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Assembling the sail
Since I'll be doing something mechanical in the sail I wanted to make it easily serviceable. So I'm making it splittable without seeing any fasteners. Like the hull not sure how this will work out.
What parts do I need, and not need. Determining that here.
These holes needed to be opened up so did that. The tabs were solid, so drilled holes through the tabs and cleaned up with a fine file.
The top of the sail was attached to the starboard side of the sail with solvent. The port side will be removeable.
Shaped and added these tabs.
They get a machine screw to hold this part together.
The top aft port side gets these tabs.
Which slide in when attached both halves together.
And gives a nice not so noticeable joint. Thank you Bronco for making accurate parts.
The exhaust housing gets these two acrylic parts. They were shaped as one unit to fit in position then cut in half so one piece is attached to each half of the sail. Holes were then drilled on the drill press and they were tapped for 2-56.
The connecting piece was then made. The screw on the right is a through hole. The one on the left is a slot. When the sail is taken apart I just need to loosen the slotted screw. The 8-32 bolt will go through the deck holding the sail down to the hull
Notice the ribs were filed down at TDC to allow any air bubbles to pass wherever they want to go.
Added these two acrylic foundations at the forward end.
And made a similar mounting point at the forward end of the sail.
These are the two parts that hold the sail to the deck. The knurled nuts hold the sail to the deck with the 8-32 bolts.
Like this. I first used this method on my Marlin about 13 years ago. It works very well.
Sail attached to the deck.
Forward joint. Not sure yet what to do on the ladder rungs. That is a future decision.
The exhaust housing area. There will be a seam. Again, thanks to Bronco for decent work.
I had to file down the deck area forward on the section that positions the sail so the sail would fit. See the scratches. Those will be cleaned up at a later time.
Notice the lower scuppers against the hull, you can see the deck thingy that positions the sail. That will require attention, later.
Same applies here
Not sure if I'll ave another post before Groton, have much to do.
Since I'll be doing something mechanical in the sail I wanted to make it easily serviceable. So I'm making it splittable without seeing any fasteners. Like the hull not sure how this will work out.
What parts do I need, and not need. Determining that here.
These holes needed to be opened up so did that. The tabs were solid, so drilled holes through the tabs and cleaned up with a fine file.
The top of the sail was attached to the starboard side of the sail with solvent. The port side will be removeable.
Shaped and added these tabs.
They get a machine screw to hold this part together.
The top aft port side gets these tabs.
Which slide in when attached both halves together.
And gives a nice not so noticeable joint. Thank you Bronco for making accurate parts.
The exhaust housing gets these two acrylic parts. They were shaped as one unit to fit in position then cut in half so one piece is attached to each half of the sail. Holes were then drilled on the drill press and they were tapped for 2-56.
The connecting piece was then made. The screw on the right is a through hole. The one on the left is a slot. When the sail is taken apart I just need to loosen the slotted screw. The 8-32 bolt will go through the deck holding the sail down to the hull
Notice the ribs were filed down at TDC to allow any air bubbles to pass wherever they want to go.
Added these two acrylic foundations at the forward end.
And made a similar mounting point at the forward end of the sail.
These are the two parts that hold the sail to the deck. The knurled nuts hold the sail to the deck with the 8-32 bolts.
Like this. I first used this method on my Marlin about 13 years ago. It works very well.
Sail attached to the deck.
Forward joint. Not sure yet what to do on the ladder rungs. That is a future decision.
The exhaust housing area. There will be a seam. Again, thanks to Bronco for decent work.
I had to file down the deck area forward on the section that positions the sail so the sail would fit. See the scratches. Those will be cleaned up at a later time.
Notice the lower scuppers against the hull, you can see the deck thingy that positions the sail. That will require attention, later.
Same applies here
Not sure if I'll ave another post before Groton, have much to do.
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