaker. This it does without having to spend bundles of money to trade up to another boat, by doing it all on the same hull and adding or swapping rig and hardware components. She is extremely light, with the hull weighing only 94lb, easily manhandled by small crew.
http://dudleydix.blogspot.com/
This was the first such boat ever cut, CKD Boats cc cut it!
Now for sale at only U$8000. Contact Dudley direct on dudley@dixdesign.com
I designed the Paper Jet to be an exciting junior trainer, capable of taking a young sailor through multiple skill-levels, from a basic free-standing una-rigged dinghy through to a high-performance trapeze skiff with asymmetric spinnaker. This it does without having to spend bundles of money to trade up to another boat, by doing it all on the same hull and adding or swapping rig and hardware components. She is extremely light, with the hull weighing only 94lb, easily manhandled by small crew.
http://dudleydix.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
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Friday, October 21, 2016
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What is weighted cement
These questions come in from time to time.
Hello Roy,
Would you be able to tell me what weighted cement is? There is a semi complete Fortuna 37 with “weighted cement” in the keel. The current owner proudly announced this to me, but couldn’t tell me what that means ( and neither can Google).
Any experience/ideas?
Kind regards
Malcolm
The reply and answer follows:
Malcolm,
Yes, my first Endurance 37 had the same filling, Caterpiller track pins laid in the keel box and cemented over with a mix of cement thin enough to settle around the pins. I installed this myself, Barlows gave me the pins for free!
Its not standard cement by the way!
They would normally glass over the top?
The ballast CG rises by about 100% of the lead fill?
They should remove the weights and cemant and fit lead.
Roy
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
The i550 sports yacht is in South Africa
Not only that but being built right now, with one of our kits under construction, plans ordered and for another of our kits the i500 class boat will soon be a factor of the local sailing scene.
Watershed Boats have agreed to allow CKD Boats cc to cut these boats and supply as kits.
http://www.i550sportboat.com/
Check the link for more information.
Roy
Watershed Boats have agreed to allow CKD Boats cc to cut these boats and supply as kits.
http://www.i550sportboat.com/
Check the link for more information.
Roy
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Google Earth is watching you
Well I have to assume its Google Earth, it may be the Cape Town City Council also?
Seen yesterday and in the Alphen to Constantia areas.
Click on the picture to enlarge it.
This is not too bad a picture when we consider the camera is my now old Canon G11 which has the well known fault of scratches on the lens, yes a bad design fault for sure. I went to telephoto as the Honda CRV was moving away from me, the windscreen of my Ford LDV seems not to be there?
I think the gear was active as a spinning wheel could be seen on the top of the rig.
Big Brother or was it Little Sister?
Roy
Note, if your home, car or person is found on Google Earth and you have an objection, you can request them to degrade the image, you can also ask them to correct a position based on a postal code if the building indicated is to be seen out of position. I have done this myself and later found the marker was placed in the correct position.
Seen yesterday and in the Alphen to Constantia areas.
Click on the picture to enlarge it.
This is not too bad a picture when we consider the camera is my now old Canon G11 which has the well known fault of scratches on the lens, yes a bad design fault for sure. I went to telephoto as the Honda CRV was moving away from me, the windscreen of my Ford LDV seems not to be there?
The Eyes Have It, or is that us?
I think the gear was active as a spinning wheel could be seen on the top of the rig.
Big Brother or was it Little Sister?
Roy
Note, if your home, car or person is found on Google Earth and you have an objection, you can request them to degrade the image, you can also ask them to correct a position based on a postal code if the building indicated is to be seen out of position. I have done this myself and later found the marker was placed in the correct position.
Monday, September 19, 2016
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Wills i550 is in Sailing magazine
Posted on March 1, 2013 by Will Goodlet
My build is in the local SA Sailing magazine…looking forward to getting my copy!
Will is building hull # 001 for South Africa, CKD Boats cc supplied him a CNC cut plywood kit. A second set of plans has been bought recently, so the class is growing already.
Roy.
http://471.sailspace.org/wp/ Check Will's progress at the link.
Monday, 4th March 2013, my own copy has just arrived. Will has writen a nice story and tells us just how easy this design is to build yourself.
My build is in the local SA Sailing magazine…looking forward to getting my copy!
Will is building hull # 001 for South Africa, CKD Boats cc supplied him a CNC cut plywood kit. A second set of plans has been bought recently, so the class is growing already.
Roy.
http://471.sailspace.org/wp/ Check Will's progress at the link.
Monday, 4th March 2013, my own copy has just arrived. Will has writen a nice story and tells us just how easy this design is to build yourself.
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